Reading books from the Americas for a week 

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Good day from Texas. Conversations in the Cathedral is an early Llosa novel and one of his most challenging due to the use of time in the narrative. Llosa is one of the last living writers of that great generation which included Garcia Marquez, Jose Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, and so many other Latin American authors. Llosa as a youth was deeply affected by French writers like Alexander Dumas and Gustave Flaubert. He wanted to be a writer early one but his father thinking nothing good would come of it sent him to military school to "clean up" those ideas. It had the reverse affect leading Llosa to write his first novel, The Time of the Hero, based on his terrible experience there. The rest is literary history. In the 90's Carlos Fuentes, one of my favorite authors, wrote "The Buried Mirror" to correspond with a documentary that aired on public television here. It's a broad history of Europe and particularly Spain's influence on Mexico and South America. What Fuentes is so good at doing is his ability to understand and discuss the old and new world in an engaging manner, giving perspective to the complexities inherent in each. Recommend it.

I liked seeing your book choices. But the massive difference in the low volume of your speaking sections and then the loud volume of your B-roll background music bits made this video kind of uncomfortable to listen to.