Título: Mon cœur, tu penses à quoi?
Autor: Nicole de Buron
Editorial: Pocket
Obra adaptada: NO
Reseña: C’est un livre très amusant. Il m’a beaucoup plu. À mon avis, cette histoire nous fait « rigoler » et elle est construite à partir d’une situation très proche pour les femme dont le mari prend la retraite avant l’heure et ils ne savent pas quoi faire de leur vie.
Valoración: 4/5
Título: La nuit des temps
Autor: René Barjavel
Editorial: Pocket
Obra adaptada: NO
Reseña: C’est une histoire de science fiction, un genre de littérature que j’apprécie beaucoup mais je dois dire que j’ai trouvé le livre un peu ennuyant. Tout se passe très lentement et les personnages sont toujours au même endroit. J’estime que c’est trop long et il y a très d’action. C’est très différent des livres que je lis d’habitude et il m’a un peu déçu
Valoración: 2/5
Título: And then there were none
Autor: Agatha Christie
Editorial: Harper
Obra adaptada: NO
Reseña: Ten people are invited to go to a private isolated island on holiday. The day they arrive, while all of them are in the dining room, a recorded voice accuses each of them of a crime. Then, they start to die, one by one, each murder according to the verses of an old song, and as a punishment for the crimes they have commited. As they all keep on being killed, they start to suspect from each other and try in vain to find the murderer, as they aren’t able to escape from the island and one of them ‘must’ be the killer.
The novel is not very long and Aghata Christie’s characters, plot and novel in general will grip you, I assure you. The ending is absolutely surprising! Just to put it in a nutshell, the intrigue will invade you from the first page to the last one.
Valoración: 5/5
Beatriz Díaz Fernández
Título: Chocolat
Autor: Joanne Harris
Editorial: Black Swan
Obra adaptada: NO
Reseña: Chocolate takes place in a little French village called Landquenet-sous Tannes between Bordeaux and Toulouse.
The village is very catholic, and everything there has to be approved by the priest.
The story starts when Vianne, a single mother, and her daughter Anouk arrive at the village. They settle in a disused bakery in front of the church with the idea of setting up their own business. A chocolate shop.
For the priest, being a single mother is just considered as a sin, but opening this kind of business in a decent village doesn’t have forgiveness. The chocolate is seen as a lustful pleasure and soon it will make people fall into temptation
Valoración 5/5
Gadea Rodríguez
Título: Rebecca
Autor: Daphne du Maurier
Editorial: Arrow
Obra adaptada: NO
Reseña: This is a story about love, passion, feelings and mystery.
A young girl, whose name is not mentioned in the novel, falls in love with a widowed aristocrat called Maxim de Winter. He was married with Rebecca. Although she is dead, nobody can forget her (not even her husband). She was a self-confident, charming and beautiful woman, whereas the young girl is naïve, insecure and extremely shy.
One of the main issues in this novel is the girl’s fight against Rebecca’s shadow. On the other hand, at the end of this book the mystery about Rebecca’s death starts to be solved. At this moment, the previous pages acquire a new and surprising double meaning.
You will feel Rebecca’s presence and weight, like the rest of characters. It is a fantastic a great novel.
Valoración 5/5
Lucía López González
Titulo: A Passage To India
Autor: E. M. Foster
Editorial: Penguin Books
Obra Adaptada: NO
Reseña: “Except for the Marabar Caves- and they are twenty miles off - the city of Chandrapore presents nothing extraordinary.” This is the beginning of an interesting story about the clash of two cultures in India when this country was a British colony.
Aziz, an Indian Mohammedan doctor, is proud of his country´s culture and costumes. He loves India. However, he´s fascinated by British culture and thinks it´s possible to be friend with an Englishman. Adela Quested and Mrs Moore arrive in India. Miss Quested is going to get married to Mrs Moore´s son, the City Magistrate. These women are very interested in getting to know the “real” India. They have great respect for this land. Mr Fielding is the Principal of the Little Government College. He has mixed feelings about India: he´s got the feeling that it´s his home and at the same time he misses his mother country.
One day Mr Fielding asks Aziz to visit the Marabar Caves with the two women. And there, a tragic incident will show the true relationship between colonists and natives.
In my opinion it´s a great novel and I recommend it.
Valoración: 5/5
Ana María Prado Fernández
Título: The Mistress’s Daughter
Autor: A.M. Homes
Editorial: Penguin Books
Obra adaptada: NO
Reseña: “The Mistress’s Daughter” is an exceptional memoir of the author, Homes, who has known all along her life she is an adoptee, but at the age of thirty-one she discovers that her birth mother, Ellen, is looking for her. At first, Homes is enthusiastic about meeting her but, in the end, Ellen is not like she was supposed to be. When Ellen dies, Homes begins a hard digging to find out her roots. Nonetheless, her birth father, who at first had appealed to her better, refuses to give a DNA test to Homes, as well as he doesn’t want to see her any more. In the end she is relieved that they gave her on adoption. In fact, she has been loved very much by her adoptive family.
VALORACIÓN: 5/5
Cristina González Blanco
Título: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Autor: John Boyne
Editorial: Definitions
Obra Adaptada: NO
Reseña: I don’t generally read best-sellers. However, it has been because of the opportunity of doing it in English that I decided to choose The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne.
I began the book with the mistaken idea that it was a book written for adults and from this point of view, I was disappointed.
The plot is very soft and the style reminds me too much of Le Petit Nicolas by René Goscinny.
In short, I think it is a book written for not too old schoolchildren, perhaps a good complement to explain an absolutely dark historical period to them.
Valoración: 2/5
Santiago García-Monge
Título: The Name of the Rose
Autor: Umberto Eco
Editorial: Wagner
Obra adaptada: NO
Reseña: During the 14th century a former inquisitor is invited to solve a murder that has been committed in a abbey in Italy. As the plot progresses, more people mysteriously die. Ambition for knowledge and love for old books seem to have corrupted monks. The main character, along with his apprentice, is able to solve the mysteries of the abbey using his logic and deduction.
This amazing novel is already a classic. Not only does it provide an intriguing plot but also makes it easier to understand how monks lived in medieval times.
Valoración: 5 /5
Manuel Menéndez
Título: The Book of Illusions
Autor: Paul Auster
Editorial: Faber and Faber
Obra Adaptada: NO
Reseña: If a tree falls in a forest with nobody around, does it make a sound? If a man lives a life that nobody else notices, did he really live? That’s the idea of Auster’s most recent book.
“The book of illusions” is not an easy book to describe. The opening sentence, “Everyone thought he was dead”, refers to a silent film comedian named Hector Mann who just disappeared in 1929. But it could also refer to David Zimmer, a literature professor in Vermont who lost his family in a plane accident in the 80’s.
But this is just the beginning of the story… From there, the book is a complex and intellectually stimulating work. Auster is a real storyteller. His prose dances through your mind, grabbing at images, emotions and ideas as you read and just when you think you know where he’s going… he’s off somewhere else!
This is not a “feel good” book but if you want a book to challenge your thoughts and emotions and perspective on life, then I can recommend it highly.
Valoración: 5/5
Adriana Carriles