Author: Frank Warren

Publisher: William Morrow 

Year: 2007

Price: About $27.95

Everyone has secrets, everyone deals with them differently.  Some of us run to our best friends and tell all because we just can’t hold them in, some of us keep them in until we turn into bitter a-holes, some of us just erase them from our head, others blog, others go to the psychologist and there’s a few that get creative, write all down on a postcard and to Post Secret.

Post Secret started as a blog community page where people send Frank Warren their secrets to have them published them on the site:  www.postsecret.blogspot.com

The site’s popularity is such that he has published a couple of books, the latest one being “A Lifetime of Secrets”.  Since it’s the site started working, Frank Warren has received millions of “secrets” and in the process he has helped several stop from committing suicide.

Author: Khaled Hosseini  
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Year: 2004
Price: About $14.95

Even though this coming of age novel by Khaled Hosseini was released a few years back, its great success and powerful story turned this into a classic.  It just got the Hollywood treatment and hit some theaters under “limited release” on December 14.  Book-to-big screen movies are always iffy, you might want to read this book before seeing the movie. 
You will laugh, you will be angry, and you will cry- a lot.
Reading this book is a true emotional roller coaster.  Once you start reading you will not want to stop. 
The Kite Runner follows the story of Amir and Hassan, the son of Amir's father's servant. As children in Afghanistan the boys are inseparable. They spend idyllic days running kites and telling stories of mystical places and powerful warriors until an unspeakable event changes the nature of their relationship forever, and eventually cements their bond in ways neither boy could have ever predicted. Even after Amir and his father flee to America, Amir remains haunted by his cowardly actions and disloyalty. In part, it is these demons and the sometimes impossible quest for forgiveness that bring him back to his war-torn native land after it comes under Taliban rule.

Author: John Mitchinson, John Lloyd 
Publisher: Harmony
Year: 2007
Price: About $19.95

This book will get you from the very beginning.  The title itself its enough to get you wondering what the hell is inside. If you are like millions of people out there that before purchasing a book venture into reading its first lines, you will be standing by the cash register in no time.  In the introduction you will read that "…this book is for the people who know they don't know very much." You will find that to be surprisingly true, but it’s also for the people that think they know everything. It will definitely shush millions of smart-alecks out there. If you thought you knew all the answers, think twice before opening that big mouth of yours.  Before you do that, get yourself a copy of The Book of General Ignorance.

Autor: Gabriel García Márquez

Publicada por: Knopf Publishing Group, 2004

Precio: $11.95

Todos aquellos que ya disfrutaron de "El amor en los tiempos del cólera" no pueden dejar de leer "Memoria de mis putas tristes", en donde, un anciano periodista, que vivió de prostíbulo en prostíbulo, le pide a una madrota que le consiga una joven virgen para pasar una noche de placer y así festejar sus noventa años. Esto le cambia la vida radicalmente y le muestra lo que es el amor, pero también la cruda realidad.

Cabe mencionar que hay ciertas similitudes entre ambas novelas, una de ellas es que la vida que llevó el anciano es muy parecida a la de Florentino Ariza, el eterno enamorado de Fermina Daza, la protagonista de “El Amor en los tiempos del cólera”; los dos hombres contaban en su haber con una extensa lista de las tantas "pajaritas de la noche” que hubieron en sus vidas. Ambos llevaron una vida de amores comprados, uno, para poder mitigar el dolor de no tener al amor de su vida, y el otro, porque no estaba preparado para dar un paso tan importante como el matrimonio.