Fusta i resina d'Ofèlia Carbonell

 Potser no pensava llegir-lo tan aviat, però els fatxes de vegades t'obliguen a gastar-te uns dinerets per mostrar que existim els que no pensem com ells.

En aquest cas, el llibre l'havia de comprar com a fidel oient de Gent de Merda, comprar llibres als meus podcasters de referència, sempre em semblarà una forma de pagar la seva feina.

Aquest llibre és curtet i explica una història d'uns dies a la vida d'una jove que viu a Barcelona que ha de decidir si abandona el seu somni de viure de la música o no.

La perpexitat de Jordi Graupera

 L'u d'octubre de 2017 amb les meves dècimes de febre i entre anar a "defensar" el col·legi electoral (el meu cole de tota la vida) i tornar, mirava Euronews i els canals internacionals que tenia al satèl·lit, pensava que amb el ridícul que estava fent Espanya a nivell mundial això ho teníem guanyat i seríem independents...

En Jordi Graupera també en devia pensar que en ple segle XXI imatges com les que es van veure l'u d'octubre podien tenir conseqüències positives per la causa independentista, ell en va donar una de potent tirant-se a terra davant dels cotxes de la Guàrdia Civil amb traje i corbata, una mena de noi de Tianangmen que donés la volta al món...

En aquest llibre, autobiogràfic, ens narra els seus anys a Estats Units tot just abans de tornar a Catalunya i implicar-se en el moviment independentista.

Tots sabem com ha acabat, el tema de la independència, molts encara ho seguirant patint molts anys, l'enemic ni perdona ni oblida. Anomenen operacions de càstig amb noms com "Operació Judes".

En aquest llibre, Graupera ens explica com tot just arribat a Nova York es troba amb la celebració de la victòria d'Obama, com l'esperança s'estenia per tot arreu. El llibre acaba amb la victòria de Trump, 8 anys després, on l'esperança ha canviat de bàndol, tal com explica sobre els actes electorals que presencia a Ohio (estat clau històric).

És curiós com quan es publica aquest llibre, som en un moment que podria enmirallar-se amb aquestes 2 situacions, la il·lusió de l'u d'octubre i la victòria de PP-VOX arreu Espanya (i PSOE a nivell Catalunya, sí els del 155).

En aquest llibre a part de l'experiència vital als EEUU, també ens explica la història de la seva família, sobre els seus pares i avis, que ens situa molt bé d'on vé i perquè és com és.

Per un fill d'immigrants econòmics com jo, és interessant conèixer la història d'un fill de gent de pasta catalana, perquè en molts temes persones d'origen tant diferent hem arribat a conclusions similars en temes importants, aquells que molts veiem com obvis (Espanya sempre tractarà Catalunya com una colònia) i també hem tingut el nostre moment "si la gent veu la realitat, la gent reaccionarà", però ja sabem que no.

M'ha agradat molt el llibre.

Beyond the blue event horizon

 Some years after reading Gateway, I found out there where more books so I've read this one.

It's interesting how they find the Food Factory and the Hechee Heaven and how a boy has lived alone there talking with stored memories and being supervised by poorly developed primates.

Of course the money is the main ambition of the spacefearers but not to the boss... well he is wealthy enough to think about other things but at the end he ends richer...

Demà i demà i demà

 La història d'en Sam, la Sadie i en Marx, com d'una amistat nascuda de jugar a vídeojocs s'acaba creant una empresa que crea vídeojocs, podria ser real.

Els personatges són nascuts més o menys com jo, als 70 i per tant moltes coses de la història, m'han sonat molt properes, tot i ells ser d'Estats Units, i jo ser pobre i per tant no haver pogut accedir a tants vídeojocs com ells.

Cetaganda

 Another adventure with Miles Vorkosigan, who travels with his cousin Ivan to the funerals of the Empress of the "enemy" empire that attacked the Hegen Hub in the last book.

Here as the arrive there, they are aborded bay an unexpected attacker who loses his hand gun and a curious item in the fight and runs away.

After that... Miles finds their attacker has killed hismself just where the funeral ofrends where been sent, that makes Miles suspect that the attack is something bigger than expected.

Crónicas Vampíricas 3: La reina de los condenados

 Ya ni recuerdo cuando leí las dos entregas anteriores, de hecho salvo los nombres de Lestat, Louis y la niña vampiresa, poco recordaba de ellos.

Aún así el libro es entretenido y va hasta el origen del primer vampiro, y ¿su fin?

Seguimos la historia de Jesse, una pelirroja que ve fantasmas y en paralelo, vemos como los vampiros empiezan a tener pesadillas sobre 2 gemelas pelirrojas, la historia sucede en paralelo con el hecho de los días previos al primer concierto de Lestat El Vampiro, que con su libro y sus canciones ha sacado a la luz la existencia de los vampiros, cosa que no a gustado a algunos de ellos.

El metal perdido

 Y acabamos el año con el último libro de la segunda era de Nacidos de la Bruma.

La historia al igual que el último libro del Archivo de Tormentas, incluye muchas referencias al Cosmere y aparecen personajes de otros mundos que tienen ya importancia en el desenlace de la historia.

Aún así, tenemos a nuestros personajes de siempre Wax, Wayne, Marasi, Steris, así como los incombustibles Armonía, Marsh y Keller.

Este libro empieza 6 años después del final del anterior libro, años que no han desaprovechado los agentes del Grupo, que planean un ataque a gran escala para destruir Elendel.

El Dios Autonomía es quien maneja los hilos del Grupo y quien planea tomar el planeta para conseguir los poderes de Ruina y Conservación, actualmente en manos de Armonía.

