@cam ohh my!!

100 años de soledad, de Gabo

Me ofrezco para un book club de ello, hace como 80 años que no lo leo y estoy seguro que está vez lo entenderé mejor.

@cam novels get a bit complicated in language but usually “crónicas” are written for newspapers and have very plain language and some are quite fun

@cam You could look into classics and plays (La carreta - René Marqués, La charca - Manuel Zeno Gandía, Don Quixote de La Mancha, - Cervantes El sí de las niñas - Leandro Fernández de Moratín, etc).
https://librotea.com/estanterias/los-mejores-libros-que-leimos-en-el-colegio

Or look through Libros787 (store from Puerto Rico, ships to the US, idk if they ship internationally too).
https://libros787.com/collections/jovenes-adultos

If you sign up for their email, they have promotions every now and then.

@cam the young adult novels I read before taking my B2 test were the "Guardianes de la ciudedela" trilogy by Laura Gallego and "Sigue mi voz" by Ariana Godoy.

The former, I listened to the audiobooks (50 hours total!) and read along when necessary, slowly increasing to 1.3x speed. It's a fantasy series.

The latter was originally published on WattPad, so you don't actually have to buy it on paper, I guess. Protagonist is a modern teenage girl.

@cam I remember the Saga de los Confines by Liliana Bodoc to be an entertaining trilogy at that level, if you can still find it.

@cam My daughter quite enjoyed "Peligro de Suerte" by Norma Muñoz Ledo. I remember enjoying Luis Sepúlveda's short novellas at that age - "Nombre de torero", "Un viejo que leía novelas de amor".

@maco ooh neat, thanks!

@fieryzard "store from puerto rico, ships to the us" is such a sad/funny phrase

@lzg my first time hitting that term, so these are like short stories?

@cam it's non fiction but told in a literary way. Usually for newspapers or magazines. Gabriel García Márquez, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Carlos Monsiváis, Elena Poniatowska, Rodolfo Walsh. All good stuff.

@lzg so you mean like cronica de una muerta anunciada? Oh wait I see other books just called cronicas. Hm

@esparta you’re killing my, I haven’t even been able to get through el Coronel no tiene quien escribe

The language is still a little complicated for me

@cam ohh you meant translation as in compare to each other? I had never read 100 years of solitude.

Sorry if I didn't get the point!

@esparta no no you got it right, and i'm probably shooting too high with "high school level" 🤣 i might need middle school level spanish

@cam yeah.. Sorry.

Maybe I didn't get into perspective of non native Spanish reader. I read 100 años de soledad in Escuela Secundaria - middle School. Back in the day I found the book interesting but certainly I though it was High School level perhaps because I was forced to read it. Also for me it had words I didn't knew because are mostly used at South America - the real one, no south of USA for some Americans.

Let me thing again with this in mind.

@cam @esparta I was talking about "Cien años" with @federicomena the other day because I'd looked at the first pages online. He said all of Gabo's complexity is in the vocabulary; the grammar is very straightforward.

I'm not going to recommend either of the books I'm currently reading as ones for people of limited vocabulary. Me cuestan trabajo.

@esparta no you're totally right, i was reading pretty complicated books by the time i was in middle school too lol

i don't know what i was expecting. I guess the "school assigned" books for those ages, which i always thought were too easy

@cam yeap, perhaps tone down to 9-10 yo readings would be better. I know it's not expected kids to have/read complicated sentences at that age. Do you still need to be a translation? Or originally written in Spanish is OK? Let me see what I can find or recall.

P.S. my reading of 100 años de soledad was a 8th grade school assignment - that's why I said I was forced to read it.