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My copy Quercus paperback edition, 2008. 356 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84724-377-5. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/cb/b3/cbb3f6fe090818a5978666155514141414c3441.jpg" width="117" height="175" /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; (aka &lt;em&gt;Moonlight Downs&lt;/em&gt;) is Adrian Hyland’s debut novel. The action, set in the Australia outback, is narrated by Emily Tempest. When the book opens she has just return Moonlight Downs, the Aboriginal camp of her childhood:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“I parked my little ute on the outskirts of the cap and sat there, looking at the scatter of corrugated iron hovels.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;There’s enough people here, I thought. Boys brawling over a flaccid football, girls bouncing a basketball in a cloud of dust, young men working on a car, pensioners chewing on the cud. A bare-arsed tacker raced past pushing a pram wheel with a length of wire.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Fifty, maybe sixty people all up. The Moonlights Downs community.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;She’s been away for twelve years now: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Adelaide, Melbourne, boarding school, university. I’d started three degrees and finished none of them, had a dozen different jobs, most of them in grungy pubs and bars. Done a lot of travel. Somehow it seemed always gravitating towards the drier parts of the world&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;And later on:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;I headed off overseas. Deckhanded on a yacht across North Africa. Ran a bar in Turkey. Travelled through Rajasthan – on a bloody camel, half the time. Spent six months wandering along the silk Road itself. I was running so hard it never occurred to me that I was lost&lt;/em&gt;”. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Emily grew up on Moonlight Downs. Her mother, Alice Limmen, was a Wantiya woman. Of her she remembers almost nothing except a thin sweet face, a Wantiya lullaby and the enveloping breasts upon which she used to muzzle herself to sleep. Her father, Jack Tempets, was a wandering whitefeller who courted, married and buried her in the space of five years.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Within hours of her arrival the tribe's elder, and Alice’s friend and mentor, is brutally murdered and mutilated. Blakie Japanangka, a man of incredible strength and very little grip on sanity, is the only suspect..until Emily starts asking questions.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I hope you'll excuse my insolence for copying and paste here what Rob Kitchin wrote about this “&lt;em&gt;wonderful novel. Engagingly written, with good prose, a well crafted, multi-textured plot, and perfectly paced, Hyland transports the reader into the natural and social environment of the Australian outback, the worlds of aborigines and white settlers, and their interface.&lt;/em&gt; …………. &lt;em&gt;The characterization is excellent, with Emily Tempest particularly well drawn, with just the right amount of back story that the reader understands the context but is always kept in the present.&lt;/em&gt; ….….…. &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove cleverly explores race relations and social and political tensions in contemporary Australia …&lt;/em&gt;.”. I’m no able to put it better.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; has been reviewed by Bernadette at &lt;a href="http://reactionstoreading.com/2009/04/14/review-diamond-dove-by-adrian-hyland/"&gt;Reactions to Reading&lt;/a&gt;, Glenn at &lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2008/08/adrian-hyland-moonlight-downs-or.html"&gt;International Noir Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, Rob at &lt;a href="http://theviewfromthebluehouse.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-of-diamond-dove-by-adrian-hyland.html"&gt;The View from the Blue House&lt;/a&gt;, Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2008/01/adrian-hyland.html"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;, Maxine at &lt;a href="http://petrona.typepad.com/petrona/2007/06/diamond_dove.html"&gt;Petrona&lt;/a&gt;, Peter at &lt;a href="http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2007/01/diamond-dove.html"&gt;Detectives Beyond Borders&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href="http://barbarafister.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/an-interview-with-adrian-hyland/"&gt;An interview with Adrian Hyland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’m counting this book for the &lt;a href="http://2011globalreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;2011 Global Reading Challenge&lt;/a&gt; and for the &lt;a href="http://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/p/2011-aussie-author-challenge.html"&gt;2011 Aussie Author Challenge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;See my review of &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/10/gunshot-road-by-adrian-hyland-1.html"&gt;Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland (1)&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/10/gunshot-road-by-adrian-hyland-2.html"&gt;Gunshot Road by Adrian Hyland (2)&lt;/a&gt; and my post for the &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-h-is-for.html"&gt;Crime Fiction Alphabet 2011: H is for Hyland, Adrian&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Diamond Dove de Adrian Hyland&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; (también conocida como &lt;em&gt;Moonlight Downs&lt;/em&gt;) es la primera novela de Adrian Hyland. La acción, ambientada en el interior de Australia, está narrada por Emily Tempest. El libro comienza cuando Emily acaba de regresar a Moonlight Downs, el campamento aborigen de su infancia.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Emily ha estado fuera doce años: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Adelaida, Melbourne, el colegio, la universidad. Empecé tres carreras y no terminé ninguna, tuve una docena de trabajos diferentes, la mayoría de ellos en pubs y bares conchambrosos. Hice un montón de viajes. De alguna manera parecía gravitar siempre hacia las partes más secas del mundo.&lt;/em&gt; &amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Emily se crió en Moonlight Down. Su madre, Alicia Limmen, era una mujer Wantiya. De ella no se acuerda de casi nada, excepto un rostro delgado y dulce, una nana Wantiya y unos pechos que la envolvían silenciosamente para que se durmiera. Su padre, Jack Tempets, era un hombre blanco errante que en el espacio de cinco años, la cortejó, se casó con ella y la enterró.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Al poco timepo de su llegada el anciano de la tribu, amigo y mentor de Emily, es brutalmente asesinado y mutilado. Blakie Japanangka, un hombre de una fuerza increíble y con pocas luces, es el único sospechoso ….. hasta que Emily comienza a hacer preguntas. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Espero que disculpen mi atrevimiento por copiar y pegar aquí lo que &lt;a href="http://theviewfromthebluehouse.blogspot.com/2009/12/review-of-diamond-dove-by-adrian-hyland.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rob Kitchin&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ha escrito sobre esta maravillosa novela. “&lt;em&gt;Atractivamente escrita, con una buena prosa, una trama bien construida con varias texturas y con un ritmo perfecto, Hyland nos transporta al entorno natural y social del interior de Australia, a los mundos de los aborígenes y de los colonos blancos, y a su interrelación. ... ... ... .... La caracterización es excelente, con una Emily Tempest particularmente bien dibujada, con la cantidad justa de trasfondo histórico para que el lector entienda el contexto, pero siempre manteniéndose en el presente. .... .... .... Diamond Dove explora con habilidad las relaciones raciales y las tensiones sociales y políticas en la Australia de hoy&lt;/em&gt; .....&amp;quot;. Yo no soy capaz de decirlo mejor.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Lamentablemente no está traducida al castellano hasta este momento.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-539911445353669000?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/539911445353669000/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=539911445353669000' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/539911445353669000'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/539911445353669000'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/05/diamond-dove-by-adrian-hyland.html' title='Diamond Dove by Adrian Hyland'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1992700132594323091</id><published>2011-05-09T08:05:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-10T19:30:43.878+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kwei Quartey'/><title type='text'>The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, Q is for Quartey, Kwei Quartey</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe; para ver la versión española desplazarse hacia abajo&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KuCZN7ThJP0/Tbk0cTsVmMI/AAAAAAAABoY/wE_Z4Rl-0G4/s200/letter+Q.jpg" width="110" height="75" /&gt; The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, a Community Meme hosted by Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;, has arrived this week to the letter “Q”. Click &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/05/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-q.htm"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to see the contribution of other fellow participants to this week's Crime Fiction Alphabet. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="50" height="75" /&gt; My “Q” is for Quartey. Dr. Kwei Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by an African American mother and a Ghanaian father, both of whom were university lecturers. Even though his professional writing career began after he became a physician, his desire to be a writer started at a very early age. Kwei Quartey now lives in Pasadena, California. He writes early in the morning before setting out to work at HealthCare Partners, where he runs a wound care clinic and is the lead physician at an urgent care centre. As a writer, he is the author of Inspector Darko Dawson mystery series: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/jcover/?source=9780812979367&amp;amp;height=152&amp;amp;maxwidth=103" width="99" height="150" /&gt; Wife of the Gods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Random House, 2009). &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Synopsis from the publisher: &lt;em&gt;In a shady grove outside the small town of Ketanu, a young woman—a promising med student—has been found dead under suspicious circumstances. Eager to close the case, the local police have arrested a poor, enamoured teenage boy and charged him with murder. Needless to say, they are less than thrilled when an outside force arrives from the big city to lead an inquiry into the baffling case.        &lt;br /&gt;Detective Inspector Darko Dawson, fluent in Ketanu’s indigenous language, is the right man for the job, but he hates the idea of leaving his loving wife and young son, a plucky kid with a defective heart. Pressured by his cantankerous boss, Dawson agrees to travel to Ketanu, sort through the evidence, and tie up the loose ends as quickly and as efficiently as possible. But for Dawson, this sleepy corner of Ghana is rife with emotional land mines: an estranged relationship with the family he left behind twenty-five years earlier and the painful memory of his own mother’s sudden, inexplicable disappearance. Dawson is armed with remarkable insight and a healthy dose of scepticism, but these gifts, sometimes overshadowed by his mercurial temper, may not be enough to solve this haunting mystery. In Ketanu, he finds that his cosmopolitan sensibilities clash with age-old customs, including a disturbing practice in which teenage girls are offered by their families to fetish priests as trokosi, or Wives of the Gods. &lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/images/dyn/jcover/?source=9780812981674&amp;amp;height=152&amp;amp;maxwidth=103" width="99" height="150" /&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children of the Street&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Random House, 12 July 2011). &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Synopsis from the publisher: &lt;em&gt;In the slums of Accra, Ghana’s fast-moving, cosmopolitan capital, teenagers are turning up dead. Inspector Darko Dawson has seen many crimes, but this latest string of murders—in which all the young victims bear a chilling signature—is the most unsettling of his career. Are these heinous acts a form of ritual killing or the work of a lone, cold-blooded monster? With time running out, Dawson embarks on a harrowing journey through the city’s underbelly and confronts the brutal world of the urban poor, where street children are forced to fight for their very survival—and a cunning killer seems just out of reach&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Men of the Rig&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2012). This is Kwei Quartey’s third novel in the Inspector Darko Dawson mystery series coming 2012. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For additional information click at &lt;a href="http://www.kweiquartey.com/"&gt;Kwei Quartey website&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/83749/kwei-quartey"&gt;Random House&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read an interview with Kwei Quartey at &lt;a href="http://www.myweku.com/2010/01/kwei-quartey-acclaimed-author-of-wife-of-the-gods/"&gt;MyWeku&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I became interested in &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wife of the Gods&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;ever since I spotted this book for the first time and I’m planning to read&amp;#160; it for the African leg of the 2011 Global Reading Challenge. Stay tuned. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Wife of the Gods&lt;/em&gt; has been reviewed by Glenn at &lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2010/10/from-ghana-kwei-quarteys-wife-of-gods.html"&gt;International Noir Fiction&lt;/a&gt; and Bernadette at &lt;a href="http://reactionstoreading.com/2010/10/30/review-wife-of-the-gods-by-kwei-quartey/"&gt;Reactions to Reading&lt;/a&gt; among others.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen, Q es por Quartey, Kwei Quartey&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El Alfabeto del&amp;#160; Crimen, un meme organizado por Kerrie en &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;, llega esta semana a la letra &amp;quot;Q&amp;quot;. Haga clic &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/05/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-q.htm"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; para ver las contribuciones para esta semana del resto de participantes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi &amp;quot;Q&amp;quot; es por Quartey. El Dr. Kwei Quartey nació en Ghana de madre afroamericana y padre ghanés, los dos profesores universitarios. A pesar de que su carrera profesional como escritor se inició después de dedicarse a la medicina, desde muy joven quería ser escritor. Kwei Quartey vive en la actualidad en Pasadena, California. Escribe a primera hora de la mañana antes de incorporarse a su trabajo en HealthCare Partners, donde dirige una clínica de primeros auxilios y es el médico principal en el centro de urgencias. Como escritor es autor de la serie protagonizada por el Inspector Darko Dawson: &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wife of the Gods&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Random House, 2009), &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Children of the Street &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;(Random House, a la venta a partir del 12 de julio de 2011) y &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Men of the Rig&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (2012), la tercera novela protagonizada por el Inspector Darko Dawson que saldrá a la venta en el 2012. Para más información haga clic en el página web de &lt;a href="http://www.kweiquartey.com/"&gt;Kwei Quartey &lt;/a&gt;(en inglés). Me interesé en &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wife of the Gods&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;desde el primer momento que vi el libro. Tengo la intención de leerlo proximamente para el Desafío Global de Lectura 2011. Permanezcan atentos&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1992700132594323091?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1992700132594323091/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1992700132594323091' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1992700132594323091'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1992700132594323091'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/05/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-q-is-for.html' title='The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, Q is for Quartey, Kwei Quartey'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KuCZN7ThJP0/Tbk0cTsVmMI/AAAAAAAABoY/wE_Z4Rl-0G4/s72-c/letter+Q.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8673159128106673937</id><published>2011-05-05T01:00:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-05T01:02:00.226+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Massimo Carlotto'/><title type='text'>Hasta nunca, mi amor de Massimo Carlotto</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English language version&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Título original: &lt;em&gt;Arrivederci amore, ciao&lt;/em&gt;, 2000. Traducción de M.ª Ángeles Cabré. Booket 2011. Emecé Editores. 172 páginas. ISBN: 978-84-96580-69-5. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://img9.planetadelibros.com/usuaris/libros/fotos/49/tam_1/48936_1_Hastanuncamiamor.jpg" width="117" height="175" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Contrariamente a mi costumbre de leer sólo un libro a la vez, elegí de mi estantería &lt;em&gt;Hasta nunca, mi amor,&lt;/em&gt; un libro relativamente corto, sólo 172 páginas en mi edición. El tamaño era el adecuado para llevarlo conmigo. Y en pocas horas lo había devorado en lugar de leerlo. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;En la contraportada se dice: &lt;em&gt;Massimo Carlotto nos sumerge en la mente de alguien que está dispuesto a todo para medrar en la sociedad y redimir su pasado político. Un retrato insólito y sorprendente de la Italia contemporánea. Negro, duro y violento.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La historia está&amp;#160; contada en primera persona por Giorgio Pellegrini, un italiano que lucha en América Central junto con un grupo guerrillero. Ha recibido la orden de matar a un compatriota que huyó con él. Ambos estaban condenados a cadena perpetua en rebeldía. En los años 70 y como militantes de un grupo de izquierda colocaron una bomba en la sede de la Asociación de Industriales matando a un vigilante nocturno. Pellegrini ejecuta la orden, mata a su compañero y decide volver a Italia. Quiere redimirse por su pasado político y convertirse en un hombre respetable. Nadie ni nada lo detendrá. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El libro gira en torno a un personaje frío y calculador, amoral y despiadado, brutal y ambicioso, egoísta e inteligente, totalmente incapaz de tener ningún sentimiento o sentir remordimiento alguno. Desde el principio sabemos que es un asesino, no podemos sentir simpatía alguna por él. El libro no es apto para todas las sensibilidades, sin embargo me pareció interesante, su ritmo es rápido y me resultó entretenido. Puede que no sea una gran novela, pero es una lectura digna en mi opinión.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Para su biografía e información adicional haga clic &lt;a href="http://www.massimocarlotto.it/espanol/index.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massimo_Carlotto"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;The Goodbye Kiss by Massimo Carlotto&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.europaeditions.com/archivio/libri/dettaglio_7.jpg" width="114" height="175" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Contrary to my habit of reading one book at a time, I chose from my bookshelf&amp;#160; &lt;em&gt;The Goodbye Kiss&lt;/em&gt;, a relatively short book, only 172 pages in my edition. The size was just right to take it with me. And in a few hours I had devoured it rather than read it. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The back cover states: &lt;em&gt;Massimo Carlotto plunges us into the mind of someone who is willing to do anything to climb in society and to redeem his political past. An unusual and striking portrait of a contemporary Italy. Noir, hard and violent &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The story is told in first person by Giorgio Pellegrini, an Italian fighting in Central America with a guerrilla group. He has been ordered to kill a fellow countryman who fled with him. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia. In the 70's as militants of a leftist group, they placed a bomb at the Industrial Association headquarter killing a night watchman. Pellegrini carries out the order to kill his comrade and decides to return back to Italy. He wants to redeem himself from his political past and become a respectable man. Nobody and nothing will stop him. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The book revolves around a cold and calculating character; amoral and ruthless; brutal and ambitious; selfish and intelligent; completely unable to have any sentiment or feel remorse. From the very beginning we know he is a murderer, we cannot have any sympathy for him. The book is not for all sensibilities, however I found it interesting, fast-paced and very entertaining. It might not be a great novel, but it’s a worthy read in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For a biography and additional information click &lt;a href="http://www.massimocarlotto.it/english/biography.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Goodbye Kiss has been reviewed at &lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2006/02/massimo-carlotto-and-jim-thompson.html"&gt;International Noir Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/The_Goodbye_Kiss.html"&gt;Euro Crime&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://theviewfromthebluehouse.blogspot.com/2010/06/review-of-goodbye-kiss-by-massimo.html"&gt;The View from the Blue House&lt;/a&gt;, among others. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8673159128106673937?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8673159128106673937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8673159128106673937' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8673159128106673937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8673159128106673937'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/05/hasta-nunca-mi-amor-de-massimo-carlotto.html' title='Hasta nunca, mi amor de Massimo Carlotto'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-7916107107102732647</id><published>2011-05-02T16:15:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T16:16:52.350+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sue Grafton'/><title type='text'>May 2011 Releases</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Tusquets Editores will release this month the Spanish translation of Sue Grafton’s &lt;em&gt;U is for Undertow&lt;/em&gt; under the title in Spanish of &lt;em&gt;U de Ultimatum&lt;/em&gt;. For additional information you can check: &lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/andanzas-u-de-ultimatum"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets Editores&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.panmacmillan.com/titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&amp;amp;BookID=408539"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pan Macmillan&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.suegrafton.com/titlepage.asp?ISBN=039915597X"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sue Grafton official web&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Hope it won’t take me long to read it, since I have it on my TBR shelf. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-7916107107102732647?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/7916107107102732647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=7916107107102732647' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7916107107102732647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7916107107102732647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-2011-releases.html' title='May 2011 Releases'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6030046846057769104</id><published>2011-05-02T12:13:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T12:15:14.389+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Madrid Community&apos;s Day May 2nd'/><title type='text'>Today is a Bank Holiday in the Community of Madrid</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Today is a bank holiday in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_Madrid"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Community of Madrid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. We celebrate Community's Day on May 2nd. