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domingo, 21 de octubre de 2018

Review: "TErminAMOs y otros poemas sin terminar" by Rayden


Author: David Martínez Álvarez (Rayden)
Publisher: Espasa
Year: 2016
Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 978-8467047462
Price: 11,35€
Mark: 7/10

SYNOPSIS
A wise man once said: "Few things hypnotize so much in this world as a flame and like the moon, it will be because we can not catch them or because they illuminate us in the shadows."

I really do not know if someone said this quote or I just invented it, but they should have written it because the hypnotic power exerted by that woman in red and that white lady on the human being is worthy of study.

Every ending implies a principle and on the contrary, as the cycle of night and day, as the phases of the moon from the new to the full passing through its drought. We are just bags of water with hearts, brains, legs and entelechy, so it is normal for the moon to affect us as the tides do.

Relationships have a moon complex; they come out, they put on, they empty themselves and they hide themselves but they do not stop trying.

There are books that change lives, others that help to understand ... I hope this is the second.

Reseña: "TErminAMOs y otros poemas sin terminar" de Rayden


Título: TErminAMOs y otros poemas sin terminar
Autor: David Martínez Álvarez (Rayden)
Editorial: Espasa
Año: 2016
Páginas: 112
ISBN-13: 978-8467047462
Nota: 7/10
SINOPSIS
Un sabio dijo una vez: «Pocas cosas hipnotizan tanto en este mundo como una llama y como la luna, será porque no podemos cogerlas o porque nos iluminan en la penumbra».

Realmente no sé si alguien dijo esta cita o me la acabo de inventar, pero deberían haberla escrito porque el poder hipnótico que ejercen esa mujer de rojo y esa dama blanca sobre el ser humano es digna de estudio.

Todo final implica un principio y viceversa, como el ciclo de la noche y el día, como las fases de la luna desde la nueva hasta la llena pasando por su sequía. Nosotros solo somos bolsas de agua con corazones, cerebros, piernas y entelequia, por lo que es normal que la luna nos afecte como lo hacen las mareas.

Las relaciones tienen complejo de luna; salen, se ponen, se vacían y se ocultan pero no por ello dejan de intentarlo.

Hay libros que cambian la vida, otros que ayudan a entenderla… Espero que este sea de los segundos.

domingo, 1 de abril de 2018

Review: “We should all be feminist” and “Dear Dear Ijeawele or, a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions” by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.


Publisher: Harper Collins.
Year: 2014.
Pages: 52.
ISBN-13: 978-0008115272.
Price: 6 € aprox (tapa blanda) / 3€ aprox (ebook)
Mark: 9/10
Abstract: A personal and powerful essay from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’, based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. What does “feminism” mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay – adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name – by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of ‘Americanah’ and ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’. With humour and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century – one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviours that marginalise women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences – in the U.S., in her native Nigeria – offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a best-selling novelist, here is one remarkable author’s exploration of what it means to be a woman today – and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.



Publisher: Fourth Estate.
Year: 2017.
Pages: 96.
IBSN-13: 978-0008275709
Price: 5 € aprox (tapa blanda) / 6€ aprox (ebook)
Mark: 9/10
Abstract: From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today--written as a letter to a friend.  A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions--compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive--for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today."