Reseña: I'll Be the One

I'll Be the One 

by 

Lyla Lee

 

 328 pages

Published June 16th 2020 by Katherine Tegen Books

ISBN: 0062936921 (ISBN13: 9780062936929)

Edition Language: English 

 

BLURB: Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn’t dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn’t call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she’s about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her.

She’ll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she’ll do it better than anyone else.

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Fun and cute.

“I’m fat. People think it means I should hate myself, and when I don’t, it makes them uncomfortable. But this is just another part of who I am, and I’m happy with who I am.”
[...] “You’re living your best life,” he says. “They’re not.”
“Exactly.”

Cheesy? Corny? Too straightforward? Yes. But. I. DON'T. CARE :D

Haneul "Skye" Shin es una chica de 16 años , coreana-americana , bisexual y rellenita, con un gran sueño: ser estrella de K-pop. Asi que cuando sabe que habrá una competencia de talentos para K-pop en Los Angeles, donde ella vive, acude de inmediato dispuesta a demostrar su talento como bailarina y cantante , sin que le importe lo que piense su madre, los demás, y hasta la misma gente del ambiente del K-pop que favorece a las chicas extra delgadas.

Reseña de ARC: A Girl, A Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon.

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A Girl, a Raccoon, and the Midnight Moon 

by  

Karen Romano Young

392 pages

Expected publication: January 7th 2020 by Chronicle Books

ISBN: 1452169527 (ISBN13: 9781452169521)

Edition Language: English

BLURB: In a slightly fantastical New York City, one very special library branch has been designated for possible closure. Bookish, socially awkward Pearl, the daughter of the librarian, can't imagine a world without the library—its books, its community of oddballs, its hominess. When the head of their Edna St. Vincent Millay statue goes missing, closure is closer than ever. But Pearl is determined to save the library. And with a ragtag neighborhood library crew—including a constantly tap-dancing girl who might just be her first friend, an older boy she has a crush on, and a pack of raccoons who can read and write—she just might be able to. 
 Age Range: 9-12 years

4.5 let's enjoy to read stars

I don't know but I loved it.

It is said that a village is needed to raise a child, well what do you think of a library? In this beautiful story about a girl, the librarian's daughter, and where we are in a world that points strongly towards globalization maybe we lost some things, we here recover the sense of love of a small community that represents a family, about friendship, facing together and with imagination to the difficulties, and besides, of course how our little world can be much bigger thanks to the books.

Pearl is a complicated , bookish, precocius girl, and the Lancaster Library is all her world. She never thought something will change. Well, sometimes the change come with a bang, or with a inconcebible act that led to more changes, not all bad.

Reseña: The Choir in Hope Street

 Reto Popsugar #17: Libro acerca de un pasatiempo
{COMENTARIO BILINGUE}

The Choir on Hope Street 

by 

Annie Lyons

336 pages

Published April 6th 2017 by HQ 

ISBN13: 9780008202118

Edition Language: English

BLURB : The best things in life happen when you least expect them

Nat’s husband has just said the five words no one wants to hear – ‘I don’t love you anymore’.

Picture-perfect Caroline has to welcome her estranged mother into her house after she was forced out of an exclusive nursing home.

 Living on the same street these two women couldn’t be more different. Until the local community centre is threatened, galvanising Caroline and the people of Hope Street into action. But when the only way to save the centre is to form a community choir – no one, least of all Nat, expects the results…

2.8 stars

not yet 3 stars b/c Caroline character melted at the end and start to get sappy.

Caroline and Natalie (the 2 POV in the book) are neighboords and their children goes to the same school, but they only met when Caroline start a campaign to save the local community centre. They decide to start a community choir to involve more people with publicity and simpathy.

It revolves around their lives and marriages. And their problems and family relashionship.

Husbands aren’t compulsory but I’m pretty sure that best friends are.

