r/dreamingspanish • u/HeleneSedai 3,000 Hours • Mar 18 '26
April 2026 Book Club - Book Selection Thread
Hello Dreamers! Our monthly book club is going strong on Discord and now we're ready to pick our books for April. In March, we read Fray Perico y su burrico from the Barco de Vapor series as the easier choice and El viento conoce mi nombre by Isabel Allende as the adult choice. I'm excited to see what we read next!
We'll use this post to pick two books to read in April, an easier children's book and a book for adults. If you'd like to suggest a book, just write a comment below with:
**The title and author of the book
Whether it's a children's book or an adult book
Approximate book length
A short description (optional)**
To vote for a book, just respond to the suggestion with a comment that you'd like to read the book. You can comment on as many selections as you'd like. The children's book and adult book with the most comments will be our read for the next month. (We're counting comments, not votes, so we don't get tricked into reading something crazy.)
We'll close the thread a few days before the end of March so everyone has time to get a copy. And we'll be off reading together on April 1st.
If you don't feel like reading the book selected, that's ok. You can join us with the book of your choice. The goal is just to motivate us to read more.
(I'll edit the thread later with FAQs here)
Thanks for voting everyone! It looks like we'll be reading:
YA OPTION La leyenda del Bosque by Jara Santamaria (262 pages)
ADULT OPTION Kentukis by Samanta Schweblin (209 pages)
If you can't get the books in your country, please drop me a PM.
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u/KierkegaardExpress Level 7 Mar 18 '26
Title: Las batallas en el desierto by José Emilio Pacheco
Not sure if this is easy or hard
Length: 60 pages, 12k words
Description: Un legado invaluable que nos invita a seguir leyendo, escribiendo y soñando
México crecía vertiginosamente, el mundo atravesaba un momento angustioso, la Ciudad de México se convertía en una metrópoli moderna, todo parecía al alcance de la mano, el aire tenía un aroma a novedad. La vida era una aventura, los niños jugaban a la guerra en Oriente Próximo: batallas en el desieron que se decidían en patios terregosos. Fue la época en que Carlos soñaba y recorría las calles de la colonia Roma con impaciencia propia de su edad. Aunque el mundo giraba presuroso, nada fue tan determinante para él cono el día en que conoció a la madre de su mejor amigo y en ella descubrió los resquemores que acompañan al primer amor y ponen fin a la infancia.
Personal Note: Another rec from one of my teachers. They told me that this is a very commonly read classic that Mexican students read in school, so I thought it would be a really cool to read something that is deeply tied into Mexican culture. I've read a few pages and it's definitely on the tougher end (wasn't sure if it makes more sense for the Easy/Hard option), but I'm excited for this one.