Wednesday, May 23, 2007

Pea Allergy Yellow Pea

invisible smell roses / Laura Restrepo

Luicé restart, before starting his old age, a relationship with a childhood sweetheart, Heloise. First letters, then telephone calls and later in foreign cities dating, love this old couple in the novel exudes the smell of roses invisible, perhaps the scent of nostalgia, perhaps the fear of old age.
invisible roses smell is a short novel or long short story "interested in the taxonomy? where the Colombian writer makes an exercise in nostalgia, love, of youth that we lost. With a prose carefully, slowly, and with a narrator who recounts everything from the evocation, a storyteller who did not live it tells, but only craves, Lauro Restrepo novel achieves excellent knows and loves old adages: "I always found it more real the invisible roses smell the roses themselves, I knew not to kill any love for baking, or make you scream of pleasure Magangué whores: I do Heloise would have guessed at the splendid young women over the years would be, and have loved the old to the young Heloise was. "
This fragment is the strength and vitality of this novel is a painful piece, he turns to the story: the twist: it is a novel about Luicé and Heloise: the novel about all that we love others and in one way or another what we envy.
start reading: May 22
order reading: May 23
pp. 63.
editorial: Sudamericana.
country Colombia.
location: Mexico City.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Member Login Sean Cody

The inventor of games / Pablo de Santis

Drago Ivan Drago is a grandson of Nicholas, the great inventor of games, imagination, skill, strategy, and so on. However, their enemigio, Morodian he seeks power Zyl populated and has nearly destroyed the reputation of the city and now want to give the final blow: to build a game called "The Life of Ivan Drago."
With game inventor, Pablo de Santis does a story round, light, interesting, with many doors open to the imagination. Fiction, not so bad novel, as some literary critics would have us believe, as if imagination were relegated to the language. De Santis creates a world with many possibilities to imagine, because surely no man, being a child, not at some point invented a game: one to kill time or to occupy it, I do not recognize children who kill time, but on the contrary, they enjoy it. Perhaps some would mention the final element is a little loose, but the author is fully compliant with good counting a story that gives rise to germ literature.
start reading: May 18
order reading: May 18
pp. 243
Publisher: Alfaguara youth.
author: Argentina
location: way to Oaxaca.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Tops To Go With Knee Length Skirts

Poetry in Action / Ramón Iván Suárez Caamal

Caamal
Ramón Iván Suárez is a great reader, and I say this because his book has extensive quotes, but above all, quotes from poets as well known or not known but only in certain places. It was a great surprise to find in it poems poets analyzed family such as Minerva Margarita Villarreal, Sergio Margarito Cuéllar and Lamb, poet, although the first two, settled a bit more in the national historiography, the latter less so, but that does not diminish what a great poet. However, is it possible to learn to write poetry? For Ramon Caamal think so, and Poetry in Action explains, illustrates and advises a number of techniques, exercises and comparisons to create, although not a poem, who can say he wrote a poem?, Yes to guide a vision to the poetic aesthetic.
is not a book for easy reading. If reading is sometimes difficult for people who have not developed this intelligence (To read requires patience to awaken the intellectual self-though some may awaken the brute-), in Poetry in action applies a double dark: poetry reading to understand the poetry. However, the book serves a good purpose: to clarify: not the miasma of poetic creation, but the surface, the mirror reflecting the poem. Later, as a matter of the poet and the reader (reading is a two-year), bring the reader up to the depths of the self.
start reading: May 14
order reading: May 16
pp. 260
Publisher: Alfaguara youth.
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location: Mexico City.