Reseña de ARC: The Hockey Saint (Forever Friends 2)

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The Hockey Saint 

by  

Howard Shapiro

Marica Inoue (Illustrator)

133 pages

Published September 10th 2014 by Animal Media Group

ISBN: 0991255011 (ISBN13: 9780991255016)

Edition Language: English

Series: Forever Friends Trilogy #2

BLURB: Twenty-one year old Jeremiah Jacobson is the world's best hockey player, but he wasn't prepared for the frenzy and scrutiny that came with that title. Tom Leonard is an average college sophomore... just a guy trying to find his place in the world as he sorts through issues that are both very real and seemingly insurmountable.
Through a chance meeting, these two strike up an unlikely friendship. Their bond is tested when Tom discovers that his idol isn't as perfect up close as he seems from afar. With Jeremiah living a little too much in the moment and with his past catching up to him, will Tom be able to help him before it's too late?

My rating: 3.5 stars

Friendship. Sports and media. Nice story, a tiny bit preachy.

Tom Leonard is a 19 y.o. sophomore living with his grandmother after the death of his parents. He is a bit lost and still suffering nighmares. As a hockey player his idol is the famous Jeremiah Jacobson. A random decision causes an encounter between them.

Although it is about hockey players, in reality we see very little of the game itself in these pages, of course there are mentions of games, practices and things like that, but this is rather 'the other side of the coin' of the life of these athletes. Like saying: they are also human.

Reseña: Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library #1)

 Reto Popsugar 2019: #38: libro que gire alrededor de un juego o puzzle.

Escape from Mr Lemoncello's Library (Mr. Lemoncello's Library #1)

by 

Chris Grabenstein

 294 pages

(first published June 25th 2013)

ASIN: B01N10Z43M

Series; Mr. Lemoncello's Library #1 

BLUB: Acabas de ganar una invitación especial a la nueva biblioteca del señor Lemoncello, donde varios participantes vais a encerraros para pasar la noche y competir en un evento secreto lleno de increíbles desafíos. Pero ¿podrás salir y volver a casa? ¡Acción y aventura al más puro estilo "Charlie y la fábrica de chocolate"!

Literary Awards:

Anthony Award Nominee for Best Children's or Young Adult Novel (2014), Young Hoosier Book Award, Agatha Award for Best Children's/Young Adult Novel (2013)

2 estrellas 

Hay una version en castellano, pero yo la lei en ingles.

A pesar del monón, al parecer, de premios y nominaciones que obtuvo este libro, a mi no me gustó. Asi de simple. Puede que no sea para mi. Puede que sea sólo una copia sin gracias. Eso queda a gusto del lector. 

El asunto es que sigue fuertemente la misma idea de Charly y la Fábrica de Chocolates de Dahl, ejem que Dahl tampoco sea de mi agrado puede que les de una pista del porqué no me gusto el libro, claro esta. Lo cierto es que lo lei como parte del desafio Poposugar de este año: Un libro que gire alrededor de un juego o puzzle.

La idea de que un millonario excéntrico, famoso por sus juegos de salon de caza de tesoros y de videojuegos , decida abrir una biblioteca nueva y renovada en recuerdo a la infancia pasada alli junto a su bibliotecaria favorita es linda. Que un monton de mocosos sean sorteados para pasar alli la noche antes de inaugurarla, pasando desafios para ganar premios de videojuegos y otros.... no es tanto. 

Reseña: Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (Agatha Raisin #6)

Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist (Agatha Raisin #6)

by 

M.C. Beaton

292 pages

Published 2010 by Constable and Robinson (first published October 1997)

ISBN: 1849011397 (ISBN13: 9781849011396)

Edition Language: English

Series: Agatha Raisin #6 

  

BLURB: Agatha Raisin leaves her sleepy Cotswolds village of Carsely to pursue love - and finds murder. Spurned at the altar, she follows her fleeing fiance James Lacey to north Cyprus, where, instead of enjoying the honeymoon they'd planned, they witness the murder of an obnoxious tourist in a disco. Intrigue and a string of murders surround the unlikely couple, in a plot as scorching a the Cypriot sun!

My rating: 1 star

Este volumen no ha sido traducido al castellano, saltandose en cambio al siguiente libro, y parece que descubri la razón: es estúpido.

Agatha sigue a James hasta Chipre despues del final del libro anterior, mientras lo busca por todos lados, conoce a un grupo de turistas ingleses, pero ella no esta ahi por las vistas ni ruinas, sino por otra cosa, y termina como siempre envuelta en una investigación de homicidio cuando una mujer del grupo es asesinada. Para Agatha esto no es más que una oportunidad para poder estar de nuevo junto a James, pero pronto la cosa se complica y no pueden salir del pais.

