Because there is no time left
Rafa Cervera · Joke & Jill · 2020
Because there is no time left It is a novel about its own author, the music journalist Rafa Cervera, a music devotee who, clinging to the leftovers of his youth and childhood, has ended up choosing the solitude of winter El Saler to combat the imposed loneliness that can be experienced surrounded by people. In the nothingness of a beach in low season is where it finishes building its eccentricity. And yet, has managed to survive in this world thanks to the great friendships that he has cultivated over the years between Madrid, Barcelona and a Valencia that outgrew it very quickly. Thanks also to music and Lou Reed, that contain everything you have needed to learn as someone who does not fit into the dominant social mold. “If I had ever had the slightest desire to accept life as it presents itself, "I wouldn't have needed Lou Reed so much.". I managed to interview him a couple of times., like so many other artists whom I admired, to make your passion a profession, and the genre of the interview is a whole art. Because there is no time left It is a wonderfully written book., intimate and reflective, that x-rays its author with subtlety and elegance, putting friendship in the suitcase of vital needs, music… and Lou Reed. S.M.
The spectators
Jennifer duBois · The undercover · 2019
The spectators It is a very American novel that offers a critical vision of the vulgarity of the mass media., on the widespread possession of firearms and on the disastrous political and social management that was carried out when the AIDS epidemic broke out. Mattie M is a lawyer who aspired to enter politics and now runs a very questionable television show that is being accused of encouraging violence… S.M.
Everyone loves Daisy Jones
Taylor Jenkins Reid · Blackie Books · 2019
Amor, egos, drugs and feminism. Everyone loves Daisy Jones narra, in interview format, the rise to the heavens of the rock group 70 Daisy Jones & The Six and the problems that led to their abrupt separation in the middle of tour. Daisy is a groupie who doesn't want to be a muse, but an artist, and manages to become a star rock, Billy is the charismatic leader who fights every day against his addictions and his impulses for love.. They are the two key pieces of a band that lived fast and died young. Best seller which will soon become a miniseries thanks to the push of Reese Witherspoon, who has defended him in numerous interviews. Justly. S.M.
Designated days
Daniel Mocher · Achilles heel · 2020
Daniel Mocher, Valencian nurse and poet, delves into the complex and exciting world of aphorisms in Designated days. In the book he delves into life and the passing of the days. Sometimes deserted and repeated days in which the author makes the seed of the unrepeatable germinate, rescuing what so often goes unnoticed by us because we don't know how to look, helping us contemplate the simple things that populate our lives. As the author very well says in one of his aphorisms: “Life is always the same, but it is never the same". LAURA NÚÑEZ
The great fortune
Olivia Manning · Asteroid Books · 2020
Olivia Manning landed in Bucharest in the midst of the Nazi advance through Europe following her husband, a professor at the British Council and with the experiences lived during that time he would write, in 1960, The great fortune, the first book in his series of novels starring Guy and Harriet Pringle, marriage alter ego. Manning describes the atmosphere of restless tranquility in which the British colony of Bucharest lived, watching from afar how the German troops advanced in the opposite direction., to the conquest of Paris, but fearing invasion at any moment. Harriet and her entourage hope that Hitler will forget about them in his little corner of the continent, but they are well aware that Romania's two-way game, with the Axis powers and the allies, puts them in a dangerous situation and that the Russian army on the other flank did not promise to bring anything good either.. Manning masterfully draws a plethora of characters who cling as best they can to normality in times of war., but without drama: diplomats, spies, journalists, teachers and freeloaders, in its small Eastern European ecosystem, They splendidly portray the Second World War, “a background noise that only attracted attention when it stopped playing”. A history lesson camouflaged within a novel with autobiographical overtones that portrays, highway, the complexities of the human being.
How to be famous
Caitlin Moran · Anagram · 2020
There are enough points in common between the author of this book, Caitlin Moran, and the protagonist, Johanna, so that when we open it we find a note from the author making it clear that the story is not autobiographical. The two grew up in council housing in Wolverhampton. (England) and began their professional career as a music journalist as teenagers, but apart from that, It's all fiction. Johanna is a young woman who survives in London trying to make a career in a world, that of music, very masculine. As a result of her traumatic encounter with an abuser, she will discover that her sexual relations have until then been based on allowing herself to be done to satisfy the desire of men and she will fight against that shame that women have felt since time immemorial when shameful things are done to them.. All told with the humor and daring that Moran already displayed in the successful How to be a woman. A feminist novel told with intelligence and without complexes.
The Inheritance
Vigdis Hjorth · Nordic Books · 2019
Bergljot begins to tell us what seems like a simple dispute between four brothers over the family inheritance., to which she has been dragged involuntarily, after several years away from her parents and two little sisters. Little by little he will uncover the reason for his estrangement., of their fears and their ill-resolved resentments, because mother and sisters have decided that the only way to keep the family together is by burying that terrible episode that she suffered during childhood. And it is impossible to forgive if there is no recognition of the pain caused. The inheritance part of a superfluous fact, the distribution of the beach houses, to delve into the damage that neutrality can cause, in love understood as absolute control, in the weight of guilt and remorse, in the perversities that the subconscious hides, on the importance of childhood in the development of personality and, above all, in how slaves blood ties can be. A critical and sales success in Norway.
