You always have to come to the defense of youth literary phenomena like the spanish Blue jeans o Sara Ballarin. I say this because on many occasions you hear the laments of other established writers of more solid narrative, especially when the lines at the booths of the book fairs are established around these figures of letters for young people.
But the truth is that without initial readings in line with age, the good and enriching habit of reading could never be established. And the day will come when a boy of today decides to read Joyce's Ulysses (if he likes it). Until then, instead of treating these writers with contempt, they should be seen as that necessary step so that some years later, they also come to collect their signature.
And without further ado, let's go there with this great young writer of youth literature which is Sara Ballarín. Novels that touch that chord of chivalry with romantic or fantasy stories, with youthful idealism and always in generational harmony and touched by a vibrant rhythm.
Top 3 recommended books by Sara Ballarín
Lena's flight
In the case of Lena's Flight we meet a wealthy young woman who nevertheless lives in her particular shipwreck, with that feeling of someone who has the supposed material happiness that is useless in terms of the sparks of authentic happiness.
Lena has her fuck buddy, a practical and routine love that is reproduced with the same vital cadence as the challenge of things that orbit in her emptiness. Until something ends up breaking into his life with that violence of need, with the energy capable of generating new impulses towards momentous decisions.
Lena thought she could hardly expect anything from her father. The exercise of his partenidad was reduced to the fleeting encounters between trip and trip. The literature that had given her father glory long ago distanced her from it, as if he inhabited all those settings in the books he wrote. But sometimes we have an incomplete idea of the people around us ... When her father gives her an old book, with the memories of her grandmother, the young Lena launches into reading with relish.What Lena discovers in the figure until then his grandmother's diffuse way opens his eyes to the harshness of other times, to a really hard way of living on the wire.
But above all, what Lena discovers between those pages is who her new heroine will be, a woman who carried her blood and who fought all her time to achieve freedom in all areas, even facing the expensive price of peering into her last days. In advance.
wedding cake
Love invites precipitation because in its wisdom it knows that time is what it is for its effervescence. The question is when reason intervenes, the dregs and the rest of the cocktail. After the truest love comes other forms of love as relevant as first love, but in order to understand the new meaning, the new meaning, one must be sure that one wants to understand it with all that it entails.
Lis and Carlos meet at a party and the chemistry is undeniable. From that moment on, everything happens very quickly: shortly after they meet, they decide to move in together and a few months later their wedding will come. Their environment thinks that they are rushing, but they know that what they have is unique and special. However, after seven years their marriage begins to fall apart. The changes in their lives and the traumas and fears of the past begin to scratch that apparent happiness. Only the memory seems to remain of that story and the abyss between them grows to the point where Lis decides to pack her bags and never return. Can we rebuild a we without abandoning what we really want?
The writer Sara Ballarín returns with a new work in which she reflects on the two sides of relationships and the pieces of cake that we distribute without taking into account that we are still hungry. Wedding Cake becomes an honest reading about what happens when love ends and a proof that the couple's resilience overcomes any compromise. Can two lost beings find what led them to love each other until the end?
Paula's notebook
Deep down, a diary or a notebook of projects and intimacies is always a book with an unconscious desire that someone should read it. In principle we ourselves in the future, or the therapist if it finally proceeds when the neurosis is triggered 😉 The point is that Paula misplaces that notebook in which she rewrites her life, notes her concerns and outlines her projects. And things of chance, whoever finally finds him is greatly interested in what Paula writes there, discovering in her notes a fascinating person to discover.
With the complicity of her friends Nero and Vera, Paula copes with the tragedy of loss. Only that the final meeting with the benefactor who will give you his notebook again, will point to the beginning of a new book to write with passion and dedication to discovery ...
Other recommended books by Sara Ballarín
With you in the world
Inertia in love can only mean two things: Either it is over or it has been neglected. In both cases the solution is never easy. If there really is a comfort zone (a term so hackneyed today for everyone's fill), it is in the arms of the person you first loved to end up reaching a standstill.
The worst thing about carelessness in love is that even if its reconstruction can proceed, there is always a point of no return. At book with you in the worldwe are at this moment with no possible return. Vega, the protagonist of this story, feels annulled by this inertia. He ends up overcoming all his fears and embarks on a vital adventure without a marked voyage.
A seaside town is always a good place to listen to your heart under the gentle cadence of the waves on the beach. Under this new quiet environment, at peace with herself, away from the noise of the city and breathing the sea and books, Vega finds herself again. Once you know who you are and what you want, love ends up arriving in its exact quality, to the extent that best suits your needs. Because you show yourself as you are and so there can never be room for error or confusion.