Reseña: Agatha Raisin y la boda sangrienta (Agatha Raisin, #5)

Agatha Raisin y la boda sangrienta  (Agatha Raisin #5)

by 

M.C. Beaton

 280 pages

Published 2017 by Círculo de Lectores (first published December 1st 1996)

Original Title: Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage

ISBN: 8467270225

Edition Language: Spanish

Series: Agatha Raisin #5

Sinopsis: Por fin Agatha ha conquistado al apuesto, atractivo y enigmático James Lacey. Y no solo eso: va a llevarlo al altar. Solo un par de cosas podrían desinflar una felicidad tan gorda... Los vecinos de Carsely tienen la mosca detrás de la oreja con la boda de Agatha: ¿por qué en lugar de casarse en la iglesia del pueblo se va a la oficina del registro civil de Mircester? Porque la funcionaria de Mircester es vieja, sorda y despistada, así que podría esquivar el papeleo y las preguntas sobre su verdadera condición… Y es que solo Agatha sabe que no hay ninguna evidencia de que el borrachuzo de Jimmy Raisin haya muerto. ¡Solo Agatha sabe que está a punto de cometer bigamia! Lo que no se imagina es que algunas fuerzas oscuras están confabulando contra ella…

My rating: 3.5 stars

Agatha esta decidida a casarse, a pesar de no estar del todo segura de si su ex realmente esta muerto o no como deberia por como fue la ultima vez que lo vio y el silencio de estos años... pero en forma muy dramatica sus deseos no se cumplen.

Con James enfurecido, su casa ya vendida, y todos creyendola una asesina, Agatha se ve perdida y desmoralizada.

Reseña: Agatha Raisin y los paseantes de Dembley (Agatha Raisin 4)

Agatha Raisin y los paseantes de Dembley (Agatha Raisin #4)

by 

M.C. Beaton

197 pages

Published 2016 by Círculo de lectores (first published April 1st 1995)

Original Title: Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley

ISBN13: 9788467268140

Edition Language: Spanish

Series: Agatha Raisin #4

Sinopsis: Después de un tiempo, Agatha Raisin regresa a Cotswold, su querido pueblo en Carsely, y a los encantos de su apuesto vecino, James Lacey. La verdad es que James no parece muy encantado de verla, pero Agatha pronto encuentra distracción en un asesinato sensacional.
La víctima, que aparece semi enterrada en un sembrado, es la joven excursionista Jessica Tartinck, que pasó su vida irritando a los terratenientes al reclamar sus derechos de paso. Agatha no ceja en la esperanza de implicar al reacio James en su investigación. Hay tantas pistas a seguir... desde los compañeros de caminata de Jessica, hasta los propietarios de las tierras, todos parecen capaces de cometer un asesinato...

My rating: 2.5 stars

Agatha Raisin and The Walkers of Dembley - 2 stars

Agatha’s First Case - 3.5 stars (short story)

Agatha Raisin regresa con mucha nostalgia a Costwolds -donde siente que tiene verdaderos amigos- despues de 6 meses en Londres, cumpliendo el trato por lo del libro anterior (¡que menudo bien que le hizo!), y , nadie sabe por qué, todavia soñando con el vecino del lado (que es un pelmazo que la trata mal). Lo último es que se reune un grupo a recorrer las fincas atravesando los campos, Agatha se entusiasma enseguida porque James Lacey es el guia.

Mientras tanto, otro se ha estado contando el punto de vista de otro grupo , los Paseantes de Dembley, que se reune para seguir vias de paso pedestres olvidadas y que no es más que una excusa para ir a armar lio y pelearse con los dueños de los sitios. Y uno de ellos acaba muerto.

Y alli es donde parte nuestra Agatha a investigar abiertamente.