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This date was chosen to commemorate that “&lt;em&gt;on the morning of May 2 &lt;/em&gt;(1808),&lt;em&gt; a raging group of civilians revolted in front of the Palacio Real, fearing the French troops intended to send Francisco de Paula, King Carlos IV's youngest son, to Bayona with his brother and father. Gunfire ensued, and word of the events spread all over the city. People rose up, fighting the mightier French troops with whatever they could use as weapons. Two captains, Daoiz and Velarde, and a lieutenant, Ruiz, disobeyed Madrid's Captain General Francisco Javier Negrete orders and quartered at the Monteleón Artillery barracks, which stretched from what is now Plaza de 2 de mayo to Calle Carranza. Helped by a small group of soldiers and some brave citizens who had marched to the barracks from the Royal Palace, the group resisted the French for three hours, doing so with very little ammunition, since they couldn't access the armoury.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Daoiz and Velarde died in the bloody fight. Ruiz managed to escape, only to die from his wounds later. Murat's forces executed soldiers and civilians throughout the city, including in the Casa de Campo and what's now the Parque del Oeste, captured by Goya in one of his two famous paintings of the executions—both restored in 2008 to celebrate the bicentennial of the events. The events marked the beginning of the five-year War of Independence&lt;/em&gt; (Peninsula War in the UK)&lt;em&gt; against the French. The remains of the three military heroes, together with those who were executed at Paseo del Prado, are now held in an obelisk-mausoleum at Plaza de la Lealtad&lt;/em&gt;.” (taken from &lt;a href="http://www.fodors.com/world/europe/spain/madrid/feature_30003.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fodor’s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the parenthesis are mine). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; See also: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_of_May_1808"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Second of May 1808&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Third of May 1808&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumento_a_los_Caidos_por_Espa%C3%B1a_%28Madrid%29"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Monumento a los Caidos por España (Madrid)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos_de_Mayo"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dos de Mayo Uprising&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;at Wikipedia (in English).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6030046846057769104?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6030046846057769104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6030046846057769104' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6030046846057769104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6030046846057769104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/05/today-is-bank-holiday-in-community-of.html' title='Today is a Bank Holiday in the Community of Madrid'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6747893555810127147</id><published>2011-05-02T09:21:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-02T09:25:20.017+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Leonardo Padura'/><title type='text'>The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, P is for Padura, Leonardo Padura</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The Alphabet in Crime Fiction is a Community Meme hosted by Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;. This week’s letter is the letter “P”.&amp;#160; Click &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/05/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-p.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to see the contribution of other fellow participants to this week's Crime Fiction Alphabet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6xTuv28qVvM/TbkzVLFBkmI/AAAAAAAABoU/I4B5aR5rdUk/s200/Letter+P.jpg" width="111" height="75" /&gt; And my “P” is for Padura. Leonardo Padura was born in 1955 in Havana and lives in Cuba. He has published a number of short-story collections and literary essays but international fame came with the Havana Quartet, all featuring Inspector Mario Conde. Like many others of his generation, Padura had faced the question of leaving Cuba, particularly in the late 80s and early 90s, when living conditions deteriorated sharply as Russian aid evaporated. He chose to stay. And to write beautiful ironic novels in which Soviet-style socialism is condemned by implication through scenes of Havana life where even the police are savagely policed. The crime novels feed on the noises and smells of Havana, on the ability of its inhabitants to keep joking, to make love and music, to drink rum, and to survive through petty crime such as running clandestine bars and restaurants.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Inspector Mario Conde Series: &lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="50" height="75" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Havana Blue&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/books-catalogue/cuban-crime-fiction/havana-blue.asp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bitter Lemon Press, 2007&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. (Original title, &lt;i&gt;Pasado perfecto&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/andanzas-pasado-perfecto"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), 1991). The publisher’s blurb reads: “&lt;em&gt;Lieutenant Mario Conde is suffering from a terrible New Year’s Eve hangover. Though it’s the middle of a weekend, he is asked to urgently investigate the mysterious disappearance of Rafael Morin, a high-level business manager in the Cuban nomenklatura. Conde remembered Morin from their student days: good-looking, brilliant, a “reliable comrade’’ who always got what he wanted, including Tamara the girl Conde was after. But Rafael Morin’s exemplary rise from a poor barrio and picture perfect life hide more than one suspicious episode worthy of investigation. While pursuing the case in a decaying but adored Havana Conde confronts his lost love for Tamara and the dreams and illusions of his generation&lt;/em&gt;.” My review: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/03/havana-blue-original-title-pasado.html"&gt;Havana Blue (Original title: Pasado Perfecto) – Leonardo Padura&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Havana Gold.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/books-catalogue/cuban-crime-fiction/havana-gold.asp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bitter Lemon Press, 2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; (Original title, &lt;em&gt;Vientos de cuaresma &lt;/em&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/andanzas-vientos-de-cuaresma"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), 1994 .The publisher’s blurb reads: “&lt;em&gt;Twenty-four year old Lissette Delgado was beaten, raped, and then strangled with a towel. Marijuana is found in her apartment and her wardrobe is suspiciously beyond the means of a high school teacher. Lieutenant Conde is pressured by “the highest authority” to conclude this investigation quickly when chance leads him into the arms of a beautiful redhead, a saxophone player who shares his love for jazz and Japanese fighting fish. This is a Havana of crumbling, grand buildings, secrets hidden behind faded doors and corruption.&lt;/em&gt;” My review: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/02/leonardo-padura-havana-gold-original.html"&gt;Leonardo Padura - Havana Gold (Original title Vientos de Cuaresma)&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Havana Red&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/books-catalogue/cuban-crime-fiction/havana-red.asp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bitter Lemon Press, 2005&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; (Original title,&amp;#160; &lt;i&gt;Mascaras&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/andanzas-mascaras"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), 1997. The publisher’s blurb reads: “&lt;em&gt;A body is found in a Havana park. A young transvestite dressed in a beautiful red evening dress, strangled. The victim had fled his family, finding refuge with Marqués, a forgotten man in his own country, an author and theatre director once condemned by his government for being a “heretical homosexual”, living alone surrounded only by books, his house in ruins. In the baking heat of the Havana summer Conde moves through a Cuban reality where nothing is what it seems, a dark, fascinating world of men and women born in the Revolution who live without dreaming of exile and seek their identity in the midst of disaster&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Havana Black.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/books-catalogue/cuban-crime-fiction/havana-black.asp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bitter Lemon Press, 2006&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; (Original title, &lt;i&gt;Paisaje de otoño&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/andanzas-paisaje-de-otono"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), 1998. The publisher’s blurb reads: “&lt;em&gt;The brutally mutilated body of Miguel Forcade is discovered washed up on a Havana beach. Head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off by a blunt knife. Forcade was once responsible for confiscating art works from the bourgeoisie fleeing the revolution. Had he really returned from exile just to visit his ailing father? Lieutenant Mario Conde immerses himself in Cuba's dark history, expropriations of priceless paintings now vanished without trace, corruption and old families who appear to have lost much, but not everything. Padura evokes the disillusionment of a generation who embraced the revolutionary cause and now struggles to survive in a decaying city threatened by hurricane Felix. Yet this novel is a eulogy to Cuba, to its music and sensuality, and to the great friendships of those who chose to stay and fight for survival&lt;/em&gt;.” &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;These first four titles are known as the “&lt;em&gt;Havana Quartet&lt;/em&gt;”.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adiós Hemingway.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://isbndb.com/d/book/adios_hemingway_a01.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Canongate Press, 2006&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (novella). (Original title: &lt;em&gt;Adiós Hemingway&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/andanzas-adios-hemingway"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets, 2006&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), 2001. The publisher’s blurb reads: “&lt;em&gt;When the skeletal remains of a man brought down by two buckshots forty years earlier surface on the Havana estate of Ernest Hemingway, ex-cop Mario Conte reluctantly accepts a reinstatement to investigate. As the truth of the night of October 3, 1958, slowly reveals itself, Conte must come to terms with his idealistic memory of Papa Hemingway on Cuba's sun-drenched docks from when he was a child tagging along with his grandfather. Padura Fuentes weaves Conte's world with that of Hemingway's Cuba four decades earlier, a period marking the beginning of Hemingway's decline. In the heat-and-rum haze, the eras and personas begin to merge in this evocative, compelling novel&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Havana Fever&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/new-books/cuban-crime-fiction/havana-fever.asp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bitter Lemon Press, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. (Original title: &lt;em&gt;La neblina del ayer &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/andanzas-la-neblina-del-ayer"&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets, 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;), 2003. The publisher’s blurb reads: “Havana, 2003, fourteen years since Mario Conde retired from the police force and much has changed in Cuba. He now makes a living trading in antique books bought from families selling off their libraries in order to survive. In the house of Alcides de Montes de Oca, a rich Cuban who fled after the fall of Batista, Conde discovers an extraordinary book collection and, buried therein, a newspaper article about Violeta del Rio, a beautiful bolero singer of the 1950’s, who disappeared mysteriously. Conde’s intuition sets him off on an investigation that leads him into a darker Cuba, now flooded with dollars, populated by pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers and other hunters of the night. But this novel also allows Padura to evoke the Havana of Batista, the city of a hundred night clubs where Marlon Brando and Josephine Baker listened to boleros, mambos and jazz.” &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Inspector Mario Conde books are translated from Spanish into English by Peter Bush, well known for his extensive work on Juan Goytisolo. He has also completed translations of Daniel Chavarria, Nuria Amat and Pedro de Alarcón. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;(Information taken from &lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/authors/leonardo-padura.asp"&gt;Bitter Lemon Press&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://isbndb.com/d/book/adios_hemingway_a01.html"&gt;Canongate Books Ltd&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/03/leonardo-padura-talks-about-mario-conde.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Leonardo Padura talks about Mario Conde&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Padura_Fuentes"&gt;Leonardo Padura at Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; in English.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Padura"&gt;Leonardo Padura en Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; in Spanish&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La información sobre Leonardo Padura y sus libros en español está disponible en la página de &lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/autor/leonardo-padura"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets Editores&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6747893555810127147?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6747893555810127147/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6747893555810127147' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6747893555810127147'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6747893555810127147'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/05/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-p-is-for.html' title='The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, P is for Padura, Leonardo Padura'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6xTuv28qVvM/TbkzVLFBkmI/AAAAAAAABoU/I4B5aR5rdUk/s72-c/Letter+P.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-7767573788976919533</id><published>2011-04-30T15:52:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-01T19:05:44.452+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ernesto Sabato'/><title type='text'>In Memoriam Ernesto Sabato</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Argentinian writer Ernesto Sabato died today age 99 at his home in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, where he was held for years due to health problems. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;From The Independent yesterday: &lt;em&gt;In the year of its author's 100th birthday, an Argentinian classic joins Penguin's modern hall of fame. Published in 1948, this brief, fierce breakthrough novel by a writer who trained as a physicist belongs among the existential landmarks of postwar&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;fiction.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-tunnel-by-ernesto-s225bato-2276063.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Tunnel, by Ernesto Sabato&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Tunnel was one of the books that marked my generation. Sabato was awarded with the Cervantes Prize in 1984 and was a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature 2007.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ernesto Sabato at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernesto_Sabato"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Tunnel at &lt;a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53447.El_T_nel"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Goodreads&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-7767573788976919533?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/7767573788976919533/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=7767573788976919533' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7767573788976919533'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7767573788976919533'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-memoriam-ernesto-sabato.html' title='In Memoriam Ernesto Sabato'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6761949921382153996</id><published>2011-04-30T09:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-30T09:58:08.456+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2011 Reading Challenge - Update'/><title type='text'>2011 Reading Challenges - Update.</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;In a rush of insanity, only temporary, I trust, I decided to participate almost in every 2011 Reading Challenge. I’m not sure I’ll be able to complete any, but anyway it’s fun to participate. Here is my progress for the first quarter.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/p/2011-aussie-author-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Aussie Author Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read three books by Australian authors before 31 December. I’m currently reading &lt;i&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/i&gt; by Adrian Hyland&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2010/12/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Crime Fiction Alphabet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My latest post here: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-o-is-for-orsi.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, O is for Orsi, Guillermo Orsi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/12/2011-eastern-european-reading-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Eastern European Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read 4 books before 31 December. Read so far &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/entanglement-by-zygmunt-miloszewski.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entanglement &lt;/em&gt;by Zygmunt Miloszewski&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Poland). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://2011globalreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Global Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read two novels from each of these continents in the course of 2011: Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America, South America and The Seventh Continent.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read so far: Europe (&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-seconds-by-anders-roslund-and.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three Seconds&lt;/em&gt; by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Sweden) and &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/darkside-by-belinda-bauer.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Darkside&lt;/em&gt; by Belinda Bauer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, UK), one South America (&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/blanco-nocturno-de-ricardo-piglia.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt; de Ricardo Piglia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Argentina), one North America (&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/b-very-flat-by-margot-kinberg.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/em&gt; by Margot Kinberg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, USA) and I’m currently reading one Australasia (&lt;i&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/i&gt; by Adrian Hyland, Australia)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com/2010/12/06/announcing-ireland-reading-challenge-2011/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Ireland Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read 3 books before 30 November 2011. So far I’ve read &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/borderlands-by-brian-mcgilloway.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Borderlands&lt;/em&gt; by Brian McGilloway&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://readinginthenorth.blogspot.com/2010/12/nordic-challenge-sign-up-post.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Nordic Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read 20+ books before 31 December 2011. So far: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-seconds-by-anders-roslund-and.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three Seconds&lt;/em&gt; by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/yours-until-death-by-gunnar-staalesen.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yours Until Death&lt;/em&gt; by Gunnar Staalesen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/redeemer-frelseren-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Redeemer&lt;/em&gt; by Jo Nesbo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/red-wolf-den-roda-vargen-by-liza.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red Wolf&lt;/em&gt; by Liza Marklund&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/el-chino-de-henning-mankell.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;El chino&lt;/em&gt; de Henning Mankell&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Man from Beijing&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/nadie-lo-ha-visto-de-mari-jungstedt.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nadie lo ha visto&lt;/em&gt; de Mari Jungstedt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Unseen&lt;/em&gt;), &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/snowman-by-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; by Jo Nesbo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/leopard-by-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; by Jo Nesbo&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2010/11/2011-vintage-mystery-reading-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read 4-6 books written before 1960 from the mystery category. So far I’ve read: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/murders-in-rue-morgue-by-edgar-allan.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Murders in the Rue Morgue&lt;/em&gt; by Edgar Allan Poe&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/study-in-scarlet-by-sir-arthur-conan.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Study In Scarlet&lt;/em&gt; by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://acrccarnival.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Agatha Christie Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve submitted only one book so far &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/hickory-dickory-dock-by-agatha-christie.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hickory, Dickory, Dock&lt;/em&gt; by Agatha Christie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebookette.co.uk/2010/12/british-books-challenge-2011.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;British Books Challenge 2011&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read 6 books by British authors in 2011. So far I’ve read &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/darkside-by-belinda-bauer.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Darkside&lt;/em&gt; by Belinda Bauer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/hickory-dickory-dock-by-agatha-christie.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hickory, Dickory, Dock&lt;/em&gt; by Agatha Christie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://argentinareadingchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/introducing-ficciones-2011-argentina.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ficciones 2011 Argentina Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read at 5 books. So far &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/blanco-nocturno-de-ricardo-piglia.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt; de Ricardo Piglia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/nadie-ama-un-policia-de-guillermo-orsi.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nadie ama a un policía de Guillermo Orsi&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;No-one Loves a Policeman&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bookafterbook.blogspot.com/2010/12/italy-in-books-reading-challenge-2011.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Italy in Books -reading challenge 2011&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Read 12 books set in Italy by 31 December. So far: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/wings-of-sphinx-by-andrea-camilleri.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; by Andrea Camilleri&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/testigo-involuntario-de-gianrico.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Testigo Involuntario&lt;/em&gt; de Gianrico Carofiglio&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Involuntary Witness&lt;/em&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6761949921382153996?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6761949921382153996/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6761949921382153996' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6761949921382153996'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6761949921382153996'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/2011-reading-challenges-update.html' title='2011 Reading Challenges - Update.'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6404452384761503822</id><published>2011-04-29T10:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-29T10:42:39.807+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guillermo Orsi'/><title type='text'>Nadie ama a un policía de Guillermo Orsi</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Almuzara, 2007. 