Mini-saga by Claudia Forte.

The wind was messing up my hair. I walked a step nearer to the edge. I was trembling. Tears were falling down my cheeks. A shy, hesitant second step. Just a few centimeters were between me and my fate. Suddenly my feet ran off the ground.
Someone grabbed my hand.

El invierno en Lisboa

“El invierno en Lisboa” was written in 1987 by Antonio Muñoz Molina.
The book tells the impossible love story between an extraordinary pianist, Santiago Biralbo, and a mysterious woman, Lucrecia. Lucrecia is married to Bruce Malcom who smuggles stolen paintings. Biralbo and Lucrecia will try to be together but it is going to be impossible once Lucrecia has stolen the map which locates a secret basement in Lisbon where a valuable painting was kept for years. They would have to hide and to separate their paths during the whole book to survive as they get involved in Lucrecia’s husband dirty business.
I would recommend this book to people who are accustomed to reading, especially thrillers or books about secret conspiracies, because it may not be an easy book to read sometimes as it is a complicated story and you have to be aware of every little detail because everything has its importance. I especially like the point of view of the narrator of the story as it is not told by the main character but by a friend who Biralbo confesses his secrets to. I also liked the complicated love story which takes place as the background of the main story.

Mini saga Andrés Savchynets

Mike was coming out of Bob’s office. He smilingly told John, “I stretched that five minute meeting to thirty minutes...”. John smiled and walked into Bob’s office. Bob smiled and told John, “Come in John… That was a long meeting. Of course, I listened only to the first five minutes...”

Under The Dome

Under The Dome is a book written by Stephen King. It has 1131 pages, which is a relevant fact because some people may not like spending time reading long books.

In this interesting story, Dale Barbara, a former colonel who now works in a restaurant, wants to move from Chester's Mill (Maine) as he had a fight with some men of the village. But when he's almost reaching the frontier, a mysterious barrier which surrounds the whole village is put in front of him. Nobody knows where has it come from or what is it made of, but it breaks electronic devices near it or gives you an electric charge when you touch it for the first time.
Chester's Mill was a peaceful village, but this event makes its inhabitants get extremely nervous and afraid and they start panicking. This invisible barrier causes a lot of accidents as some cars and planes crash against it.

The most powerful (and evil) man in the village, James Rennie, wants to take advantage of the dome as he can control all the people inside it, but he will have problems with many people.

A lot of exciting things will happen to the people in the village until they find out who or what has put this dome above them.

I would recommend this book to people who really love reading, specially science fiction or adventure books. It's enjoyable from the beginning until the end, as something different and surprising happens in every chapter.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

It is a book written by Khaled Hosseini("Author of the Kite Runner").
"A thousand splendid Suns" is a beautiful and emotive story about two Afgan women.
Why do I like it?
Because it is an incredible friendship story between the two women.
They join to solve their problems and difficulties in a very unfair life.
Also I want to add that if you don´t like to cry ,this is not a book for you.
Mariam and Laila ,our main characters,suffer constant bad treats from their husband,arude shoemaker of Kabul.
Why do I recomend it?
Because it is a very interesting and beautiful book and also with this book you can know a lot of things abaut the muslim culture

MINI-SAGA

A long time ago a monk of church of San Pedro saved a box and inside of it have a cross that if you touch you can stay inside of the cross for centuries. Thirty years ago a treasure robber see the box in the church and he open and touch the cross and little drops of powder surround him and them dissapear.

Entre Nosotros

It is a book written by Juan Ignacio Carrasco.
It's about of a boy called Abel Young; he broke with his girlfriend and his director proposed him to write a story. When he finished the story, the director sent him to a special school and is elected like other students: Arisa and Gabriel. In this school there are vampires but they didn't know. They had to discover the truth like for example: Why were are they in this school?
I like this book so much because I like the stories of vampires and love. It has a lot of adventures and this is so good for the reader.
My favourite part is when Gabriel and Abel go to a chinese restaurant and there they discover a vampire girl who wants to suck their blood.
My favourite character is Arisa because is the only girl in the school and in the beginning is so serious but later is very funny.
I recommended this book to the person who like the stories of vampires, adventures and love.

Book review by Andrés Savchynets

• Tittle: The boy of the striped pyjama
• Author: John Boyne
• Genre: Fiction
• Publisher: Random House
• Pages: 224

Irish writer John Boyne's fourth novel is the first he has written for children. It's a hard story of an odd friendship between two boys in terrible circunstances during the jewish holocaust.

Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives in a five-storey house with servants, his mother and father and 12-year-old sister, Gretel. They have just been visited by a very important personage called the Fury. As a consequence of this visit, Bruno's father gets a new uniform, his title changes to Commandment and, they find themselves moving to a new home at a place called Out-With.

When Bruno gets there he is immediately homesick. He has left his school, his three best friends, his house, his grandparents... His new home is smaller, full of soldiers and there is no one to play with. From his bedroom window, however, he notices a group of people dressed in striped pyjamas separated from him by a wire fence. When he asks his father who those people are, he responds that they aren't really people.

Bruno is forbidden to explore. But one day, he follows the wire fence cordoning off the area where these people live from his house. He spots a dot in the distance on the other side of the fence and as he gets closer, he sees it's a boy. Excited by the prospect of a friend, Bruno introduces himself. The Jewish boy's name is Samuel. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot and talk. Eventually, for a variety of reasons, Bruno decides to climb under the fence and explore Shmuel's world.

