The Breakbook

If you are a parent of children between 9 and 15 years and you want to make that your child gets involved in reading but don't know which book would be good for him/her to read I totally recommend Wonder. Besides that it is a children's book with easy language, the story captivates you in a second for it has lots of humor; it delivers an amazing message. I think that sometimes we want to keep the children in a bubble where everything is nice and beautiful and "ordinary" but the world is not always like that and it is important that they learn how to deal with this and how to become a good and kind person. As you might already know August Pullman is a 10 year old boy who was born with a genetic alteration that caused that he had a different outside look. He was home schooled, but it is time for he to go to a regular school.  Even though, he is an outstanding child, not many children want to hang out with him due to his appearance, but throughout the book you can se...

English and Spanish review.  When the world around you changes you can't keep on being the same person. That's what happened to Isabelle and Vianne Muriac in 1939. This historic novel, is not like most we've read about World War II; it shows up other victims, heroes and how they managed to survive.  A girl power story with a true feminist as a protagonist. You won't even feel time passing by while reading.  "In love we find out who we wabt to be. In war we fond out who we are."  . .  Cuando el mundo a tu alrededor cambia, uno no puede seguir siendo la misma persona. Eso le pasó a Isabelle y Vianne Muriac en Fracia en 1939.  Esta novela histórica no es como la mayoría de las que hemos leído sobre la Segunda Guerra Mundial; muestra otras víctimas, héroes y como le hicieron para sobrevivir. Una historia de empoderamiento femenino con una protagonista feminista. Ni siquiera sentirás que el tiempo pasa conforme lees.

Dominique Lapierre es un autor francés, apasionado de la India; sus tradiciones, estilo de vida y tragedias.  En este libro describe a la perfección el estilo de vida de los diferentes grupos sociales en Calcuta después de la Independencia de los ingleses. La mayor parte del libro se desarrolla en el slum, como se le llama a los barrios más pobres y bajos de Calcuta, donde el padre francés Paul Lambert, descubre la miseria con la que viven en ese lugar, especialmente los leprosos.  El padre se enfrenta a todo tipo de vicisitudes, desde dormir con las ratas que se colaban en su cuarto hasta que este mismo se le inundara. Sin embargo, conoce el amor y las diferentes maneras de recibirlo y darlo. Se logra integrar a la comunidad incluso con aquellos que no simpatizan con su religión. A la par Hasari Pal, huye de su pueblo porque la agricultura ya no le da para comer y alimentar a su familia, así que decide emigrar a Calcuta con toda la familia para conseguir una mejor calidad...

S o this weekend I made a survey on Instagram (the_breakbook) to find out which one of these two was more popular. The results were kind of obvious, the major part of the surveyed people preferred a printed book over an e-book (70%-30%.) I assume that this is because most of my followers are avid readers and they find reading as well as I do a complete experience, that includes almost all senses, not only the sight but the touch, the smell and the sound. It is not the same to read a traditional book than to read an e-book; for instance while you read a physical book you touch it, and can smell the pages, which have different smells, depending on which type of paper has been used, the time stored, etc...  But, it has a counterpart. For instance, the huge amount of resources needed to produce and publish one book. As well as the storage space you must have to save all of the books you've read and finally the amount of trash they produce. I don's know if you do the same thing ...

W hen in 1962 in Jackson Mississippi three radically different women collide, the story starts.  Skeeter a white girl who belongs to one of the most wealthiest and important families of Jackson; Aibileen Clark a maid since teenager, and a good woman who was used to look to the floor and obbey; and her friend Minny Jackson another maid, also a good woman but she was rebel, and never holding her tongue.  These three women, despite all the differences between them, also have a lot of similarities such as self love, the idea that women can do the same things that men do, and the belief that no matter the skin color, we are all people.  These similarities are those that join them to work on a project that would see the light to question the old conceived ideas of racism.  While Skeeter is the representation of  a non racist women who loved so much her nanny Constantine that prevented her to have hateful feelings for black people; as well as  almost a feminis...

P or lo general,    lo que escuchamos de Chernóbil es cómo hubo una falla en el reactor 4 de la central nuclear Vladímir Ilich Lenin en Ucrania y explotó el 26 de abril de 1986.  El accidente fue provocado durante un simulacro de prevención para saber si la energía generada por las turbinas podía generar suficiente electricidad para mantener el funcionamiento de las bombas de refrigeración en caso de falla y así evitar una explosión, manteniendo frío el núcleo del reactor. Sin embargo, no hicieron el simulacro con toda la regulación que se debió haber hecho y la energía de las turbinas no pudo mantener el funcionamiento de las bombas, generándose la explosión al incrementar la temperatura. Al menos 31 personas murieron directamente debido a la explosión, así como miles de víctimas más entre ellos campesinos, bomberos, obreros y niños. El gobierno de Gorvachov tardó 36 horas en evacuar los poblados más cercanos al reactor y cuando lo hicieron, fue con mentiras, alegand...