Reseña: Agatha Raisin y el veterinario cruel (Agatha Raisin #2)

Agatha Raisin y el veterinario cruel (Agatha Raisin #2)

by 

M.C. Beaton

238 pages

Published 2015 by Círculo de Lectores (first published 1993)

Original Title:Agatha Raisin and the Vicious Vet

ISBN:8467262508 (ISBN13: 9788467262506)

Edition Language:Spanish

Series: Agatha Raisin #2

Sinopsis: Con un chasco. Así empieza la última aventura de Agatha Raisin: se ha ido a las Bahamas persiguiendo a su adorado James Lacey, pero resulta que él, quizá para esquivarla, no está en las Bahamas, sino más bien en El Cairo. ¿En qué momento se le ocurrió a la pobre Agatha dejar Londres por una vida insulsa y sin hombres en la campiña inglesa?
La llegada al pueblo de un joven veterinario despierta el interés de muchas mujeres de mediana edad... y también el espíritu competitivo de Agatha, que no dudará en llevar a su gata (sana) para que la visite.

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Para mi sorpresa, me esta gustando mucho Agatha Raisin.

Al final del libro anterior, habia llegado un vecino nuevo a Agatha. Un coronel retirado y parece que soltero. Por casualidad, cof cof , como él dice que se va de vacaciones a Bahamas, ella se va tambien de vacaciones para allá, pero bue... James Lacey al final va a otro destino. Y ella regresa con el bronceado , pero chasqueada y decidida a ignorarlo. Un veterinario nuevo mientras tanto se ha instalado, tambien nada de feo, y soltero, asi que ella lleva a su gato a revision. Pero cuando el veterinario termina muerto, en un accidente relacionado con su oficio, puede o no que su odio por los pequeños animales tenga relación o tal vez el que sea mujeriego. Agatha parte decidido a husmear, er digo a investigar y quuien mejor que el vecino este aburrido y la acompañe ¿no?

Reseña: Agatha Raisin y la quiche letal (Agatha Raisin #1)

Agatha Raisin y la quiche letal (Agatha Raisin #1)

by 

M.C. Beaton

274 pages

(first published December 1992)

Original Title: Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death

ISBN8467259817 (ISBN13: 9788467259810)

Edition LanguageSpanish

Series Agatha Raisin #1

SINOPSIS: Prepárate para degustar una novela con ingredientes de primera: un cadáver al estilo Agatha Christie, una protagonista exquisita y una pizca de sentido del humor. Aunque esté cocinada a fuego lento, la devorarás en dos bocados.
A sus cincuenta y tres años, Agatha Raisin quiere empezar de cero: ha decidido cerrar su empresa de relaciones públicas y cambiar su piso de Londres por una casita de ensueño en Carsely, un pueblo en el corazón de la Inglaterra rural.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Andaba buscando un título largo, después uno con fruta, y luego algo de cocina, y me encontré con este librito que después caí en cuenta tiene su propia serie de tv, aunque no la he visto más que al pasar haciendo zapping. Y por demás la prota (vaya sorpresa) no se parece para nada a como se describe en el libro; que para mí es lo mejor.

La protagonista es una mujer en los cincuenta y tres años que se acaba de jubilar de su propia pequeña empresa publicista, es una mujer dura , divorciada, sin amigos, que siempre luchó por todo y que ahora espera disfrutar de este paisaje de villa que una vez le trajo buenos recuerdos de niña en Carsely. Pero después de Londres y su trabajo se enfrenta a la soledad por primera vez. Decidida a hacerse conocida por la fuerza , como es su costumbre, se le ocurre entrar a un concurso de quiche (a pesar de que no tiene idea de cocina), compra uno para pasarle por uno hecho por ella y .... el juez termina envenenado. Como ven, no la mejor de las impresiones, jajaja.

Reseña: The Danes

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Reseña Bilingüe

The Danes 

 by 

Clarke

 102 pages

Published June 20th 2018 by Europe Comics

ISBN13.9791032805824

Edition Language: English

Tomo autoconclusivo

BLURB: When an Aryan baby is born to a Muslim woman living in Copenhagen, her husband’s family shuns her. But DNA tests prove Sorraya’s fidelity. And she is just the first in what soon becomes a rash of similar cases across Europe, threatening widespread social change even as they ignite passions in immigrant communities and incite familiar racial hatreds. What mysterious conspiracy connects a retrovirus, a young slacker biogeneticist, a former punkette, a dogged reporter, and pharmaceutical giant Keoxis? Clarke delivers a contemplative slice of near-future science fiction paced like a thriller but full of probing questions about our prejudices.

