2 dic 2023

El fabricant de records de Martí Gironell

 Un altre audiobook al sarró, la història està bé, però no m'ha enganxat gaire. Com a descripció d'una època i unes contrades doncs bé.

26 nov 2023

Cytonic

 Who could resist reading another of Spin's stories?

This time she's in the nowhere, where you can forget everything you remember from the somwhere.

There she founds the lost pilot of M-bot and they seek the Path of the Elders to know the history of the cytonics and the delvers.

More adventures, with flight battles and new friends found.

23 nov 2023

Cadaquès de Josep Pla

 Un altre bon audiollibre que he pogut gaudir gràcies a la biblioteca online, ha estat interessant descobrir la història d'aquest poble tan lligat al mar. Una llàstima que els pirates cremessin l'arxiu, segur que se sabrien moltes més coses interessants sobre el passat.

18 nov 2023

Boulder d'Eva Baltasar

 Després d'anys he tornat a la biblioteca per poder accedir al contingut online, i ha estat el meu retorn als audiobooks, que ja vaig provar amb poc èxit fa anys.

En aquest cas ha estat una agradable sorpresa, tot i què havia vist fa temps a les notícies que estava nominat a un prestigiós premi mundial, en aquest cas, ben merscuda la nominació.

És una història d'amor diferent, des de Xile a Islàndia, de la solitud a la maternitat.

Ara m'he afeccionat als audiollibres i ja en porto un parell més, ja els explicaré, però està molt bé poder aprofitar temps morts per llegir sense haver d'estar assegut o amb llum per llegir.

8 nov 2023

Un dietari sentimental de Júlia Bacardit

 Feia temps que no llegia cap llibre en format físic, com he anyorat el kindle, acostumat a la lletra còmoda i no haver de separar fulles, ha estat una demostració més que tinc raó dient que en e-book es llegeix millor.

Respecte el llibre, com a seguidor del podcast Les Golfes, em feia il·lusió llegir-lo. És curtet, però interessant, el seu tracte proper amb gent d'altres contrades sempre aporta una visió més ampla sobre el món on vivim.

Brothers in arms

 And Miles travels to Earth to repair the Dendarii fleet after the scape from the cetagandan prison.

There he wants to receive the money to do the repairs, but in the Embasy he is asigned other tasks and for the first time both Miles Vorkosigan and Admiral Naismith are seen in the same planet, with the evident struggle it can mean.

So he invents that Naismith is a clone of Vorkosigan, which eventually becomes a reality as he is kipnapped and a clone grown by Komarran resistance takes his place.

After that, only luck could save him from his kidnappers...

15 oct 2023

Borders of infinity by Lois McMaster Bujold

 Another Vorkosigan Saga book, this one is made of three different stories linked by an "interrogation" by Illyan with Miles in hospital recalling the three events.

The first is The mountains of Mourning, where a young Miles arrives home after his military training and is sent by his father to judge an assassination in a little town of his dominion. There Miles has to fight against old habits and solve the crime and give justice as well as he can.

In Labyrinth, years later as Admiral Naysmith his mission is to bring home a scientific who has deserted his Cetagandan masters, for whom he's made some supersoldiers, in one of whom he's hidden his life research, that supersoldier was to be killed after getting the tissues, but Miles finds that she is a human mutant not a beast as expected and ... recruits her to the Dendarii forces.

In Borders of Infinity, we find Miles in a prison where no one can scape, we don't know why is he there and what is he trying, we only wish he survives until we discover the truth.

All three are good stories and keep you reading wishing to know more.

26 sept 2023

Ideas: A History of Thought and Invention, from Fire to Freud

 A good book to know more about history and humankind, it's funny when it says that the most brilliant spanish minds went to America when it was first discovered, I bet that reggeaton is fruit of that brilliant minds.