368 páginas. ISBN: 978-84-96710-82-5.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.editorialalmuzara.com/img/0_tx_1179339529.jpg" width="98" height="150" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Acabo de leer &lt;em&gt;Nadie ama a un polic&lt;/em&gt;ía. Agradezco a Maxine en su blog Petrona este descubrimiento. En este libro Guillermo Orsi (Buenos Aires, 1946) utiliza magistralmente todos los elementos de la novela negra americana. Por eso me ha parecido interesante destacar este comentario aparecido en &lt;a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1244851"&gt;La Nación.com&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;i&gt;Su pasión por el género se originó, curiosamente, en lo que él mismo considera una confusión. Al comienzo escribía novelas psicológicas, hasta que una de ellas, Sueños de perro, fue rotulada en España como policial, y en ese carácter ganó el Premio Umbriel destinado a obras del género, por lo que fue invitado a la tradicional Semana Negra de Gijón, que se celebra hace 23 años. &amp;quot;Intenté aclarar las cosas, pero fue inútil y terminé aceptando la caracterización. Al poco tiempo descubrí que era realmente lo que quería hacer. La novela policial permite reflejar las alternativas críticas de una sociedad y de la política de un país, e interpretarlas con otra mirada. Pero no me atrae la truculencia, común en autores de sociedades aún más violentas que la nuestra, por ejemplo, las de México o Colombia&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La historia se desarrolla en Argentina en diciembre de 2001. En el atardecer del día 21, Fernando de la Rúa redacta de puño y letra su renuncia a la presidencia de Argentina y abandona la casa en helicóptero. La novela está narrada en primera persona por el protagonista, Pablo Martelli alias Gotán (Tango al revés) un ex policía federal que se dedica desde hace veinte años a la venta de sanitarios. Fue expulsado de la federal y durante la novela conoceremos los motivos. Su gran amor le abandonó hace años, esta historia estará presente durante la novela.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La noche del 14 al 15 de diciembre Gotán rompe su norma de no atender el teléfono después de la medianoche. Al otro lado de la línea su amigo Edmundo Cárcamo quiere verle lo antes posible. Para ello tendrá que conducir durante más de seis horas hasta llegar a Mediomundo cerca de Bahía Blanca. Pero llega tarde, Edmundo ha sido asesinado a quemarropa y no hay rastro de una rubia, casi adolescente, de quien se había enamorado y con quien había planeado habitar en esa casa frente al mar. A partir de ese momento la acción se desarrolla entre Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires y algún extremo de la Patagonia. Gotán trata de averiguar el motivo de este asesinato. Durante su investigación se encontrará con una serie de personajes pintorescos. La trama le proporciona a Orsi la excusa perfecta para ofrecernos una visión de Argentina durante la crisis financiera, por desgracia, muy relevante también hoy no sólo en Argentina.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El libro me ha gustado mucho, está magníficamente escrito. Me ha resultado tremendamente entretenido y es muy sugerente. No creo que se le pueda pedir más. Espero leer pronto el último libro de Orsi, &lt;em&gt;Ciudad Santa&lt;/em&gt; (Almuzara, 2009).&amp;#160; &lt;em&gt;Nadie ama a un policía&lt;/em&gt; fue galardonado con el II Premio Internacional de Novela Negra Ciudad de Carmona. &lt;em&gt;Ciudad Santa&lt;/em&gt; obtuvo el año pasado el Premio Hammet de Novela Negra. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.editorialalmuzara.com/editorial.php?idioma=1&amp;amp;libro=104"&gt;Almuzara&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://guillermoorsi.blogspot.com/"&gt;CAFÉ PORTEÑO - Para mí, cortado&lt;/a&gt; (el blog de Guillermo Orsi) &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Algunas reseñas de Nadie ama a un policía: &lt;a href="http://lacalaverabajolapiel.blogspot.com/2007/07/nadie-ama-un-polica-de-guillermo-orsi.html"&gt;La calavera bajo la piel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://blogs.ideal.es/pateandoelmundo/2007/6/25/nadie-ama-un-policia"&gt;Pateando el mundo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://pachecoreyes.blogspot.com/2010/04/nadie-ama-un-policia-guillermo-orsi.html"&gt;José Diego Pacheco Reyes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://albertodiazvillasenor.blogspot.com/2010/11/nadie-ama-un-policia-de-guillermo-orsi.html"&gt;He dicho&lt;/a&gt;, entre otras.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;No-one Loves a Policeman by Guillermo Orsi&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://maclehosepress.com/getImage.php?i=book-covers/9781906694029.jpg&amp;amp;w=170&amp;amp;alt=No-One Loves a Policeman - book cover" width="133" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve just read &lt;em&gt;No-one Loves a Policeman.&lt;/em&gt; I have to thank Maxine and her blog Petrona for this discovery. In this book Guillermo Orsi (Buenos Aires, 1946) masterfully uses all the elements of North America crime ficition. Therefore I found interesting to highlight this comment taken from &lt;a href="http://www.lanacion.com.ar/nota.asp?nota_id=1244851"&gt;La Nación.com&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“His passion for the genre came, curiously, from what he considers a misunderstanding. At the beginning he wrote psychological novels, until one of them, &lt;i&gt;Sueños de perro&lt;/i&gt;, was labelled in Spain detective fiction, and with that category won the Umbriel Price for the genre, and he was invited to the traditional Semana Negra de Gijón, which is being held for over 23 years. &amp;quot;I tried to clarify things, but without success and I ended up accepting the label. Soon I discovered that this was what I really wanted to do. Crime fiction allows reflecting the critical alternatives of a society and the politics of a country, and it also allows for an interpretation from a different perspective. But I am not attracted by gruesomeness, common in authors from societies which are even more violent than ours, for example, Mexico or Colombia.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The story takes place in Argentina in December 2001. On the evening of December 21, Fernando de la Rua signs with his own handwriting his resignation as President of Argentina leaving the house by helicopter. The novel is narrated in the first person by the main character, Pablo Martelli alias Gotán (Tango backwards), a former federal police officer, who, for the last twenty years, is working as a salesman of bathroom fittings. He was expelled from the federal police and during the novel we will find out&amp;#160; the reason. His great love left him years ago, this story will be a constant feature during the novel.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The night from the 14 to the 15 of December Gotán breaks his rule not to answer the phone after midnight. Across the line his friend Edmundo Cárcamo wants to see him as soon as possible. He will have to drive for more than six hours to Mediomundo near Bahia Blanca. But he arrives too late, Edmundo has been killed at point-blank range and there is no trace of a blonde, almost adolescent, he had fall in love with and escaped to live in that house by the sea. At this stage the action moves between Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires and Patagonia. Gotán is trying to find out the reason for this murder. During his investigation he will find a series of colourful characters. The plot gives Orsi the perfect excuse to provide an outlook of Argentina during a financial crisis, unfortunately very relevant even today not only in Argentina. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The book is beautifully written and I’ve have enjoyed it very much. I found it extremely entertaining and very suggestive. I do not think one can ask for more. I hope to read soon Orsi's latest book, &lt;em&gt;Ciuda Santa&lt;/em&gt; (Almuzara, 2009). &lt;em&gt;No-one Loves a Policeman&lt;/em&gt; was awarded with the II International Prize for Crime Fiction Ciudad de Carmona. &lt;em&gt;Ciudad Santa&lt;/em&gt; won last year the Spanish Hammett Award. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://maclehosepress.com/book.php?id=9781906694029"&gt;MacLehose Press&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;No-one Loves a Policeman&lt;/em&gt; has been reviewed by Norman at &lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2011/03/no-one-loves-policeman-guillermo-orsi.html"&gt;Crime Scraps&lt;/a&gt;, Maxine at &lt;a href="http://petronatwo.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/book-review-noone-loves-a-policeman-by-guillermo-orsi/"&gt;Petrona&lt;/a&gt;, Glenn at &lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2010/07/guillermo-orsis-no-one-loves-policeman.html"&gt;International Noir Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/no-one-loves-a-policeman-by-guillermo-orsi-trans-nick-caistor-2003227.html"&gt;The Independent&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=No-one_Loves_a_Policeman_by_Guillermo_Orsi"&gt;The Bookbag&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6404452384761503822?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6404452384761503822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6404452384761503822' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6404452384761503822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6404452384761503822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/nadie-ama-un-policia-de-guillermo-orsi.html' title='Nadie ama a un policía de Guillermo Orsi'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8421640763701579180</id><published>2011-04-28T13:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-28T13:34:27.922+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jo Nesbo'/><title type='text'>The Leopard by Jo Nesbo</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett, 2011. First published with the title &lt;em&gt;Panserhjerte&lt;/em&gt; in 2009. Harvill Secker 2011. 624 pages. ISBN: 978-1-848-55400-1 (hardback).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://pubimages.randomhouse.co.uk/getimage.aspx?class=books&amp;amp;size=custom&amp;amp;dpi=72&amp;amp;quality=80&amp;amp;type=jpg&amp;amp;width=96&amp;amp;id=1846554004-1" /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; (Harry Hole #8) begins shortly after the events described in &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; (Harry Hole #7). It’s&amp;#160; important to read both books in this order to avoid spoilers and for a better understanding of some characters. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Deeply affected by the events narrated in &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;, Harry Hole has resigned from Oslo Crime Squad. He leaves Norway and doesn’t want to be found. Rakel and Oleg have abandoned him. His former boss, Gunnar Hagen, covers his absence as a leave until further notice but soon he will need him. The bodies of two women have been found in strange circumstances. Both deaths bear some similarities but no relationship can be found between the two cases. Hagen sends Kaja Solness to find Hole and she finds him in the squalor of Hong Kong's opium dens, deeply in debt and with no intention to return home. Finally Hole agrees to return after hearing his father is seriously ill.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Back in Oslo we find Hole in the middle of an old fight between two rival police departments, Oslo Crime Squad and Kripos. Simultaneously, a serial killer is on the loose and Hole’s father has a terminal illness. A third woman, an MP, is found dead hanging from the diving board of an empty swimming pool. And Hole makes a discovery. The three women had met one night in an isolated mountain hostel. Hole’s investigation will take him to places as far away as the Democratic Republic of Congo. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;These are some of the ingredients, the reader will find among the more than six hundred pages of this novel. I have to admit that I hesitated until the last moment on my rating. My admiration for Nebo's books is no secret. But finally I decided not to give him the highest mark for several reasons.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In a nutshell &lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; is too long for my taste. At a certain point I was just willing to finalise its reading. This should not happen to me when I'm really enjoying a book. Some flaws in the plot have annoyed me. Some passages are not adequately explained or are hard to believe. There are also some unnecessary morbid descriptions with too many details. Finally I’m detecting a certain risk to fall into formulas that I hope Nesbo will avoid in future books.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But I would not like to be misinterpreted. &lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; is an engaging story, wonderfully written. It has a gripping plot full of twists and turns, and it is worth reading it. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=1846554004"&gt;The Random House Group&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/1846554004/jo-nesbo/the-leopard/"&gt;Vintage Books&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://jonesbo.com/"&gt;Jo Nesbø - Official Website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jonesbo.co.uk/"&gt;Jo Nesbo – Official UK Site&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jo-Nesbo/e/B001JOJT6C/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0"&gt;Visit Amazon's Jo Nesbo Page&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h3&gt;Reviews&lt;/h3&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/The_Leopard.html"&gt;Euro Crime&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://petronatwo.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/the-leopard-by-jo-nesbo-tr-don-bartlett/"&gt;Petrona&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2011/03/leopard-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;Crime Scraps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/04/review-leopard-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2011/04/leopard-jo-nesb.html"&gt;International Noir Fiction&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://avidmysteryreader.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/the-leopard-by-jo-nesb%C3%B8-and-translated-by-don-bartlett/"&gt;Yet Another Crime Fiction Blog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scandinavianbooks.com/crime-book/norwegian/jo-nesbo3.html"&gt;Scandinavian Books&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://bookblog.scandinavianbooks.com/the-leopard-by-jo-nesbo/"&gt;Nordic Bookblog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-leopard-by-jo-nesb248-transdon-bartlett-2183847.html"&gt;The Independent&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/22/the-leopard-jo-nesbo-review"&gt;The Guardian&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=The_Leopard_by_Jo_Nesbo_and_Don_Bartlett"&gt;The Bookbag&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.milorambles.com/2011/01/20/the-leopard-by-jo-nesbo-book-review/"&gt;Milo’s Rambles&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.crimetime.co.uk/community/mag.php/showarticle/1754"&gt;Crime Time&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://crimeandpublishing.com/2011/01/16/jo-nesb%C3%B8-the-leopard/"&gt;Crime and Publishing&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;The Leopard por Jo Nesbo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; (Harry Hole # 8) comienza poco después de los hechos descritos en &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; (Harry Hole # 7). Es importante leer los dos libros en este orden para evitar spoilers y para una mejor comprensión de algunos personajes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Profundamente afectado por los acontecimientos narrados en &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;, Harry Hole ha dimitido de la Brigada Criminal de Oslo, abandona Noruega y no quiere que le encuentren. Rakel y Oleg le han abandonado. Su antiguo jefe, Gunnar Hagen, justifica su ausencia como una licencia hasta nuevo aviso, pero pronto le necesita. Se han encontrado los cuerpos de dos mujeres en circunstancias extrañas. Ambas muertes guardan cierta similitud, pero no se encuentra relación alguna entre ambos casos. Hagen envía a Kaja Solness para encontrar a Hole y le encuentra en la miseria de los fumaderos de opio de Hong Kong, muy endeudado y sin intención alguna de regresar a casa. Finalmente Hole accede a regresar al escuchar que su padre está gravemente enfermo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;De vuelta en Oslo nos encontramos a Hole en medio de una vieja pelea entre dos&amp;#160; departamentos de policía rivales, la Brigada Criminal de Oslo y Kripos. Al mismo tiempo, un asesino en serie anda suelto y el padre de Hole tiene una enfermedad terminal. Una tercera mujer, miembro del parlamento, es encontrada muerta colgando del trampolín de una piscina vacía. Y Hole hace un descubrimiento. Las tres mujeres habían coincidido una noche en un aislado albergue de montaña. La investigación de Hole le llevará a lugares tan lejanos como la República Democrática del Congo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Estos son algunos de los ingredientes que el lector encontrará entre las más de seiscientas páginas de esta novela. Tengo que admitir que dudé hasta el último momento sobre mi calificación. Mi admiración por los libros de Nebo no es ningún secreto. Pero finalmente he decidido no darle la nota más alta por varias razones.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;En pocas palabras &lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; es demasiado largo para mi gusto. En un determinado momento yo estaba deseando concluir su lectura. Esto no debería ocurrirme cuando estoy realmente disfrutando de un libro. Algunos fallos en la trama me han molestado. Algunos pasajes no están debidamente explicados o son difíciles de creer. También hay algunas descripciones morbosas innecesarias con demasiados detalles. Finalmente estoy detectando un cierto riesgo de caer en fórmulas que espero Nesbo evitará en sus próximos libros. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Pero yo no quisiera ser mal interpretado. &lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; es una historia atractiva, maravillosamente escrita. Tiene una trama apasionante llena de giros y vueltas y vale la pena leerlo.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8421640763701579180?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8421640763701579180/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8421640763701579180' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8421640763701579180'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8421640763701579180'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/leopard-by-jo-nesbo.html' title='The Leopard by Jo Nesbo'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-3919107590518374432</id><published>2011-04-26T19:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-27T18:01:07.152+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Reto 2011: No acumules: Lee'/><title type='text'>Reto 2011 “No acumules, ¡¡Lée!!”</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OnpmbFZrpBE/TVarrl5NyEI/AAAAAAAAAd0/ZZBV0-P4ERc/s1600/libros.jpg" width="265" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He encontrado este interesante desafío en Internet. Las reglas son simples, antes de comprar otro libro, haga una lista con seis de su estantería que tenga por leer y léalos. Una vez hecho esto puede continuar, comprar ese libro y, por supuesto, leerlo. Al mismo tiempo, haga otra lista con otros seis libros antes de comprar el siguiente, y así sucesivamente. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;No tengo ni idea del origen de este desafío, pero me gustó. Agradecería cualquier información sobre dónde y cuándo surgió. El blog que aparece en la fotografía no parece estar en funcionamiento. Un secreto, ayer me compré tres libros por Internet. Tendré que hacer tres listas antes de comprarme otro. Mientras tanto, los primeros seis títulos en mi lista son:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; by Adrian Hyland &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Muerte en Florencia&lt;/em&gt; de Marco Vichi &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Inspector and Silence&lt;/em&gt; by Hakan Nesser &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Echoes from the Death&lt;/em&gt; by Johan Theorin &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inspector Sing Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder&lt;/em&gt; by Shamini Flint &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revenger&lt;/em&gt; by Rory Clements &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;2011 Challenge “Do not Accumulate, Read!!”&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have found this interesting challenge on the Internet. The rules are simple, before you buy another book, make a list of six from your TBR pile and read them. Once done you can go ahead, buy the book and, of course, read it. At the same time make another list of six books before buying the next one, and so on and so forth. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have no idea of the origin of this challenge, but I liked it. I would appreciate any information on where and when was started. The blog that appears in the photograph does not seem to be operational. A secret; yesterday I bought three books on the Internet. I will have to make three lists before I can buy another one. Meanwhile, the first six titles in my list are:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; by Adrian Hyland &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Muerte en Florencia&lt;/em&gt; de Marco Vichi &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Inspector and Silence&lt;/em&gt; by Hakan Nesser &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Echoes from the Death&lt;/em&gt; by Johan Theorin &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Inspector Sing Investigates: A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder&lt;/em&gt; by Shamini Flint &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Revenger&lt;/em&gt; by Rory Clements &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;P.S.: A friend of mine provides the following link to the original challenge: &lt;a href="http://www.librosconalma.com/"&gt;http://www.librosconalma.com/&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks José María.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-3919107590518374432?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/3919107590518374432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=3919107590518374432' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3919107590518374432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3919107590518374432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/reto-2011-no-acumules-lee.html' title='Reto 2011 “No acumules, ¡¡Lée!!”'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OnpmbFZrpBE/TVarrl5NyEI/AAAAAAAAAd0/ZZBV0-P4ERc/s72-c/libros.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-5162679117975678806</id><published>2011-04-24T13:39:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-24T13:40:08.074+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La Noche de los Libros'/><title type='text'>La Noche de los Libros / The Night of the Books</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.lanochedeloslibros.com/ediciones/2011/imagenes/logo-noche-libros.gif" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=5125&amp;amp;URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&amp;amp;URL_SECTION=201.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;World Book and Copyright Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. The origins of the day come from Catalonia, where roses and books were given as gifts to loved ones on St. George’s Day – a tradition started over 90 years ago. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;World Book Day in the Community of Madrid is traditionally celebrated on the 23rd of April, but the 23rd falls on the same day as Holy Saturday this year. Thus, &lt;a href="http://www.madrid.org/lanochedeloslibros/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La Noche de los Libros&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (The Night of the Books) was moved to Wednesday 27 April 2011. Institutions, cultural centres, bookshops, libraries and cultural spaces in Madrid will open their doors to the public from 9.00 am until 1.00 am on the 28. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-5162679117975678806?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/5162679117975678806/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=5162679117975678806' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5162679117975678806'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5162679117975678806'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-noche-de-los-libros-night-of-books.html' title='La Noche de los Libros / The Night of the Books'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6982140930037120247</id><published>2011-04-23T16:02:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-23T16:04:30.180+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La cocina mediterránea'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Lourdes March'/><title type='text'>La cocina mediteránea de Lourdes March (Alianza, 2008)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.alianzaeditorial.es/jpg_g/alianza/LB00069703.jpg" width="161" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My suggestion today for Book and Rose Day. Bon appétit!