The list continues.
1: El Ingenioso Hildalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes. A man reads so many stories about great knights that he goes a little mad and decides he HAS to be one.
2: Río Subterráneo (Underground River) by Inés Arredondo. A book of short stories.
3: Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude Get A Life by Maureen McCarthy. Three girls from a small country town have very little in common, but share a house in the city as they start university. Carmel is shy, overweight and needs with all her soul to be anywhere that isn’t the family farm. Jude lives with her dead father’s ghost and is totally okay with that, thanks. Katerina is rich, beautiful, ambitious and thinks she’ll be just fine...until she’s not.
4: Sagittarius Rising by Cecil Lewis. The author’s account of life as one of the very, VERY early fighter pilots with the Royal Flying Corps, over the Western Front in WW1. You would have to be insane to do this. He makes it sound wildly poetic, he writes extremely well, but you’d have to be mad. Who would accept a life expectancy of three weeks, in a plane held together by canvas and wishes, where they give you a pistol instead of a parachute because if anything goes wrong whilst you’re up there all you’re going to be able to do about it is shoot yourself in the head immediately to save time? Madness.
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