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

art - 2,5

plot - 1

This book piss me off. Even with the best of intentions, if that, I don't think it was treated as intended or more probably it was bad elaborated since the beginning. I am a gut-feeling ranking-based reviewer, so this is what I feel. Even when the book wanted to deliver a message of unity and blah, it totally failed of its objective.

The plot? It start with a black muslim woman giving birth a blond blue-eyed baby. (Yeah, seems like a soap opera once I watch at tv). Infidelity is not the case, because DNA test said soAnd more and more blond blue-eyed babies are birthed to different race families, like a epidemy. Infidelities cries are shouted and violence explode among inmigrants.

If this is really a virus, a disease, who started it, why, and how can be contained it?There is no clear answer in the novel.

We follow two women with their babies, and a troupe of journalists, and some pharmaceuticals, and a runaway biologist.

Sadly it was not even Village of the Damned.

This could be a good thriller. It was not. Motives and characters fumbled by the book with unclear motives, and often confusing more the reader.

Star Trek made it better with the half-blue guys. Hell, Gulliver was more subtle with the egg thing.

Reseña: A Calf Named Brian Higgins: An Adventure in Rural Kenya

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A Calf Named Brian Higgins 

by  

Kristen Ball

272 pages

Expected publication: July 1st 2018 by One Elm Books, an imprint of Red Chair Press

ISBN: 1947159003 (ISBN13: 9781947159006)

Edition Language: English

 

 

 BLURB: Thirteen-year-old Hannah Higgins is convinced her summer is ruined when she is forced to travel to Africa and work in a remote village with her mom and uncle. Never having been to a developing country, she finds the food gross and the community filthy. She has to live without electricity or running water. Then she is told she must attend school.
Just when she thinks nothing could make this trip any worse, she learns people there are dying of hunger and preventable disease. Hannah becomes frustrated and wants to help, but when poverty threatens the lives of people she loves, all she wants to do is go home. This story is an adventure of discovery.

My rating: 3.5 nyoyo stars

When Uncle Brian , her favorite uncle, invited Hannah to Kenya to meet his friends invested in humanitarian goals and the school in Sauri, she is not specially thrilled at first but despite no water, no much food choices and the gross incoveniences she discover cheerful people and a place in her heart.

When you lived harsh conditions day-by-day -even for few weeks- is totally another matter. Water and food are grossly underestimated for granted for most of the kids, until is not.

Reseña: On the Chase (Rocky Mountain K9 Unit 2)

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On the Chase (Rocky Mountain K9, #2)

by  

Katie Ruggle

416 pages

Published September 5th 2017 by Sourcebooks Casablanca

ISBN:1492643076 (ISBN13: 9781492643074)

Edition Language:English

Series:Rocky Mountain K9 Unit #2

BLURB: After witnessing a horrifying crime, Kaylee is forced to flee to a small Colorado mountain town and take on a new identity. There she becomes Grace, a dog kennel worker trying to avoid the dangerously attractive K-9 Officer Hugh Murdoch. When an accident leaves Hugh and his K-9 partner, Lexi, on desk duty, both are anxious for Hugh to heal. Until then, the highlight of his day is teasing the beautiful but mysterious new kennel employee. Their simmering attraction fuels a passionate kiss—interrupted by a sniper’s bullet. With targets on both of their backs, Grace and Hugh will do whatever it takes to stay alive…not realizing the most dangerous threat of all is hiding right in front of their noses.

Rocky Mountain K9 Unit Series:
Run to Ground (Book 1)
On the Chase (Book 2)

My rating: 2.8 running stars

My bookshelves: netgalley, w_police-detective, contemporary-fiction,  romance, insta-lust-or-luv, accion

I do not read the previous book, but the plot is understood without any problem.

Kaylee has her dream life in California, great job, nice home, good clothes, and maybe a dream boyfriend , but then her dream come crushing down with awful reality when she sees something horrible in a party and feel that is more safe to flee frightened for her life.

I really wanted to like this book, that is, a hot cop that works with dogs, and a girl who runs away who ends up working in a kennel? Pasapacá. But the story differs somewhat from that. Unlike other readers, I would have complained a great deal more -internally- in case I had to leave behind all that had been achieved with so much effort in a matter that was not my fault. (And in my case, I would have even regretted having helped those strangers, in fact. Although the latter really were lip service.) So, I like Grace. Yes, she is not a wall flower, and acts when it count.