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Through centuries of history, the countries bordering the Mediterranean have created forms of culture, art and ordinary life, ties that have lasted well into the roots of their kitchens. Lourdes March presents in this book the basics of the Mediterranean cuisine, which, based on the ancient triad of olives, wheat and grapes, has been rediscovered by the modern diet as the ideal form of nutrition for today’s busy people and an irreplaceable source of energy for the athlete. In this new revised and updated edition of a book as varied as suggestive not only the most typical and traditional recipes of the fourteen countries of the Mediterranean basin are recorded, but also data about the main factors that have led to the development and evolution of their diet.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For additional information click &lt;a href="http://www.derecoquinaria.com/libros-cocina/cocinas-mundo/otras-zonas/mediterranea/lourdes-march-lourdes-alcaniz/cocina-mediterranea-p-9736.html?language=es"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;HERE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;La cocina mediterránea&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Lourdes March&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://http://www.alianzaeditorial.es/cgigeneral/newFichaProducto.pl?obrcod=1871559&amp;amp;id_sello_editorial_web=34&amp;amp;id_sello_VisualizarDatos=34"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alianza Editorial, 2008&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;304 páginas&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;ISBN: 978-84-206-6295-4&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6982140930037120247?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6982140930037120247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6982140930037120247' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6982140930037120247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6982140930037120247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/la-cocina-mediteranea-de-lourdes-march.html' title='La cocina mediteránea de Lourdes March (Alianza, 2008)'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1951196578299516616</id><published>2011-04-23T13:52:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-23T13:53:34.061+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Books and Roses'/><title type='text'>Books and Roses</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;As the tradition states, today, 23 April, Catalonia celebrates St George’s Day (La Diada de Sant Jordi). A rose is given as a gift for each book sold. See also St George's Day at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Day"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. I just love this tradition.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1951196578299516616?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1951196578299516616/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1951196578299516616' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1951196578299516616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1951196578299516616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/books-and-roses.html' title='Books and Roses'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-3593468116788652749</id><published>2011-04-23T13:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-23T13:31:34.403+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ventorrillo Murciano (Restaurant)'/><title type='text'>In Madrid these days, try something different</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;After all the Mediterranean cuisine is not at odds with crime fiction and the restaurant &lt;a href="http://www.esmadrid.com/en/cargarAplicacionRestaurante.do?identificador=902"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ventorrillo Murciano&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, offers high quality rice from the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Region_of_Murcia"&gt;Region of Murcia&lt;/a&gt; in Madrid. The rice with rabbit and snails and the rice with cod-fish and vegetables, among others, are highly recommended. The local in rustic style is nice but very small. The service is friendly but unprofessional. The wine list is very short, the wines are only from the region, &lt;a href="http://www.santacecilia.es/tintos/1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jumilla&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.santacecilia.es/tintos/1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yecla&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but try to taste something different though. For example &lt;a href="http://www.santacecilia.es/casa_ermita_crianza_2006"&gt;Casa Ermita Crianza 2006&lt;/a&gt; and enjoy yourself.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esmadrid.com/en/cargarAplicacionRestaurante.do?identificador=902"&gt;Ventorrillo Murciano&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Calle Tres Peces 20, 28012 Madrid&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Zona: Centro&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Metro: Antón Martín (Línea 1)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Phone number: 91 528 83 09&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-3593468116788652749?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/3593468116788652749/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=3593468116788652749' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3593468116788652749'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3593468116788652749'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/in-madrid-these-days-try-something.html' title='In Madrid these days, try something different'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-3049057393545124062</id><published>2011-04-23T10:51:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-23T10:54:53.853+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='No mires atrás película de Andrea Molaioli'/><title type='text'>No mires atrás (La ragazza del lago, 2007) película de Andrea Molaioli (2)</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña y yo fuimos ayer a ver a &lt;em&gt;No mires atrás&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La ragazza del lago&lt;/em&gt;, 2007), la ópera prima del director italiano Andrea Molaioli, escrita por Sandro Pertaglia y Andrea Molaioli y basada en la novela &lt;em&gt;No mires atrás &lt;/em&gt;de Karin Fossum. La película fue premiada con 10 Donatellos, el equivalente a nuestros premios Goya. La localización en un pueblo del noreste italiano es todo un acierto. La interpretación de los actores es bastante adecuada. Tengo que admitir que me gustó la película, probablemente incluso más que la novela original, lo que suele ser bastante raro. Con todo es una película bastante decente, muy entretenida y adecuada para pasar un buen rato. Mi calificación 7 de 10 y muy recomendable.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;The Girl by the Lake (La ragazza del lago, 2007) film by Andrea Molaioli (2)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña and I went yesterday to see &lt;em&gt;The Girl by the Lake&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La ragazza del lago&lt;/em&gt;, 2007), the debut film of Italian director Andrea Molaioli, written by Sandro Pertaglia and Andrea Molaioli; and based on the novel &lt;em&gt;Don’t Look Back&lt;/em&gt; by Karin Fossum. The film was awarded with 10 Donatellos, the equivalent of our Goya awards. The setting in a northeast Italian village is quite an achievement. The actors’ performance is pretty adequate. I have to admit I liked the film, probably even more than the original book, which is rather unusual. All in all a pretty decent movie, very entertaining and suitable for a good time. My rating 7 out of 10 and highly recommended.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/no-mires-atras-una-pelicula-de-andrea.html"&gt;No mires atrás (2007) película de Andrea Molaioli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-3049057393545124062?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/3049057393545124062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=3049057393545124062' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3049057393545124062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3049057393545124062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/no-mires-atras-la-ragazza-del-lago-2007.html' title='No mires atrás (La ragazza del lago, 2007) película de Andrea Molaioli (2)'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-5301894765419756359</id><published>2011-04-22T21:55:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-22T22:23:34.862+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Incendies (2010) película de Denis Villeneuve'/><title type='text'>Incendies (2010) una película de Denis Villeneuve</title><content type='html'>&lt;h4&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://img846.imageshack.us/img846/9620/incendiescartel.jpg" width="141" height="200" /&gt; Incendies&lt;/em&gt; (2010) es una película canadiense dirigida por Denis Villeneuve con guión de Denis Villeneuve adaptado de la obra teatral de Wajdi Mouawad, y protagonizada por Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard. Estuvo nominada al Oscar de este año como mejor película en habla no inglesa y, en mi opinión, es muy superior a la ganadora. Estrenada en España el viernes 11 de marzo de 2011.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sinopsis:&lt;/b&gt; Cuando el notario Lebel (Rémy Girard) hace a los gemelos Jeanne y Simon Marwan (Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin y Maxim Gaudette) la lectura del testamento de su madre Nawal (Lubna Azabal), se quedan atónitos al ver que les hace entrega de dos sobres, uno destinado a un padre que ellos creían muerto y el otro a un hermano cuya existencia ignoraban. Jeanne ve en este enigmático legado la clave del silencio de Nawal, encerrada en un mutismo inexplicable en las últimas semanas antes de su muerte y decide viajar de inmediato al Próximo Oriente para exhumar el pasado de una familia de la que no sabe prácticamente nada...     &lt;br /&gt;A Simon no le importan los caprichos póstumos de una madre que siempre se ha mostrado distante y poco afectuosa con ellos, pero el cariño que siente por su hermana lo impulsará a reunirse con Jeanne y recorrer con ella el país de sus antepasados siguiendo la pista de una Nawal muy lejana de la madre que han conocido.     &lt;br /&gt;Respaldados por el notario Lebel, los gemelos se remontarán al comienzo de la historia de la mujer que les dio la vida y descubren un destino trágico marcado a fuego por la guerra y el odio..., y el valor de una mujer muy especial.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña y yo fuimos a ver esta película el pasado jueves 21 de abril. En pocas palabras es una película impresionante. La narración es muy cinematográfica, resulta difícil creer que se basa en una obra de teatro. La historia es desigual, con algunos altibajos que me impiden darle una calificación más alta. Resulta algo irregular en ocasiones. Pero la trama es muy intensa, aunque quizá no sea apta para algunos estómagos sensibles, porque puede resultar muy dura. En general es una película potente y emocionante que no nos puede dejar indiferentes a la tragedia. Mi calificación final es de 8 sobre 10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.incendies-lefilm.com/#/bandeannonce"&gt;Página web oficial&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;Incendies (2010) film by Denis Villeneuve&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://images.fandango.com/r85.4.0.1/ImageRenderer/140/210/images/no_image_140x210.jpg/137451/images/masterrepository/fandango/137451/incendiesposter.jpg" width="136" height="200" /&gt; &lt;em&gt;Incendies&lt;/em&gt; (2010) is a Canadian film directed by Denis Villeneuve, written by Denis Villeneuve adapted from Wajdi Mouawad’s play, and starring Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Desormeaux-Poulin, Maxim Gaudette, Rémy Girard. It was nominated this year for Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film and, in my opinion, it is a far superior film than the final winner. It was released in Spain on Friday March 11.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synosis:&lt;/strong&gt; When notary Lebel (Remy Girard) sits down with Jeanne and Simon Marwan (Melissa Desormeaux Poulin, Maxim Gaudette) to read them their mother Nawal's will (Lubna Azabal), the twins are stunned to receive a pair of envelopes -- one for the father they thought was dead and another for a brother they didn't know existed. In this enigmatic inheritance, Jeanne sees the key to Nawal's retreat into unexplained silence during the final weeks of her life. She immediately decides to go to the Middle East to dig into a family history of which she knows next to nothing.    &lt;br /&gt;Simon is unmoved by their mother's posthumous mind games. However, the love he has for his sister is strong, and he soon joins her in combing their ancestral homeland in search of a Nawal who is very different from the mother they knew. With Lebel's help, the twins piece together the story of the woman who brought them into the world, discovering a tragic fate as well as the courage of an exceptional woman.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña and I went to see this film last Thursday 21 April. In short it’s a stunning film. The narration is very cinematographic, and hard to believe it’s based on a play. The story is uneven with some ups and downs that prevents me to give it a higher score. It is somewhat irregular at times. But the plot is very intense, it might not be suitable for some sensitive stomachs, it is very tough. But overall is a very powerful and exciting film, and we cannot remain indifferent to the tragedy. My final rating is 8 out of 10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.incendies-lefilm.com/#/bandeannonce"&gt;Official website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:6395ae1e-4147-4b59-b1d3-9d1ffd840704" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="fe8034c9-9d53-4ed7-9c1a-a82e50d957dd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDf-XuYid1A" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TbHdVuQMx3I/AAAAAAAAU50/T8tE02-_jTE/video96c3cd651dc3%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('fe8034c9-9d53-4ed7-9c1a-a82e50d957dd'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/YDf-XuYid1A&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/YDf-XuYid1A&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-5301894765419756359?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/5301894765419756359/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=5301894765419756359' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5301894765419756359'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5301894765419756359'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/incendies-2010-una-pelicula-de-denis.html' title='Incendies (2010) una película de Denis Villeneuve'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TbHdVuQMx3I/AAAAAAAAU50/T8tE02-_jTE/s72-c/video96c3cd651dc3%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8612900190236234857</id><published>2011-04-22T16:10:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-22T16:50:43.061+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='En un mundo mejor (2010) película de Sussane Bier'/><title type='text'>En un mundo mejor (2010) película de Susanne Bier</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/1802/enunmundomejorcartel1.jpg" width="144" height="200" /&gt; En un mundo mejor&lt;/em&gt; (2010) cuyo título originál es &lt;em&gt;Hævnen &lt;/em&gt;es una película danesa dirigida por Susanne Bier, con guión de Anders Thomas Jensen y Susanne Bier, y protagonizada por Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Markus Rygaard, William Johnk Nielsen. Fue la ganadora a la mejor película en lengua no inglesa de la pasada edición de los Oscar. Se estrenó en España el viernes 1 de abril. Begoña y yo fuimos a verla el pasado martes 19 de abril.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Sinopsis:&lt;/b&gt; Anton es médico y divide su tiempo entre una pequeña ciudad idílica en Dinamarca y su trabajo en un campo de refugiados en África. En estos dos mundos tan diferentes, él y su familia se enfrentan a conflictos que les empujan a escoger entre la venganza y el perdón. Anton y su esposa Marianne tienen dos hijos, están separados y consideran la posibilidad de divorciarse. El mayor de sus hijos, Elias, de diez años, sufre el constante acoso de unos compañeros hasta que otro chico le defiende, Christian, que acaba de trasladarse a Dinamarca desde Londres con su padre, Claus. La madre de Christian acaba de perder su batalla contra el cancer, y Christian está muy afectado por su muerte. Entre Elias y Christian se forma rápidamente una estrecha amistad, pero cuando Christian involucra a Elias en un acto peligroso de venganza con consecuencias potencialmente trágicas, su amistad se pone a prueba y sus vidas se ponen en peligro. Finalmenten, son sus padres los que tienen que ayudarles a aceptar la complejidad de las emociones humanas, el dolor y la empatía.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La película me resultó demasiado lenta y me terminé aburriendo. La historia me pareció demasiado predecible y no consiguió emocionarme. Bonitos paisajes y poco más. En conjunto me defraudó pues había leído muy buenas críticas y alguna de las películas anteriores de Susanne Bier me habían interesado. Con todo mi puntuación es de 5 sobre 10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.golem.es/enunmundomejor/"&gt;Web oficial en español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;In a Better World (2010) a film by Susanne Bier&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://livingincinema.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/in-a-better-world-300x445.jpg" width="136" height="200" /&gt; In a Better World&lt;/em&gt; (2010), original title &lt;em&gt;Hævnen&lt;/em&gt;, is a Danish film directed by Susanne Bier, written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Susanne Bier, starring Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm, Ulrich Thomsen, Markus Rygaard, William Johnk Nielsen, and winner of the 2011 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It was released in Spain on Friday 1 April. Begoña and I went to see the film last Tuesday 19 April.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis:&lt;/strong&gt; Anton is a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian's mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy. &lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I found it too slow and I got bored. The story seemed to me too predictable and it did not touch me.&amp;#160; A beautiful scenery but nothing more. Overall I was disappointed since I had read some very good reviews and I did enjoyed some of Susanne Bier's previous films. Anyway I’ll give it a 5 out of 10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/inabetterworld/"&gt;Official site&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:6198f59e-d559-49c6-8b12-0be896b99578" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="648c968f-5b66-412b-9e95-137fd517d638" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2d528Nh-Kw" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TbGVwX_4lLI/AAAAAAAAU5s/0TIRNEApaXs/video73edc7800923%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('648c968f-5b66-412b-9e95-137fd517d638'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/r2d528Nh-Kw&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/r2d528Nh-Kw&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8612900190236234857?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8612900190236234857/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8612900190236234857' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8612900190236234857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8612900190236234857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/en-un-mundo-mejor-2010-pelicula-de.html' title='En un mundo mejor (2010) película de Susanne Bier'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TbGVwX_4lLI/AAAAAAAAU5s/0TIRNEApaXs/s72-c/video73edc7800923%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-930376001176140272</id><published>2011-04-21T11:08:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-21T12:59:54.993+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='La ragazza del lago (2007) película de Andrea Molaioli'/><title type='text'>No mires atrás (2007) película de Andrea Molaioli</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.elseptimoarte.net/carteles/no_mires_atras_8813.jpg" width="136" height="200" /&gt; Ayer se estrenó en Madrid &lt;em&gt;No mires atrás&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La ragazza del lago&lt;/em&gt;, 2007) película italiana dirigida por Andrea Molaioli, con guión de Sandro Petraglia, basado en un argumento de Sandro Petraglia y Andrea Molaioli, a partir de la novela de Karin Fossum, e interpretada por Toni Servillo (inspector Sanzio), Nello Mascia (Alfredo), Marco Baliani (Davide Nadal), Giulia Michelini (Francesca), Fausto Maria Sciarappa (inspector Siboldi). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Resumen: El cuerpo de una joven aparece junto a un lago en las montañas al norte de Italia. Sanzio, un oficial de policía de mediana edad cerca de la jubilación, está a cargo de la investigación. Tiene a su mujer enferma y no le reconoce. En esta aparentemente tranquila ciudad, Sanzio, acosado por sus problemas familiares, encontrará algo más que la verdad. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Confío en ir a verla pronto&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;The Girl by the Lake (2007) a film by Andrea Molaioli&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://pics.filmaffinity.com/The_Girl_by_the_Lake_La_ragazza_del_lago-708037678-large.jpg" width="141" height="200" /&gt; Yesterday &lt;em&gt;The Girl by the Lake&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La ragazza del lago,&lt;/em&gt; 2007), an Italian film directed by Andrea Molaioli, written by Sandro Petraglia, from a story by Sandro Petraglia and Andrea Molaioli, based on &lt;em&gt;Don’t Look Back&lt;/em&gt; by Karin Fossum, starring&amp;#160; Toni Servillo (Inspector Sanzio), Nello Mascia (Alfredo), Marco Baliani (Davide Nadal), Giulia Michelini (Francesca), Fausto Maria Sciarappa (inspector Siboldi), was released in Madrid&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Summary: &lt;em&gt;The body of young girl is found beside an alpine lake in northern Italy. Sanzio, a middle aged police officer, is in charge of investigation. He is almost at retirement age and has an ill wife who does not to recognize him. In this apparently quite town, Sanzio, pursued by his family troubles, will find more than just the truth.&lt;/em&gt; (from &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0770829/plotsummary"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;IMDb&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I expect to see it soon.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:baa2230b-3abd-416f-a7c3-13bcc8d440a0" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="383cb92a-d550-4550-b8f0-0ffdb4cb50d0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfx94ZVM3qU" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TbAOKa27nzI/AAAAAAAAU5k/7vyYChZ43Rg/videob78fc26b1841%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('383cb92a-d550-4550-b8f0-0ffdb4cb50d0'); 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by Guillermo Orsi I have found it useful to read about the Argentine economic crisis (1999-2002) in Wikipedia &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_economic_crisis_%281999%E2%80%932002%29"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;HERE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; which could also be of interest to you if you have read it or if you are looking forward to read this book. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can also find here a link to Guillermo Orsi’s blog: &lt;a href="http://guillermoorsi.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAFÉ PORTEÑO - Para mí, cortado (Guillermo Orsi)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Como estoy leyendo en este momento &lt;em&gt;Nadie ama a un policía&lt;/em&gt; de Guillermo Orsi he encontrado útil leer algo sobre la crisis económica argentina (1999-2002) en Wikipedia&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_econ%C3%B3mica_argentina_%281999-2002%29"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; que también podría ser de su interés si ha leído o está esperando leer este libro.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;También puede encontrar aquí un enlace con el blog de ​​Guillermo Orsi: &lt;a href="http://guillermoorsi.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;CAFÉ PORTEÑO - Para mí, cortado (Guillermo Orsi)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8021995753647860752?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8021995753647860752/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8021995753647860752' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8021995753647860752'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8021995753647860752'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/argentine-economic-crisis-19992002.html' title='Argentine economic crisis (1999–2002)'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8537846630778384285</id><published>2011-04-18T17:42:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-18T17:49:05.502+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Guillermo Orsi'/><title type='text'>The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, O is for Orsi, Guillermo Orsi</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Alphabet in Crime Fiction is a Community Meme hosted by Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;. This week’s letter is the letter “O”.&amp;#160; Click &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/04/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-o.