Reseña: Wild Card (issue 1-6) Novela Grafica original Harry Dresden

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Wild Card (issues 1 to 6)

by  

Jim Butcher

Mark Powers, Carlos Gómez (Illustrator)

Hardcover, Signed Limited Edition, 144 pages

Published October 25th 2016 by Dynamite Entertainment

Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files saga continues in this original and in-continuity graphic novel, featuring a never-before-told story set after the bestselling novel White Night and graphic novel Down Town! A bizarre double murder draws the interest of Chicago's only wizard-for-hire. But as Harry Dresden begins his investigation, the clues lead to troubling conclusions about the possible perpetrator, and set him on a path that will place him in the middle of a conflict between the city's three most powerful factions -- a conflict that could engulf all of Chicago

My rating:  3.5 psychopathic stars

It was a pretty generic story , for Dresden. A big baddie, an almost war, and the usual suspects. But I can't determine the exact timing for this story among the novels.

Some entity is causing trouble in Chicago, and people blame each other.

We find working together again Harry and Thomas . Molly is there, too. And Murphy shows a bit of her past.
(Li'l Karrin+dad)

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: Undertow (SoulShares #7)

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Undertow (SoulShares #7)

by  

Rory Ni Coileain

 285 pages

Published July 19th 2016 by Riverdale Avenue Books

ASIN B01I62LA3E

Edition Language English

SINOPSIS:

Rhoann Callte, Rhoann Half-Royal, is an impossible Fae. As a shape-shifter, he carries the blood of Fae water elementals and has a once-in-a-generation healing gift. Which is his blessing, or his curse, depending on how you look at it – his gift is needed among the exiled Fae of the Demesne of Purgatory, and he’s coerced from his beloved solitude and sent on a one-way trip to the human world.
Vietnam veteran Mac McAllan has been through hell in the last few months, and not just because his new C-leg isn’t performing up to spec. He and his partner of 34 years, stocky bald muscle bear Lucien de Winter, were working at Purgatory when what the owner said was a gas explosion collapsed the building – and put Lucien into a coma back in August. Now it’s October, and an impossibly handsome stranger says he can heal Lucien. But there’s always a price…

2.5 aquatic stars

I chose this book at random, because reminded me nostalgically of other collections.

Not a bad story, but fail to get me emotionally involved.

Mac and Lucien have been through a lot in their years together; and when Lucien is injured after an explosion that left him comatose, Mac feel afraid and lost. He didn't know that they get entangled in an ancient war between fae and their enemies. But help is in the way.

Rhoann is solitary and is pushed in a strange world with other rules.

Reseña: The Trouble with Women

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The Trouble with Women 

by 

Jacky Fleming

128 pages

Expected publication: September 20th 2016 by Andrews McMeel Publishing (first published February 18th 2016)

ISBN 1449479766 (ISBN13: 9781449479763)

Edition Language English

SINOPSIS  Perfect for fans of Kate Beaton, Lena Dunham, and Caitlin Moran, The Trouble with Women is a feminist's brilliant, tongue-in-cheek, hysterical look at women's "issues," "frailties," and "failures" in our not-so-distant history.

Ever noticed that women don't feature much in history books, and wondered why? Then this is the book for you. In The Trouble with Women, feminist artist Jacky Fleming illustrates how the opinions of supposed male geniuses, such as Charles Darwin (who believed that women have smaller brains than men) and John Ruskin (who believed that women's main function was to praise men), have shaped the fate of women through history, confining them to a life of domesticity and very little else.

My rating: 4 tars

My feeble tiny spongy brain feel like fainting and a bit histerical after reading this enlightening book about the historical vision of women from many ejem 'well knowing' men.

Reseña: Juana and Lucas

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Juana and Lucas 

by  

Juana Medina

96 pages

Expected publication: September 27th 2016 by Candlewick Press

ISBN

0763672084 (ISBN13: 9780763672089)

Edition Language English

My rating: 3 stars

I wanted to read something fluffy after my last book, so I grab this. A children book. Cute drawings, btw.

Juana lives in Bogota, Colombia, goes to school, has a dog (Lucas), and talks about her dailies activities , plus likes and dislikes as every child. 

I'm not really sure, but the story seems directed to bilingual children, there are spanish words in some points (kind of spanglish), and that confused me a bit. Then the ejem big conflict in the book is because she didn't understand why she has to learn The English.

Reseña: El poder y la gloria

El poder y la gloria 

by  

Graham Greene

Original Title: The Power and the Glory

(The whisky priest)

247 pags.

settin gMexico

Literary Awards:Hawthornden Prize (1941)

 

 SINOPSIS El poder y la gloria es sin duda una de las novelas máximas de nuestro siglo. Obsesionado por el problema del mal como tema en torno al cual gira toda su obra narrativa, el autor lleva a cabo en este libro una exploración implacable de los misterios del Bien y del Mal. Esta es la historia del padre José, un sacerdote atormentado por su conciencia que se debate entre el servicio a su comunidad y los remordimientos por su sentimiento de pecador, pues es padre de una joven. Pero además la acción transcurre durante la época en que en México el catolicismo fue perseguido, en los años veinte, y la suya es la historia de una huida de las autoridades. A partir de ella construye Greene una impresionante novela sobre el pecado y el fracaso moral. Igualmente logrados están los personajes secundarios: una joven demasiado madura para su corta edad, un teniente cruel que persigue de un modo implacable al sacerdote o el coro que forman los habitantes de los pueblos mexicanos. Hay quienes consideran ésta novela en la que mejor planteó Greene los debates internos de sus personajes.

Resulta demasiado fácil morir por lo bueno o hermoso, por el hogar o los hijos o la civilización: fue necesario un Dios que muriese por los hombres mezquinos y corrompidos.

