In My Mailbox 2: August Tehanu Books
Saturday, September 11, 2010
How To Twist Testicle
, from now on IMM, is a sector of blogs devoted to books that were acquired within a certain period time. Many times the IMM is shown in vlogs, or video-logs. IMM came thanks to two English-language blogs: Pop Culture Junkie 
and The Story Siren, and passed the language barrier by
lyrics and scenes. IMM A one can show the books he bought, he paid, he had been given, etc. The period of time is also welcome. I'll do a month ... This is my second IMM, you see, this time I did with pictures because I was easier xD
IMPORTANT: Know excuse the image quality varied: /
August was not bad, they I say that. Not only received late birthday gift, but I got cheap books, and you know how I LOVE a good cheap book, in fact, this month I did not buy any book for more than 24 pesos ... Imagine, at this time!
Just the most expensive, if you will, of them up here is this:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote . The which suffered my trip to Ushuaia and bent it a lot. Poor ... This was the reading of last month in the Reading Club
^ ^ I guess we all know about the book, but as always I leave the synopsis
: The town of Holcomb is on the high wheat plains of western Kansas , a secluded area that other Kansans call "out there ..." From this precise location, Truman Capote captures the reader in a gripping story, and opens, as he proclaimed, a genre. The story is one of the four members of the Clutter family savagely murdered in their home, a tragedy that is linked to the lynching of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, five years, four months and nineteen days later. Gender: The "non fiction" novel an ingenious combination of the key elements of the trades as a writer and journalist. Effectively pioneering step followed Capote's life in the small town of Holcomb and focused its attention on the criminals, interestingly, this research it became the biographer of a society. As he wrote Frederick R. Karl: The Clutter case was surely the first of many horrific crimes, those mass killings that accompanied the political assassinations ... Perhaps the first time, Capote perceived as a society defined itself in relation their crimes, their ability to kill.
Do not be fooled by the pastel cover, this novel is dark, very dark. It's called Dangerous Liaisons
and was written by one Pierre back in 1782. It has since been adapted several times, but surely you know adaptation is Sex Games (or Cruel Intentions in Spain), the movie with Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy), Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde) and Ryan Phillipe (the ex- Witherspoon). Therefore is a story we all know, however, here's the synopsis
: This novel won since its publication a success immediately. A title only for its author enough to get the memory for posterity that intended. "Dangerous Liaisons" participate in the two great literary traditions that characterize the end of the eighteenth century: the novel rousseauísta and uplifting, and the libertine novel.
The two main characters, endowed by its author's intelligence and lucidity, he devotes his life to satisfy by deception an uncontrollable desire of seduction and submission. The denial of emotion in favor of sensuality is the key to their partnership.
This one came out the same as the previous $ 10, unbelievable! This is
The Voyage Dawn of CS Lewis . However, it is clear that part of the Chronicles of Narnia, however, from the output of the movies are dogged in ordering the books chronologically according to the story, so it stays in place 5, while the order original (ie, in which they were written) is 3. This bothers me greatly because I have the first two published by Editorial Andrés Bello and I are all messy = S
Synopsis: A trip to the real end of the world, where multiple prophecies will be fulfilled ...
A king and some unexpected companions embark on a cruise trip that will take beyond all known lands. As you navigate through seas that do not appear on maps, they discover that their mission is more risky than they had imagined and that the end of the world is, in fact, the threshold of a terra incognita.
I bought this with the previous
The Silver Chair CS Lewis.
The number 6 or 4 in the series depending on how you look.
Synopsis: Through dangers untold and caverns deep, place a noble group of friends to rescue a captive prince. However, his mission on Earth leads to lower face to face with an evil more beautiful and deadly as who would have ever expected to find. Narnia, the land where anything can happen.
Surprise! Surprise! This is
The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
. After reading The Shadow of the Wind, I thought that it was not worth buying the sequel, but to see it (yes, even) $ 10, I could not hold and came with me as they see it XD So I saved 89 pesos .. . ok, ok, better stop talking money, I will look weird XD
Synopsis: The turbulent Barcelona from the 20 a young writer obsessed with an impossible love receives a mysterious offer to write editor a book as has never existed, in exchange for a fortune and, perhaps, much more.