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to see what others have contributed to this week's Crime Fiction Alphabet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GOG5q97_U8E/TZ-fl-IPFBI/AAAAAAAABnU/qEX8SU8R88g/s200/letter+O.jpg" width="98" height="100" /&gt; My “O” is for Orsi. Guillermo Orsi, Buenos Aires (1946), is regarded a master of modern noir fiction. He lives in Buenos Aires where he works as a journalist. Among his books we can find: &lt;em&gt;El vagón de los locos&lt;/em&gt; (Premio Emecé 1978, Emecé), &lt;em&gt;Cuerpo de mujer&lt;/em&gt; (1983, Ediciones Poniente), &lt;em&gt;Tripulantes de un viejo bolero&lt;/em&gt; (1994, Ediciones De la Flor), &lt;em&gt;Sueños de perro&lt;/em&gt; (Semana Negra Umbriel Award in 2004, Umbriel Editores), &lt;em&gt;Noches de Pelayo (&lt;/em&gt;finalist UNED Award in 2005, &lt;em&gt;Nadie ama a un policía&lt;/em&gt; (Premio Internacional de Novela Negra Ciudad de Carmona 2007, Almuzara) and &lt;em&gt;Ciudad Santa&lt;/em&gt; (Hammett Award to the best crime fiction book published originally in Spanish (Castilian) in 2009&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="50" height="75" /&gt;, Almuzara).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://maclehosepress.com/getImage.php?i=book-covers/9781906694029.jpg&amp;amp;w=170&amp;amp;alt=No-One Loves a Policeman - book cover" width="67" height="100" /&gt; I’m currently reading&lt;em&gt; &lt;a href="http://maclehosepress.com/book.php?id=9781906694029"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No-One Loves a Policeman&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; original title &lt;em&gt;Nadie ama a un policía.&lt;/em&gt; Translated by Nick Caistor and published by MacLehose Press, first edition 29 April 2010. The publisher’s blurb reads: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;It is December 2001, and Argentina is in economic meltdown. While the country wallows in corruption, cynicism and indifference, Gotán, an ex-cop from the Federal Police, lives in the past. He cannot forget the beguiling woman who briefly set alight his life - she disappeared as soon as he revealed he had worked for the 'National Shame'. Gotán is called urgently late one night to a friend’s coastal retreat. He arrives too late: his friend is dead and his girlfriend has vanished. Using all his resources to find the girl, Gotán finds himself embroiled in a plot that goes to the heart of Argentina itself. Though no longer part of the force, Gotán is still a cop by nature. But his is a dangerous undertaking: after all, no-one loves a policeman&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;No-One Loves a Policeman&lt;/em&gt; has been reviewed by &lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2010/07/noir-meets-real-life-in-argentina.html"&gt;International Noir Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2011/03/no-one-loves-policeman-guillermo-orsi.html"&gt;Crime Scraps&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://petronareviews.wordpress.com/2010/06/16/no-one-loves-a-policeman-by-guillermo-orsi/"&gt;Petrona&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen es un meme organizado por Kerrie en &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;. La letra de esta semana es la &amp;quot;O&amp;quot;. Haga click &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/04/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-o.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; para ver las contribuciones del resto de los participantes. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi &amp;quot;O&amp;quot; es por Orsi. Guillermo Orsi, Buenos Aires (1946), está considerado un maestro de la novela negra moderna. Vive en Buenos Aires, donde trabaja como periodista. Entre sus libros se encuentran: &lt;em&gt;El vagón de los locos&lt;/em&gt; (Premio Emecé 1978, Emecé), &lt;em&gt;Cuerpo de mujer&lt;/em&gt; (1983, Ediciones Poniente), &lt;em&gt;Tripulantes de un viejo bolero&lt;/em&gt; (1994, Ediciones De la Flor), &lt;em&gt;Sueños de perro&lt;/em&gt; (Premio Umbriel de la Semana Negra de Gijón en 2004, Umbriel Editores), &lt;em&gt;Noches de Pelayo&lt;/em&gt; (finalista del Premio UNED en 2005), &lt;em&gt;Nadie ama a un policía&lt;/em&gt; (Premio Internacional de Novela Negra Ciudad de Carmona 2007, Almuzara) y &lt;em&gt;Ciudad Santa&lt;/em&gt; (Premio Hammett a la mejor novela negra publicada originalmente en español (castellano) en el 2009, Almuzara).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.editorialalmuzara.com/img/0_tx_1179339529.jpg" width="65" height="100" /&gt; Actualmente estoy leyendo&lt;em&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;a href="http://www.editorialalmuzara.com/editorial.php?idioma=1&amp;amp;libro=104"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nadie ama a un policía&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (Almuzara, 2007). La propaganda editorial dice: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Un ex policía rompe su propia promesa de no atender el teléfono después de medianoche. Un amigo en apuros lo convoca a trescientos kilómetros de Buenos Aires. Volando por la autopista, mientras adormece el alma oyendo jazz del bueno, Pablo Martelli confía en llegar a tiempo.       &lt;br /&gt;La Argentina, entretanto, monta una vez más la ópera bufa de su naufragio: un gobierno débil, una sociedad agónica y desquiciada, un presidente absurdo, y argentinos a los botes.        &lt;br /&gt;Nadie llega a tiempo, huelga decirlo. Ni Martelli a la cita con su amigo, ni ciertos conspiradores que huyen hacia un futuro que ha quedado atrás. Al final de la aventura, el presidente argentino y un asesino serial –amantes padres de familia- tal vez hayan perdido su trabajo.         &lt;br /&gt;Poco más perderá Martelli. Aunque en algún momento crea haber alcanzado el paraíso&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8537846630778384285?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8537846630778384285/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8537846630778384285' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8537846630778384285'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8537846630778384285'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-o-is-for-orsi.html' title='The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, O is for Orsi, Guillermo Orsi'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GOG5q97_U8E/TZ-fl-IPFBI/AAAAAAAABnU/qEX8SU8R88g/s72-c/letter+O.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-756380212794093416</id><published>2011-04-16T11:32:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-16T11:36:29.098+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Aussie Authors Month'/><title type='text'>Aussie Authors Month</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://reactionstoreading.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/aussi_author_month011.gif?w=300&amp;amp;h=222" width="134" height="100" /&gt; Friends and fellow bloggers Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt; and Bernadette at &lt;a href="http://reactionstoreading.com/"&gt;Reactions to Reading&lt;/a&gt; remind me that April has been designated by someone as Aussie Authors Month. My intentions was, and still is, to read some of the books I have waiting on my TBR pile, particularly &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; (aka &lt;em&gt;Moonlight Downs&lt;/em&gt;) by Adrian Hyland, which I’m looking forward to start reading later next week. Meanwhile you can either check at &lt;a href="http://www.fairdinkumcrime.com/"&gt;Fair Dinkum Crime&lt;/a&gt; and at &lt;a href="http://www.crimedownunder.com/"&gt;Australian Crime Fiction Data Base&lt;/a&gt; where I’m sure you can find some good reading suggestions&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mis amigas y compañeras blogeras Kerrie en &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt; y Bernadette en &lt;a href="http://reactionstoreading.com/"&gt;Reactions to Reading&lt;/a&gt; me recuerdan que abril ha sido designado por alguien como el Mes de los Autores Australianos. Mi intención era, y continúa siendo, leer algunos de los libros que tengo esperando en mi montón de libros por leer, en concreto &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove &lt;/em&gt;(también conocido como &lt;em&gt;Moonlight Downs&lt;/em&gt;) de Adrian Hyland, que estoy deseando empezar a leer la próxima semana como más tarde. Mientras tanto pueden consultar en &lt;a href="http://www.fairdinkumcrime.com/"&gt;Fair Dinkum Crime&lt;/a&gt; y en &lt;a href="http://www.crimedownunder.com/"&gt;Australian Crime Fiction Data Base&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;a href="http://www.crimedownunder.com/"&gt;Australian Crime Fiction Data Base&lt;/a&gt; donde estoy seguro que podrán encontrar algunas buenas sugerencias para sus próximas lecturas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Algunos autores que se pueden conseguir con más facilidad en España son: &lt;a href="http://www.lecturalia.com/autor/6349/jon-cleary"&gt;Jon Cleary&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lecturalia.com/autor/6540/peter-temple"&gt;Peter Temple&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lecturalia.com/autor/3067/michael-robotham"&gt;Michael Robotham&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lecturalia.com/autor/6687/tara-moss"&gt;Tara Moss&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;#160; y &lt;a href="http://www.lecturalia.com/autores-optp/pa/autores-de/australia/aus"&gt;otros&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-756380212794093416?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/756380212794093416/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=756380212794093416' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/756380212794093416'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/756380212794093416'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/aussie-authors-month.html' title='Aussie Authors Month'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-7241427902286790370</id><published>2011-04-12T13:58:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T14:03:40.504+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jo Nesbo'/><title type='text'>The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, N is for Nesbø, Jo Nesbø</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Alphabet in Crime Fiction is a Community Meme hosted by Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;. This week we have arrived to letter “N”.&amp;#160; Check &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/04/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-n.html"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; to see what others have contributed to this week's Crime Fiction Alphabet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2NW-H9PSInE/TZ-e7E8sJbI/AAAAAAAABnQ/8GnL-U0wxAI/s200/Letter+N.jpg" width="98" height="100" /&gt; My “N” is for Nesbø. I don’t think this will come up as a surprise to any sporadic or regular reader of this blog. Jo Nesbø is actually one of my favourite writers. Jo Nesbø was born in 1960 in Oslo, Norway. After graduating from the Norwegian School of Economics, he worked as a freelance journalist and as a stockbroker. His first crime novel featuring Harry Hole,&amp;#160; &lt;i&gt;Flaggermusmannen&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Bat Man&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;em&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;was published in Norway in 1997 and was an instant hit, winning the Glass Key Award for best Nordic crime novel (an accolade shared with Peter Høeg, Henning Mankell and Stieg Larsson). After the success of his first novel, Jo Nesbø devoted his time to writing and to his other passion: music. He is also the main vocalist and songwriter for the Norwegian rock band Di Derre. In 2007 Nesbø also released his first children's book, &lt;i&gt;Doktor Proktors prompepulver&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="67" height="100" /&gt;Check &lt;a href="http://www.jonesbo.co.uk/jonesbo.asp"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for more information.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Jo Nesbø bibliography is available &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Nesb%C3%B8"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’m currently reading The&lt;em&gt; Leopard&lt;/em&gt; (Harry Hole #8, the sixth novel translated into English), I’m enjoying it very much. My review will be coming soon. In the meantime you can check my reviews of the previous books in the series: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2009/12/petirrojo-de-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Petirrojo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;em&gt;The Redbreast&lt;/em&gt;) in Spanish, &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/07/nemesis-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nemesis&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/12/devils-star-marekors-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Devil’s Star&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/redeemer-frelseren-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;The Redeemer,&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/snowman-by-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The next novel (Harry Hole #9) will be published in Norway on 9 June 2011. The Norwegian title is &lt;em&gt;Gjenferd&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;#160; A tentative English title is &lt;em&gt;Phantom&lt;/em&gt;. Nothing is known about the content of the book yet. According to the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, Jo Nesbø’s &lt;em&gt;Gjenferd&lt;/em&gt; is already a bestseller in Norway due to heavy pre-ordering. Besides, &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;, the seventh book in the series (in the original, Norwegian publishing order), will be published in the US in May this year.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other sites of interest:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jonesbo.com/"&gt;Jo Nesbø's official website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.jonesbo.co.uk/"&gt;Jo Nesbø's UK website&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salomonssonagency.se/php/author.php?lang=en&amp;amp;authid=34"&gt;The Salomonsson Agency&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/authors/6171/jo-nesbo/"&gt;Vintage books&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Nesb%C3%B8"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.scandinavianbooks.com/crime-book/norwegian/jo-nesbo.html"&gt;Scandinavian Books&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/books/books_by_jo_nesbo.html"&gt;Euro Crime&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen, letra “N”, por Nesbo, Jo Nesbo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El alfabeto del crimen es un meme organizado por Kerrie en &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;. Esta semana hemos llegado a la letra &amp;quot;N&amp;quot;. Vea AQUÍ las contribuciones de otros participantes. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi &amp;quot;N&amp;quot; es por Nesbø. No creo que esto sea una sorpresa para cualquier lector esporádico o habitual de este blog. Jo Nesbø es en realidad uno de mis escritores preferidos. Jo Nesbø nació en 1960 en Oslo, Noruega. Después de graduarse de la Escuela de Economía, trabajó como periodista independiente y como agente de bolsa. Su primera novela protagonizada por Harry Hole, &lt;em&gt;Flaggermusmannen&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;El Murciélago&lt;/em&gt;), fue publicada en Noruega en 1997 y tuvo un éxito inmediato, ganando el Premio Cristal clave como la mejor novela policíaca nórdica (un galardón compartido con Peter Høeg, Henning Mankell y Stieg Larsson ). Tras el éxito de su primera novela, Jo Nesbø dedicó su tiempo a escribir y a su otra pasión: la música. Es el principal vocalista y compositor de la banda de rock noruega Di Derre . En 2007 Nesbø también publicó su primer libro infantil, &lt;i&gt;Doktor Proktors prompepulver&lt;/i&gt;. Haga click &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Nesb%C3%B8"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; para ampliar esta información. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La bibliografía de Jo Nesbø está disponible &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Nesb%C3%B8"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; también.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Actualmente estoy leyendo &lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; (Harry Hole # 8, la sexta novela traducida al inglés), me está encantando. Mi reseña estará disponible en breve. Mientras tanto, pueden leer mis comentarios de los&amp;#160; libros anteriores en la serie: &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2009/12/petirrojo-de-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Petirrojo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;(&lt;em&gt;The Redbreast&lt;/em&gt;) en español, &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/07/nemesis-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nemesis&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/12/devils-star-marekors-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Devil’s Star&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/redeemer-frelseren-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Redeemer&lt;/em&gt; y &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/snowman-by-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La próxima novela (Harry Hole# 9) se publicará en Noruega el 9 de junio de 2011. El título original es &lt;em&gt;Gjenferd&lt;/em&gt;. Su título provisional en inglés es &lt;em&gt;Phantom. &lt;/em&gt;No se conoce el contenido del libro todavía. Según el diario noruego Dagbladet, &lt;em&gt;Gjenferd &lt;/em&gt;ya es un éxito de ventas en Noruega debido a la gran cantidad de peticiones que hay previas a su publicación.&amp;#160; Además, &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;, el séptimo libro de la serie (en su orden original) se publicará en los EE.UU. en mayo de este año. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Otros sitios de interés &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://detectivesdelibro.blogspot.com/2010/01/harry-hole-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harry Hole - Jo Nesbo en Mis detectives favorit@s&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rbalibros.com/jo-nesbo_autor-4339-es.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bibliografía de Jo Nesbo en español&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;a href="http://serienegra.es/etiqueta/jo-nesbo/"&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://serienegra.es/etiqueta/jo-nesbo/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Serie Negra&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-7241427902286790370?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/7241427902286790370/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=7241427902286790370' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7241427902286790370'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7241427902286790370'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-n-is-for-nesb.html' title='The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, N is for Nesbø, Jo Nesbø'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2NW-H9PSInE/TZ-e7E8sJbI/AAAAAAAABnQ/8GnL-U0wxAI/s72-c/Letter+N.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-7932639383607876941</id><published>2011-04-09T23:28:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-10T16:53:48.785+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ricardo Piglia'/><title type='text'>The Argentine Writer Ricardo Piglia Wins the National Critics Award 2010 for fiction</title><content type='html'>The Argentine writer Ricardo Piglia has won the 2010 &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio_de_la_Cr&amp;iacute;tica"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Critics Award&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for fiction in Spanish for his novel &lt;i&gt;Blanco nocturno&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Nocturnal Target&lt;/i&gt;). The award was given by the Spanish Association of Literary Critics today in Cáceres. My review of &lt;i&gt;Nocturnal Target&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Blanco nocturno&lt;/i&gt;) is &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/blanco-nocturno-de-ricardo-piglia.html"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;.   &lt;br /&gt;El escritor argentino Ricardo Piglia, con su obra &lt;i&gt;Blanco nocturno&lt;/i&gt; (Anagrama 2010), ha ganado el &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio_de_la_Cr%C3%ADtica"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Premio de la Crítica&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;de narrativa en lengua castellana de 2010. El premio ha sido otorgado por la Asociación Española de Críticos Literarios hoy en Cáceres. Mi reseña de &lt;i&gt;Blanco nocturno&lt;/i&gt; está &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/blanco-nocturno-de-ricardo-piglia.html"&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.   &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-7932639383607876941?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/7932639383607876941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=7932639383607876941' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7932639383607876941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7932639383607876941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/argentine-writer-ricardo-piglia-wins.html' title='The Argentine Writer Ricardo Piglia Wins the National Critics Award 2010 for fiction'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-892171225054591700</id><published>2011-04-09T13:29:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-09T13:32:37.223+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='John Connolly'/><title type='text'>The Charlie Parker Series by John Connolly</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Whisperers&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Voces que susurran&lt;/em&gt;), the tenth book in the Charlie Parker series by John Connolly, will be released next 12th April in Spain by Tusquets Editores.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El próximo 12 de abril saldrá a la venta en España, publicado por Tusquets Editores, &lt;em&gt;Voces que susurran&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Whisperers&lt;/em&gt;) de John Connolly, el décimo de la serie protagonizada por Charlie Parker.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The following books make up the Charlie Parker Series to date:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Los siguientes libros constituyen la serie de Charlie Parker hasta la fecha:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Every Dead Thing,&lt;/i&gt; 1999. Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Todo lo que muere&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en marzo de 2004. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;Dark Hollow,&lt;/i&gt; 2000. Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;El poder de las tinieblas&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en octubre de 2004. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Killing Kind,&lt;/i&gt; 2001. Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Perfil asesino&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en marzo de 2005. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The White Road,&lt;/i&gt; 2002. Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;El camino blanco&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en mayo de 2006.&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Reflecting Eye&lt;/em&gt;, 2004. A novella included in &lt;i&gt;Nocturnes&lt;/i&gt;, his collection of short stories.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Black Angel,&lt;/i&gt; 2005. Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;El angel negro&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en junio de 2007. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Unquiet,&lt;/i&gt; 2007. Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Los atormentados&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en mayo de 2008. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Reapers,&lt;/i&gt; 2008. Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Los hombres de la guadaña&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en mayo de 2009. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Lovers,&lt;/i&gt; 2009. Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Los amantes&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en febrero de 2010. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;The Whisperers,&lt;/i&gt; 2010.Publicado en español como &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Voces que susurran&amp;quot;&lt;/i&gt; por Tusquets Editores en abril de 2011. &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Burning Soul&lt;/em&gt;, 2011. (Release date 1 September 2011)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.johnconnollybooks.com/"&gt;&lt;font color="#333333"&gt;For &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;additional information visit:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Para más información visite:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.johnconnollybooks.com/"&gt;John Connolly Official Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tusquetseditores.com/titulos/andanzas-voces-que-susurran"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tusquets Editores&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/The_Whisperers.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Whisperers, Pat Austin review at Euro Crime&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-892171225054591700?