3 Books I’ve Loved Lately
I’m back and in this post I write about three books I’ve loved recently.
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Mexican Gothic made me remember why I love Gothic literature
Mexican Gothic is a novel by author Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and it reminded me why I love the Gothic genre so much.
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Range: Try, try, try, and then focus
This is the story of how a book helped me stop worrying about not specializing earlier.
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Michelle Obama’s «Becoming» and The Big Question
Michelle Obama has lived a very interesting life. This book is a glimpse into her life and her mind, and I was surprised to find myself in those pages, asking myself…
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The Portrayal of Teenage Mental Health: Turtles All the Way Down
“The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.”John Green Aza Holmes is 16 years old, she lives in Indianapolis…
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Of Women and Literature: A Room of One’s Own
“But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction – what has that got to do with a room of one’s own? I will try to explain.”…
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Into the Twilight Zone, Chapter 1: On Twilight and YA Literature
The Twilight Saga is a four-book series that debuted in 2005. It was written by American author Stephenie Meyer and it is a young adult novel that chronicles the romance between…
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Review: Miss Burma
“I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t both intrigued and frightened by the myth of my mother and her native country, by their secrets and contradictions.”Charmaine Craig Miss Burma is…
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Review: To The Lighthouse
“It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the…
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Writing with Purpose: Burmese Days
Myanmar (Burma) is a country located in Southeast Asia that shares borders with China, Thailand, Laos, India and Bangladesh. It is home to over 135 different ethnic groups and around a…
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5 Reasons Why You Should Read Imagined Communities
Back at the beginning of January, I told you about a book I recently read called Imagined Communities, written by British-American political scientist Benedict Anderson. It is a thorough study of nationalism…
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Review: On Writing – A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King Over 17 years ago, Stephen King was encouraged to write a book about writing. A book for those who aspire to…
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Review: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is a collection of short stories by American author, Raymond Carver (1938-1988). It is a book about life and human beings, with all their…
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Review: Wishful Drinking
Most of us know who Carrie Fisher is. We probably met her the same way: when she appeared before a small droid and spoke the famous words: Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You’re…
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Around the World in Eighty Books
Hello, my dearest readers! How are you? How’s everything going? I’ve had a lot of work, which is why I haven’t been around lately. But today I come before you with…
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Review: The Festival of Insignificance
“And yet I prefer a world where everyone would apologize, with no exception, pointlessly, excessively, for nothing at all, where they’d load themselves down with apologies.” Milan Kundera is an author…
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Review: The Story of Kullervo
“In the days {of magic long ago} {when magic was yet new}, a swan nurtured her brood of cygnets by the banks of a smooth river in the reedy marshland of…
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Review: Around the Day in Eighty Worlds
So I’ve been sick. And being sick means reading slowly. This was a short book, but because I wasn’t feeling well, at all, it took me quite a while to finish it.…
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Review: The Year of Magical Thinking
A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine came to visit from Germany. We travelled and ate and saw as much as we could from Mexico. Then, one weekend, we…
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Review: The Sound of Waves
This book came to my hands unexpectedly. I was walking through the book store when I noticed it on a shelf, squeezed between other authors and other genres. I had only heard about its author,…
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Review: Born a Crime
Trevor Noah is the current host of The Daily Show and, before I read this book, I only knew him as that. I knew he was from South Africa, but nothing…
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Review: The Fellowship of the Ring
“Three Rings for the Elven-Kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone, Nine for the Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on…
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Review: Big Magic
I read this book a while back, but I find myself struggling with how I feel about it. So, bear with me and read through this post because I do think it…
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Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“Merricat, said Connie, would you like a cup of tea? Oh, no, said Merricat, you’ll poison me.” The book by Shirley Jackson tells the story of Mary Katherine (Merricat) and Constance…
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Review: It
We’ve all at least heard of Stephen King, right? If not by his novels, by the film and TV adaptations of them. Films such as The Shawshank Redemption (which is one of my…
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Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
A few months ago I walked into the book store ready to enter the world of Haruki Murakami. I had heard about the success of his novel 1Q84 and that day I…
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Review: Flaubert’s Parrot
Flaubert’s Parrot, written by Julian Barnes, is a postmodern novel (if we can call it novel) about a man obsessed with one thing and one thing only: to find out which…
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Review: A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
«The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won’t make a story meaningful, it won’t make a life meaningful either.”
