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13.07.2013

Very sad... I'm not sure if it's sadder that there are no islands or that people didn't (and don't realise) because we all need our islands so badly, to be alone, to hide, to recover somehow after facing a world that does not give a fuck.

The poem:[Spoiler (click to open)]

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15.06.2013

Published June 1989, the year after the Gallaudet University revolution.

Interesting but pretty basic. Good for me since I haven’t read much on the topic at all and it references other material (David Wright’s autobiography, for example) and gives enough of a basic history to give a casual reader a basic understanding. I’m quite sorry ( Read more... )

El lento adiós a "mamá y papá"

15.05.2013

Nada nuevo, en realidad. Pero da gusto ver que las cosas progresan, ¿vieron? Y reconforta poder estar un poco orgullosa del país de una, para variar.

10.04.13

Susan Sontag is a brilliant writer and although the transcriptions of her diaries are not very interesting, as soon as she starts analysing, I'm all over this. The style is, in its semi-anthropological tone and vocabulary, intensely reminiscent of the fiction of Ursula Le Guin (I'm particularly thinking of 'Solitude' and 'The Telling', ( Read more... )

tba
09.10.12
Esta es la clase de estupideces retrogradas por la que  el lenguaje no discriminatorio es necesario. Si bien es inegable que suena mal, eso es cuestión de ser más flexibles y buscar alternativas como la @, la x o la e en los plurales. También estaría bueno recordarles a los señores fans de la RAE que existen las palabras ‘persona’, ‘ ( Read more... )

To be perfectly honest, Dickens' style is not to my cup of tea but he has his moments of greatness (in a book this long, on the other hand, it would be hard not to). Ironically, I do like the way he plays with language and goes on about things but I am not very interested in the things he goes on about and I wish he would take things seriously more ( Read more... )

‘A sentimental journey through France and Italy’ by Laurence Sterne

I have to say titling this France and Italy
seems a bit unfair when there’s about 10% of it that’s set in the
second. Also, what the hell is with it ending in the middle of a
sentence?

15.11.2012

A lot of quotes:

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PREFACE.  IN THE DESOBLIGEANT.

It ( Read more... )

03.11.12

Comments: I listened to this and I really enjoyed it in that format because it’s a very poetic kind of prose (as one might expect from a professional poet’s first big prose work). Plot wise it is not that exciting or brilliant, Esther spends most of the book feeling disdainful, despairing or indifferent to pretty much everything and this is ( Read more... )

Can’t deny Mantel is a skilled writer, I read this in two days and really enjoyed it. Narrative wise is a bit disconnected, with lots of flashbacks and flashforwards, anecdotally and philosophically it was very interesting.

Read: 02.11.2012

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