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/892171225054591700/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=892171225054591700' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/892171225054591700'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/892171225054591700'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/charlie-parker-series-by-john-connolly.html' title='The Charlie Parker Series by John Connolly'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6190475555551658201</id><published>2011-04-08T18:27:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-08T18:28:51.283+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Michael Connelly'/><title type='text'>On Sale Soon</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/var/orion_site/storage/images/books/the-fifth-witness-hardback/431094-14-eng-GB/The-Fifth-Witness-9781409114420_book_main_page.jpg" width="106" height="160" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;As from next 14th April, the 23rd novel by Michael Connelly entitled &lt;em&gt;The Fifth Witness&lt;/em&gt;, will be available in the UK and Ireland. It is the fourth one featuring Los Angeles criminal defence attorney Michael &amp;quot;Mickey&amp;quot; Haller.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;A partir del próximo 14 de abril estará disponible en el Reino Unido e Irlanda la novela de Michael Connelly número 23 titulada &lt;em&gt;El quinto testigo. &lt;/em&gt;La cuarta protagonizada por el abogado defensor de Los Ángeles Michael &amp;quot;Mickey&amp;quot; Haller. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For additional information visit:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;ul&gt;         &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.orionbooks.co.uk/books/the-fifth-witness-hardback"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Orion Publishing Group&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;          &lt;li&gt;           &lt;h5&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;ved=0CBgQFjAA&amp;amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelconnelly.com%2F&amp;amp;rct=j&amp;amp;q=Michael%20Connelly%20website&amp;amp;ei=RS2fTem8J822hAeuxrWABQ&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNE8Ze7IFyqgXJsaIqXpqvdcgN_bHw&amp;amp;sig2=MyFXrzmBdpjEoPf1Id_T0Q&amp;amp;cad=rja"&gt;Michael Connelly Official Web Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt; 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 &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scandinavian-Crime-Fiction-published-in-2011/lm/R1422JBACE0KG5/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_alt_1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scandinavian Crime Fiction published in 2011&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scandinavian-Crime-Fiction-published-in-2010/lm/R3G5XXLTEQYUM5/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_alt_1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scandinavian Crime Fiction published in 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scandinavian-Crime-Fiction-published-in-2009/lm/R38JQ844R24EPY/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_alt_1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scandinavian Crime Fiction published in 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;By the way Karen blogs at &lt;a href="http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Euro Crime&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Go visit her blog, it's full of interesting suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;No saben qué leer?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Déjenme que les tiente con la novela negra escandinava   &lt;br /&gt;Aquí tienen la información que nos proporciona Karen Meek en Amazon:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scandinavian-Crime-Fiction-published-in-2011/lm/R1422JBACE0KG5/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_alt_1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scandinavian Crime Fiction published in 2011&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scandinavian-Crime-Fiction-published-in-2010/lm/R3G5XXLTEQYUM5/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_alt_1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scandinavian Crime Fiction published in 2010&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scandinavian-Crime-Fiction-published-in-2009/lm/R38JQ844R24EPY/ref=cm_srch_res_rpli_alt_1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Scandinavian Crime Fiction published in 2009&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Por cierto el blog de Karen, &lt;a href="http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Euro Crime&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, merece la pena. Vayan a visitarlo, está lleno de sugerencias interesantes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6548641855636403442?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6548641855636403442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6548641855636403442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6548641855636403442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6548641855636403442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/don-know-what-to-read.html' title='Don&amp;#39;t know what to read?'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8199536516996486318</id><published>2011-04-06T10:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-06T10:58:22.315+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Camilla Lackberg'/><title type='text'>Camilla Lackberg</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I must admit that for some strange reason I have not read Camilla Läckberg yet. Perhaps due to her success in Spain. She has always been on top of the bestseller lists these last years. But finally I decided to put my prevention aside, read her first book and judge for myself. Stay tuned. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, I thought that this note on her books, in the original Swedish, in Spanish and in English, could be of interest to some of the regular or occasional readers of this blog.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Debo admitir que por alguna extraña razón no he leído todavía a Camilla Läckberg. Tal vez debido a su éxito en España. Ella siempre ha estado en lo más alto de la listas de los libros más vendidos estos últimos años. Pero finalmente me decidí a abandonar mi prevención, leer su primer libro y juzgar por mí mismo. Manténgase en sintonía. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mientras tanto, pensé que esta nota sobre sus libros, en el original sueco, en español y en inglés, puede ser de interés para algunos de los lectores habituales u ocasionales de este blog.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;2002 - &lt;i&gt;Isprinsessian&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maeva.es/colecciones/mistery-plus/la-princesa-de-hielo"&gt;La Princesa de Hielo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;The Ice Princess&lt;/i&gt;, 2008.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2004 - &lt;i&gt;Predikanten&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maeva.es/colecciones/mistery-plus/los-gritos-del-pasado"&gt;Los Gritos del Pasado&lt;/a&gt; - The Preacher&lt;/i&gt;, 2009.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2005 - &lt;i&gt;Stenhuggaren&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maeva.es/colecciones/mistery-plus/las-hijas-del-frio"&gt;Las Hijas del Frío&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;The Stonecutter&lt;/i&gt;, 2010.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2006 - Olycksfågeln - &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maeva.es/colecciones/mistery-plus/crimen-en-directo"&gt;Crimen en directo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;The Gallows Bird&lt;/i&gt;, 2011.&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2006 – &lt;i&gt;Snöstorm och mandeldoft&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2007 - &lt;i&gt;Tyskungen&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.maeva.es/colecciones/mistery-plus/las-huellas-imborrables"&gt;Las huellas imborrables&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/i&gt;(?) -&lt;i&gt; The German Brat&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2008 - &lt;i&gt;Sjöjungfrun&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;La Sirena - The Mermaid&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2009 - &lt;i&gt;Fyrvaktaren&lt;/i&gt; - &lt;i&gt;El Farero - The Lighthouse Guardian&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Spanish publisher Maeva will release next 4&lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt; May 2011, &lt;i&gt;Las huellas imborrables&lt;/i&gt;, but I’m not sure of its original Swedish title, perhaps &lt;i&gt;Tyskungen&lt;/i&gt;. Honestly, I think publishers should provide more precise information in this sense.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La editorial española, Maeva, lanzará el próximo 4 de mayo 2011, &lt;i&gt;Las&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt; huellas imborrables&lt;/i&gt;, pero no estoy seguro de su título original en sueco, tal vez &lt;i&gt;Tyskungen&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;.&lt;/i&gt; Sinceramente, creo que los editores deberían dar una información más precisa en este sentido.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://detectivesdelibro.blogspot.com/2009/11/erica-falck-y-patrik-hedstrom-camilla.html"&gt;Mis detectives favorit@s&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Camilla-L-auml;ckberg/e/B0034Q3W2U/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0"&gt;Visit Amazon's Camilla Läckberg Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_L%C3%A4ckberg"&gt;Wikipedia in Spanish&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_L%C3%A4ckberg"&gt;Wikipedia in English&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.camillalackberg.se/"&gt;Official Website (in Swedish)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8199536516996486318?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8199536516996486318/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8199536516996486318' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8199536516996486318'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8199536516996486318'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/camilla-lackberg.html' title='Camilla Lackberg'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6177713907386062543</id><published>2011-04-05T18:47:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T20:23:28.852+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fred Vargas'/><title type='text'>Un lugar incierto de Fred Vargas</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Traducción de Anne-Hélène Suárez Girard, 2010. Título original: &lt;em&gt;Un lieu incertain&lt;/em&gt;. Édtions Viviane Hamy, 2008. Ediciones Siruela, punto de lectura, 2011. 348 páginas. ISBN: 978-84-663-1978-2. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.puntodelectura.com/uploads/imagenes/libro/portada/201103/portada-un-lugar-incierto_med.jpg" width="106" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Un lugar incierto&lt;/em&gt; comienza con Adamsberg, junto con el comandante Danglard y el joven cabo Estelère, camino de Londres para asistir a una conferencia de tres días sobre la gestión de los flujos migratorios. Una noche, junto con su colega Radstock de New Scotland Yard, se encuentran con un aristócrata excéntrico y borracho, Lord Clyde-Fox, hablando de una gran cantidad de zapatos alineados en la acera, tratando de entrar en el antiguo cementerio de Highgate. No están interesados, salvo cuando averiguan que los zapatos tienen los pies dentro, cortadas a la altura de la rodilla.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;De vuelta en París, la policía se encuentra una escena indescriptible en una casa en Garches. Pierre Vaudel, un periodista de setenta y ocho años especializado en casos judiciales, ha sido asesinado. Su cuerpo ha sido totalmente destruido y sus restos han sido esparcidos por todas partes. A medida que la investigación avanza se enteran de un caso similar en Austria. Y la intuición de Adamsberg le lleva a un lugar incierto, a un pequeño pueblo de Serbia tras un rastro de vampiros.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Contrariamente a lo que puede parecer a primera vista no se trata de una novela fantástica, con vampiros y otras criaturas imaginarias. Este es, sin duda, uno de los mayores logros de Vargas, la forma en que integra una amplia variedad de elementos extraordinarios en un argumento totalmente plausible, y lo que le convierte en una escritora muy innovadora y original, en mi opinión. Ella nos lleva a un torbellino de escenas e historias que parece totalmente inconexas pero que al final acaban teniendo sentido y, como piezas de un rompecabezas, encajan perfectamente. Una lectura exigente pero muy entretenida. Además Adamsberg es uno de los personajes más insólitos que podemos encontrar hoy en día en las novelas de crimen y misterio. Es intuitivo, carece de toda metodología de investigación, pero es capaz de sacar ventaja de todos los elementos que se encuentra en su vida cotidiana. Sin duda alguna una novela excelente. Soberbia.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.puntodelectura.com/es/libro/un-lugar-incierto-1/"&gt;Punto de Lectura&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.viviane-hamy.fr/fiche-ouvrage.asp?O=225"&gt;Editions Viviane Hamy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.puntodelectura.com/es/noticia/atracciones-perversas-por-rosa-montero/"&gt;Atracciones perversas, por Rosa Montero&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;An Uncertain Place by Fred Vargas&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/covers_450/9781846554452.jpg" width="107" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An Uncertain Place&lt;/em&gt; opens with Adamsberg, together with commander Danglard and young caporal Estelère, on their way to London to attend a three-day conference on management of migration flows. One night, together with their colleague Radstock of New Scotland Yard, they meet an eccentric and drunk aristocrat, Lord Clyde-Fox, talking about a fair amount of shoes lined up on the sidewalk trying to enter the old cemetery at Highgate. They are not interested, except when they find out that the shoes have their feet inside, severed at the height of the knee.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Back in Paris the police finds an indescribable scene in a house in Garches. Pierre Vaudel, a seventy-eight years old journalist specialised on judicial cases, has been murdered. His body has been totally destroyed and his remains have been scattered everywhere. As the investigation progresses they hear of a similar case in Austria. And Adamsberg's intuition leads him to an uncertain place, a small town in Serbia following a trail of vampires.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Contrary to what it may seems at first glance we are not dealing with fantastic fiction, with vampires and other imaginary creatures. This is, without doubt, one of Vargas’ greatest achievements, the way she integrates a wide variety of extraordinary elements into a totally plausible argument, and what makes her an extremely innovative and original writer in my view. She takes us into a whirlwind of scenes and stories that seems totally disjointed but finally everything makes sense and, like pieces of a puzzle, fit perfectly well. A demanding read but very entertaining. In addition Adamsberg is one of the most unusual characters we can find today in crime fiction. He is intuitive, lacks all investigation methodology, but he is able to take advantage of all the elements found on his everyday life. Without doubt this is an excellent novel. Superb. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781846554452"&gt;Random House&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6177713907386062543?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6177713907386062543/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6177713907386062543' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6177713907386062543'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6177713907386062543'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/un-lugar-incierto-de-fred-vargas.html' title='Un lugar incierto de Fred Vargas'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1701289684450503620</id><published>2011-04-05T13:15:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-05T13:27:45.018+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fred Vargas'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Le commissaire Adamsberg'/><title type='text'>Le commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I have recently finished reading &lt;i&gt;An Uncertain Place&lt;/i&gt; by Fred Vargas, my review is coming on due time. A five stars read for my taste. Vargas’ main character is le commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, head of the &lt;em&gt;Brigade Criminelle&lt;/em&gt; Paris 13th district, the Serious Crime Squad. If my information is correct, he can be found in the following books: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Acabo de leer &lt;em&gt;Un lugar incierto&lt;/em&gt; de Fred Vargas, mi comentario llegará a su debido tiempo. Un cinco estrellas&amp;#160; para mi gusto. El personaje principal de Vargas es el comisario Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, jefe de la brigada criminal en el distrito 13 de París, la brigada que se ocupa de los delitos más graves. Si mi información es correcta, nos lo podemos encontrar en los siguientes libros: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;1996 - &lt;i&gt;L'Homme aux cercles bleus&lt;/i&gt;; English title: &lt;i&gt;The Chalk Circle Man&lt;/i&gt;, 2009. Spanish title:&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?opcion=buscar&amp;amp;id_libro=657"&gt;El hombre de los círculos azules&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;1999 - &lt;i&gt;L'Homme à l'envers&lt;/i&gt;; English title: &lt;i&gt;Seeking Whom He May Devour&lt;/i&gt;, 2004, (Prix Mystère de la critique). Spanish title:&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?opcion=autor&amp;amp;letra=V&amp;amp;id_libro=1500"&gt;El hombre del revés&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2000 - &lt;i&gt;Les quatre fleuves&lt;/i&gt;; English title: &lt;i&gt;The Four Rivers&lt;/i&gt;. Graphic novel (with Edmond Baudoin). Spanish title: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.astiberri.com/ficha_prod.php?cod=loscuatrorios"&gt;Los cuatro ríos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2001 - &lt;i&gt;Pars vite et reviens tard&lt;/i&gt;; English title: &lt;i&gt;Have Mercy on Us All&lt;/i&gt;, 2003, (Prix des libraires). Spanish title:&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?opcion=buscar&amp;amp;id_libro=585"&gt;Huye rápido, vete lejos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2002 – &lt;em&gt;Coule la Seine.&lt;/em&gt; Three short novels: &lt;i&gt;Salut et liberté&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;i&gt;La Nuit des brutes and &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;Cinq francs pièce&lt;/i&gt; (with Edmond Baudoin) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2004 - &lt;i&gt;Sous les vents de Neptune&lt;/i&gt;; English title: &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.enotes.com/topic/Wash_This_Blood_Clean_from_My_Hand"&gt;Wash This Blood Clean from My Hand&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, 2007. Spanish title:&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?opcion=buscar&amp;amp;id_libro=983"&gt;Bajo los vientos de Neptuno&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2006 - &lt;i&gt;Dans les bois éternels&lt;/i&gt;; English title: &lt;i&gt;This Night's Foul Work&lt;/i&gt;, 2008. Spanish title:&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?opcion=buscar&amp;amp;id_libro=1155"&gt;La tercera virgen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2008 - &lt;i&gt;Un lieu incertain&lt;/i&gt;; English title: &lt;i&gt;An Uncertain Place&lt;/i&gt;, 2011. Spanish title:&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?opcion=buscar&amp;amp;id_libro=1369"&gt;Un lugar incierto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;2010 - &lt;em&gt;Le marchand d'éponges&lt;/em&gt;; Graphic novel (with Edmond Baudin) based in &lt;i&gt;Cinq francs pièce&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In &lt;i&gt;Un peu plus loin sur la droite&lt;/i&gt; (1996), Adamsberg is only mentioned, he is not involved in the plot. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;En &lt;i&gt;Un peu plus loin sur la droite&lt;/i&gt;(1996), Adamsberg sólo aparece mencionado, no interviene en la trama. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Adamsberg’s appearance is messy and his main difference with other police investigators is his lack of method. He is unable to analyse or to sustain a consistent argument during a long period of time. He is quite unpredictable but he achieves spectacular results thanks to his intuition and sensibility. He’s one of a kind. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El aspecto de Adamsberg es desordenado y su principal diferencia con otros investigadores de la policía es su falta de método. Es incapaz de analizar o de sostener un argumento consistente durante mucho tiempo. Bastante impredecible, logra resultados espectaculares gracias a su intuición y a su sensibilidad. Es único.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h5&gt;Links: &lt;/h5&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://detectivesdelibro.blogspot.com/2011/03/jean-baptiste-adamsberg-fred-vargas.html"&gt;Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg - Fred Vargas (Mis dectectives favorit@s)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Adamsberg"&gt;Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg at Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.moleskine.com/moleskinecity/wordswriters/paris_seen_through_the_clouds_of_commissaire_adamsberg.php"&gt;Paris, seen through the clouds of commissaire Adamsberg&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2009/11/la-tercera-virgen-de-fred-vargas.html"&gt;My review: La tercera virgen de Fred Vargas&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1701289684450503620?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1701289684450503620/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1701289684450503620' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1701289684450503620'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1701289684450503620'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/le-commissaire-jean-baptiste-adamsberg.html' title='Le commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6116812507305591420</id><published>2011-04-04T12:40:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T12:53:18.124+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö'/><title type='text'>The Abominable Man (Den vedervärdige mannen från Säffle, 1971) by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The seventh book in the martin Beck series, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abominable_Man"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Abominable Man&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Den vedervärdige mannen från Säffle&lt;/i&gt;, 1971) will be published by RBA in Spanish under de title: &lt;em&gt;El abominable hombre de Saffle&lt;/em&gt;. Stay tuned.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sellorba.com/el-abominable-hombre-de-saffle_maj-sjowall-per-whaloo_libro-OAFI544-es.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RBA LIBROS SERIE NEGRA&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; publicará próximamente el séptimo libro en la serie de Martin Beck con el título: &lt;em&gt;El abominable hombre de Saffle&lt;/em&gt;. Permanezcan sintonizados. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.sellorba.com/el-abominable-hombre-de-saffle_maj-sjowall-per-whaloo_libro-OAFI544.jpg" width="100" height="150" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sinopsis: “&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cuando un veterano agente de la policía sueca muere asesinado en un hospital, el comisario Martin Beck cree encontrarse ante un caso de fácil resolución. El cuerpo del difunto, que presenta profundas heridas de bayoneta, ha debido ser el blanco de un maníaco que se ha ensañado a conciencia con su víctima. Pero Beck irá atando cabos a medida que la investigación del brutal asesinato avance, topándose de repente con un historial de abusos y brutalidad policial que no deja precisamente en buen lugar a la víctima. Los expeditivos métodos del agente Nyman convierten a cualquiera que haya pasado por una de sus celdas en un potencial asesino en busca de venganza&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/35/cb/35cbc0685a8df9c59357a4556414141414c3441.jpg" width="107" height="160" /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Synopsis&lt;/strong&gt;: “&lt;em&gt;The gruesome murder of a police captain in his hospital room reveals the unsavoury history of a man who spent forty years practicing a horrible blend of strong-arm police work and shear brutality. Martin Beck and his colleagues feverishly comb Stockholm for the murderer, a demented and deadly rifleman, who has plans for even more chaos. As the tension builds and a feeling of imminent danger grips Beck, his investigation unearths evidence of police corruption. That’s when an even stronger sense of responsibility and something like shame urge him into taking a series of drastic steps, which lead to a shocking disaster.”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6116812507305591420?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6116812507305591420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6116812507305591420' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6116812507305591420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6116812507305591420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/abominable-man-den-vedervardige-mannen.html' title='The Abominable Man (Den vedervärdige mannen från Säffle, 1971) by Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-4161330832819494653</id><published>2011-04-04T09:49:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-04T09:54:11.176+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ernesto Mallo'/><title type='text'>The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, M is for Mallo, Ernesto Mallo</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gWXX81h19s0/TZfVZ_Hc3NI/AAAAAAAABnE/57SYKKJLX8g/s200/letter+m2.jpg" width="104" height="100" /&gt; The Alphabet in Crime Fiction is a Community Meme hosted by Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;. It is never too late to join in on this meme and you don't have to post each week if reading (&lt;i&gt;or life&lt;/i&gt;) gets in the way. Check &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/04/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-m.