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Mario Vargas Llosa at The New York Public Library

Not that it happens very often, but when asked who my favorite contemporary writer is I always split it down the middle between Charles Portis and Mario Vargas Llosa.  Vargas Llosa's La Casa Verde - The Green House - is one of my all-time favorite novels along with The War of the End of the World, Conversation in the Cathedral, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter—the list goes on.  I only wish my Spanish was good enough to better appreciate them in the original, but fortunately all of his books have been well-translated.

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Recapitulando: Grupo de lectura y discusión en español

La comunidad en la que vivo y trabajo es muy diversa, como toda la ciudad de Nueva York, pero en al área de New Dorp en Staten Island tenemos entre otras una comunidad hispana que cada vez crece más y más.

Este año decidí comenzar un grupo de lectura y discusión, similar al que la biblioteca de New Dorp ha tenido por muchos años en inglés, pero en español. Para ver como funcionaba sólo planeé 4 sesiones, y dependiendo de como fuera recibido iba a planear más (o quizás iba a tener que cancelarlo!)

Puedo comentar con gusto que ha sido bien recibido, y acabamos con nuestro cuarto libro 

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NYPL celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

The New York Public Library’s premier Puerto Rican/Latino Cultural Center—The Bronx Library Center—kicks off Hispanic Heritage Month with Pioneros II: Puerto Ricans in New York City 1948–1998, an exhibit from the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. The exhibit is based on the book by the same title by Virginia Sánchez Korrol (Professor emerita at Brooklyn College) and Pedro Juan Hernández (Archivist at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College).

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Travel in Andalusia, Spain

The secret to a successful trip abroad may simply be to know yourself, what you are looking for, and where to find it. For the traveler looking for art and history, untouched mountain trails and sandy beaches, along with distinctive culinary and musical traditions, Andalusia in Spain may be the ideal choice.

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"The Shadow of the Wind:" The Reader's Den Discussion Continues

More discussion questions from the Reader's Den, please feel free to comment on one or more questions.

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"The Shadow of the Wind" by Carlos Ruiz Zafon: February Reader's Den

Welcome to The Reader's Den!

This month's selection is the literary thriller, The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, a book that kept me up reading at night from the start.   Written in Spanish then later translated to English by Lucia Graves, it is a bestseller worldwide.

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