Hello there, I know it’s been a while
since my last post, but I don’t have much time, and not much to talk about, but
today i’d like to talk about the first readin initiative of the year: the Asian
March.
This initiative pretends to approach
readers to Asian writters, by reading books written by Asian writters or
settled in Asian countries.
Keeping all this in mind I would
like to recomend some books related to this initiative.
My first recomendation would be The carriage of women by Anita Nair, a
book settled in India, that tells us the stories of a group of women during a travel
by train across the country.
The second recomendation would be
East Wind, West Wind by Pearl S. Buck,
settled in China, the novel let the reader see the contrast between Chinese cultura
and Occidental cultura at the begining of the Twentieth Century.
My last recomendatin would be the
book A geek in Japan by Héctor
García, in its pages the author speaks about his experience living and working
in Japan and the contrast between Japanese culture and Spanish culture
In this small article I just
wanted to talk about this initiative and to make some recomendations related to
it.
Hello there, first of all I want
to wish you a very happy new year, and second, I know it’s been a while since
my last post, but I have been quite busy for the last months, but, finally I
had some time to write a new post.
In this post I am going to talk
about my two first readings of the year, I am currently rading both, so I am
just going to give my first impressions of both readings.
The first one is The ink black heart by Robert Galbraith (we all know it is J. K.
Rowling’s pen name) the latest Cormoran Strike’s novel, in this book, Cormoran
and Robin, his partner at the agency, will have to investigate the murder of
Eddie Ledwell, who was the co – creator of an online show, while her partner
gets seriously injured.
The second one is the firts volumen
of death note, the manga that follows
the fighting between Light Yagami/Kira and prívate investigator L.
In both cases, I am enioying
their readings, in the case of The ink
black heart I have read the previous books and I love tem (I speak beyond the
controversial affirmations of the autor, actually, like many other people I
have my oppininon about all that, but this is not the time or the place to talk
about it), personally I think that all the books are adictive from the begining
and it is hard to stop reading them, while in the case of death note, it is also a certain Reading, mainly because I have
already watch the anime show and the live action movies around it, so I know
for sure that I will like reading this.
Once again happy new year, and I will try to publish
more often during this year
Hello there, I know it’s been a
while since my last publicatio, but I have been a Little bussy, today I am
bringing you some readings for Halloween, I do expect you’ll find them
interesting, lets begin
THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW (WASHINGTON IRVING)
This first tale bring us to a
really calm village settled in a valley called Sleepy hollow, here we find a
group of Dutch settlers who love horror stories and legends, and their most
famous ghost is a headless rider, who lost his head during the Independence war
against England; one day Ichabod Crane, the new teacher arrives to the villaje
and falls in love with Katrina Van Tasel, a rich heiress, but he will have to race
with other man for Katrina’s love, until one All Hallows day when Katrina’s
father gives a party where everyone tells ghost stories, and all this makes Ichabod
feel terrified, which would be worse when he goes back home…
Quite well known short story by
Washington Irving full of imagination and horror elementes: a small valley that
seems a peacefull place until night falls and the ghost rider appears looking
for his head.
Apparently there is a small base
in reallity, since the valley actually exist, and the story of the rider might
have a real base on a battle that took place there.
CARMILLA (JOSEPH SERIDAN LE FANU)
In this second short story, we
find a family which recibes a strange girl, at the begining all the situation
seems normal until an old friend of the family comes to visit them and then
they will find the girl is not what she seemed at first.
One of the classic vampire tales,
it is quite interesting thanks to the picture of the female vampire we can see
during the whole story.
MAESE PÉREZ ELORGANISTA (GUSTAVO
ADOLFO BÉQUER)
In this case we find a short
story settle in Sevilla (Spain), here we se how Maese Pérez, the organist of
the Cathedral of Sevilla, will go to play the instrument when he is deathly
sick, while he is playing maese Pérez will die and the following year the
people will have a surprise during the Christmas mass.
This is an example of the Spanish
romanticism, and actually I am not sure if it is translate into Engish, but it
is a good example of a ghost story, specially when the story goes on and we can
see how everything ends
I do really expect you to find
any of this stories interesting to read in Halloween
Hello
there, today I want yo make the presentattion of this iniciative, in someblogs in Spanish are doing this, It consist
on reading a book settled in one and each country of the world, It does not
matter if the author wasn’t born on that country, what matters is the things
you might learn from that book about the country.
