Trailerbooks

Do you like reading?

No? Why? Maybe you haven't found "your book" yet. I think there is always a perfect book for every person which "wakes up" the love for books. My only advice is... keep on trying yours!

If you have answered "yes", welcome to a fantastic and endless source of joy and entertainment. As I personally know, reading can be very very addictive and funny, but the pleasure of reading is very subjective and even intimate to be fully explained. You have to "live it to understand it"...

By the way, do you know "trailerbooks"? I have recently found them out. Trailerbooks are "trailers" about books, so they give a glimpse to what is the book about... like a trailer does with its film.

Last week some students of 3rd of ESO (bookworms like me) asked me about my favourite book ever. My answer was fast and clear, I have no doubt... because I consider this book as a mixture of all the ingredients I love most in a book: love, action, mystery, sorrow, loss, friendship, adventure, magic... It has all of them

The title is "LA SOMBRA DEL VIENTO" (In English, it was translated as "The shadow of the wind") by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. I bought it in 2005 and I am going to re-read it soon for a literary workshop.

But my first idea for this post was to speak about trailerbooks, so I am going to show you some of the best trailerbooks I have found on YouTube about this book. Some of them were made by students as school projects.

What do you think about trailerbooks? Would you like to do a trailerbook for a book project? Let's think about this. And actually, after having seen these trailerbooks of "La sombra del viento", do you feel like reading this book? Tell me!!!

The book I am reading (4)

In fact, I have just finished it... it is called "Bajo la misma estrella" in Spanish, but the original one is "The fault in our stars", by John Green.

It is about Hazel, a 16-year-old girl who has lung cancer. She is a bit depressed, so her mum forces her to attend a support group. She doesn't want to go, but accepts... and there she met Augustus, a gorgeous boy who will change her life and her attitude towards cancer, love, death... Augustus had cancer too and he lost his right leg, so he knows perfectly about having cancer.

Is it a love story? Yes. Is it sad? Yes. And it is very hard sometimes... but it is also full of humour, laughs, emotion, tenderness and friendship. If you start reading, I am sure you will get caught...

The book I am reading (3)

Right now I am reading this book, "The list of the forgotten names" by Kristin Harmel. It is about two women... and there are two stories. One is Rose's story, and the other one is the story of Rose's granddaughter, Hope. Rose suffers from Alzheimer and she keeps a very big secret related to her past. She asks Hope to go to Paris and find about what happened to Rose's relatives.

It is very interesting, as you learn about how Jews suffered during the Second World War... No matter how many times I have read (or seen) about the Holocaust... it is always really impressive and awful...

What are you reading right now? 

Write a story with... (1)

Let's start a new type of activity. As you have asked for some new ideas for your posts... here you are a photo, and try to write a short story with it. 

Here I am leaving you some questions to inspire you...

Where is this door leading to?

What can you see?

Where is it?

Who could be the protagonist?

You can copy the image url and paste it in your new post. Good luck!

The book I am reading (2)

Hi there!

Today I want to recommend you a set of novels which are tremendously hilarious. I have already read two of them, and I am reading the third one.

The writer is Eduardo Mendoza and I had already read some of his books: "La ciudad de los prodigios" (about Barcelona) and "Sin noticias de Gurb", which I read when I was 14 years old. I remember it was very funny... but not like these!!!

The protagonist of these four novels is a man "without name", we don't know his real name as he is a detective "by accident" and he is living in a mental hospital. In the third novel, he is a hairdresser apart from a detective. He talks in a very educated way but with such a sense of humour that yesterday I was about to sputter coffee on my Kindle... twice or three times while reading!

These are the four books:

If you love laughing you will enjoy those books! 

I can't live without... my Kindle

As I have tell you a lot of times, I am very fond of books and reading. When I knew about e-readers, I thought that it was a silly invention... because I really appreciate the smell and touch of a paper book, a "real book" as I said... And I also considered that reading on a small screen is a bit silly if I can read in the computer screen! And it is more tiring for the eyes than reading on a "paper, real book".  But then a very good friend showed me her Kindle and I was a bit surprised to see that it has got a very good resolution, it is  so pleasant to read on it! It has got a special screen with "e-Ink", that is, a special technology to read electronic books.

And then, the amount of space and money that you save thanks to the Kindle!! I read now more than before... in two months (I got my Kindle as a Christmas present) I have already read 25 books!!!

I have taken my Kindle in two long train trips to Barcelona, and time passed so fast that I was amazed!

The book I am reading... (1)

Hi again!

Why not talking about the things we are into? I am really fond of reading, as you know... so why not talking about the book I am now reading?

Maybe you feel curious about it... and decide reading it... who knows?

So... the book I am hooked to is called "Dime quién soy" (I am reading it in Spanish) and the author is called Julia Navarro. A friend recommended it to me, as I told her that I am very interested in books who are related to the Second World War.

So... this is it! Amelia, the protagonist, is involved in almost every important historical event from the Second Spanish Republic. She lives a great deal of complicated situations but I think that it is very interesting to "live through her eyes" the most important events. I have learned a lot about the daily life of those days, the tortures who were made to the "traitors", the Nazi concentration camps, the hunger and desperation suffered by normal people... a lot of suffering and bad conditions, but so interesting, at the same time!

 I don't want to "make a spoiler", so if you are interested to know more... ask in the comments section!

I love reading... and you?

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Have you already found your favourite book? 

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