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to see who else has posted and visit their blog (and leave a comment if you can).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My “M” is for Mallo, Ernesto Mallo&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;(Argentina 1948) started out as a playwright and script writer, beginning his career as a novelist in 2004. His first novel &lt;em&gt;Needle in a Haystack&lt;/em&gt; (Bitter Lemon, 2010) – Original Spanish title: &lt;em&gt;La aguja en el pajar&lt;/em&gt; (Planeta, 2006) aka &lt;em&gt;Crimen en el Barrio del Once&lt;/em&gt;, was a finalist for the Clarín-Alfaguara Novel Prize, in 2006, and received the Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize 2007, given during the Noir Week festival held in Gijón. Belonging to the detective genre, Mallo’s novels, while works of fiction, are always grounded in precise historical moments. (From &lt;a href="http://www.schavelzon.com/en/autor/59/ernesto-mallo/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Guillermo Schavelzon Agencia Literaria&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sweet Money&lt;/em&gt; (Bitter Lemon, 2011) – Original Spanish title: &lt;em&gt;Delincuente argentino&lt;/em&gt; (Planeta, 2007), his second novel, will be released in the UK in June 2011 and in the US in October 2011. &lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="67" height="100" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;See also &lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/authors/ernesto-mallo.asp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bitter Lemon Press&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/images_books/books/65_165.jpg" width="106" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publisher’s blurb&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Two are clearly the work of the junta's death squads, and so should not be investigated by the police, but the other one seems different. Lascano follows the trail, leading the reader on a tour of a Buenos Aires poisoned to the core by the military regime.      &lt;br /&gt;Lascano must navigate gingerly among characters symbolic of an Argentina that has lost its way: Amancio, whose privileged upbringing makes him unable to deal with the collapse of his fortunes; Biterman, the miser, embittered beyond hope by his experiences in Nazi Germany; Eva the young radical, condemned to a life on the run, death or exile, but forced to take refuge with a cop; Giribaldi, the army major, quick to help old friends, but cruel and contemptuous of everyday civilians. Buenos Aires, corrupted by the military regime, is as important a character as any other.       &lt;br /&gt;Lascano must uphold the law among the people and turn a blind eye to the actions of the regime, trying to bring justice to an unjust society, where some crimes are for investigation, others are not. Of course, the crime he investigates in Needle in a Haystack turns out to be one of those he should not.&lt;/em&gt; [&lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/press_and_reviews.asp?bok=65&amp;amp;mod=1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Reviews&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;] &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/reader/1904738567/ref=sib_dp_ptu#reader-link"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Search inside this book.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Following &lt;em&gt;Needle In a Haystack&lt;/em&gt; (Bitter Lemon, 2010), the second book in the trilogy featuring Inspector Lascano, &lt;em&gt;Sweet Money&lt;/em&gt; (Bitter Lemon, 2011), is set in the early 1980s, just after the fall of the dictatorship.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/images_books/books/73_165.jpg" width="106" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publisher’s blurb&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Superintendent Lascano is drawn into a war between the Buenos Aires Chief of Police and the Apostles, drug-dealing cops who want to control the city. When the Chief of Police is murdered Lascano becomes the Apostles’ next target. His only way out of the country is to retrieve the loot from a bungled bank robbery.      &lt;br /&gt;Mallo paints a scathing portrait of Argentina where the Junta’s generals are paraded in court in civilian clothes, treated like mere petty thieves. The mothers and grandmothers of “The Plaza de Mayo” see the people who have stolen their children go unpunished; corruption and violence continue to rule. But at the centre of the novel is a touching portrayal of two broken men, a cop and a robber, whose humanity is sorely tested by the times and events racking this proud country&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ernesto-Mallo/e/B0039160LK/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0"&gt;Visit Amazon's Ernesto Mallo Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ernestomallo.com.ar/"&gt;Ernesto Mallo’s Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;My previous posts:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/08/needle-in-haystack-la-aguja-en-el-pajar.html"&gt;Needle in a Haystack (La aguja en el pajar) by Ernesto Mallo (1)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-aguja-en-el-pajar-needle-in-haystack.html"&gt;La aguja en el pajar / Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo (2)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-aguja-en-el-pajar-needle-in-haystack_31.html"&gt;La aguja en el pajar /Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo (y/and 3)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/10/delincuente-argentino-by-ernesto-mallo.html"&gt;Delincuente Argentino by Ernesto Mallo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/12/sweet-money-original-title-delincuente.html"&gt;Sweet Money (original title: Delincuente Argentino) by Ernesto Mallo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/crimen-en-el-barrio-del-once-la-aguja.html"&gt;Crimen en el Barrio del Once (La aguja en el pajar) de Ernesto Mallo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen, M es por Mallo, Ernesto Mallo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen es un meme organizado por Kerrie en &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt; Nunca es demasiado tarde para unirse a este meme y usted no tiene por&amp;#160; qué publicar cada semana si la lectura (o la vida) se interpone en el camino.&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/04/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-m.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; puede ver lo que otros participantes han publicado, visitar su blog y dejar un comentario si quiere.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi &amp;quot;M&amp;quot;es por Mallo, Ernesto Mallo (Argentina 1948) se inició como dramaturgo y guionista y, el 2004 empezó su faceta como novelista. Su primera novela &lt;em&gt;La aguja en el pajar&lt;/em&gt; (Planeta, 2006), se acaba de publicar en España como &lt;em&gt;Crimen en el Barrio del Once&lt;/em&gt; (Siruela, 2011), fue finalista del Premio Clarín-Alfaguara de Novela, 2006 y obtuvo el Premio Memorial Silverio Cañada, que otorga la Semana Negra de Gijón. Adscrito al género policial, las novelas de Mallo, aunque relatos de ficción, siempre tienen anclajes y personajes en momentos históricos precisos. (&lt;a href="http://www.schavelzon.com/autor/59/ernesto-mallo/"&gt;Guillermo Schavelzon Agencia Literaria&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;). Delincuente argentino&lt;/em&gt; (Planeta, 2007), su segunda novela, será publicada en el Reino Unido en junio de 2011 y en los EE.UU. en octubre de 2011.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.siruela.com/libros/7521185.jpg" width="104" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;En España &lt;em&gt;La aguja en el pajar&lt;/em&gt; (Planeta, 2006),se ha publicado en Siruela bajo el título &lt;em&gt;Crimen en el Barrio del Once&lt;/em&gt;. La propaganda de la editorial dice: “&lt;em&gt;Lascano, el Perro, un comisario de policía trastornado por la reciente muerte de su mujer, recibe un aviso: han aparecido dos cadáveres cerca del Riachuelo. Pero en el lugar del crimen descubrirá un tercer cuerpo que no tiene las características de los «fusilados» de la época, el de un prestamista judío del Barrio del Once. Investigar el caso no será fácil para Lascano…       &lt;br /&gt;En esta novela policiaca, con el marco histórico de la dictadura y violencia política que vivió Argentina en los años 1970, policías, militares, jóvenes en la clandestinidad y miembros de la clase alta componen una trama en la que el juego de los personajes, la riqueza de las descripciones y los diálogos alcanzan una memorable potencia narrativa.        &lt;br /&gt;Ernesto Mallo exhibe un dominio admirable de la mejor tradición policiaca al tratar este tema que conoció de primera mano, manteniendo de forma magistral el suspense en una historia compleja, ajustada al milímetro y que no da respiro al lector&lt;/em&gt;.” (&lt;a href="http://www.siruela.com/catalogo.php?id_libro=1486"&gt;Siruela&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_oU9Y97jqitI/RmUL_jgrYII/AAAAAAAABDE/aagHS_b4VI8/s320/Delincuente+Argentino.jpg" width="105" height="160" /&gt; La propaganda editorial de &lt;em&gt;Delincuente argentino&lt;/em&gt; dice: “&lt;em&gt;El fin de la dictadura y el advenimiento de la democracia. Asesinos y ladrones, policías y militares se siguen cruzando en un teatro en donde buenos y malos redefinen sus roles en el país que se viene. El &amp;quot;Perro&amp;quot; Lascano se recupera de las heridas que recibió en un enfrentamiento con el grupo de tareas del mayor Giribaldi. Lo perdió todo: su casa, su trabajo como comisario de la Federal y a Eva, el amor de su vida, que debió exiliarse. Decidido a partir en su busca, acepta un &amp;quot;trabajo&amp;quot; que le proveerá el dinero necesario para encarar el viaje: tiene que dar con el &amp;quot;Topo&amp;quot; Miranda, un delincuente a la antigua que robó dinero &amp;quot;negro&amp;quot; de un banco.”       &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ernesto-Mallo/e/B0039160LK/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0"&gt;Visit Amazon's Ernesto Mallo Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ernestomallo.com.ar/"&gt;Ernesto Mallo’s Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Mis entradas anteriores:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/08/needle-in-haystack-la-aguja-en-el-pajar.html"&gt;Needle in a Haystack (La aguja en el pajar) by Ernesto Mallo (1)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-aguja-en-el-pajar-needle-in-haystack.html"&gt;La aguja en el pajar / Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo (2)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/08/la-aguja-en-el-pajar-needle-in-haystack_31.html"&gt;La aguja en el pajar /Needle in a Haystack by Ernesto Mallo (y/and 3)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/10/delincuente-argentino-by-ernesto-mallo.html"&gt;Delincuente Argentino by Ernesto Mallo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/12/sweet-money-original-title-delincuente.html"&gt;Sweet Money (original title: Delincuente Argentino) by Ernesto Mallo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/crimen-en-el-barrio-del-once-la-aguja.html"&gt;Crimen en el Barrio del Once (La aguja en el pajar) de Ernesto Mallo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-4161330832819494653?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/4161330832819494653/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=4161330832819494653' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/4161330832819494653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/4161330832819494653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-m-is-for.html' title='The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, M is for Mallo, Ernesto Mallo'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gWXX81h19s0/TZfVZ_Hc3NI/AAAAAAAABnE/57SYKKJLX8g/s72-c/letter+m2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-3800427142173417625</id><published>2011-04-03T17:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-03T18:00:00.920+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='First Quater 2011 Summary'/><title type='text'>First Quarter 2011 - Summary</title><content type='html'>&lt;h3&gt;Books read (18)&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-hay-que-morir-dos-veces-de-francisco.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;No hay que morir dos veces&lt;/em&gt; de Francisco González Ledesma&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-seconds-by-anders-roslund-and.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three Seconds&lt;/em&gt; by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/yours-until-death-by-gunnar-staalesen.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yours Until Death&lt;/em&gt; by Gunnar Staalesen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/darkside-by-belinda-bauer.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Darkside&lt;/em&gt; by Belinda Bauer&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/redeemer-frelseren-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Redeemer&lt;/em&gt; by Jo Nesbo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/red-wolf-den-roda-vargen-by-liza.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red Wolf&lt;/em&gt; by Liza Marklund&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/el-chino-de-henning-mankell.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;El chino&lt;/em&gt; de Henning Mankell&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Man from Beijing&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/nadie-lo-ha-visto-de-mari-jungstedt.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nadie lo ha visto&lt;/em&gt; de Mari Jungstedt&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Unseen&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/testigo-involuntario-de-gianrico.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Testigo Involuntario&lt;/em&gt; de Gianrico Carofiglio&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Involuntary Witness&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/murders-in-rue-morgue-by-edgar-allan.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Murders in the Rue Morgue&lt;/em&gt; by Edgar Allan Poe&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/blanco-nocturno-de-ricardo-piglia.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt; de Ricardo Piglia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/borderlands-by-brian-mcgilloway.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Borderlands&lt;/em&gt; by Brian McGilloway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/entanglement-by-zygmunt-miloszewski.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entanglement &lt;/em&gt;by Zygmunt Miloszewski&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/snowman-by-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; by Jo Nesbo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/study-in-scarlet-by-sir-arthur-conan.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Study In Scarlet&lt;/em&gt; by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/hickory-dickory-dock-by-agatha-christie.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hickory, Dickory, Dock&lt;/em&gt; by Agatha Christie&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/b-very-flat-by-margot-kinberg.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/em&gt; by Margot Kinberg&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/wings-of-sphinx-by-andrea-camilleri.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; by Andrea Camilleri&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My preferences (in no particular order): Jo Nesbo (&lt;em&gt;The Redeemer&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;), Ricardo Piglia (&lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt;) and Andrea Camilleri (&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt;).&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;2011 Crime Fiction Alphabet&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-is-for.html"&gt;A is for Arriaga, Guillermo Arriaga&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-b-is-for.html"&gt;B is for Bauer, Belinda Bauer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-c-is-for.html"&gt;C is for Cueto, Alonso Cueto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-d-is-for.html"&gt;D is for Davidsen, Leif Davidsen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-e-is-for.html"&gt;E is for Ellory, RJ Ellory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-f-is-for.html"&gt;F is for Fuentes, Eugenio Fuentes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-g-is-for.html"&gt;G is for Giménez Bartlett, Alicia Giménez Bartlett&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-h-is-for.html"&gt;H is for Hyland, Adrian Hyland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/2011-crime-fiction-alphabet-i-is-for.html"&gt;I is for Indriðason, Arnaldur Indriðason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-j-is-for.html"&gt;J is for James, P. D. James&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-k-is-for.html"&gt;K is for Kinberg, Margot Kinberg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-l-is-for.html"&gt;L is for Lelic, Simon Lelic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Books added to my TBR&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51dq6OxpBjL._SY100_.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iaR68NQ3L._SY100_.jpg" /&gt; &lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41-0t2vdgTL._SY100_.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41LG17k1ZZL._SY100_.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51f1xS7fXXL._SY100_.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://cache0.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9781/8465/9781846554001.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://cache2.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9780/1431/9780143116608.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://cache1.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9781/8472/9781847243775.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" src="https://cache0.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9781/8472/9781847249678.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://cache3.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9780/7528/9780752882635.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://cache3.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9780/3305/9780330512503.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://cache1.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9781/8485/9781848540859.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" src="http://cache1.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9780/3304/9780330458030.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.duomoediciones.com/upload/fotos/blogs_entradas/201101/muerte_en_florencia.jpg" width="70" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5194GcN+F6L._AA115_.jpg" width="106" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DZnmcFh+L._SL160_AA160_.jpg" width="106" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" src="http://www.puntodelectura.com/uploads/imagenes/libro/portada/201103/portada-un-lugar-incierto_med.jpg" width="70" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;Currently Reading&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" src="http://www.puntodelectura.com/uploads/imagenes/libro/portada/201103/portada-un-lugar-incierto_med.jpg" width="70" height="106" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;To Be Read Next&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="left" src="https://cache0.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9781/8465/9781846554001.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="left" src="https://cache1.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9781/8472/9781847243775.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="left" src="https://cache1.bookdepository.co.uk/assets/images/book/small/9781/8485/9781848540859.jpg" width="98" height="106" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="left" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iaR68NQ3L._SY100_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="display: inline" border="0" src="http://www.duomoediciones.com/upload/fotos/blogs_entradas/201101/muerte_en_florencia.jpg" width="70" height="106" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To be continued……&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-3800427142173417625?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/3800427142173417625/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=3800427142173417625' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3800427142173417625'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3800427142173417625'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/first-quarter-2011-summary.html' title='First Quarter 2011 - Summary'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-761802511811775250</id><published>2011-04-01T18:17:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-01T18:39:41.826+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='International Dagger Speculation (2011) Update'/><title type='text'>International Dagger Speculation (2011) Update</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Currently reading &lt;em&gt;An Uncertain Place&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Un lugar incierto&lt;/em&gt;) by Fred Vargas. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Have read so far: &lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Las alas de la esfinge&lt;/em&gt;) by Andrea Camilleri, &lt;em&gt;Needle in a Haystack&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La aguja en el pajar&lt;/em&gt;) by Ernesto Mallo, &lt;em&gt;Three Seconds&lt;/em&gt; by Roslund-Hellstrom, &lt;em&gt;Red Wolf&lt;/em&gt; by Liza Marklund ,&amp;#160; &lt;em&gt;A Short Cut to Paradise&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Atajo al Paraíso&lt;/em&gt;) by Teresa Solana, &lt;em&gt;The Troubled Man&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;El hombre inquieto&lt;/em&gt;) by Henning Mankell and &lt;em&gt;Death on a Galician Shore&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La playa de los ahogados&lt;/em&gt;) by Domingo Villar. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sitting next on my shelf TBR soon &lt;em&gt;The Leopard&lt;/em&gt; by Jo Nesbo. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Have ordered &lt;em&gt;The Inspector and Silence&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#160; by Hakan Nesser. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Plan to order next &lt;i&gt;Bad Intentions &lt;/i&gt;by Karin Fossum. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Also interested in (no particular order): &lt;em&gt;Frozen Moment&lt;/em&gt; by Camilla Ceder, &lt;em&gt;The Gallows Bird&lt;/em&gt; by Camilla Lackberg,&amp;#160; &lt;em&gt;Ashes to Dust&lt;/em&gt; by Yrsa Sigurdardottir, &lt;em&gt;Mercy&lt;/em&gt; by Jussi Adler-Olsen, &lt;em&gt;Bunker &lt;/em&gt;by Andrea Maria Schenkel, &lt;em&gt;Silence&lt;/em&gt; by Jan Costin Wagner, &lt;em&gt;Shadow Sister &lt;/em&gt;by Simone van der Vlugt, &lt;em&gt;The Hypnotist&lt;/em&gt; by Lars Kepler and &lt;em&gt;The Dead of Summer&lt;/em&gt; by Mari Jungstedt. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;At Euro Crime you can find &lt;a href="http://eurocrime.blogspot.com/2010/07/international-dagger-speculation-2011.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;the post showing all the known eligible titles for 2011&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-761802511811775250?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/761802511811775250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=761802511811775250' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/761802511811775250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/761802511811775250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/international-dagger-speculation-2011.html' title='International Dagger Speculation (2011) Update'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8102808768447654926</id><published>2011-04-01T12:03:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-04-01T12:05:13.856+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blogoversary'/><title type='text'>I almost forgot</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Today is my blogoversary. TG’sA is two years old. I started on 1 April, 2009. One thing I’m particularly proud of is the opportunity to have met you all through the Internet. Thank you very much for being there&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;Casi me olvido&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Hoy es mi bloganiversario. TG'sA cumple dos años. Empecé el 1 de abril de 2009. Una cosa de la que estoy particularmente orgulloso es de la oportunidad de haberles conocido a todos através de Internet. Muchas gracias por estar ahí. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8102808768447654926?