The Importance of February XNUMX, by Sofía Rhei

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We are tired of hearing that success is in regularity, that the deepest satisfaction is sheltered under effort. Love is not such a remote practice compared to the rest of the initiatives that we can undertake. In each long-distance race, in each championship, if we get sporty, and ...

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Check the Psychoanalyst, by John Katzenbach

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We already learned it in "The Silence of the Lambs" that great book and best film in which the psychoanalyst's capacity and the technical profiles on the psychopath end up leading to a game of chess between two minds positioned at opposite poles. Two minds looking for a place of ...

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The Daughters of the Cloth Village, by Anne Jacobs

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What has already been revealed as a historical trilogy finds, under this obvious title of continuation to La Villa de las Telas, now finds a first continuation barely three years apart so that we keep the characters, surroundings and circumstances fresh. Despite not being the plot of ...

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The Memory Game, by Felicia Yap

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I've always liked those novels or movies that flirt with a science fiction argument completely embedded in a recognizable world. And on this occasion the story has the double appeal of focusing as a crime novel, with added suspense as to the sinister enigma of ...

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The boreal lovers, by Irene Gracia

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Nothing better than a title composed as an ambiguous metaphor to awaken that curiosity about the image represented. It is about knowing how to offer an elusive idea or concept for reason that invites you to read to unravel its nature. Irene Gracia introduces us to «The Boreal Lovers». And immediately ...

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The Captain's Ear by Gisbert Haefs

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Lo de Gisbert Haefs is a life devoted to literature both in the translation of very disparate authors and in an own bibliography rich in its obvious eclectic references and diverse in its ability to address very different genres. This time we approach a historical novel about ...

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The Devil Forced Me, by FG ​​Haghenbeck

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There are novels whose title and even their cover remind me of what those of us who visited the video stores of the 80s found in search of an action movie. At times it seemed that the covers and titles had to synthesize everything in an image and a simple title but ...

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dust in the wind

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Sometimes a story comes out of a song. And that's how this one arrived, many years ago ... I invite you to click play and read The whistle of the blades of the mills hid a song. Composer Kerry Livgren knew it and waited patiently to be able to pull off his guitar ...

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The Conjugal Bedroom, by Éric Reinhardt

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I am one of those who think that it begins by thinking that reading a dramatic novel is not going to give me anything. To suffer, that reality is already recalcitrantly bent on murdering dreams, as Bunbury would say, but my insisting on discarding the tragic may not always be the best option. Because sometimes ...

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