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Books of March

Goal: 21 books Goal to buy ZERO books Actually bought 16 books From my readings this month I picked Physical books: 12 Audiobooks: 6 Digital version: 5  Peter Pan J.M. Barrie Audio book Start March 1 Finish March 3 Milk and Honey Rupi Kaur 204 pages Start and Finish March 1 Snow like Ashes Sara Raasch  416 pages Start March 1 Finish March 3 Black Beauty Anna Sewell Audiobook Start March 4 Finish March 5 I Hope This Reaches her In Time R.H. Sin 78 pages Start and Finish March 5 El Arma de Oro  Natalia de Jesus 448 pages Start March 6 Finish March 10 The Colors of Space Marion Zimmer Bradley AUDIOBOOK Start March 6 Finish March 7 I wrote this for you Iain S. Thomas 196 pages Start March 6 Finish March 7 Life in a Thousand Worlds Willian Shuler Harris Audiobook Start March 7 Finish March 9 Epopeya de Gilgamesh Start March 10 Finish March 11 A Little Princess Frances Hodson Burnet Audiobook Start...

Epopeya de Gilgamesh

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Esta obra la escuche en una clase de Literatura Mundial. Segun expertos es la escritura mas antigua. Por pura y mera curiosidad la empece a buscar en Amazon para ver si era posible comprarlo o no.  Tambien es conocido como el Poema de Gilgamesh es una narración de la Mesopotamia de origen sumerio, considerada como la narración escrita más antigua de la historia. Se emplearon tablillas de arcilla y escritura cuneiforme, lo cual favoreció su preservación. La versión más completa preservada hasta la actualidad consta de doce tablillas. La obra es muy leída en traducciones a diversos idiomas y el héroe, Gilgamesh, ha pasado a ser un icono de la cultura popular. A decir la verdad en lo personal nunca lo habia escuchado mencionado en ningun lado. Es mas que nada habla de mi falta de conocimiento en cultura general, y no un reflejo de la popularidad de la obra en si. El poema trata sobre las aventuras del rey Gilgamesh, también conocido como Istubar, y su amigo Enkidu. Una de ...

El Arma de Oro

Por;  Natalia de Jesus Genero:  Descripcion del libro: Con la tierra invadida por criaturas fantásticas de las que se pensaba que eran solo producto de la mente de las personas, la raza humana estuvo a punto de extinguirse con la única solución de refugiarse bajo domos junto a la protección de sus guardianes. Zeva, no es más que una chica híbrida y adoptada quien ha vivido bajo el domo durante toda su vida, soñando con la libertad de poder adentrarse en la profundidades de lo que hay afuera. Cuando lo logra, comienza a vivir aventuras que la ayudan a descubrir que hay más criaturas y lugares de las que ya se conocían, y descubre el dolor de que solo ha sido un títere que siempre estuvo controlado. ¿Será ella tan valiosa como le dicen? ¿Será que la invasión nunca terminó? ¿Será que enamorarse de una persona conectada a su pasado será aún más peligroso? Lo único seguro es que ella no es quién pensaba, y el mundo tampoco. Mi opinión: Es una historia que empieza un poco len...

A Little Princes

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By Frances Hodson Burnett Genre: Classic children  Date published: 1905 Book Description:  Sara Crewe, an exceptionally intelligent and imaginative student at Miss Minchin's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, is devastated when her adored, indulgent father dies. Now penniless and banished to a room in the attic, Sara is demeaned, abused, and forced to work as a servant. How this resourceful girl's fortunes change again is at the center of A Little Princess, one of the best-loved stories in all of children's literature. My thoughts: I heard another audiobook in Liverbox of course. The narrator and the story are noteworthy. It is a nicely told tale, the story is kind of cliché because there is always a nice little girl, orphaned like so many other stories I have come across in different means be it movies, books or cartoons... Oh well, but it is a nice story. Sara is a likable girl, Becky the servant girl she befriends and works alongside. The woman who ends up as S...

Life in a Thousad Worlds

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By W. S. Harris  Date Published: 1905 Genre: Sci-fi Book Description: A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver's Travels through our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer of C.S. Lewis, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, after one too many mugs of cocoa. Includes some thought on alien philosophies and how to apply them to moral and social problems here on planet Earth.  My thoughts: It is a very peculiar sci-fi. It is very old sci-fi and it shows an amazing imagination to give unique properties to several worlds, giving them beings nothing like humans aspect yet they all had a few similarities: Every world is had a strong belief most of the time of religion and they all believed that there was a single sole creator and a sole heaven where the righteous would be after their death. I like the way the worlds were so different and the technological advances they possessed were interesting. My one complain is the ...

I wrote this for you

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by Iain S. Thomas Date published December 2011 Book Description: I need you to understand something I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you- Everyone else who reads it, doesn't get it. They may think they get it, but they don't. This is the sign you've been looking for. You were meant to read these words. My thoughts:  I like the pictures and the little thoughts and poems. I found the pictures not as relatable to the words in some cases but each as separate beings themselves were pretty good. It is easy to relate to the small little poems. They are pretty good and I can see myself reading them several times. They deserve to be enjoyed over time. You never know each time depending on your current mood you find new favorites or get reasons to smile or cry over. That is the joy of poetry it makes you feel or releases feelings you have been ignoring.

The Colors of Space

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by Marion Zimmer Bradley Date published 1963 Book description: unimportant. I just picked this beause it sounds like a nice Sci-Fi to try. The story is fast moved and is full of intrigue of not knowing really who the real enemy is and how to defeat them. The way this story is wraps up is something I really like. It gives you important life lessons: 1. You need to communicate in order to really work well with others. 2. Acceptance is beyond simply cordial co-existance. 3. Beyond color of skin and shape of your face or other peculiarities of looks, everyone is the same. It is a nice book, people should definately read it and to top it off it's free so that's a big plus.  It's a nice and easy to read book. I gave it a nice 4 out of 5 stars. It does help to get out of a reading slump because its a fast read and it gives you a nice sense of acomplishment to get books done. :)