Pilarín Bayés recommends a book that she was planning to buy today.

VicPilarín Bayés (Vic, 1941) is a very methodical reader. She reads in the morning and at night. These are the schedules she's set for herself and the ones that work best for her. She says she doesn't usually have time for reading in the afternoon because work doesn't allow it. Although she celebrated her 84th birthday this year and could retire, her schedule is full of projects. "When I was younger, I could pick up a book and read it in one sitting," she says. Now she reads gradually; she has a set time and a book marked waiting in its turn.

Bayés recommends a book she hasn't read yet, Universal Hotel (La Magrana, 2025), by Joan Llinàs Cuadros (Cala Bona, 1985) "I was thinking of buying it today," she says smiling. "It's not about important events of the century," explains Bayés. "I thought the subject was very interesting."

She still hasn't called Anglada, the bookstore in Vic's Plaza Mayor where she normally orders and buys her reading material. "When I was three, I already went there with my mother," she says. 16. She usually goes to Anglada, but when she happens to pass by a bookstore and a book catches her eye, she goes in and buys it, "whether in Vic or in Patagonia," Bayés also recommends. Confetti (Proa, 2024), by Jordi Puntí, the book she's about to finish, which tells the story of Xavier Cugat: "It's really funny because I'd known him a little." She says she finds the section about Cugat's time in the United States very interesting and is really enjoying the read, even though it's "really long." She recommends both, although she's aware that she can speak more specifically about one and the other comes as a surprise.