Este libro figura entre los 100 mejores libros desde los años 20's al presente según la revista Time. A mi me dejó marcando ocupado (de ahi la falta de estrellas, pues aun lo estoy pensando)

La historia situada en México de los años 20's cuando el gobernador de Tabasco (Partido Socialista Radical), entre otras medidas, prohibe el alcohol y declara ilegal la Iglesia Católica y todas sus representaciones: sacerdotes, iglesias y hasta las cruces en las tumbas.

Si Dios fuera igual a un sapo, uno podría librar de ellos al mundo; pero ya que Dios era como uno mismo, no servía de nada estropear las figuras de piedra: sería preciso suicidarse entre las sepulturas.

Reseña : Devolution (comic)

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Devolution 

by  

Rick Remender 

SKU: C1524100285
Rating: Mature
Cover: Jae Lee
Writer: Rick Remender
Art: Jonathan Wayshak

  144 pages

Expected publication: August 23rd 2016 by Dynamite Entertainment

ISBN:1524100285 (ISBN13: 9781524100285)

 SINOPSIS: Every living creature on Earth has been devolved - the evolutionary clock turned back, reverting all life to odd mutations and prehistoric incarnations. The cities of man are little more than bloody territories ruthlessly dominated by tribal Neanderthals ruling from the backs of mammoths, packs of saber-toothed tigers, and giant man-eating insects. Raja, one of the few remaining "Still Sapien" humans, heads to San Francisco to find the antidote for the world-changing DVO-8 viral agent. But to cross the wasteland, she'll have to convince the last pocket of humanity to join her quest... and survive the Nazi hillbillies that rule them through fear! 

Rick Remender, the acclaimed writer of Black Science, Low, and Deadly Class, unleashes a high-octane dystopian masterpiece on the world, featuring the brilliant artistry of Jonathan Wayshak!

 

My rating: 1,5 shocking stars

bookshelves: netgalley, post-apocalyptic, graphic-novel, adult-mature, bloody-and-gory, comics,

What a mess. A virus invented to erase the religion from humans ...wha?? (yes, a really farfetched premise for a story full of cliches who you could encounter in a midnight "z-movie") transformed the humanity in mad neardenthals , and mutating the rest of biosphere into jurassic park. Yeah, pseudoscience evading all idea of logic. As if neanderthals won't be able to invent some kind of myth and rites (religion) :roll eyes::.

 

Reseña: Razzle Dazzle Unicorn: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure

Razzle Dazzle Unicorn: Another Phoebe and Her Unicorn Adventure (Heavenly Nostrils #4)

by  

Dana Simpson

184 pages

Expected publication: September 20th 2016 by Andrews McMeel Publishing

ISBN 1449477917 (ISBN13: 9781449477912)

Edition Language: English

Series:Heavenly Nostrils

 Sinopsis: 

Phoebe and Her Unicorn is back with more sparkles than ever! In this fourth volume, join in the adventure as Phoebe and Marigold confront messy rooms, trouble at school, and a nasty case of “Sparkle Fever.” Follow the pair back to Camp Wolfgang, where their old pals Sue (a.k.a. “Monster Girl”) and Ringo, the lake creature, remind them that being weird is WAY more fun than being normal.

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Age Range: 8 to 12

Cute and Fluffy. Another day-a-day kind of story about a girl and her best friend: Unicorn!

Reseña: Cross of Blood (Alien Nation #8)

Cross of Blood 

by  

K.W. Jeter

308 pages

Published July 1st 1995 by Pocket Books

ISBN:0671871846 (ISBN13: 9780671871840)

Edition Language:English

 Sinopsis: The pregnancy of Newcomer Cathy Frankel by her human boyfriend, Matt Sikes, ignites tensions city-wide as extremist groups who fear the implications of the birth of the first half-human/half-Newcomer child threaten Cathy's safety. The danger escalates when the medical facility treating Cathy is attacked, forcing her into seclusion. Meanwhile, George Francisco is drawn into a Newcomer cult headed by a mysterious messianic figure. Obsessed with the cult, George quits the police force to devote all his time to his new religion. Now with his partner gone, Sikes must defend his newborn baby from a hostile band of criminals determined to destroy anyone who's different-- even an innocent child

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Fui una fan de la serie, que trataba de que ocurriria si una nave de alienigenas caia cerca de Los Angeles y terminaban viviendo entre la poblacion humana. Para que esto funcionara, las diferencias no debian ser demasiadas, cuando menos por fuera, pero la cultura y otras cosas fisiologicas diferian, desde cuestiones de apareamiento hasta el hecho de que el hombre lleva a término la gestación de su especie. Sip, canon MPREG, casi.

Reseña: The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn (Novella)

Novella nominada al nebula 2015. Puede leerse aqui

The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn 

by

Usman T. Malik

About a disenchanted young Pakistani professor who grew up and lives in the United States, but is haunted by the magical, mystical tales his grandfather told him of a princess and a Jinn who lived in Lahore when the grandfather was a boy.

This novella was acquired and edited for Tor.com by consulting editor Ellen Datlow.

Cover art by Victo Ngai

 60 pages

Published April 22nd 2015 by tor.com

Edition Language:English

URL:http://www.tor.com/stories/2015/04/the-pauper-prince-and-the-eucalyptus-jinn-usman-malik

 

My rating: 2.5 stars

La relación de un niño paquistani con su abuelo, una anécdota de su pasado transformado en un cuento de una princesa que vende té bajo alero de un eucalipto, inserto en un ambiente de transplantados humildes en el llamado pais de las oportunidades, años más tarde termina convirtiéndose en un relato de busqueda de raices , y la fantasia termina entremezclándose con la realidad en una forma dificil de seguir para los lectores.