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//** HEART OF OCEAN **//by ELVIRA MENENDEZ, Maria (2ºA EOI) This is a story of a young boy called Alonso who escaped from his home, because his stepbrothers wanted to kill him,so his ill mother took shelter in a convent, while he got a ship which was going from Sevilla to America because he wanted to work in America. Inside the ship there were a lot of young girls who wanted to get married with Spanish men, who lived in America, and Alonso fell in love with a beautiful and clever girl called Ana, but she had already fallen in love with another man. When they got to America, they lived through a lot of amazing and fantastic adventures, but do you think they found what they expected? Did Ana finally fall in love with Alonso? In my opinion, if you like exciting and amazing advetures, you'll enjoy reading this book.

In this book, Julio Cortazar, an Argentinian writer, proposes you a game, like children playing in the street. You can read the book from the first page to the last, in correct order, or you can read the novel jumping from a chapter to another as in the game of hopscotch. Both ways are valid, but the results are different.
 * Rayuela by Jorge Segovia 2A. **

This novel shows you many different characters but for a passionate reader it is impossible not to fall in love with the character of La Maga, a sensitive woman who loves life.In this book, there are funny, weird, short, long and incomprehensible chapters, but one of most amazing is chapter 68, in it the writer describes a sexual relationship with invented words: " Apenas él le amalaba el noema, a ella se le agolpaba el clémiso y caían en hidromurias, en salvajes ambonios, en sustalos exasperantes..."

If you have enough free time and you enjoy reading books, don´t think about it twice, you must read it... cronopio, cronopio. And as you read you should listen to the song "Body and Soul" by Louis Armstrong or Billie Holiday. Then it will be a perfect moment. Link to the song by Louis Armstrong: [] Link to the song by Billie Holiday: []

** Irene Cabrerizo 2A **
If I have to choose a book, I will choose a Miguel Delibes´ book called "The Road". Maybe, it isn´t the best book that I´ve ever read, but it´s the book that I remember with a special affection and which has a lot of meaning for me. This is due to the time when I read this book, in addition, I was the same age than the protagonist Daniel, we were eleven years old. I was studying the last year in my village´s school, similarly to Daniel. The book´s story narrated Daniel´s life. It was his last night in his small village before going to the city to study to graduate. He was describing how his life had been in his humble village. Furthermore, all places, situations and characters of the village were the same than in my village, consequently the story was connected to me and my life. Therefore, if I had to recommed a book to explain my childhood, I will choose "The road". After reading this book, I began to take interest in this literaty genre and it became my favourite, postwar realism. To conclude, I´ve never been able to forget the last sentence "...and he cried at the end" and I also cried.

**Jorge Segovia** **2A**
==="**The** only paradises that exist are lost paradises". Probably the best Jorge Luis Borges´s tale was "The South", a short story based in real events and where we can see how it changes our way of seeing life according to the circumstances. The Shouth is a fantastic tale written by one of the best writers of the twentieth century.===

__ **JANE EYRE** __(C. Gómez 2A)
==="Jane Eyre" is the last book that I have read; this book tells us Jane Eyre´s story. Jane is a orphan girl who lives with her aunt and cousins; they hate her and so they send Jane to an orphanage where she becomes a teacher. Years later, she will work in Thornfield Hall where she will fall in love with the owner, Mr. Rochester. They want to marry but Mr. Rochester can´t because he keeps a secret. If you want to know this love story, you should read the book. There is a film too; I have just seen it and it´s a good film Trailer - Jane Eyre===

__MY FAVOURITE BOOK by Esther Mora__
===First of all I have to say that I love reading and my favourite author is Agatha Cristie. Likewise I like all kind of novels. Briefly I'm going to tell you the best novel of Agatha Cristie that I've read. It is called " The 4:50 Train". It's about an old woman who sees a murder when she is travelling in a train. Instead getting frightened she tells the event to the police although they don't believe her. Due to this,she narrates the event to her closest friend Jane Marple. Consequently, Jane Marple starts an investigation in which there will be more murders and a lot of suspense all through the story.=== ===Given the above points If I had to recommend some book, I would recommend this book to all people who like mistery novels. I've already read almost all novels by Agatha Cristie and all of them are very interesting but " The 4:50 Train" is the most intriguing of all.===

Henry VIII and his Six Wives by Janet Hardy Gould (by C. Gómez 2A)
===King Henry the Eighth of England is one of the most famous kings for many things; one of this things is that he had six wives: three Katherines, two Annes, and a Jane. One died, two were divorced, and two were beheaded. After his death in 1547, his sixth wife finds a box of old letters, one from each of the first five wives; they tell the story of who was Henry VIII of England.If you want to know the story, you should read the book or you can see the TV serie: “The Tudors”. Trailer "The Tudors" season 1===

**//Frankenstein// by Mary Shelley** One day, Victor Frankenstein went with his family to have a walk and he saw how a thunder destroyed a tree. Frankenstein began to work about the electricity’s power. Therefore, he decided to make a horrible gadget. He would make an evil creature. It would do terrible things. The monster asked an important thing about it, but he didn’t give it to it. Some months later, when things were very bad, Frankenstein had to decide that if he married the monster would be in his wedding night. In the end, Frankenstein looked for the monster. What will happen? If you want to know it, you should read the book. (Miguel Angel 2A)

This is the story of a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She wants vengeance but she wants her family to heal at the same time. AWESOME! Unfortunately, I can´t say the same about the movie. //Flowers for Algernon// by Daniel Keyes Charlie Gordon, a mentally retarded thirty-two-year-old man, is chosen by a team of scientists to undergo an experimental surgery designed to boost his intelligence.He undergoes the operation and initially he is disappointed that there is no immediate change in his intellect.He gradually improves his spelling and grammar and begins to recover lost memories of his childhood, most of which involve his mother, Rose, who resented and often brutally punished Charlie for not being normal like other children.As Charlie becomes more intelligent, he realizes that he is deeply attracted to Alice.And....I can´t tell you more. Related Links recommended by Miss Hernando: [|Let´s read],[|Health issues], [|Funny Readings], [|American Folkore], [|Author Quizz], Quizz [|What do you know about Art and Literature] [|Barnes and Noble Library] ||
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