The story puts you directly into Bruno´s worlwiew. The book is really hard, i also have seen the film and it is also nice. But i prefer th book i recomend it to people from 14 years i think it is interesting as a compulsory reading at school.

La elegancia del Erizo - Muriel Barbery

La elegancia del Erizo is a book written by Muriel Barbery. I think it is a really good book because it makes you realise some corious things about life and people.

It's about one girl of twelve years old who wants to commit suicide because of a series of reasons. The main characters are the girl, who's my favourite one, her family and some other important characters who live in the same neighbour. There is not an exacly problem but the book tell the reasons why the girl wants to comit suicide.

I don't have a facvourite part. I like some parts in which the girl speaks. I would change the end because I don't like it very much. I recommend this book to very special people, everyone who like strange stories.

A DIRTY JOB

A Dirty Job

Written by Christopher Moore and published in 2006. An irresistible best seller of our time.

The story is about Charlie who is the owner of a second-hand store in San Francisco. He was married to Rachel who died in the hospital after the birth of their first child, Sophie; Charlie becomes involved in a new sideline of retrieving the souls of the deaths so as to protect them from the forces of the underworld. The story shows the life of Charlie been a successor of the death.

The first part of the book is a little bit boring but then it becomes more and more interesting. I recommend this book to everyone who wants to read a different type of book with a real interesting plot inside it.

Las cosas que no nos dijimos.

The name of the book that I have chosen is "Las cosas que no nos dijimos", the author of this book is Marc Levy.

This book i about a woman that is called Julia who recieves a phone call from her father's secretary four days before her wedding.

The secretary says to her that her father has died.

The next day after the funeral.Julia recieves a strange box and she discovers that her father has reserved the last surprise for her.

Thanks to this surprise Julia is going to have an extraordinary journey.

In this journey she is going to discover an unexpected past.

In my opinion,this is a good book to read because you don't know what is going to happen in the next chapter because it is a unpredictable book.

I recomend to the people taht like unreal stories with love and funny moments.

Book review Andrés Savchynets

• Tittle: The boy of the striped pyjama
  
• Author: John Boyne
• Genre: Fiction
• Publisher: Random House
• Pages: 224

Irish writer John Boyne's fourth novel is the first he has written for children. It's a hard story of an odd friendship between two boys in terrible circunstances during the jewish holocaust.

Bruno is a nine-year-old boy growing up in Berlin during World War II. He lives in a five-storey house with servants, his mother and father and 12-year-old sister, Gretel. They have just been visited by a very important personage called the Fury. As a consequence of this visit, Bruno's father gets a new uniform, his title changes to Commandment and, they find themselves moving to a new home at a place called Out-With.

When Bruno gets there he is immediately homesick. He has left his school, his three best friends, his house, his grandparents... His new home is smaller, full of soldiers and there is no one to play with. From his bedroom window, however, he notices a group of people dressed in striped pyjamas separated from him by a wire fence. When he asks his father who those people are, he responds that they aren't really people.

Bruno is forbidden to explore. But one day, he follows the wire fence cordoning off the area where these people live from his house. He spots a dot in the distance on the other side of the fence and as he gets closer, he sees it's a boy. Excited by the prospect of a friend, Bruno introduces himself. The Jewish boy's name is Samuel. Almost every day, they meet at the same spot and talk. Eventually, for a variety of reasons, Bruno decides to climb under the fence and explore Shmuel's world.

The story puts you directly into Bruno´s worlwiew. The book is really hard, i also have seen the film and it is also nice. But i prefer th book i recomend it to people from 14 years i think it is interesting as a compulsory reading at school.

Las Cartas de Invierno

CARTAS DE INVIERNO

I´m going to talk about this book. I like it a lot because it is a horror and a thriller book.

The author is Agustín Fernández Paz.

This book was written in 1995.

The characters are:

Xavier: the main character

Adrián: the best friend of Xavier

Teresa: Xavier's sister

PLOT

This story is about Adrián moving to a new house in a small village.

This house is a "hounted" house.

Xavier received many letters from Adrián telling that lots of strange things were happening in the house.

Adrián went to the house and then Teresa arrived too because Xavier had told Teresa about the strange events ocurred in the house.

I like it a lot because I love this type of books, and it is that type of books that you can´t stop reading it.

I really enjoyed reading this book.

By: Elisa Manrique Sastre 4ªC

Book Day 2011

By celebrating this Day throughout the world, UNESCO seeks to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright.

23 April: a symbolic date for world literature for on this date and in the same year of 1616, Cervantes, Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega all died. It is also the date of birth or death of other prominent authors such as Maurice Druon, K.Laxness, Vladimir Nabokov, Josep Pla and Manuel Mejía Vallejo.

Mini saga

I thought that i'm alone,but maybe i'm not right at all.
I started to listen strange noises that come from the wall,maybe i don't have to do it but I do
it,in 2 seconds I was near the wall, listening through, my heart became to beat very fast I couldn't move and I thought ¿This is my final?

Mini Saga

I can't run any further.I'm exausted and my legs don't propertly.It is trying to catch me,a shadow of nobody.I asked it; What are you?It answered me.I'm your friday math's exam.I woke up quickly.I'm still scared and sweeding a lot. What a nightmare!!