Biblioteca de la EOI de Oviedo

Título: Curse this House

Autor: Barbara Wood

Obra adaptada: No

Nivel: avanzado

Review: When her mother died, Leyla returns to her home in Pemberton. She left home when she was five years old, after her father and her mother died and has no memory of the incident. She remembers little things of the time she spent in the house and she wants to discover the mystery of her family and the house, the mansion of Pemberton Hurst.

In my opinion the book is interesting and it is not the typical romantic novel, but it is difficult to understand. The author has a roundabout way of telling things, but little by little it is possible to understand it. You can find a romantic novel with a little bit of mystery.

Valoración: 3/5

 Susana Pérez Alvarez 2ºNI

Título: die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer

Autor: Patrick Süskind

Editorial: diogenes verlag

Obra adaptada: NO

Nivel: a partir de B1+  

 Patrick Süskind ist vor allem für seinen Erfolgsroman „das Parfüm“ bekannt, er hat aber auch interessante Theaterstücke und Erzählungen geschrieben, wie „die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer“. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte eines sonderbaren Mannes, Herrn Sommer, der immer unterwegs ist. Herr Sommer ist ein schweigsamer, in sich gekehrter Mann, der nach dem Krieg in die Gegend kam, zu dem der Leser viele Fragen stellt (warum verhält er sich so? Warum hastet er immer umher? Warum spricht er kaum? Wie lebt er?…). 

 Das Buch erzählt auch die Kindheitserlebnisse des Ich-Erzählers: das Leben im Dorf, Familie, Schule, Klavierunterricht, erste Liebe… Es handelt sich um eine wunderbare Alltagsgeschichte mit viel Phantasie, für Jung und Alt gut geeignet. Herrlich sind natürlich die Bilder von Sempé!

Título: Kleiner Mann, was nun?

Autor: Hans Fallada

Editorial: Aufbau Taschenbuch

Obra adaptada: No

Nivel: a partir de B1+

„Als Lämmchen und der Verkäufer Johannes Pinneberg heiraten, zeichnen sich böse Zeiten ab: die Weltwirtschaftskrise. Dennoch glauben die beiden an ihr Glück und an ihre Liebe. Das Glück will sich nicht einstellen, statt dessen gibt es Kummer und Sorgen. Als Pinneberg sich schließlich in das Millionenheer der Arbeitslosen einreihen muss, ist es Lämmchen, die das Leben ihres verzweifelten kleinen Mannes in ihre Hände nimmt.“

  Dieser Roman schildert das Alltagsleben in Deutschland um 1930 aus der Perspektive der „kleinen Leute“, mit ihren Ängsten, Hoffnungen, Tugenden, Schwächen und Stärken: das Ende der Weimarer Republik, Nationalsozialismus, Wirtschaftskrise, Arbeit und Arbeitslosigkeit. Ziel des Romans ist nicht Kritik zu üben, vielmehr wird die Reaktion der Menschen auf die zwischenmenschlichen Konflikte, die aufgrund einer so ernsthaften Lage entstehen, gezeigt; die sozialen Probleme werden sozusagen „privatisiert“

(Metzler)

Título: The Diary of a Young Girl

Autor: Anne Frank

Editorial: Penguin

Obra adaptada: Sí

Nivel: Intermediate

Review: The story takes place in Amsterdam between 1942 and 1944. The book tells the story of Anne Frank and her family. It is the time of the Second Wold War and the Germans have invaded the country. All the Jews fear for their lives. The Frank family decide to hide in a secret flat. Their younger daughter, Anne, begins to write a diary of their lives in hiding.
 
From my point of view the book is absorbing, I couldn´t put it down. I think that it is worth-reading because it tells us about the awful suffering of the Jews and their hopes during the Second Wold War. It was quite easy to understand and the language was not too difficult.
 
It is highly recommendable for people who like non-fiction and adventure stories.

Valoración: 4/5

Mª José González Rodríguez 2ºNI

Título: The Amsterdam Connection

Autor: Sue Leather

Editorial: Cambridge

Obra adaptada: Sí

Nivel: Intermediate

Review: The story takes place in Amsterdam. It tells about the story of the reporter Kate Jensen, who travels to Amsterdan when a friend is found dead there because she thinks that the death or her friend is quite strange. Kate soon discovers that football can be a very dangerous game.
 
From my point of view, the book is entertaining, thrilling and absorbing. It is easy to understand and the language was not too difficult. It is highly recommendable for people who like mystery and detective stories.
 

Valoración: 4/5

Mª José González Rodríguez 2ºNI

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Título: The Pyramid

Autor: Henning Mankell

Obra adaptada: NO

The missing piece of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series: the story of Wallander’s beginnings, told in five gripping short mysteries, that takes us back to the beginning. Written from the unique perspective of an author looking back upon his own creation to discover his origins, these mysteries are vintage Mankell. Essential reading for all Wallander fans, and a wonderful showcase for Mankell’s powers as a writer. The Pyramid (2008) is the ninth book in the Kurt Wallander series.

Wallander mysteries have been published in thirty-three countries and consistently top the bestseller lists in Europe.

“AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION” (New York Times)

Título: Kennedy´s Brain

Autor: Henning Mankell

Obra adaptada: NO

From internationally bestselling author Henning Mankell comes a gripping mystery and a depiction of every parent’s worst nightmare.

When Louise Cantor finds her twenty-eight year old son dead in his apartment, everything indicates it was a suicide. Louise, however, refuses to accept this, and with nothing more than few suspicions and a mother’s intuition, she and her ex-husband set out to find what happened. What they discover is a dark underworld of people exploiting the victims of the AIDS epidemic: corrupt businessmen dealing infected blood, suspicious researchers carrying out dangerous tests, and lecherous drug dealers peddling black market medicine. Their investigation takes them across three continents, and leads them into some mighty financial institutions and highest corridors of power, where suddenly their own lives are at stake.

Título: Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Autor: Ernest Hemingway

Obra adaptada: NO

Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, but with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drifts to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman he loves.

Powerful, intense, visually magnificent, Fiesta is the novel which established Ernest Hemingway as a writer of genius.

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Título: Stories of Courage

Autor: Clare Gray

Editorial: Penguin

Obra adaptada: Sí

Nivel: Intermediate

Review: Today’s book is “Stories of Courage” by Clare Gray, first published back in 2004. It is a recollection of short stories with  bravery, determination and fearlessness in facing harsh circumstances as the driving topic.

One of the stories is about Erin Brockovich, an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company of California in 1993.

Although the book is supposed to be touching, I did not find it very interesting and maybe a bit boring too.

Valoración: 2/5

Pablo Aller San Juan  2ºNI

Título: Atonement

Autor: Ian McEwan

Obra adaptada: NO

“Atonement” is a 2001 novel by British author Ian McEwan about a woman’s effort to atone. The story is told of her life changing mistake as a young girl who dreams of being a writer in upper-middle-class interwar England, the effects on herself, family and friends, and her own effort to achieve atonement over the coming century, which leads to an exploration on the nature of writing itself.

It is widely regarded as one of McEwan’s best works and is one of the most celebrated and honoured books of recent years. It was shortlisted for the 2001 Booker Prize for fiction, an award he had already won for his previous novel, Amsterdam. McEwan utilises several stylistic techniques in the novel, including metafiction and psychological realism. The book was later adapted into a BAFTA and Academy-Award nominated film of the same name, starring James McAvoy and Keira Knightley, and directed by Joe Wright in 2007.

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