When good-time, fortysomething Molly Lane dies of an unspecified degenerative illness, her many friends and numerous lovers are led to think about their own mortality. Vernon Halliday, editor of the upmarket newspaper the Judge, persuades his old friend Clive Linley, a self-indulgent composer of some reputation, to enter into a euthanasia pact with him. Should either of them be stricken with such an illness, the other will bring about his death. From this point onward we are in little doubt as to Amsterdam’s outcome -it’s only a matter of who will kill whom. In the meantime, compromising photographs of Molly’s most distinguished lover, foreign secretary Julian Garmony, have found their way into the hands of the press, and as rumors circulate he teeters on the edge of disgrace. However, this is McEwan, so it is no surprise to find that the rather unsavory Garmony comes out on top.
Review: This book tells the story of James Ryan, a veteran soldier who is visiting Normandy with his family, a place where he was fighting when he was a soldier 54 years before.
When D-Day finished on June 6, all of his brothers who were also in the army, had fallen in the battle. Then the army chief of staff, General Marshall, ordered to find the fourth brother and get him out of France and send him home. This part of the story tells us the hard work of a small unit of the army whose mission is to find private Ryan. Finally, after having lost two comrades in the fight they find him, but he refuses to abandon his duty and then they all decide to fight together.
This book was easy to understand and entertaining if you like historical events. If you are a fan or enthusiastic about military history, you will find a very good story in this book.
Review: It´s a wonderful story about a dog that has to change his life completely. Finally, after a lot of adventures and some unpleasant experiences, he finds his place.
It´s easy to read, you don´t need to use the dictionary. It´s perfect for elementary level and if you love animals. You´ll like it, don´t miss it!
Review: “The Talented Mr Ripley” was written by Patricia Highsmith, author of other famous books as “Strangers on a Train”. This story has been made into a successful and popular film starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law.
The book tells the story of Tom Ripley, an American young man, who starts a new life when Mr Greenleaf, Dickie’s father, asks him to persuade his son to return to the U.S. In return, he would pay all his expenses. Dickie and Tom had met a few years ago but they had never been friends. Tom goes to Italy, where Dickie lives, and they start a friendship. However, Tom had always wanted to become a successful person as Dickie is, with enough money to live without any worries. He thinks it is the right time to get it, and the best way is to kill and impersonate Dickie. Tom looks enough like Dickie so it isn’t difficult to use Dickie’s passport. He is a very clever person and finally he manages to deceive everybody, even the police who conclude that Dickie killed himself.
From my point of view, the book is quite entertaining. Actually, I couldn’t put it down until the end. On balance, I ‘d recommend it as a good book for those who enjoy modern fiction stories.
Reseña: este libro está formado por breves relatos sobre aventuras de Sherlock Holmes, que te enganchan desde el principio.
Contiene un CD con un nivel de audición muy fácil de seguir, pues tanto el Sr. Watson con su lento modo de hablar como el Sr. Holmes con sus dilatadas explicaciones consiguen un ritmo muy adecuado para 2º de básico.
“En Tierra Hostil “de Kathryn Bigelow triunfa con los galardones a la mejor película y mejor dirección.- Kathryn Bigelow, se convierte en la primera mujer en la historia de la Academia en llevarse la estatuilla a la mejor dirección.
El 8 de Marzo del 2010 se cumple el centenario en donde la mujer pudo acceder a la universidad y tambien el derecho a la igualdad de empleo
Articulo : Begoña San José
Se cumple un siglo de la Real Orden de 8 de marzo de 1910 que autorizó el acceso de las mujeres a la Universidad en España, a poco de ser nombrada consejera de Instrucción Pública Emilia Pardo Bazán, quien desde décadas venía luchando por la alfabetización y educación de las mujeres, afirmando en el Congreso Pedagógico Hispano-Portugués de 1892 que < < la educación de la mujer no puede llamarse tal educación, sino doma, pues tiene por fin la obediencia, la pasividad y la sumisión> > .
Antes sólo 36 mujeres habían logrado una licenciatura, tras superar barreras que incluían la autorización por el Consejo de Ministros, disfrazarse de hombres, como hizo Concepción Arenal para estudiar (sin matrícula ni título) Derecho en la Complutense, tener que asistir a clase con un acompañante o colocarse en la mesa del profesor, por no hablar de las trabas para la expedición de títulos, la colegiación y el ejercicio de la profesión. (Ver Las primeras universitarias en España 1872-1910, Consuelo Flecha, Ed. Narcea, 1996). Leer más »
Desde 1975, Año Internacional de la Mujer, el Día Internacional de la Mujer se celebra el 8 de marzo “para conmemorar la lucha histórica por mejorar la vida de la mujer”. El tema de este año del Día Internacional de la Mujer - que se observa en todo el mundo el 8 de marzo - es: “Igualdad de Derechos, Igualdad de Oportunidades: Progreso Para Todos”.
Review: The Great Gatsby” (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, stands among the greatest of all American fiction. Jay Gatsby’s lavish lifestyle in a mansion on Long Island’s gold coast encapsulates the spirit, excitement, and violence of the era Fitzgerald named ‘the Jazz Age’. Impelled by his love for Daisy Buchanan, Gatsby seeks nothing less than to recapture the moment five years earlier when his best and brightest dreams - his ‘unutterable visions’ - seemed to be incarnated in her kiss. A moving portrayal of the power of romantic imagination, as well as the pathos and courage entailed in the pusuit of an unattainable dream, The Great Gatsby is a classic fiction of hope and disillusion.
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The heroine of Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Holly Golightly, became one of Capote’s best known creations, and the book’s prose style prompted Norman Mailer to call Capote “the most perfect writer of my generation.”
For Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s was a turning point, as he explained to Roy Newquist (Counterpoint, 1964):
“I think I’ve had two careers. One was the career of precocity, the young person who published a series of books that were really quite remarkable. I can even read them now and evaluate them favorably, as though they were the work of a stranger… My second career began, I guess it really began with Breakfast at Tiffany’s. It involves a different point of view, a different prose style to some degree. Actually, the prose style is an evolvement from one to the other—a pruning and thinning-out to a more subdued, clearer prose. I don’t find it as evocative, in many respects, as the other, or even as original, but it is more difficult to do. But I’m nowhere near reaching what I want to do, where I want to go. Presumably this new book is as close as I’m going to get, at least strategically.”
Fourteen-year-old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good 'white' Australians. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, following the rabbit-proof fence north as part of their guide across the desert.
This is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film.
WINNER of The Language Learner Literature Award 2007
Título: Amsterdam
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Título: A Scandal in Bohemia
Título: The Great Gatsby
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