MARTA'S RECOMMENDATIONS:
Abstact: It is a series of six fantasy novels for young people
written by Cassandra Clare. It is the first saga of the series that was
released, but it is chronologically the third. It is mainly fixed in the year
2007 and revolves around the Shadowhunter, Clary Fray, and her friends, as they
face two wars, the first against a Shadowhunter transformed by envy and power
and the second against his Shadowhunter brothers, companions who have been
corrupted.
Opinion: I think it's a wonderful youthful saga, this author
throughout the books you realize she has a fondness for love trios, but the
plot and everything else is great. It gets us into the world of the nefilim,
underground and the wars between them. A characteristic of this writer with
this saga and its prequels, is that the LGTB + theme normalizes you and above
all how you want to leave behind the discrimination that can be had by your
condition, race, etc.
Abstact: Modern town has grown listening to phrases like that
is not typical of a young lady, that is a slut or your wedding day will be the
happiest of your life. But after moving to the city and meet Zorricienta,
Gordinieves and the Little Mermaid Fish, she is waking up from all those
idiocies and starts a long way to unlearn everything that they should never
have taught her. She feels that everything she has seen in the movies of princesses
and all the advice she has received from her parents, grandmothers or friends
to become a woman as God intended has poisoned her and she realizes how much
time she has lost in liking the men and in seeking the love of his life.
That is why, when she finally finds him, she is afraid to leave everything
for him and fall asleep again in those idiocies like a sleeping beauty. If love
has been the opium of women, do you have to detoxify yourself from that drug
and leave your relationship to become the woman of your dreams?
Opinion: It is a comic that reflects so well the reality of
many people that it is almost impossible not to identify with any of its
characters: Zorricienta, Gordinieves ... This writer also reveals toxic
behaviors that you can live, have lived or many people live.
SARU'S RECOMMENDATIONS:
Abstact:
Cansadas [tired] is the intriguing title for the new of the
author of Íbamos a ser reinas [we were going to be queens] and Feminismo
para principiantes [feminism for beginners] (published by “Ediciones B”).
In this book, the author make clear the new and subtle ways of the patriarchy
to continue discriminating against women under the veil of equality, new forms
of sexism and misogyny, more covered but just as machist as before.
Opinion:
We are tired is the chant that accompany Nuria Varela throughout the book,
an analysis of how the nowadays patriarchy have found more subtle ways of
oppression and discrimination. She not only focus her analysis on Spain
(although it represents the majority) but she also talks about Latin America
and Middle East. She gives us a lot of data to provide with credibility her
speech, which is thankfully. It is so hard to read, so hard to see that we are
in the 21st century, in 2018 and still we have to suffer because of our genetic
condition, just for being women. I consider this book a basic manual on
feminism, although it has not been translated into English. Quoting the book:
“We have grown up and we don’t like what we see. It’s high time we make our own
reaction. We have been ants. It is time to be cicada”. (It refers to a fable
which in Spanish is named “the ant and the cicada” and in English is “the ant
and the grasshoper”.)
Abstact:
The great Norse myths are woven into
the fabric of our storytelling, from Tolkien, Alan Garner and Rosemary Sutcliff
to Game of Thrones and Marvel Comics. They are also an inspiration for Neil
Gaiman's own award-bedecked, bestselling fiction. Now he reaches back through
time to the original source stories in a thrilling and vivid rendition of the
great Norse tales. Gaiman's gods are thoroughly alive on the page - irascible,
visceral, playful, passionate - and the tales carry us from the beginning of
everything to Ragnarok and the twilight of the gods. Galvanised by Gaiman's
prose, Thor, Loki, Odin and Freya are irresistible forces for modern readers
and the crackling, brilliant writing demands to be read aloud around an open
fire on a freezing, starlit night.
Opinion:
I have always been so curious about the norse mythology, about its tales
and sagas, so when I found this book on the library, I couldn’t resist to buy
it. Gaiman get to reinterpret the myths, bringing them closer to the
21st-century readers, we no longer need skalds, we have books. The rhetoric of
the epic poems no longer attracts us -they were written to be recited, not
readed-. This was what we needed, a new way of reading the sagas, and Gaiman
achieved it. It surprised me that the Norse Gods were not as intelligent as I
thought they would have been. They were visceral, proud, they are tricked very
easily, probably naive. But their adventures were entertaining and pleasant, an
easy reading but enjoyable.
ROCÍO'S RECOMMENDATIONS:
Abstact:
Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or
virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel
Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience
offers startling new insight into our "two minds"—the rational and
the emotional—and how they together shape our destiny.
Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of
emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in
relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an
entirely new way to talk about being smart.
The best news is that "emotional literacy" is not fixed early in
life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone
interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of
human possibility.
Opinion:
I was given this book two years ago as a present after
expressly asking for it and it has been up to now in my pile of pending books
(I know, a disaster). And when I have finally begun to read it, it has been
love at the first pages. Unlike many other books I have read on this subject,
the reading is fluent, entertaining and instructive. Goleman manages to
transmit information without being too cumbersome and using many examples of
everyday life. It is true that there is currently a lot of recent research on
this subject in other media (especially articles), but this book, which is from
1995, is an essential reference for anyone interested in Emotional Intelligence
and education in general.
Abstact:
Though they have the vote and the Pill and haven't been burned as witches
since 1727, life isn't exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They
are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get
Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men
secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on
women's lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own, from adolescence
to her development as a writer, wife, and mother.
Opinion:
This is undoubtedly one of the funniest, most ironic, most interesting and
the coolest books I've read in recent months. Caitlin mixes provocative
observations about women's lives with fiercely funny stories about herself. And
with all that she bares, deconstructs and throws into the fire the politically
correct image of the woman of the 21st century.
