The year is over and it is time to count and balance the books and readings, but there are still some titles that are novelty in this last month. Children's, novels, classics ... They are still coming or are now seeing the light for the first time. Let's see what these are five that I am.
All my little lives - Grace Klimt
First book by the writer Ruth Rozados Velado who signs as Grace Klimt. Launched in April 2017, it now sees a new light on paper with a die-cut design, some surprise than another inside and more collaborations.
It tells us the story of a woman who, although her physical characteristic is her short stature, is transformed into all the women in the world. Each day takes the form of one of them with such important names in literature as Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras or Simone de Beauvoir. But she also speaks in the voice of Hedy Lamarr and ends up as Grace Klimt to tell us what has happened to their other lives during the week.
The spirit of Christmas - Gilbert K. Chesterton
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (London, 1874-Beaconsfield, 1936) is known to the world by his detective stories of Father Brown or for his novel The man who was Thursday. However, this English writer excelled in all genres literary, especially in the less conventional as is the test. This, in his case, means talking about journalism. Chesterton was a journalist always ready for investigation and discussion on any subject and did not shy away from controversy.
In this book Chesterton, even with his massive physique, evokes the figure of Santa Claus, also intellectually and emotionally. He always enthusiastically advocated Christmas, about which he wrote articles and essays, short stories and poems, and even a short play. So this compilation, very exhaustive and broader that the one published in 1984 and which is now being published for the first time in Spain, is a more than adequate reading for the dates that are approaching. And you don't need faith or religion to approach it with the same curiosity as the universal Chesterton.
Let my bitch tell you - Carmen Morillo Martín
Carmen Morillo (1964) is BA in English Philology by the UPV and in political science by the UNED. She currently works as an English teacher, has written two children's novels and is in the process of one for all audiences. She lives in Amurrio with her husband, her two children and her dog.
And it is a bit from the doggy point of view that he tells us this story through Xena. She tells us about everything that happens to the Reverte family, adding humor and more notes of general culture. It is a very cultured dog and transmits all her knowledge to us through conversations with another animal that lives in the house, a cat a bit simple.
The misunderstandings and arguments between the two animals are what amuse and also make us reflect on what is important in life. Concepts such as human values or self-esteem, so fundamental for emotional balance, they come to us through Xena in a very pleasant way. And it puts us in situations to solve in the best way and using the virtues that make us better people.
Jazz empire - Andrea P. Muñoz
This young writer was born in Alicante in 1993. She studied Dramatic Art before finding his true calling and in 2016 he graduated in Professional Makeup and Characterization for special effects. In her early writings, she cultivated more fantasy and paranormal romance, but she is an avid reader of crime novels. His first published work was Daughter of kings and now it comes with this Jazz empire.
We are in the the twenty's, a time full of blood, glamor and mystery that also surrounds jazz music. There are many characters, like Ethan, who wants to get his sister back Sophia, forced to marry against her will. OR Jacks, who wants to leave behind a murky past and become the good man that he knows himself to be. OR Dalia, which is a star with a hectic life. Y Maggie, a maid of monotonous life.
Each of their stories coincide in this Jazz Empire Hotel, where they intersect by a hazardous destiny that, however, has a connection. When a crime and the murderer hides behind the walls of the hotel to continue killing, all will be trapped in a spider web of mystery.
The crossroad - Paco Roca and Social Security
Considered as a book-disc or comic-disc, because it includes that unreleased self-titled album by Social security, this title is the product of collaboration between Paco Roca and José Manuel Casañ, leader of the Social Security band. It is made up of 150 comic pages and 11 songs.
The Valencian Paco Roca He is the most important cartoonist in recent years and each of his works has been a guarantee of quality and success with titles such as Wrinkles, El Faro, The Grooves of Chance, The gloomy game, Home, The winter of the cartoonist o Confessions of a man in pajamas. His interest in the world of music led him to talk about it, its creation process, the record market or the universe of comics with the singer from Social Security. These conversations for four and a half years have been captured in the vignettes of this book that publishes Astiberri Editions in your collection Ear Armchair.