With stunning style and impeccable precision narrative, the author of The Shadow of the Wind takes us back to Barcelona in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books to offer an adventure of intrigue, romance and tragedy, through a maze of secrets where the magic of books, passion and friendship are combined into a master narrative.
Following Zafón, I bought the second volume of his fantasy trilogy,
The Midnight Palace
. Not yet read the first, but ...
Synopsis : Calcutta, 1932: The Heart of Darkness. A train runs through the city in flames. A spectrum of fire spread terror in the shadows of the night. But that is only the beginning. On the eve of turning 16 years old, Ben, Sheer and his friends must face the most terrible and deadly enigma in the history of the city of palaces.
This is the first of three books / overdue birthday presents some friends gave me. They knew of my passion for the movie of Spielberg: Empire of the Sun
. They also knew that I wanted to do with the book. Moreover, I looked and I searched and could not find it. It seemed strange because I knew it was recently reissued. What happened? My friends had taken the last volume XD By the way, is one of the most beautiful covers you've seen?
Synopsis: In 1941, Shanghai is a city in flames since the light the fuse on Pearl Harbor. Planted along the streets of chaos and corpses, Jim, a British child, look no luck to their parents. When arrested and taken to a Japanese prison camp knows the misery of forced confinement, and secret bonuses. After nearly three years in prison, Jim will witness the relentless flash Nagasaki, a bellows pump that is the end of the war. . . and the dawn of a future cut off forever. Empire of the Sun, the most famous work of JG Ballard, is an autobiographical novel about war and loss, about the concentration camps and extermination of prisoners on hunger and survival. It has transcended the literary history by the way he portrays, through the eyes of a boy, the discovery of a mad world.
The second that I got is the sequel to the previous
The Kindness of Women by JG Ballard
. I did not know existed! Although not sure of wanting to know his story. Seen when a book is so very perfect that only one word more would ruin it? Well, I'm working ...
Synopsis: In continuing Empire of the Sun, young James moved to England after the Second World War. Cambridge began, unnoticed, a medical career, and then travels to Canada to train as an RAF pilot. Back in England, experience the benefits of family life until the death of his wife. So, Jim suddenly encounters with violence, drugs and "antisentimental education" of the sixties. JG Ballard, one of the most amazing British authors the second half of the twentieth century, coupled his prose to the obsessions of his time with an intensity unmatched. The caustic social commentary, JG Ballard, the raw delicacy of his observations about love and exploration of the limits of narrative make this novel a small classic of autobiographical fiction. "The backbone of the goodness of women is brutal: it is full of pottery, violence and explicit sex scenes and clinics. But it is also a book, so cold its peculiar and extraordinarily tender and pleasant, with an enormous vision and ambition. "Nick Hornby" hypnotic writing a book full of paragraphs and pages disturbing and captivating. "
Daily Telegraph
only remains to show the third gift from my friends.
nubilum 1: Dark Times Juan Ignacio Iribarren. It is fantastic literature Argentina ^ ^
confess that although I was curious about the book, it is unlikely that I would have bought ... the cover as it repels me a bit. But one of my friends remembered my interest in him and I have it XD When I finally read it, I will outline here in the blog and just sticking with what we seek in the books that we review =)
Synopsis: After the death of King Ragimund peace of the kingdom of Anduri, sustained for three centuries, began to crumble. Two children rivals Draelos Ghaelius and suffer the slaughter of their families and the entire town in which they live. With the help of a mysterious potion seller escaped, and may well preserve their lives.
Two children quickly become teenagers and pursue big dreams are the protagonists of this fantastic story: Ghaelius aspires to be an important Draelos magician and a member of the Order of Knights of the region's largest, The Star Silver.
