MARTA’S RECOMMENDATIONS:
“Wonder” by R.J Palacio
Abstact:
August Pullman was born with a
facial difference that, up until now, has prevented him from going to a
mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more
than to be treated as an ordinary kid—but his new classmates can’t get past
Auggie’s extraordinary face. WONDER, now a #1 New York Times bestseller and
included on the Texas Bluebonnet Award master list, begins from Auggie’s point
of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her
boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of one
community’s struggle with empathy, compassion, and acceptance.
Opinion:
What to say about this book? To start is very
necessary in all schools, institutes, even in each house. It teaches us that
appearances are deceiving, that the posh can pretend to be super nice and have
many prejudices or the one that you least expect will be your helping hand.
Neither everything is a physical, nor is everything a beautiful face ... the
most important thing in this life is the interior and treat others as you would
like them to treat you.
SARAH’S RECOMMENDATIONS:
Abstact:
Salman Rushdie, a
self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the
true meaning of home. Writing with insight, passion and humour, he looks at
what it means to belong, whether roots are real and homelands imaginary, what
it is like to reconfigure your past from fragments of memory and what happens
when East meets West.
Opinion:
It is made up of pieces of four novels of Salman
Rushdie (Shame, Imaginary Homelands, East, West and Joseph Anton) where he talks
about the feeling of leaving our home, our country, our family, our friends… Of
how hard is to turn into an immigrant and suffer xenophobia and hatred. Anybody
who had lived abroad can identify with it, empathize with Salman.
It is another book of the Vintage Minis edition of
Penguin, collection that I love. This is the third book of that collection that
I have bought (Psychedelics by Aldoux Huxley
and Depression by William Styron)
and I am sooo in love. They are small editions that you can take everywhere,
and they address specific topics. The covers -drawing and color- are related to
the topic and, besides using recycled paper, they use some pages to show a
quote taken from the book. Book and edition highly recommendable!
ROCÍO’S RECOMMENDATIONS:
“Paper Towns” by John Green
Abstact:
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the
magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So, when she cracks
open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him
for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends,
and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an
enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and
they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q
sees the girl he thought he knew...
Opinion:
It's a very summery reading: a road trip with friends,
trying to find someone and finding themselves on the road. Any book by John
Green is synonymous with laughter and tears and a sense of recognition in the
characters and their actions; obviously, in this case it does not disappoint.
The characters of Q and Margo are very endearing (despite their obvious
differences), as well as the rest of the companions who undertake the
adventure. In addition, there is a mystery and many cartographic concepts in
between, so you cannot ask for more! Therefore, "Paper Towns" is a
perfect beach reading for me.
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