28.01.2012

Surprisingly readable, although I listened instead of reading, tbh. I made the mistake of trying to read A Room of One’s Own, which has great bits but starts with a prolonged description of food and gardens that I did not feel was very relevant to writing by women, and imagined somehow that Woolf had only written one good book (an ( Read more... )

"Captive Prince"

26.02

There are no words for how much I love CP. This is not, as per the author's classification, an actual separate book but book 1 of 3 of the same novel. Still, it's 60.000 words and I keep re-reading chapters of book 2 (which is on chapter 27 right now) every time she posts a new one so I definitely need to count it towards ( Read more... )

01.08.2011

Comments: 20.000 words/1.48 hour. I half listened, half read this. Although I’d have rather read it all since I felt the reading was too fast to properly comprehend. It won both the Hugo and Nebula and I’m not surprised. It’s exquisite. The narrator is a 47-year-old man who decides to travel the country when yet another economic crisis ( Read more... )

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"Salir de fase"  de José Antonio Cotrina [Utopia]

Primera Lectura: 2003.

Segunda Lectura: 2006, Mayo & Junio.

Notas: Una de mis historias favoritas, ganadora del UPC 2000. En un mundo en el que los cuerpos se cambian como la ropa y la identidad se guarda en un disco es aun más difícil saber quien sos, o quizás, todo lo contrario.