Finally, let me show you some souvenirs from books I brought from my trip to the South. A lamb with paper clip and a pointing dog books Siberian profile. There are lovely?
short: Bought
In Cold Blood ~ Truman Capote ~
Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Narnia 3 / 5: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Narnia ~ CS Lewis 4 / 6: The Silver Chair ~ CS Lewis ~ The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Midnight Palace ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Regalados
Empire of the Sun ~ JG Ballard
The Kindness of Women ~ JG Ballard
Dark Ages ~ Juan Ignacio Iribarne Kisses to all! Posted
by the 09/11/1910.
and The Story Siren, and passed the language barrier by lyrics and scenes. IMM A one can show the books he bought, he paid, he had been given, etc. The period of time is also welcome. I'll do a month ... This is my second IMM, you see, this time I did with pictures because I was easier xD
IMPORTANT: Know excuse the image quality varied: /
August was not bad, they I say that. Not only received late birthday gift, but I got cheap books, and you know how I LOVE a good cheap book, in fact, this month I did not buy any book for more than 24 pesos ... Imagine, at this time!
Just the most expensive, if you will, of them up here is this:
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote . The which suffered my trip to Ushuaia and bent it a lot. Poor ... This was the reading of last month in the Reading Club
^ ^ I guess we all know about the book, but as always I leave the synopsis : The town of Holcomb is on the high wheat plains of western Kansas , a secluded area that other Kansans call "out there ..." From this precise location, Truman Capote captures the reader in a gripping story, and opens, as he proclaimed, a genre. The story is one of the four members of the Clutter family savagely murdered in their home, a tragedy that is linked to the lynching of Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, five years, four months and nineteen days later. Gender: The "non fiction" novel an ingenious combination of the key elements of the trades as a writer and journalist. Effectively pioneering step followed Capote's life in the small town of Holcomb and focused its attention on the criminals, interestingly, this research it became the biographer of a society. As he wrote Frederick R. Karl: The Clutter case was surely the first of many horrific crimes, those mass killings that accompanied the political assassinations ... Perhaps the first time, Capote perceived as a society defined itself in relation their crimes, their ability to kill.
Do not be fooled by the pastel cover, this novel is dark, very dark. It's called Dangerous Liaisons
and was written by one Pierre back in 1782. It has since been adapted several times, but surely you know adaptation is Sex Games (or Cruel Intentions in Spain), the movie with Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy), Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde) and Ryan Phillipe (the ex- Witherspoon). Therefore is a story we all know, however, here's the synopsis
: This novel won since its publication a success immediately. A title only for its author enough to get the memory for posterity that intended. "Dangerous Liaisons" participate in the two great literary traditions that characterize the end of the eighteenth century: the novel rousseauísta and uplifting, and the libertine novel. The two main characters, endowed by its author's intelligence and lucidity, he devotes his life to satisfy by deception an uncontrollable desire of seduction and submission. The denial of emotion in favor of sensuality is the key to their partnership.
This one came out the same as the previous $ 10, unbelievable! This is
The Voyage Dawn of CS Lewis . However, it is clear that part of the Chronicles of Narnia, however, from the output of the movies are dogged in ordering the books chronologically according to the story, so it stays in place 5, while the order original (ie, in which they were written) is 3. This bothers me greatly because I have the first two published by Editorial Andrés Bello and I are all messy = S
Synopsis: A trip to the real end of the world, where multiple prophecies will be fulfilled ...
A king and some unexpected companions embark on a cruise trip that will take beyond all known lands. As you navigate through seas that do not appear on maps, they discover that their mission is more risky than they had imagined and that the end of the world is, in fact, the threshold of a terra incognita.
I bought this with the previous
The Silver Chair CS Lewis.
The number 6 or 4 in the series depending on how you look.
Synopsis: Through dangers untold and caverns deep, place a noble group of friends to rescue a captive prince. However, his mission on Earth leads to lower face to face with an evil more beautiful and deadly as who would have ever expected to find. Narnia, the land where anything can happen. Surprise! Surprise! This is
The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
. After reading The Shadow of the Wind, I thought that it was not worth buying the sequel, but to see it (yes, even) $ 10, I could not hold and came with me as they see it XD So I saved 89 pesos .. . ok, ok, better stop talking money, I will look weird XD
Synopsis: The turbulent Barcelona from the 20 a young writer obsessed with an impossible love receives a mysterious offer to write editor a book as has never existed, in exchange for a fortune and, perhaps, much more. With stunning style and impeccable precision narrative, the author of The Shadow of the Wind takes us back to Barcelona in the Cemetery of Forgotten Books to offer an adventure of intrigue, romance and tragedy, through a maze of secrets where the magic of books, passion and friendship are combined into a master narrative.
