I find Bion’s concept of a ‘container’(the caretaker, the mother) that receives the emotions (normally distress) of the ‘contained’ (patient, child) and regurgitates them, after processing them, in a way that makes it possible for the contained to accept them, very interesting. I normally have trouble finding people who know how to contain me and ( Read more... )

24.09.2012

Protagonist is super annoying brat who is ‘sensitive’, which was the Romantic take of EMO teenagers.  Being now almost done with Middlemarch, I can say that Eliot can write but this was boring and hard to finish and the resources and plots that a prescient character offer were completely wasted in making the situation more tragic. ( Read more... )

*Read twice this year* So very quotable but it’s a 1000 words so I’m refraining.

07.01.12

23.04.12

read2, #non-fiction, #essay, 2012: essay in english, 2012, book-2012 [essay], book-2012, @read in english, *author: male, +academic, +bookish

08.03.2010

29.11.2011

Coming of Age in Karhide is a story about a Gethenian who’s not secretive like Estraven in The Left Hand of Darkness and tells the story of their life from childhood. They way they “come of age” (ie. Come into sexual maturity and start transforming into a woman or a man during the period each month). This has all the answers ( Read more... )

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"In Praise of Fanfic" by Cory Doctorow . [non-fiction article]

First read: 2007
Second read: 05.2009
Comments: Interesting even if it says really obvious things to a mainstream audience. I really liked how he got the POINT of all the issue, which is that "Ideas are easy. Execution is hard. That's why writers don't really get excited when they're ( Read more... )

Comentario: 2000 palabras. Es demasiado poético para mí gusto, la verdad. Me gusto más la carta de la otra vez.

Primera lectura: 24.04.2009

Segunda lectura: 01.05.2009

2009, 2009: cuento en castellano, book-2009, *author: female, @leído en castellano, -cuento/short-story, 2009x2, read2

"Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides.

First read: 06-02-2008 (audiobook)

Second read: 28.07.2012 (in paper. To think I meant to re-read this once a year!)

Notes: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Middlesex is an epic with all the right references and literary credentials. But it's not at all pretentious, there is undeniable passion behind the academic ( Read more... )

"Cuando Hitler robo el conejo rosa" de Judith Kerr.

Notas: Otro "clásico", el holocausto no es mi tema preferido, aunque esta novela trata más de una huida del mismo que del evento en sí. Es más que nada la historia de una nena y su familia y las experiencias que viven cuando se ven obligados a mudarse constantemente para escapar la persecución. ( Read more... )

"Companions of the night" by Vivian Vande Velde. (The EBOOK)

Notes: Best vampire book ever. In fact, one of the best books I've ever read. The author is not well-known(and I haven't got any of her other books because the topics are not of my interest. Edit: I have read "Heir Apparent" and it wasn't any good) but I have the e-book if you want a ( Read more... )