Baking With Kafka - Tom Gauld

A collection of literary humour cartoons mostly published previously in The Guardian. If you liked the books you´ll love this comic. Gauld revisits some classics and reflects over every topic in the publishing world. Funny and clever enough.

Entusiasmo - Pablo d'Ors

"El éxito consiste en ir de fracaso en fracaso sin perder el entusiasmo", dijo Winston Churchill, y es algo que se puede aplicar a cualquier campo de actividad, incluido el sacerdocio o la literatura. Pedro Pablo Ros, el alter ego del autor, es un joven entusiasta que nos cuenta su vida en las etapas de estudiante, novicio y misionero.

The Rub of Time - Martin Amis

A miscellany of articles and essays published in newspapers and magazines along the last thirty years by this prolific writer. I find him very reasonable in politics and social matters and funny indeed in general and more specifically when referring to sports. A good deal of serious writing is dedicated to those giants of literature, Bellow, Nabokov, Updike.

Solenoide - Mircea Cartarescu

Cual sarcopto en teseracto me he sentido en muchas páginas de este libro. Tildado de obra maestra a mí me ha parecido desmesurado. Me han gustado las partes más realistas y también algunas de las ensoñaciones o fantasías, pero me han superado las reiterativas y largas descripciones de mundos oníricos y monstruos interiores y exteriores. Hay que citar a la traductora, Marian Ochoa de Eribe, casi coautora. El autor siente debilidad por una modesta planta, el diente de león.

The Empty Family - Colm Tóibín

A collection of short stories by this talented irishman from Enniscorthy. If I have to choose one single word to define his prose, I would say exquisite. These stories come directly from life, from Tóibín's life I guess. He narrates in accurate words a number of passages that I see as perfectly plausible in the living of a man just like him. Let's put apart the last one, a novella about gay love between two inmigrants in a really difficult nowadays situation.