Books November 2021

Every body
Julia Rothman y Shaina Feinberg · Nature's mistakes · 2021
Wonderful illustrated book that is a compendium on human sexuality. Every body It combines the vignettes with anonymous texts and different essays on the subject that give us a global image of the different sexualities, parts of them, lived freely and without prejudice. A fun book, interesting and exciting. ALODIA CLEMENTE (The Red)

Evening flights
Helen MacDonald · Anagram · 2021
Helen Macdonald talks to us about the relationship between human beings and the natural environment. A sort of cabinet of curiosities (where fascinating objects were discovered) that is masterfully narrated and reflects on scientific issues, natural or literary, but also about human themes such as pain or the search for beauty. LIGHTS ROMERO (Bartleby)

The eternal vision. Cards, manifestos and essays
William Blake · The Felguera · 2021
The indomitable Servando Rocha publishes the complete prose of William Blake with his publishing house La Felguera, a kind of fragmented autobiography that draws from the most heterogeneous sources. The eternal vision. Cards, manifestos and essays It is a fundamental book to understand one of the strangest authors of all time. JAIME ORTEGA (Per-r-ucho)

Sola
Carlota Gurt Bow · 2021
Sola, Carlota Gurt's first novel, unfolds a psychological game where we, the readers, experience an intriguing and relentless countdown. A story that is read with alas in the heart. A literature thought and written in the key of women, a double process of self-destruction and recomposition of a female identity, and a narrative that catches us and rushes us towards a journey of abysses. LOURDES TOLEDO

Historia de Shuggie Bain
Douglas Stuart · Sixth floor · 2021
Historia de Shuggie Bain It is a novel about alcoholism, about how the disease destroys family ties or pushes them to the limit. background, a Glasgow plagued by deindustrialisation tatcheriana, the unemployment, the drugs (legal and not), violence (that is inherited in an endless spiral) and hopelessness, and with the echoes of the IRA sounding in the distance on the barrier that separates Catholics from Protestants. Think of a haughty man who spends all his unemployment money on alcohol., with three children from different marriages and without a stable partner. How big will the social condemnation be?? Grande. Now think it's a woman...That's Agnes, Shuggie Bain's mother, a boy who matures very quickly in order to survive. AU

Scream Queer
Javier Parra Two Mustaches · 2021
Two Mustaches brings us closer Scream Queer, an essential work to understand LGTBIQ+ representation in horror films, from its origins to the present day. with your book, Javier Parra not only delves into an often despised genre, It also invites us to understand how cinema can change our lives.. SAINTS LEMOINE (The Bathysphere)

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