First read: 19.09.2009

Comments: I started this a couple years ago, it’s only now, with a paper copy in hand that I have finished it. It was one of those books I was extremely excited about reading but which lost me with lush descriptions. In fact, I got sidetracked with "The Hunger Games" this time too, and I had a fifth of it to finish. It was ( Read more... )

First read: 16.09.2009

Comments: Before I even finished "The Hunger Games" I had already downloaded this, certain I wouldn't be able to let Peeta and Katniss go. The summary is already a spoiler for the first novel so be warned. I didn't feel the book was cut off at the right place, it should have ended with Katniss unconscious or semi-delirious, ( Read more... )

First read: 14.09.2009

Comments: This is Uglies all over again for me, a powerful government trying to keep the people down, while in Uglies it was doing it by brainwashing them into believing it was doing them a favour in The Hunger Games its approach is more classic, it's doing it by displaying it's power and their helplessness (like in the Greek ( Read more... )

★ People are always telling you that "we have always done thus," and then you find that their "always" means a generation or two, or a century or two, at most a millennium or two. Cultural ways and habits are blips, compared to the ways and habits of the body, of the race. There really is very little that human beings on our plane have "always ( Read more... )

En la vida de cualquier persona se suceden casi siempre dos tragedias muy serias que ya he vivido: la falta de amor o el exceso de amor. (pp. 27)

En mi interior repito las palabras mágicas: Tú no eres responsable de mi vida. Yo no soy responsable de la tuya, e intento convencerme de la eficacia de su hechizo para no dejarme arrastrar otra vez por ( Read more... )

 "The Will to Power: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche" by Kathleen Higgins & Robert Solomon

First read: 31.08.2009

Comments: Teaching Company Course about Nietzsche, took me a while to listen to it all because Nietzsche wasn't a light thinker and well, once you get one of his ideas (not all of them work) you want to apply it to everything. ( Read more... )

First read: 16.08.2009

Comments: There's some lines I liked but the story wasn't at all what I expected (something like "Hallucinating Foucault" so really, I had insane expectations). It wasn't about reading, it was about collective guilt (because of the Holocaust) and illiteracy.

Quotes:

♪ Actually going was something else again. I don’t know why ( Read more... )

 "Annie On My Mind" by Nancy Garden . [N7]

First read: 09.08.2009
Comments: I liked this one, is the story of two 17 year old New-York girls who become friends and then something more and how they deal with it. It's cute, real, and doesn't overdo it.
I have been waiting to read it for years, really, especially since I last was at Irati's and she ( Read more... )

 "Graceling" by Kristin Cashore
Primera lectura: 07.2009
Comentarios: No me lo pude terminar, repetitivo y generico.

Old notes: So, it's the first day and I'm already in chapter 8/page 69 so it's likely I will finish this. Oh, espera, lo estoy leyendo en castellano y sí eso no prueba que es un buen libro... Oo. La traducción es pasable (cada dos por ( Read more... )

"The Silver Ring" by cormallen  . [slash, fairytales] . [N7]
First read: 17.07.2009
Comments: Jared makes up stories, he always has, but maybe it's not just a quirk of his and fairy tales are closer than he thinks. Cute and heartwarming.
2009, 2009: short-story in english, book-2009, cuento/short-story, *author: female, @read in english, 2009: 3rd, book-2009, ( Read more... )