"I'm happy reading Miquel Martín i Serra... you can't write better!" said actor Bernat Quintana a few days ago in a tweet, with an image of the Begur writer's latest book. Answered prose (Periscope). Why? "It's a collection of articles, chronicles, and short texts where the author talks about diverse topics: a landscape from his Empordà, a childhood memory, a delicacy he likes or a way of cooking from his land, his passion for literature, the authors who have influenced him... and he does so with rich and genuine prose," Quintana explains to ARA, whose delight is contagious.

With summer vacations approaching, it's time to decide: what do you fancy more, the sea or the mountains? This question sometimes becomes a question of identity: are you more of a water or dry land person? Whenever someone presents this combination, I think the experience of many Catalans is the middle way: neither sea nor mountain; some of us are forest and pool people. Others, plain and marsh people. In any case, the combination of soaking and shade is usually the goal of anyone who wants to overcome the hot season. Whatever you decide, I recommend a book about dry land and a book that has a certain aftertaste of salt water and that, while we're at it, reminds us of the absurdity of valuing our territory only when we have vacations.