The Kingdom of the Golden Dragon

... by Isabel Allende.
Alexander Gold and Nadia Santos continue to travel with Kate Gold, Alexander´s grandmother. They travel together to the Kingdom of the Golden Dragon, because Kate, a magazine writer, has been commissioned to write an article about the Kingdom. Nadia is kidnapped and Alex goes to rescue her... they end up in a quest to save the king and the national treasure, the Golden Dragon from crooks.
I loved this book. Plain and simple. Love it. It, like the first book (City of the beasts) is a little hard to get into... but once you do, you become more and more involved... not a book you should read if you have little time to do it in.
It´s brilliantly written, with plenty of surprises... new and very lovable characters... a lovestory vowen into the plot... and an ending which was supposed to be a huge surprise but I saw coming... not that it spoiled the story one little bit.
Next on my list to read is Allende´s memoir, "My invented country".

Why I love books....

I don´t know why I love books. I just do. And since most of the material I read is in English I decided to have this book-dialog in English too.
There are no words to describe how I feel when I read a book. It´s just not possible. A good book is a treasure, something I don´t want to end. A boring book is a horrible, horrible waste of time, and I invariable become very irritated when I´m tricked into reading one.
So I decided to write about the books I´m reading, to save other from boredom or introduce them to the wonder that a good book is. (That is of course if some poor soul ever wanders in to the site).