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There are books on my shelf waiting a year or some months, to be read. I buy and I know that at some point I will read, but are assigned a number on the waiting list. But in August, Romina Paula, was immediate. Was almost mechanical process: I saw an article about her in a magazine that mentioned this book, I looked online for price and possible places of purchase, the same night, the Night of Libraries of Buenos Aires “was my goal. In one was not in the other, I made my way to the counter, I asked, I sought him, it went and settled in the long queue to pay. Was enough to finish the book he was reading to start in August. And as I started, I finished it quickly because his writing takes you and takes you alone, and the hand.

Emily received a letter in which the family of his best friend dead, invite a small ceremony: Throw the ashes into the river in Esquel. She has long lived in Buenos Aires, who is single and makes his living. Return means a return to his past he thought to leave behind.

The book is a long letter to his friend, which recounts his journey but we do not realize that this is a letter. He looks like a conversation, an Argentina-typical verbiage to the oral expressions of neatly placed in writing, to discuss the feelings that the encounter with what is left behind.

Synopsis: In the Puritan city of Boston a young woman, Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery and forced to wear an “A” scarlet on her dress as a sign of shame. Raising her daughter alone Pearl, Hester will try to maintain their dignity. But the secret of Pearl’s father threaten to come to light.

Les Miserables, possibly the best novel of his time chronicles the adventures of the hapless Jean Valjean, extremely strong man, who is serving a sentence of nineteen years for stealing bread to feed their starving brothers. Served his sentence progresses through the woods avoiding populated places, is hosted by Monsignor Myriel, kind man who forgives him for having stolen, thus saving him from falling again in jail, in his flight encounters a frightened young man who delivers a currencies, learning the authorities in this act, the passage through the region of a terrible criminal possession of a yellow passport that identified him as a former inmate. Years later become a successful businessman and mayor of the town, under the name of Madeleine, Jean Valjean is the dilemma of helping a man who had an accident falling under a heavy cart, Jean Valjean saves him using his prodigious strength exposes it to the inspector Javert, the police officer who does not believe in the redemption of criminals. Jean Valjean escapes to go for Cossette, fulfilling his promise to Fantine, in his agony, Fantine, a poor single mother who has to sell his long hair and teeth to send money to Thenardier, family unscrupulous managers of a Sale, who gave his daughter in care Cossette.

The fragile Cosette is forced to work hard, Jean Valjean is when the darkness is required to maintain a huge bucket of water after an altercation with bad family Jean Valjean adopts Cosette and flee to Paris. Jean Valjean lives next to the girl the happiest moments of his life, the girl grows up and falls in love with Marius Pontmercy, well-born young man who ends become revolutionary Jean Valjean has to move constantly, hiding from Javert we continue to pursue and of Thenardier continue to create lies and intrigues to make money. The revolution broke out throughout Paris barricades, knowing the danger to Cosette, who is with Marius Pontmercy at a roadblock, go after it with the aim of ridding Marius Cosette Pontmercy killing him. A daughter of Thenardier, Epinona falls in love with Marius and joins the 1830 revolution led by the student group “ABC”, die happy to receive a bullet that was addressed to Marius, Javert who had infiltrated as spy is captured, Jean Valjean saves him from certain death. Is mortally wounded Marius and Jean Valjean takes you through a sewer tunnel on his back for several hundred meters showing strength again, Javert pursues and captures about to leave the sewer, Jean Valjean Javert to convince given if he gives to his family Marius, Javert agrees. The killing of Jean Valjean is so intense that cast doubt on their beliefs Javert of law and justice that have given meaning to his life and his work on the one hand, Jean Valjean saved his life and is willing to sacrifice for the breaking with this boy the strength of their beliefs, on the other are their beliefs and convictions. The dilemma is so strong that commit suicide. Marius takes Cosette to confuse the affection of the old Jean Valjean, losing the will to live it, Marius later realizes his mistake and goes home with Cosette to Jean Valjean who is dying, this reveals his past to killed the couple and happy to be with Cosette.

The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude was written by Gabriel García Márquez for 14 months between 1965 and 1967 in Mexico City. The original idea of this work arose in 1952 during a trip by the author to his hometown, Aracataca (Colombia), accompanied by her mother. In his short story A day after the Sabbath published in 1954, refers for the first time Macondo, and several of the characters in this book appear in some of his stories and novels. At first he thought in his novel The house owner, but decided on One Hundred Years of Solitude to avoid confusion with the novel The big house, published in 1954 by his friend, also Colombian writer Alvaro Cepeda Samudio. The first edition of One Hundred Years of Solitude was published on June 5, 1967 by Editorial Sudamericana in Buenos Aires where the originals were sent by mail divided into two parts.

The Last Full Measure. Ann Rinaldi. 2010. [November 2010]. Harcourt. 218 pages.

“Where are you going, Tacy?”

Set in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1863, The Last Full Measure is Ann Rinaldi’s latest historical novel. It stars the Stryker family. Our heroine, Tacy, is fourteen. She has two older brothers and a father in the war. But during these troubling summer months, she’s going to mature quickly. She’ll have to having witnessed some of the atrocities of war.

When the novel opens, Tacy’s biggest problem is her brother, David, the brother who was unable to join the army because of his bad leg. He has been put in charge of the family; it is his duty to “protect” his mother and his sister, and to look after their home. The responsibility weighs heavily on him, transforming him into a man Tacy can barely recognize.

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This is one of the most delightful novels I’ve read lately. The erotic intrigue and force you to keep reading until they were finished. With a location unknown to people today, I discovered the hand of its author’s hypocrisy and savagery that underlay under the elegant costumes of some values.

The novel is the subject of prostitution and the abuse of minors by the aristocracy, so raw and truthful, without scratching in bad taste. Sharon Page is a writer elegant, very smooth and exquisite prose.

The love that you start to feel for the young widow Jane, abused and humiliated by a nasty husband, made me eager to protect her throughout the novel. Although it becomes a beast to save his friend from harm. But this girl already has a paladin incredibly seductive, with a noble soul.

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