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Books and me

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Books are very important in my life, because they opened (and continue to open) doors and windows for me and showed me paths that I would otherwise never have imagined or traveled.

I was a late reader of books, I began to read them on a regular basis when I was thirteen. Before, I also read, above all comics and comics, which is another form of reading that led me to be what I am today.

I began to read regularly when I arrived at Alonso Quesada High School to study high school in September 1980.

At Alonso Quesada I began to relate to books, led by the teachers of Language and Literature, knowing the great writers we had in Spain.

Perhaps, the turning point, where everything changed, was in the second year of high school when a teacher of Language and Literature invited us to participate in a reading club, which met every fifteen days in the afternoon at the institute. I didn't think about it and signed up. It was the best decision I had made in a long time, because, from that moment on, my life took a 180-degree turn, because my vision of the world, which was tiny, widened in an extraordinary way, as if I had been given a wide angle with which I could access a multitude of knowledge that I didn't have before.

From that moment I began to read in an almost compulsive way, I read all that fell into my hand, not only the compulsory reading novels that we put in high school, but also the novels that my friends left me and those that I borrowed from the high school library because at that time the family economy was not very buoyant.

So books and reading began to become part of my life and have not ceased to be since those days when I discovered them, with the discouragement that I would have liked to have started reading books earlier, but the circumstances were what they were.

Whenever I give a talk to children and young people, I don't miss the opportunity to tell them to read, to immerse themselves in the books because I'm sure they will have the opportunity to change their lives forever. Of that I am absolutely certain.

What have I seen on Netflix? Our planet

I already commented in my entry The Chernobyl Forest that I had seen the documentary Our Planet, a documentary series of eight chapters that reviews our planet, analyzing the different parts that compose it, such as ice worlds, forests, coastal waters, deserts and prairies, high seas, fresh water and forests.

This review is told by David Attenborough emphasizing how wonderful are the parts that are part of our planet, but at the same time, highlighting the danger to the animals that populate those parts because they are disappearing.
This documentary series highlights that our mother is in danger and that we have to do everything in our power to protect her because otherwise her days are numbered.

A documentary series that must be seen to reflect on what we are doing with our planet.

TECHNICAL DATA SHEET
Production: Distributed by Netflix
Leadership: David Attenborough.
Date: 2019.
Duration: 8 chapters of approximately 50 minutes each.

SYNOPSIS
It would be a documentary that tells us in eight chapters how wonderful our planet is, but also highlights the danger that countless species are endangered by the action of man.

¿Qué he visto en Netflix? Line of Duty. Primera temporada.

Fuente

OPINIÓN

Ayer por la mañana terminé de ver la primera temporada de Line of Duty, y tengo que decir que hacía mucho tiempo que no disfrutaba tanto con una serie de televisión; de lo mejor que he visto en mucho tiempo, bien hecha y con uno relato creíble y una producción de muy alto nivel.

Ya estoy con la segunda temporada y parece que tiene la pinta de ir por la misma línea.

FICHA TÉCNICA

Producción: BBC / World Productions
Dirección: Jed Mercurio, Douglas Mackinnon, David Caffrey, Daniel Nettheim, Michael Keillor, John Strickland.
Guion: Jed Mercurio.
Fecha: 2012.
Reparto: Vicky McClure, Adrian Dunbar, Martin Compston, Craig Parkinson, Keeley Hawes, Neil Morrissey, Thandie Newton, Mark Bonnar, Polly Walker, Maya Sondhi, Paul Higgins, James Edlin, Lennie James, Tony Pitts, Aiysha Hart, Fiona Boylan, Kate Ashfield, Claire Keelan, Saffron Davies, Jordyn-Eve Davis Greene, Arsher Ali, Christina Chong, Daniel Mays, Henry Miller.
Duración del capítulo: 60 min.

SINOPSIS

El detective Steve Arnott es trasladado a la unidad AC-12 después de un incidente en una operación terrorista en la que muere un inocente y en esa unidad tienen que investigar al inspector Tony Gates, que es uno de los más respetados en la policía londinense.

What did I read? Killing Commendatore (Book 1) by Haruki Murakami

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OPINION

It's been a long time since I've read Murakami and I've missed him because he's a writer I love and I've read his main novels.

I knew I was going to come across a good novel, although I never read the reviews, because I like to approach reading without any kind of contamination and with Murakami more, because I know that he is a first-rate writer.

I liked Killing Commendatore (Book 1) very much, from the first pages you find that special style of Murakami that takes you through his narrative without almost realizing it and when you are conscious, you have already finished the book. That's Murakami, addictive.

The plot of the novel is simple, without many pretensions, with a paranormal halo that gives it a strange aftertaste, but does not bother you, but wraps you up and attracts you because it is built with that magnificent way that the Japanese writer has to tell stories.

TECHNICAL DATA SHEET

Format: EPUB.

Pages: 480.

SYNOPSIS

A painter who dedicates himself to making portraits, breaks his relationship with his wife, this rupture makes him leave his house and go to live in the country, to the house of a friend who offers it to himself so that he is not wandering around Japan.

Once there, strange things begin to happen related to a painting painted by the former tenant of the house and other events that will make him see the world around him in a different way.

¿Qué he leído? La forma del agua de Andrea Camilleri

Fuente

OPINIÓN

Anoche terminé de leer «La forma del agua» de Andrea Camilleri, una novela muy bien escrita, con un lenguaje claro y directo y con una trama sin muchas pretensiones, yendo al grano, sin ninguna subtrama engañosa que interfiera en la trama principal.
El argumento de la novela parece sencillo a primera vista, pero esconde una serie de aristas que nos sorprenderán.
Una novela que pone de manifiesto los tejemanejes de la política siciliana y sus artimañas para llegar al poder al precio que sea.
En definitiva, una novela entretenida y que vale la pena leer.

FICHA TÉCNICA

Formato: EPUB.
Páginas: 224.
Editorial: SALAMANDRA.
Lengua: CASTELLANO.
ISBN: 9788415470915.

SINOPSIS

Un conocido político aparece muerto dentro de un coche, en uno de los suburbios del pueblo de Vigàta, en Sicilia, y el comisario Salvo Montalbano tiene que averiguar que hay detrás de una muerte que parece natural.

Chernobyl Forest

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Last week I finished watching the documentary series Our Planet on Netflix. A documentary that tells us about the wonders of our planet, but also does not talk about how we are ending it, if we do not take drastic and immediate measures.

The last chapter of this documentary is dedicated to the forests that are around the world, how important they are to us and how seriously endangered they are. The last part of this chapter talks about Chernobyl and the destruction caused by the environmental disaster that occurred on 25 April 1986. The radioactive contamination was so brutal that it killed the life around the plant and spread to 120 kilometres around it.

For this reason, the entire human population was evacuated, the concrete sarcophagus was built, which closed off the main reactor and no human has lived there for 33 years. They abandoned everything and left it to nature to resolve their survival in the area.

Nature took sides and began to fight against the disaster produced by men, it adapted to the conditions of the environment and, to this day, the exclusion zone of Chernobyl is a great forest in which life is everywhere. The wolves have returned, the Przewalski horse, which was on the edge of the extension, eagles, falcons, owls, wild boars, bison, squirrels and more than 400 species of vertebrates and thousands of plants that have given life even extraordinary forest.

This shows that nature has an incredible resilience, that if we leave it, it is capable of recovering even in the most extreme conditions such as Chernobyl, because nature has been on this earth for millions of years and knows how to act to overcome the worst of disasters.

Then we must take note. All is not lost. We must make room for nature so that our planet becomes more sustainable and enables us and future societies to live. There is no other way.