I am also doing this on my other blog (It is
written in Spanish) bit I think It might be a good idea do this here too, so
here we go with this, I am going to take the iniciative with calm because there
is no limit of time.
During a routine survey mission
on an uncolonized planet, xenobiologist Kira Navárez finds an alien relic that
thrusts her into the wonders and nightmares of first contact. Epic space
battles for the fate of humanity take her to the farthest reaches of the galaxy
and, in the process, transform not only her – but the entire course of history.
THE AUTHOR:
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI
Christopher
Paolini was born on 1983 in South California He has lived most of his life in
Paradise Valley, Montana, with his parents and his younger sister. The Bearooth
Mountains, close to the valley and snowed most part of the year, inspired the
fantastic sttlement appeared for the first time in Eragon.
The
last book he has published is to sleep on
a sea of stars.
Hello there, today I bring you the
review of the book to sleep ina sea of
stars, in which we follow Kira Navárez, a xenobiologist on a mission on an
uncolonized planet, who will become the last hope of the galaxy.
Being honest, I was a little
affraid of begining the book, the edition I handle is 800 pages, so I feared it
to be quite slow, but it has been a really nice surprise mainly because once
Kira and her situation is presented, the action begins and it doesn’t stop
until the end.
The book presents a few really
well built characters, Kira and her partners at the very begining are the typicall
cientist, meanwhile Salvo Falconi and his crew are good people diguised as
cheeky people who will take very chance to make Money, and at the same time we
can see people like Tschetter and other members of the army who just want to
control Kira for their pourpouses.
On the other hand we also can
find travels through space and big battles due to the firt contact with other
species living on the Space, and which will fight with humans because of the
colonies on new planets.
In general I have loved the book,
it’s true that I like sci – fi, but in this particular case it has been a big
and positive surprise.
I am so sorry because this review
doesn´t make justice to the book, but my main problem is that I am not an
English native speaker and it is a bit hard to make this things, I sincerely do
expect that with time my writing in English will go better and become more
fluent
For every fan of manga, anime, J
– pop or anyone intrigued by these and other aspects of Japanese cultura this
book is a guide to the land that is the source of it.
THE AUTHOR: HÉCTOR
GARCÍA
He was born in Spain in 1981, and
after earning his MS in software engineering and working for CERN in
Switzerland he moved to Japan, where he worked on voice recognition software
and later for Digital garaje, developing the technology needed for Silicon
Valley startups like twitter.
He has been living in Tokyo since
2004 and during his free time he runs www.kirainet.com
, oneof the most – read blogsin the world in Spanish language and writes books
about his experiencies in Japan.
THE BOOK
Hello there, today as my first
book review for this Project I bring yoy a book in which the autor tells the
reader about living ad working in Japan and the cultural differences between
Héctor García’s culture and Japanese Culture.
In my case I have been Reading
books settled in Japan or writen by Japanese authors thanks to a Reading
inititive (I might talk about it next year)
so like the book seemed quite interesting, I decided to begin to read
it.
The English edition of the book
is published by Tuttle, in it we can find really interesting information, since
the book talks about Japanese history of the country, diferente places to
visit, most of them not quite known ouside the country (for example Hector
García speaks about a museum dedicated to Ramen) and his experiences living and
working there, this helps to show Japanese daily life (men and women go out in
separated groups, and the only mix at the nomikais, or the parties organized at
work)
The most interesting thing about
this book, is the way he shows the Japanese society and cultura, and the shock,
he seems to suffer, as a foreginer living there (the autor was born in Spain),
also is interesting the way he presents a touristic
view of Japan giving advice on how to prepare everything to visit the country
and what we can visit outside the most known places there.
Actually I do recomend you to read this book if you
are interested in Japanese cultura ore ven if you want to travel to Japan
Hi, I am quite excited about this new project, today I begin a Blog in which I will speak mainly about books, but from time to time I will probably talk about an interesting movie or tv show, or why not? an interesting travel.
Since I have other projects going on (I leave the main one here), I am going to try to publish at least twice a month.
I really hope this project last for a long time and that everyone (specially potential readers) enjoy it.
If you want to contact, please write to inkteaandpaper@gmail.com