Reseña: El Club de los Héroes Trágicos

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El Club de los Héroes Trágicos 

by  

Pablo J. Donetch

Kindle Edition, 151 pages

Published February 17th 2017

ASIN:B06WVG1G3W

Edition Language:Spanish

BLURB: Emilia es una joven exitosa abogada que trabaja en una compañía de seguros multinacional. Su labor es simple: conseguir resquicios para no pagar las pólizas. Su carrera ha sido una seguidilla de éxitos hasta que un día llega a su escritorio la carpeta con el caso de Matías Montes, muerto en un choque de buses urbanos y a cuya viuda se le debe pagar una inmensa cantidad de dinero. La investigación de Emilia para evitar pagar millones de dólares la llevará por el camino más intrincado que le haya tocado transitar, descubriendo a cada paso que la muerte de Montes implica bastante más que una simple colisión.

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

bookshelves: chile, legal-mystery, w_lawyer, contemporary-fiction

Donde mis dos estrellas son generosas.

¿De qué se trata el libro? Una abogada que trabaja en un compañía de seguros GoodLife que en mi mente continuaba leyendo como Metlife y se especializa en buscar resquicios para no pagar dichos seguros, debe investigar como no pagar por una muerte en un microbus.

Reseña: Cat Zero

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Cat Zero 

by 

Jennifer L. Rohn

Expected publication: January 2nd 2018 by Biting Duck Press

ISBN13:9781938463662

Edition Language:English

 

 BLURB: Artie Marshall is a scientist. She is perpetually underfunded, relegated to a damp basement, and besieged on all sides by sexist colleagues. Added to that she is immersed in a messy divorce. But she’s never been happier: she recently landed her own lab, based in an eclectic think-tank housed in the leafy suburbs of North London.Artie spends her days studying an obscure cat virus that nobody else in the world seems to have heard of – or cares about. But her arcane little research problem suddenly becomes worryingly relevant as local cats start dropping dead overnight. Matters get worse when people start getting infected too.Working with her right-hand man Mark, her vet friends and her street-smart technician, Artie races to get to the bottom of the ballooning epidemic. Unexpected assistance arrives in the form of two basement-dwelling mathematicians – a sociopathic recluse and his scary, otherworldly savant mentor. When their mathematical models suggest that the cat plague might actually be more sinister than it first appears, Artie gets drawn into a web of secrets and lies that threatens to blow apart her lab family, undermine her sanity – and endanger her own life.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

My shelves: contemporary-fiction, mystery-thriller, netgalley,  w_scientist-or-researcher

Artemis Marshall is a promising young scientist working with viruses. If talking about VSN RNA , feline leukemia (FeLV), lentivirus, genome , and lab testing is not your thing , don't bother with this book.

Decent writting. However, the book suffers from a common flaw: try to cover too many issues at once and then rush to solving the end.

Reseña: Beauty Queens

+Reto Popsugar 2016: #12: Libro recomendado +

Beauty Queens 

by

 Libba Bray

396 pages

Published May 24th 2011 by Scholastic Press

ISBN: 0439895979 (ISBN13: 9780439895972)

Edition Language: English

When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

My bookshelves: teen-protagonist, contemporary-fiction, satirical, w_beauty-queens, adventure, parodia


Un avion que lleva candidatas a un concurso de belleza adolescente - Teen Dreamers - se estrella en una isla en medio de la nada, hay muertos y las reinas de belleza sobrevivientes ...

Me habian recomendado muchisimo este libro, pero no me gustó tanto como se supone que deberia. No es un mal libro, lejos de eso. Justamente lo estaba evitando esperando encontrarme en el ánimo correcto para disfrutarlo. Pero no pude conseguir la carcajada que me esperaba. Es una fuerte parodia y critica social contra el consumismo y lo que espera la sociedad de la imagen femenina, pasando por su forma de convertirnos en vender cualquier cosa, asi como la presion que se pone sobre las jovencitas y mujeres todos los dias por llegar a una imagen a una perfección a una imagen de lo que deberiamos ser que sólo existe en la cabeza con el poder suficiente para vendernos la pomada, y ¿lavarnos el cerebro?