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Improving Cellular Respiration

The Pied Piper of Hamelin before / Rodolfo Castro

All children's story protects the adult terrors. Who was really the Pied Piper of Hamelin? Rodolfo Castro tries to solve this puzzle in his book "The Pied Piper of Hamelin before." With an interesting prose, not so simple, in language that evokes the poetic and the occult, Castro is on target to tackle the dark that has the character. The plot is in some way, meta text. A man recovers an old diary that belonged to his grandmother and he discovers the diary of the flute: his knowledge of black magic, its strange Don, the plague that ravaged Europe, the fighting among flutists to dominate nature.
In the novel there is a very pleasing game between reality and fantasy, so that both complement and create a really dark, dirty, but magical. It is a book that any child will enjoy despite obscure or archaic references digressions. The book is a crack that opens and swallows a mouthful the reader's imagination.
start reading: May 15
order reading: May 15
pp. 68
Publisher: Alfaguara child
country: Mexico
location: Mexico City.

Wednesday, May 9, 2007

Japanese Sharking On The Beach

La Mona Risa, the best humor stories / Luis M. Pescetti

Pescetti is an excellent author but if there is more subjective than the love, laughter. His anthology of humor, although I was on a roller coaster of laughter, it is an interesting range of things that one would cause laughter. Disinvent inventions that women who say no, lovers with a nosebleed, the girls who try to seduce a conductor or the story of Karl Marx are just some of the characters in Mona laughter.
The anthology is a parade of intent ironic, cynical, perhaps tender of laughter caused by the language or the almost involuntary humor of the characters. I did not know that Cortázar had tales of humor, but includes a pair Pescetti. There Ibargüengoitia texts, Buddha, Monterroso, Maruja Torres, Woody Allen and a bad neck that I saw the joke of Bryce Echenique. Where does the laughter we born? I do not know: the involuntary expression can depart from even the most grotesque things simple: laughter, fear of the powerful. In this book itself will laugh even if later stories that cause an indifferent silence, perhaps a chuckle.
start reading: May 8th
order reading: May 9
pp. 251
Publisher: Alfaguara national youth
author: several
Location: Mexico City

Numero Telefonico De Verizon

House taken and other tales / Julio Cortázar

An anthology of author always creates joy and disappointment, because it assumes, and significant omissions annoying attachments. House taken and other tales by Julio Cortázar, is an anthology that will leave happy many, many others dissatisfied. While it contains the best stories of the Argentine, there are others that I like, missed. Funny how a reinterpretation of the author and several stories begin to seem verbose. Home made, although, it is crucial for all readers, this time seemed a little truncated, somewhat lacking. Instead, "secret weapons" and "another sky" were deeply interesting to me as much or more in previous readings. We can not forget or "The night face up" or "Continuity of Parks", which beyond any subjectivity, are the major findings of this author in his extensive treasure chest.
House taken and other tales, is, an anthology somewhat scattered, but settles well Cortázar intentions who never considered himself a writer. No one leaves happy with the anthologies: but it does happen, not 10, but it happens.
start reading: May 7
order reading: May 9th
pp. 188
Publisher: Alfaguara national youth
author: Argentina.
location: Mexico City.

Monday, May 7, 2007

Did Heather Harmon Die

Bridges hares / Mario Benedetti

hares Bridges is an anthology with the best, or what someone assumes they are the best story of the Uruguayan Mario Benedetti. The volume opens his mouth with this excellent account of loss of childhood is the story: "That Mouth" that although the title is not eloquent, yes it is the story. Benedetti's prose is, at all times: pure, does not try shielding and while sometimes dangerously close to the realm of boyando almost sentimental kitsch, "the author manages to recover that intention to end surprise, almost seal home. Other accounts of the book are: Requiem toast, the approach to a child's emotional confession to his mother's lover, the excellent story "Perhaps irreparable" and "Five years of life," Cutting both fantastic. My taste was lacking in the anthology an excellent story called "Night of the ugly", but the anthology serves a good range on the writing of Uruguay.
Bridges
hares is a review by the maturation of a writer that can cause different expectations from the "do not like his writing because it is easy" to see who gets in their strokes a feature of the loss of innocence, humanity or old age, features than ever, to be found in a text, are well rewarded.
Start reading May 7
order reading: May 7 editorial
: Alfaguara youth.
pp. 117
author nationality: Uruguay.
location: Mexico City.