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Heat: How the climate crisis affects us, by Miguel Ángel Criado (Debate). An essential recommendation from this scientific journalist who conducted an unparalleled investigation of the harmful effects of climate change in our country (look at that denier cousin who Rajoy claimed to have read). As I say, essential reading, but was it really to be published just at this time of year, when the heat wave is hitting? Two in the afternoon, empty streets, wet armpits and pearly foreheads, will the recommendations of the Ministry of Health allow us to read a book called “Heat” precisely?
The deadly percheron, by John Franklin Bardin (transl. by César Aira; Impedimenta). When it seemed that everything was already too trite in the field of crime novels, this American author comes to the rescue not only to grab our attention but to leave our asses twisted thanks to a very crazy plot that includes colorful pixies and a horse. which involves the murder of an actor (as if that wasn’t enough, the text has been translated by the great César Aira, an Argentinian author who also has a sinister imagination). Is the content fun? This truly modern novel was written by John Franklin Bardin in 1946, when Netflix didn’t exist yet and the genre didn’t exist. black.
The apron and the mace, by María Arranz (Col&Col). Just as they say that every part of the pig is used, everything about this book also interests me: publishing house – the one that publishes it – focused on gastronomy (with what I like to eat), collection design located on the-. cool typography, the strange details that appear on the ISBN on the cover (the editors don’t even know why, but it looks great), also, of course, the topic it deals with, that connection between feminism and cooking as a contradictory space about something I want to learn more, to see if readings like this make me more kitchen and allies little by little and if they soften this face that I have as a boy.
The Alchemy of Time: A Memoir of Dublin, by John Banville (trans. by Miguel Temprano García). A beautiful tribute to Dublin and its people presenting the Prince of Ireland Asturias, who works wonders as a tourist and literary guide through the lights and shadows of the city where he settled when he came of age. The result is very good but in my opinion Banville did not necessarily put so much effort into it, because as a reader I always go straight to any book related to Dublin. How could it not be, with all aspects of literature—Swift, Joyce, Wilde, Beckett, Stoker, Shaw—that the capital of Ireland gave us? High literature and Guinness beer: sufficient reasons to justify my growing interest in your city.
English-translated interviews, vol. 2 (Jenkins Little Books). Tired of reading the same books and listening to the same music as everyone else? Do you want to take advantage of the summer to try to be more alternative in relation to your cultural consumption? Germán gives you the solution! This book will make you less of a standard because it contains thirty-three interviews with the best of independent rock (first alternative level reached) hosted by the free radio program San Onofre (second alternative level reached) broadcast from 1996 for. a big city but from the mysterious Guadalajara (third alternate level reached) and published by a very strange and underground publishing house (alternative level reached: fourth and final).
The Holy Company, by Lorenzo G. Acebedo (Tusquets). These months, two series of historical thrillers featuring the main author of our national literature can be found in bookstores. On the one hand, Miguel de Unamuno is involved as a detective i The first case of Unamunoby Luis García Jambrina, and on the other hand, Gonzalo de Berceo (you know, the medieval poet of Miracles of Mary, as we learned in BUP) also in the medieval manner of Philip Marlowe. There are already two installments of this last one, the second one with a very funny and scary background of the Galician mystery that confirms for me what I already imagined reading the first one: although I greatly respect the intellectuality of Basque-Salmanian on “They will win but they will not lie”, on Being able to choose, I would always choose the horny and drunk Gonzalo de Berceo to go out for wine in my city.
The power of the thing, by Blanca Garí (Siruela). Following her fascinating book on feminine mysticism, Medieval History Professor Blanca Garí invites us to rethink the relationship between people and things through a surprising journey through materiality as understood in medieval society. Why am I reviewing here a book about the importance of physical objects, elDiario as a digital medium? Well, it is very debatable whether this newspaper exclusively digital, since nothing prevents its readers from printing their favorite articles every day, stapling them so that no page is lost, and therefore, wetting their index to turn the pages well, reading their resulting copy from cover to cover.
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