Nuestros héroes tendrán que luchar para impedir este ataque, así como el plan B de autonomía que pretende enviar un ejército a través de Shadesmar (parece que el traductor no ha podido traducir esto o bien Brandon Sanderson ha decidido que haya algunas palabras que sean "universales" para que los que leemos los libros en diferentes idiomas no nos volvamos locos...)

En fin, un libro muy entretenido sin aburrimiento, mucha acción e incluso emotivo, sobretodo el final.

The Hallowed Hunt

 The Complete Chalion finishes here, although I have to read Penric's Daemon and more other books of the Saga, but this arrived to my hands and I enjoyed it.

Ingrey has a wolf daemon chained inside, but it gives him powers when fighting. He is sent to discover what happened in the death of prince Boleso, second heir to throne. There he finds the woman who had killed Boleso while he was going to do a daemonic rape to her and has now a leopard spirit inside that was meant for Boleso.

He lives with her some strange experiences, as trying to kill her without kwnowing why, he discovers it is because a geas that someone has implanted in his mind and with the help of Ijada and Hallana, he can get rid of it while unleashing his wolf spirit, which gives him some weird powers.

We know about their childhood, the ancient story of the people of the Weald which have been mostly killed in an ancient battle where the old powers that Ingrey has, were supposed been exterminated.

The last act takes us to the haunted forest where the last battle of the Weald was fought to finish what the magic of the old people left unfinished.

The Rithym of War

 I could not wait more to read this Stormlight Archive book, so I started it and enjoyed it.

Kaladin is depressed and is dismissed from service, just after bringing his family to Urithiru.

Shallan is struggling with her memories and seems to be growing a new personallity.

Perhaps Navani is the main character in this book, as she becomes a dedicated scholar after being retained in Urithiru in the Singer's invasion of the Tower.

We know more about Venli's history and how she tries to save the last Listeners.

Wit (Hoyd) becomes an important character for the first time in the Cosmere's books, after being present but in most of the books.

Dawnshard

More Stormlight archives... I love the cosmere, so this short novella has put me again in the need of more adventures, so I have to choose between Wax and Wayne and Kaladin... which will be the next?

Say the words.... 

Well, this one is about Rysn who can't walk, Lopen who has regrown an arm, Cord who is Rock's daughter and the new cosmere players The ones who don't sleep...

The Vor Game

 Another book about Barrayar, with Miles Vorkosigan featuring Admiral Naismith, young Miles ends his military training and is sent to a remote and paceful asignment, but unluckily finds himself involved in a situation that cannot be ignored... which ends with another enemy that will be important in the next events, where he'll have to save the Emperor and Barrayar from a unexpected attack.

The Reckoners III: Calamity

 Alert for bots: Spoilers!

Imagine the kid you bullied is an alien from outside your planet who's come to give powers to lots of humans so the humankind will destroy themselves with them (or not...). But after giving the powers instead of returning to its planet, it decides to remain watching humanity destroy themselves as he knows from his children as human experience that humankind is cruel and bad, and his nightmares are the reason that every human who gets the powers is tainted by the nightmares and makes all of them bad.

Please, if you are a bully, don't do it, save the world!

The Reckoners II: Firefight

 It's as quickly as it seems, reading in the beach on holidays is a good way to forget about your job.

Benjamin Franklin's autobiography

 I wanted to find a book in amazon and I bought a huge book with lots of books inside, the first was this one and I've enjoyed it a lot.

The Reckoners I: SteelHeart

 What's a summer without Brandon Sanderson? Just kidding, after this last year reading the Wheel of Time, perhaps it's not a summer issue.

As I like watching The Boyz, another story about bad superheroes could seem overloading, but the book as The Boyz is so full of action that you enjoy all the time.

In this case, the superheroes are not faking been good, they plainly are bad and are proud of it, so the world is kind of apocalyptic.

And talking about apocalypsis... our real world is living an ecological apocalypsis with droughts everywhere, heatwaves and a full set of mad polititians (some in senile state) destroying the economies of Europe, inflation is 10,8% in Spain and salaries are not adapting to it and no one is asking for so. The frog in the boiling water theory put into practice with us these last years is going to boil all of us while the musics keeps playing in the Titanic.

Teoría de la clase ociosa de Torstein Veblen

 Alguien lo comentó en twitter y me lo compré, es interesante y va bien para ver una opinión interesante sobre los ricos y el porqué de la ostentación.

The warrior's apprentice

This book leaves behind a generation and gives the main character to Miles Vorkosigan Naysmith, the crippled children who was born in the previous book.

In this story Miles fails to enter the military due to his physical weakness, so he travels to Beta Colony to see his grandmother, with him travel Bothary and his daughter, there Miles hears an unexpected conversations in customs office and has an idea to enjoy his travel to Beta, things get everytime more surreal and in few days we find them in the middle of a civil war over a planet far from Barrayar of Beta Colony.

La peste - Albert Camus

 Il fait quelques annés j'ai començai cette livre, mais je le retourné a la bibliotheque et je ne le pas terminé.

El meu francès està més rovellat que jo, però tenia ganes d'acabar un llibre en francés que vaig començar fa anys i que no vaig acabar. 

Je peux lire mais je veux que je ne peux pas m'expresser correctement, j'ai bessoin de étudier un peux per mieux souvenir mon français.

Quantum Rose

 Science fiction novel about a girl from a planet where people have lost their technologic knowledge, and the arrival of a man from the stars explains it all to us.

Barrayar

 The third book about Cordelia Naysmith, after her marriage to Aral Vorkosigan she goes to Aral's planet where they both want to enjoy the rest of their life pacefully and happily.

But their field retirement lasts short time, because the Emperor of Barrayar is dying and sets Aral as the regent for the son of the emperor who is five years old.

Cordelia is pregnant and they will both have to take care of themselves to not be destroyed by political schemes.