Author Archives: aburke09

While I enjoyed the beginning and the end of Amuleto, I did not enjoy the book overall.  Most of the time I was annoyed or bored. I just wanted the book to end but the process got dragged out even longer for me because my mind kept wandering and so I’d have to go back and […] Continue reading →

I stopped reading at the end of chapter 19 of The Shadow of the Wind and oddly enough, it feels like I finished in the same place I finished last time.  As I mentioned in my previous blog, I stopped right as Daniel had received information about Isaac’s daughter, Nuria. Isaac told him that Nuria and […] Continue reading →

Just as I said that I liked the journal-style writing in the first part of the book, I also really like the writing style of the second part. I am assuming that all the different voices talking are to represent these people being interviewed. In the first paragraph of section two we see: “Amadeo Salvatierra, […] Continue reading →

I will begin with a short summary of what has happened so far in The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. The story begins in an interesting way, saying that the narrator’s father brought him to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books (in Barcelona, where they live) and already I am wondering what this is. […] Continue reading →

I have to admit that I’m not quite sure what to think of this book so far. I got pulled into it right away – I quite enjoy the journal-entry-style-writing and I was interested following the story of García Madero’s shift from being a law student to joining a group of poets. The part in […] Continue reading →

Hello! My name is Amanda and I grew up in Calgary but I left Alberta in 2015. I lived in Victoria for 2.5 years and then moved to Vancouver in 2018. I have two brothers (my younger brother just moved here in the summer and my older brother just moved back to Calgary last year). I […] Continue reading →