Following Zafón, I bought the second volume of his fantasy trilogy,
The Midnight Palace
. Not yet read the first, but ...
Synopsis : Calcutta, 1932: The Heart of Darkness. A train runs through the city in flames. A spectrum of fire spread terror in the shadows of the night. But that is only the beginning. On the eve of turning 16 years old, Ben, Sheer and his friends must face the most terrible and deadly enigma in the history of the city of palaces. This is the first of three books / overdue birthday presents some friends gave me. They knew of my passion for the movie of Spielberg: Empire of the Sun
. They also knew that I wanted to do with the book. Moreover, I looked and I searched and could not find it. It seemed strange because I knew it was recently reissued. What happened? My friends had taken the last volume XD By the way, is one of the most beautiful covers you've seen?
Synopsis: In 1941, Shanghai is a city in flames since the light the fuse on Pearl Harbor. Planted along the streets of chaos and corpses, Jim, a British child, look no luck to their parents. When arrested and taken to a Japanese prison camp knows the misery of forced confinement, and secret bonuses. After nearly three years in prison, Jim will witness the relentless flash Nagasaki, a bellows pump that is the end of the war. . . and the dawn of a future cut off forever. Empire of the Sun, the most famous work of JG Ballard, is an autobiographical novel about war and loss, about the concentration camps and extermination of prisoners on hunger and survival. It has transcended the literary history by the way he portrays, through the eyes of a boy, the discovery of a mad world. The second that I got is the sequel to the previous
The Kindness of Women by JG Ballard
. I did not know existed! Although not sure of wanting to know his story. Seen when a book is so very perfect that only one word more would ruin it? Well, I'm working ...
Synopsis: In continuing Empire of the Sun, young James moved to England after the Second World War. Cambridge began, unnoticed, a medical career, and then travels to Canada to train as an RAF pilot. Back in England, experience the benefits of family life until the death of his wife. So, Jim suddenly encounters with violence, drugs and "antisentimental education" of the sixties. JG Ballard, one of the most amazing British authors the second half of the twentieth century, coupled his prose to the obsessions of his time with an intensity unmatched. The caustic social commentary, JG Ballard, the raw delicacy of his observations about love and exploration of the limits of narrative make this novel a small classic of autobiographical fiction. "The backbone of the goodness of women is brutal: it is full of pottery, violence and explicit sex scenes and clinics. But it is also a book, so cold its peculiar and extraordinarily tender and pleasant, with an enormous vision and ambition. "Nick Hornby" hypnotic writing a book full of paragraphs and pages disturbing and captivating. " Daily Telegraph
only remains to show the third gift from my friends.
nubilum 1: Dark Times Juan Ignacio Iribarren. It is fantastic literature Argentina ^ ^
confess that although I was curious about the book, it is unlikely that I would have bought ... the cover as it repels me a bit. But one of my friends remembered my interest in him and I have it XD When I finally read it, I will outline here in the blog and just sticking with what we seek in the books that we review =) Synopsis: After the death of King Ragimund peace of the kingdom of Anduri, sustained for three centuries, began to crumble. Two children rivals Draelos Ghaelius and suffer the slaughter of their families and the entire town in which they live. With the help of a mysterious potion seller escaped, and may well preserve their lives.
Two children quickly become teenagers and pursue big dreams are the protagonists of this fantastic story: Ghaelius aspires to be an important Draelos magician and a member of the Order of Knights of the region's largest, The Star Silver.
Finally, let me show you some souvenirs from books I brought from my trip to the South. A lamb with paper clip and a pointing dog books Siberian profile. There are lovely?
short: Bought
In Cold Blood ~ Truman Capote ~
Dangerous Liaisons Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Narnia 3 / 5: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Narnia ~ CS Lewis 4 / 6: The Silver Chair ~ CS Lewis ~ The Angel's Game Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Midnight Palace ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Regalados
Empire of the Sun ~ JG Ballard
The Kindness of Women ~ JG Ballard
Dark Ages ~ Juan Ignacio Iribarne Kisses to all! Posted
by the 09/11/1910.
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