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Review: Brick Lane
This book, by Monica Ali, was on the reading list for my 20th Century British Literature course. It tells the story of Nazneen, a young Bangladeshi who is practically forced into…
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Review: The Life of a Stupid Man
This is a short autobiographical book written by one of the most important Japanese writers. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa was a modernist author, radical and tormented, who is also known as the ‘father of…
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Review: Challenger Deep
Caden Bosch is a brilliant and artistic teenager that lately has been distancing himself from his friends, family and studies for no apparent reason. Caden Bosch is the young crew member of…
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Review: Howards End
If you had asked me a few months ago, I would have told you I didn’t plan on reading this book. In fact, I hadn’t even heard about it. I knew…
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Three books that changed me
Happy international book day! And what a day! Because today we commemorate the 400th year anniversary of the deaths of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra and William Shakespeare. Well, in Cervantes’ case…
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Review: Me Before You
So there’s a movie coming out later this year that looks like I’m gonna watch it. Turns out it’s based on a book. So I decided to go ahead and read…
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Review: The Jungle Books
This month Disney’s giving us a remake of its 1967 movie The Jungle Book. I don’t know when or why Disney decided to take its classic films and make them live-action, but…
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Why I don’t read as many books as I’d like to (and how to fix it)
Confessions of a bookworm that reads so slowly she feels like a bookslug. (And how to fix them)
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Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Today we’ll talk about the book that started it all. It was the first book I ever read because I wanted to (not because I had to), and it’s the only book…
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Ken Follett’s Century Trilogy: Good Books, Bad Sequels
«Good Books, Bad Sequels» was the first post I ever wrote about books. It was the way in which I expressed my disappointment upon reading the second book of Ken Follett’s…
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Review: Bestiario (Bestiary)
As many of you know, Julio Cortázar is by far my favorite author. Last year I made a trip to Paris in which I went to some of the places that…
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Review: Heart of Darkness
Sometimes I wonder why I even bother making plans for my blog posts if life will prevent me from writing on time anyway. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad Charles Marlow, the captain…
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Review: Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë, tells the story of an orphan who has suffered abuse her entire life. After studying and teaching at a very humble and very strict boarding school, Jane…
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Review: All fires the fire, and other stories
This book by Julio Cortázar is described as a demonstration of the prominence of Cortázar’s creative writing. I must admit that, even if I agree that these stories reflect the author…
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Review: Hotel World
Woooooooo- hooooooo what a thing what a surprise what a funny way to open a book with a paragraph that has no punctuation whatsoever and that instead hits us readers with…
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Review: O Caledonia
Today it’s my turn to tell you about one of the books I read in August, when I took a course on Gothic literature in Edinburgh. Gothic Gothic emerged in Great Britain during…
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Book Rant: Why «Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined» doesn’t work for me
Today I wanted to talk to you about something that’s been in my mind since last week. At first, I wasn’t sure whether to write this post or not, but after…
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Review: The House of Hades
So, a few years ago I read the «Percy Jackson and the Olympians» saga, by Rick Riordan, and I absolutely loved it. The main character is fun, the story is interesting,…
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Review: Dracula
Before we talk about the book, let me tell you a story of the young Paola. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Eleven years ago, I saw a film called ‘The League…
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Review: Everything I Never Told You
Everything I Never Told You, written by Celeste Ng, is perhaps one of the best books I’ve read all year. It’s the story of a Chinese American family and their struggles…
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Review: Paper Towns
John Green has a habit of constantly returning to my bookshelves and, although I’ve read his books in a random order, I somehow managed to read the ones I liked the…
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