El mensaje es entregado sin ninguna sutileza, con un humor caustico y hasta bizarro.

Reseña: The Promise Kitchen

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The Promise Kitchen 

by 

Peggy Lampman

382 pages

Expected publication: September 27th 2016 by Lake Union Publishing (first published June 25th 2015)

Original Title: Simmer and Smoke

ISBN:1503938840 (ISBN13: 9781503938847)

Literary Awards:IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards for Best First Book Fiction - Silver (2016)

SINOPSIS: 

Shelby Preston, a young single mother, is at a crossroads. She feels suffocated by her hardscrabble life in rural Georgia and dreams of becoming a professional chef. Lord knows her family could use a pot of something good. In Atlanta, Mallory Lakes is reeling from a bad breakup. The newspaper food columnist is also bracing for major changes at work that could put her job at risk. Determined to find the perfect recipe for how to reinvent herself, she gets involved in the growing farm-to-table movement. But an emotional setback threatens to derail everything she’s worked for. Shelby and Mallory couldn’t be more different. But through their shared passion for food, they form an unlikely friendship—a bond that just might be their salvation.

This heartwarming and lyrical tale reminds us that family isn’t necessarily whom you’re related to—it’s whom you invite to your table.

This is a new release of a previously published edition titled Simmer and Smoke; it contains twenty delightful recipes.

2.8 overcooked stars

As a child, at my aunt's, bored during the siesta, I use to read some old "Vanidades" -a fashion magazine-, where a catch-phrase get my attention: "Less is More"; meaning, before you leave your house dressed up look at you in the mirror and remove something. Well, this novel didn't follow that advise; instead, is like putting too many ingredients inside a pot. Prejudice, racism, classism, all themes that could be treated maybe with more finesse because are always in everyday background. Relationships, job problems, ethics... too many things are introduced in the mix.

Reseña: Billy Elliot

Billy Elliot 

 by  

Melvin Burgess

160 pages

Published September 5th 2013 by Chicken House Ltd (first published March 26th 2001)

ISBN 1909489182 (ISBN13: 9781909489189)

Edition Language English

 

 

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

My bookshelves: contemporary-fiction, dancer, vi-primero-la-pelicula, movie-novelization, children-protagonist, classical-dancer

(Reto Popsugar #14: Libro que puedes terminar en un día)

You can’t give up being just yourself

Con el escenario de fondo de una de las mayores huelgas de mineros en Inglaterra en los años 80's tenemos esta historia acerca de un niño y su familia persiguiendo sus sueños: unos por conseguir mejores condiciones de vida para los mineros del carbón, y el otro descubriendo dentro de él una habilidad que le puede llevar muy lejos , viviendo una vida totalmente diferente. 

Reseña: The Cold Dish (Walt Longmire #1)

The Cold Dish 

by  

Craig Johnson

354 pages

Published 2012 by Penguin (first published December 29th 2004)

ISBN0143123173 (ISBN13: 9780143123170)

Edition Language English

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

bookshelves: w_sheriff, contemporary-fiction, mystery-murder, mystery-policial,  vi-primero-la-tv-serie, w_soldier-or-ex-military

Un homicio ¿retardado? es el inicio de esta historia con el marco de Wyoming , sus montañas y su historia fuertemente marcada por la batalla de Little Big Horn.

El leit motiv más obvio pareciera ser la venganza (el plato frio) porque el muerto fue participe en una violación grupal hace un par de años atrás de una jovencita india, que además sufre del sindrome alcoholico fetal; asi que por muchos ratos hasta me esperaba algo a lo Fuente Ovejuna, porque todo el mundo es sospechoso/son parientes/tienen el motivo/y los medios.

Reseña: My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry

"My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry"

(Titulo Original: Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt)

Autor: Fedrick Backman

Traducido por:  Henning Koch

Año Primera Publicación: 2013

N° Páginas: 384 pgs.

 Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy, standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother's stories, in the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal.

When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's letters lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and totally ordinary old crones, but also to the truth about fairytales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.

My ranking: 3 STARS.

 **ARC kindly provided by Atria Books, via NetGalley, in exchange for an honest review.**