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15.04.2012

I expected to be quite bored by this but it turns out, Scott was the most popular author of his age for a reason, even when you are not particularly interested in the topics he’s treating, it’s easy to keep reading his correct and elegant prose. And then, when that’s over and the descriptions of the countryside and the flora and fauna ( Read more... )

08-02-2012

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book by the British writer George Orwell, first published in 1937. The first half of this work documents his sociological investigations of the bleak living conditions amongst the working class in Lancashire and Yorkshire in the industrial north of England before World War II. The second half is a long essay ( Read more... )

18.12.2011


I'm dying to go back to London more than ever, whatever made me imagine it was a good idea to read what is basically a love letter to that city while not in it? This is lovely, the first part reproduces the letters between a New York writer and a London bookshop's stuff in Charing Cross Road. Mainly Frank Doel but also other employees ( Read more... )

15.11.2011

Traté de leerlo en italiano pero no daba. Entendía suficiente para ver las diferencias en la traducción pero no para leerlo sin traducción y la verdad no es exactamente light, como para leerlo varias veces... Fue hace un mes y tengo que admitir que no dejó una impresión clara en mi mente.

Me gustó que tuvieran un lugar separado para ( Read more... )

21.11.11

Half read, half listened. Mixed feelings about it, although it was interesting enough, pretty early sci-fi and different from I'm used to ( Read more... )

17.11.11

This is quite brilliant! I was pleasantly surprised to find a classic so readable and interesting. It reminds me a lot of Voltaire’s Candide, also published in 1759, although this one isn’t a satire, it’s just often amusing. It mainly follows Rasselas through his investigating whether human beings are capable of attaining happiness. And ( Read more... )

13.11.2011

Traducción en prosa. Odiseo baja al Hades para preguntar como llegar a Itaca. Lo cual, la verdad, explica porqué los hombres nunca quieren preguntar, si piensan que tienen que ir al infierno para averiguar como llegar a su propía casa... Una vez ahí hace unos sacrificios y espera a que aparezca Tiresias a tomar un poco de sangre y ( Read more... )

13.11.2011

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After giving up on The Graveyard Book I didn’t expect to like this, much less to love it. It’s basically very hilarious. Sometimes is also a bit too bloody (can’t imagine what the movie is like).
The Floating Market reminds me of the Goblin Market and Harry Potter Alleys. I like these magical markets, which reveal that the ( Read more... )

First read: 03.10.2011

I so identify with Catherine’s deep unshakable conviction that real life can hold the same excitement as books, or maybe that books are as real as life (or more), even as I find her extremely naive, often to the point of annoyance. I like Henry, he’s a more sedate male lead than Mr. Darcy, but his love of reading and ( Read more... )