A room of your own
Virginia Woolf · Lumen · 2020
Reading A room of your own it is clear, from the first sentences, why Virginia Woolf is an icon of the feminist movement. In this essay, The English author makes her brilliant mind evident, the absolute modernity of his thoughts and postulates, he knew how to see it many years in advance. How the material conditions of the creative subjects determine the creation of any artistic work, how women, tied to domestic and parenting tasks, They have been inherently poor all their lives, the influence that references have on later generations, the power of patriarchy, how the submission of women serves, ultimately, to reinforce the superiority of man, the anger of men when their privileges are questioned (as the suffragettes had done a few years before), why so few women have written good literature (Jane Austen and Emily Brontë, exceptional cases), the effort to pit some women against others in fiction... The conclusion Woolf reaches is so obvious today that someone had to say it then: to write novels, a woman must have money and her own room, because intellectual independence depends on material things.
Houses and tombs
Bernardo Atxaga · Alfaguara · 2020
The National Fiction Prize 1988 Bernardo Atxaga constructs a story of stories using recurring elements from his narrative: the animals, family issues and lonely landscapes, in this case, from the Guipuzcoan town of Ugarte, link between the different characters of House and graves. The adventures of a group of recruits during the military, the games of three friends during the summers in the town, The anguish of a father who cares for his sick daughter and the revenge plans of an insulted man are intertwined in this novel structured by friendship that hints at how the past irremediably determines our actions and thoughts of the present..
Why be happy when you can be normal?
Jeanette Winterson · Lumen · 2020
Jeanette Winterson became known in 1985 with the autobiographical book forbidden fruit (Oranges are not the only fruit in English) in which he narrated the discovery of his sexuality within an evangelical family that had only one book at home: the bible. “Why be happy when you can be normal?” was the question—without waste—that her mother asked Jeanette when she found out that she liked women. (sin!) and gives the title to this second autobiographical book that, in pieces, describes a monstrous adoptive mother, unhappy and lonely, who hated life and did it to her, Your daughter, completely impossible. Both, both, that to the 16 years left him no choice but to leave home to live in a car. many years later, Winterson made the decision to meet her biological mother, the process and its completion, full of contradictory feelings, They are also part of this book sewn with shreds of love, family, depression, feminism and books, that helped him bear the weight of life under the Pentecostal yoke of Mrs. Winterson.
paper crimes
Elías Taño Daring Editions · 2019
Culture at the service of agitation. Illustration as a politically subversive tool. That is what you will find in this compilation of posters and drawings explained by their author., Elías Taño from Tenerife, entitled paper crimes. Black lines and variegation that transmit class pride and encourage us to fight against the perversions generated by this fierce capitalist world.: alienation, exploitation, fascism, censorship, inequality, contempt for minorities, destruction of nature, colonialism, animal abuse and subjugation of women. a lot of red, fists and hammers in illustrations in which the powerful (rich, police, monarchy, justice, Iglesia), above, They tend to crush that great, more anonymous precariat from below who fight not to let themselves be overwhelmed.. “He who does not move does not feel his chains”, says Rosa Luxemburg in a portrait that served as the cover of the book 100 revolutions. Texts by Rosa Luxemburg. Well that.
A personal life
Katharine Graham KO books · 2016 (mayo)
A personal life is the autobiography of a rich Jewish girl who inherited a media conglomerate and managed to run it successfully despite her insecurities., fueled by a life dedicated to raising her children and caring for her husband, that always cast a long shadow. Katharine Graham was editor of The Washington Post during the most glorious era of what began as a humble capital newspaper and became the spearhead of world journalism. It all started with The Pentagon Papers. The New York Times y The Washington Post they got in 1971 a stack of documents that revealed very controversial secrets about the Vietnam War, still active at that time. They published two articles on the subject, unleashing the furious anger of President Richard Nixon and his establishment, who decided to take the two media outlets to court to prevent them from continuing to reveal data, an attack on the waterline of the American First Amendment. He won freedom of the press and Post He began to rub shoulders with the greats of national journalism. Graham tells his personal vision here, first-hand, about how events unfolded and Spielberg picked up the gauntlet in 2018 turning text into film The Post (available on Netflix), con Meryl Streep y Tom Hanks. Graham reviews in A personal life, without shooting to kill, her evolution from a rich housewife to a newspaper editor who managed to unseat an entire president of the United States. The Watergate Affair is, definitely, one of the juiciest chapters in the book, but it is also interesting to know how the newspaper's opinion regarding the Vietnam War changed., How the feud with Senator McCarthy was forged, To what extent did the levels of machismo reach? It is a business world made by and for men., the ins and outs of the printers' strike that almost ruined the newspaper or the dilemma of having to reveal dirty laundry about people in the government with whom there is a close relationship of friendship, something very common at that time. Graham, of course, stands out for his successes and victories, but he also agrees to confess major journalistic and business errors, personal defects and professional gaps, that make her more human and this book more interesting.