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8102808768447654926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8102808768447654926' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8102808768447654926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8102808768447654926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/04/i-almost-forgot.html' title='I almost forgot'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-5463050121207483406</id><published>2011-03-31T19:16:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-31T19:24:17.880+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Andrea Camilleri'/><title type='text'>The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Translated by Stephen Sartarelli (2009). Originally published in Italian as&lt;em&gt; Le ali della sfinge&lt;/em&gt; (Sellerio, 2006). Penguin Books, 2009. 240 pages. ISBN: 978-0-14-311660-8.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://us.penguingroup.com/static/covers/all/8/0/9780143116608H.jpg" width="132" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;The publisher blurb reads: “&lt;em&gt;Things are not going well for Inspector Salvo Montalbano. His long-distance relationship with Livia &lt;/em&gt;(better understood if you have read &lt;em&gt;August Heat&lt;/em&gt; first) &lt;em&gt;is on the rocks, he feels himself getting even older and he’s growing tired of the violence in his job. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Then the dead body of a young woman is found in an illegal dump, with half her face missing. Her identity at first unknown; a tattoo of a sphinx moth on her left shoulder links her with three other girls bearing the same mark, all recent Russian immigrants to Italy. Victims of an underworld sex trade, these girls have been rescued from the Mafia night-club circuit by a Catholic charity organization. The problem is, the other girls can’t help Montalbano with his enquiries. They are all missing. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;As his investigations progresses, it seems that not everyone wants Montalbano to discover what really lies behind the organisation’s charitable façade. And not only does Montalbano have a case to solve, he has a demanding stomach to feed, and he must save his foundering relationship with Livia ..”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Once again Camilleri presents a new instalment on his series featuring Inspector Montalbano. On top of that I’ve had the opportunity to read the excellent English translation by Stephen Sartarelli, another fascinating experience. Fortunately, although I have not read the entire series in order, I had read before &lt;em&gt;August Heat&lt;/em&gt;, highly recommended for a better understanding of Salvo relationship with Livia. But what can I say about this book. Montalbano is my favourite crime fiction character today. A philosopher with an exquisite taste for fine food. And Camilleri’s novels are delicious. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Highly recommended. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143116608,00.html?The_Wings_of_the_Sphinx_Andrea_Camilleri#"&gt;Penguin Books (USA)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panmacmillan.com/titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&amp;amp;BookID=417111"&gt;Panmacmillan&lt;/a&gt; (UK) &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.andreacamilleri.net/"&gt;Official website of Andrea Camilleri&lt;/a&gt; (in Italian) &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sellerio.it/merchant.php?step=2&amp;amp;bid=1932"&gt;Sellerio editore&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://andreacamilleri.buch-comptoir.de"&gt;Andrea Camilleri Reader Website&lt;/a&gt; (in German, English, and Italian) &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Camilleri"&gt;Andrea Camilleri at Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sicilytourguides.net/Montalbano_tour.htm"&gt;From Montelusa to Vigata. On the trail of Andrea Camilleri and Inspector Montalbano&lt;/a&gt; (in English) &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; review by &lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/The_Wings_of_the_Sphinx.html"&gt;Maxine at Euro Crime&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; review by &lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/The_Wings_of_the_Sphinx_2.html"&gt;Karen at Euro Crime&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; review by &lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2010/04/old-friendsandrea-camilleri.html"&gt;Norman at Crime Scraps&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; review by &lt;a href="http://detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/2009/10/new-andrea-camilleri-novel.html"&gt;Peter at Detectives Beyond Borders&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; review by &lt;a href="http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2010/02/27/book-review-the-wings-of-the-sphinx-by-andrea-camilleri-translated-by-stephen-sartarelli/"&gt;Gloria Feit at Spinetingler&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt; review by &lt;a href="http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/index.php?title=The_Wings_of_the_Sphinx_by_Andrea_Camilleri"&gt;Sue Magee at The Bookbag&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2011/02/appreciating-camilleri-part-one.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Appreciating Camilleri (Part One) by Norman at Crime Scraps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2011/02/appreciating-camilleri-part-two.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Appreciating Camilleri (Part Two) by Norman at Crime Scraps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;Las alas de la esfinge de Andrea Camilleri&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.salamandra.info/pics/cubiertas/227-3-Alas de la esfinge-Las.jpg" width="126" height="200" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;La propaganda editorial dice: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Las cosas no le van bien al Comisario Salvo Montalbano. Su relación a larga distancia con Livia&lt;/em&gt; (se entiende mejor si se ha leído antes &lt;i&gt;Ardores de agosto&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;em&gt;se encuentra encallada, él se siente que está más envejecido y se encuentra cansado de la violencia en su trabajo.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;En esto el cadáver de una mujer joven aparece en un vertedero ilegal, le falta la mitad de su rostro. Su identidad, en un primer momento, desconocida. Sólo el tatuaje de una mariposa nocturna en el hombro izquierdo la relaciona con otras tres jóvenes que tienen la misma marca, todas inmigrantes rusas que acaban de llegar a Italia. Víctimas del comercio sexual, estas jóvenes han sido rescatados del circulo mafioso de los clubes de alterne por una organización católica caritativa. El problema es que ninguna de las tres jóvenes puede ayudar a Montalbano en su investigación. Las tres han desaparecido.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A medida que avanza su investigación, parece que no todo el mundo quiere que Montalbano descubra lo que realmente hay detrás de la fachada de esta organización caritativa. Y Montalbano no tiene sólo un caso que&amp;#160; resolver, tiene un estómago exigente al que alimentar y tiene que salvar del naufragio su relación con Livia ..&lt;/em&gt; &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Una vez más Camilleri presenta una nueva entrega de su serie protagonizada por el Comisario Montalbano. Además he tenido la oportunidad de leer la excelente traducción inglesa de Stephen Sartarelli, otra experiencia fascinante. Afortunadamente, aunque no he leído toda la serie por orden, había leído antes &lt;i&gt;Ardores de agosto&lt;/i&gt;, muy recomendable para una mejor comprensión de la relación de Salvo con Livia. Pero ¿qué puedo decir de este libro? Montalbano es mi personaje de ficción favorito hoy en día en las novelas de crimen y misterio. Un filósofo con un gusto exquisito por la buena comida. Y las novelas de Camilleri son una gozada. Disfruté mucho con este libro. Altamente recomendado.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h5&gt;Enlaces&lt;/h5&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salamandra.info/titulos.php?titol=605"&gt;Ediciones Salamandra&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.andreacamilleri.net/"&gt;Página oficial de Andrea Camilleri&lt;/a&gt; (en italiano) &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sellerio.it/merchant.php?step=2&amp;amp;bid=1932"&gt;Sellerio editore&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Camilleri"&gt;Andrea Camilleri en Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://detectivesdelibro.blogspot.com/2009/03/salvo-montalbano-andrea-camilleri.html"&gt;Mis detectives favorit@s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ocholeguas.com/2009/04/15/europa/1239817022.html"&gt;La Sicilia del comisario Salvo Montalbano&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-5463050121207483406?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/5463050121207483406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=5463050121207483406' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5463050121207483406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5463050121207483406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/wings-of-sphinx-by-andrea-camilleri.html' title='The Wings of the Sphinx by Andrea Camilleri'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1066783066324020164</id><published>2011-03-30T12:37:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T12:39:03.538+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='OT - Córdoba (Spain)'/><title type='text'>OT - The City of Cordoba (Spain)</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The city of Córdoba (Spain) is located south of Madrid. Connected by high speed train it takes about 1 hour and 40 minutes to arrive. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Córdoba was probably the largest city in the western world during the tenth and the eleventh centuries, at that time seat of the Umayyad Caliphate. Córdoba had over 500,000 inhabitants, some believe it was close to one million. And, most astonishing, the three religions, Muslims, Jews and Christians, were able to live in peace. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I spent last weekend there. The weather was great and I had the opportunity to revisit the Mosque, the Synagogue and the Gardens of the Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos. I even had time to visit Medina Azahara. You can find my photos enclosed. Cordoba is a candidate for the 2016 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Capital_of_Culture"&gt;European Capital of Culture&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To learn more about Córdoba I can suggest the following links: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;ul&gt;       &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba,_Spain"&gt;Córdoba (Spain) in Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://english.turismodecordoba.org/index2.cfm"&gt;Córdoba Tourist Information&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.red2000.com/spain/cordoba/index.html"&gt;Cordoba by All About Spain&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;     &lt;/ul&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;OT - La ciudad de Córdoba&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La ciudad de Córdoba está situada al sur de Madrid. Conectada por AVE se tarda aproximadamente 1 hora y 40 minutos en llegar. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Córdoba fue probablemente la ciudad más grande del mundo occidental durante los siglos X y XI, en ese momento sede del Califato Omeya. Córdoba llegó a tener más de 500.000 habitantes, algunos creen que fueron cerca de un millón. Y, lo más sorprendente, las tres religiones, musulmanes, judios y cristianos, fueron capaces de vivir en paz.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Pasé el pasado fin de semana allí. La temperatura nos acompañó y tuve la oportunidad de visitar de nuevo la Mezquita, la Sinagoga y los Jardines del Alcázar de los Reyes Cristianos. Incluso tuve tiempo de visitar Medina Azahara. Pueden ver adjuntas mis fotografías. Córdoba es candidata a la &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Europea_de_la_Cultura"&gt;capitalidad cultural europea&lt;/a&gt; para el año 2016&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Para ampliar la información sobre Córdoba les puedo sugerir los siguientes enlaces:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%B3rdoba_%28Espa%C3%B1a%29"&gt;Córdoba (España) en Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.turismodecordoba.org/"&gt;Turismo de Córdoba&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIIO_LrDI/AAAAAAAAU3k/WOUQNwmT-Js/s1600-h/Cordoba%20038%5B3%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Cordoba 038" border="0" alt="Cordoba 038" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIIz5KaHI/AAAAAAAAU3o/ma-jhkmh4wk/Cordoba%20038_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIJ8YDjjI/AAAAAAAAU3s/cD9f0T8HePk/s1600-h/Cordoba%20065%5B3%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Cordoba 065" border="0" alt="Cordoba 065" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIKZF-UKI/AAAAAAAAU3w/WJL389vkjKU/Cordoba%20065_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMILJ0O9cI/AAAAAAAAU30/br3EP5ztsXE/s1600-h/Cordoba%20075%5B3%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Cordoba 075" border="0" alt="Cordoba 075" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIL1L1S6I/AAAAAAAAU34/Cj3yjN53Yx0/Cordoba%20075_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMINi4lYhI/AAAAAAAAU38/dgQgKLTw5MM/s1600-h/Cordoba%20300%5B3%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Cordoba 300" border="0" alt="Cordoba 300" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIOSIIXNI/AAAAAAAAU4A/JleUbmzZX1k/Cordoba%20300_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIPQbUSyI/AAAAAAAAU4E/bxbI1Poin3Y/s1600-h/Cordoba%20326%5B3%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Cordoba 326" border="0" alt="Cordoba 326" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIP0LjMjI/AAAAAAAAU4I/8fr3w6anefQ/Cordoba%20326_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIRCHmlXI/AAAAAAAAU4M/cmVRTNMRNOM/s1600-h/Cordoba%20179%5B3%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="Cordoba 179" border="0" alt="Cordoba 179" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIRrAhnHI/AAAAAAAAU4Q/FrtByIroDvk/Cordoba%20179_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1066783066324020164?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1066783066324020164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1066783066324020164' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1066783066324020164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1066783066324020164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/ot-city-of-cordoba-spain.html' title='OT - The City of Cordoba (Spain)'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZMIIz5KaHI/AAAAAAAAU3o/ma-jhkmh4wk/s72-c/Cordoba%20038_thumb%5B1%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-2537585981567178925</id><published>2011-03-29T18:38:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T18:41:53.565+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Margot Kinberg'/><title type='text'>B-Very Flat by Margot Kinberg</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Publishamerica, 2010. 202 pages. ISBN: 978-1-4489-7121-3&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/6c/45/6c451fd79008c9c5939425158414141414c3441.jpg" width="108" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have to admit I’m a regular reader of Margot Kinberg’s excellent blog: &lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/"&gt;Confessions of a Mystery Novelist&lt;/a&gt;, I read it daily for over a year. Consequently I was very much interested to read her books. As far as I know, she has published two &lt;a href="http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/PublishOrPerish.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Publish or Perish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.publishamerica.net/product89198.html"&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/em&gt; is almost a novella in length, just above 200 pages. It can be read in one sitting, thanks to the amount of dialogue that we find in it. It is very well built&amp;#160; and the actions unfolds in two parts. The first half revolves around the different characters in the plot. This is probably one of Kinberg’s strengths, the portrait of characters. The second part focuses mainly on the investigation of the mystery in order to find the culprit in an Agatha Christie style with plenty of red herrings to keep the intrigue. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I really enjoyed reading &lt;em&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/em&gt;. Kinberg provides us with first hand information of a University campus in the States, an environment she is very familiar with given her background. This is also the second book in which Dr. Joel Williams, a former detective, of Tilton’s Department of Criminal Justices appears, but it can be read independently, in fact it is a standalone book. And although it is not necessary to read before &lt;em&gt;Publish or Perish&lt;/em&gt;, I have the intention to do so in the near future. Stay tuned. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Margot Kinberg was kind enough to send me a signed copy. If you want to know why visit this link&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/2010/12/we-are-champions-my-friends.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;HERE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Links:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.publishamerica.net/product89198.html"&gt;PublishAmerica&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.angelfire.com/il3/mkinberg/home.htm"&gt;Margot Kinberg&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Margot Kinberg’s blog: &lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/"&gt;Confessions of a Mystery Novelist&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;B-Very Flat review by &lt;a href="http://petronatwo.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/book-review-bvery-flat-by-margot-kinberg/"&gt;Maxine at Petrona&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;B-Very Flat review by &lt;a href="http://djskrimiblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/margot-kinberg-b-very-flat-2010.html"&gt;Dorte at DJ´s krimiblog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;B-Very Flat review by &lt;a href="http://reactionstoreading.com/2010/04/18/review-b-very-flat-by-margot-kinberg/"&gt;Bernadette at Reactions to Reading&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;B-Very Flat review by &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2010/05/review-b-very-flat-margot-kinberg.html"&gt;Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://kiwicrime.blogspot.com/2010/04/9mm-interview-with-margot-kinberg.html"&gt;9mm: An interview with Margot Kinberg&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;B-Very Flat de Margot Kinberg&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Tengo que confesar que soy un lector habitual del excelente blog de ​​Margot Kinberg, &lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/"&gt;Confessions of a Mystery Novelist&lt;/a&gt;, lo leo todos los días desde hace más de un año. Por tanto estaba muy interesado en leer sus libros. Por lo que yo sé ha publicado dos &lt;a href="http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/PublishOrPerish.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Publish or Perish&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.publishamerica.net/product89198.html"&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/em&gt; tiene la extensión de un novela corta, apenas sobrepasa las 200 páginas. Se lee prácticamente de un tirón, gracias a la cantidad de diálogos que tiene. Está muy bien construida y la acción se desarrolla en dos partes. La primera mitad gira en torno a los diferentes personajes implicados en la trama. Este es probablemente uno de los puntos fuertes de Kinberg, el retrato de personajes. La segunda parte se centra principalmente en la investigación del misterio con el fin de encontrar al culpable al estilo de Agatha Christie, con un montón de pistas falsas que mantienen la intriga.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He disfrutado mucho leyendo &lt;em&gt;B-Very Flat.&lt;/em&gt; Kinberg nos proporciona información de primera mano de un campus universitario en los Estados Unidos, un entorno que conoce muy bien dada su experiencia. Este es también el segundo libro en el que aparece el Dr. Joel Williams, un ex detective, del Departamento de Justicia Criminal de Tilton, pero se puede leer de forma independiente, de hecho es un libro independiente. Y aunque no es necesario leer antes &lt;em&gt;Publish or Perish,&lt;/em&gt; tengo la intención de hacerlo en un futuro próximo. Permanezcan en sintonía.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Margot Kinberg tuvo la amabilidad de enviarme un ejemplar dedicado. Si quieren saber por qué visiten este enlace &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/2010/12/we-are-champions-my-friends.html"&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:57d63316-16ac-4ef8-91e8-f24622b4837e" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="55ce668c-559c-4b1f-8108-1ef9bd9659c1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtbugWu2b2U" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZILz5Cm-4I/AAAAAAAAU3U/3sQLYyb7Qmg/videofd208d4bea8a%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('55ce668c-559c-4b1f-8108-1ef9bd9659c1'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/WtbugWu2b2U&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/WtbugWu2b2U&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2537585981567178925?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2537585981567178925/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2537585981567178925' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2537585981567178925'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2537585981567178925'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/b-very-flat-by-margot-kinberg.html' title='B-Very Flat by Margot Kinberg'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TZILz5Cm-4I/AAAAAAAAU3U/3sQLYyb7Qmg/s72-c/videofd208d4bea8a%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-4760253995564210601</id><published>2011-03-29T12:54:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T12:55:43.747+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Simon Lelic'/><title type='text'>The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, L is for Lelic, Simon Lelic</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X3u1m5aV_l4/TY5gtkLvsVI/AAAAAAAABmk/IV0HsUhv_pM/s200/letter+L.jpg" width="73" height="100" /&gt; I’ve been off blogging for a few days but I do want to meet my weekly appointment with The Crime Fiction Alphabet - a Community Meme hosted by Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise. &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-l.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;you can visit the contributions of other fellow participants. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My lack of time and the fact that my readings in this, my favourite genre, are still scarce, force me to choose an author I have not read yet but in which I'm very much interested. Particularly after the excellent reviews he has received so far. Please forgive my boldness. &lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="70" height="100" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Therefore my “L” goes to Lelic. Simon Lelic has worked as a journalist and currently runs his own business. He was born in Brighton in 1976 and recently returned with his family to live there. His debut &lt;em&gt;Rupture&lt;/em&gt; (2010), aka&lt;em&gt; A Thousand Cuts &lt;/em&gt;in the US, was a huge critical success. &lt;i&gt;The Facility&lt;/i&gt;, his second novel, has been published in January 2011. For additional information visit &lt;a title="http://www.simonlelic.com/" href="http://www.simonlelic.com/"&gt;http://www.simonlelic.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rupture&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&amp;#160; “&lt;em&gt;It's North London; in the depths of a sweltering summer, teacher Samuel Szajkowski walks into a school assembly and opens fire. Three pupils and a teacher are shot dead before Samuel turns the gun on himself. As the only woman in her office at CID, Detective Inspector Lucia May is finding it difficult to be taken seriously by her colleagues. When she is assigned the school-murders case, she is expected to tie things up quickly and without a fuss. The incident is a tragedy that couldn't have been predicted and Szajkowski a psychopath beyond help. But as Lucia begins to piece together the testimonies of the teachers and children at the school, a much uglier and more complex picture of the months leading up to the incident begins to emerge - one which leaves many at the school culpable. As the pressure to bury the case builds and the high jinks of her colleagues take a more sinister turn, Lucia begins to realize that she has more in common with Samuel Szajkowski than she could have imagined. And she is determined to tell the truth about what really happened, whatever the consequences&lt;/em&gt;”. (Taken from &lt;a title="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/simon-lelic/rupture.htm" href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/simon-lelic/rupture.htm"&gt;http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/simon-lelic/rupture.htm&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Facility&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;/em&gt; “&lt;em&gt;Henry Graves has dedicated his life to the prison service, but he is unprepared for the challenge his new and secret assignment brings. Tasked with managing a government facility hidden deep in the countryside, Henry finds himself tested as never before: by the confused and frightened prisoners, by the sinister Dr Silk and, above all, by his conscience. Tom Clarke, a precocious but naive journalist, has his own problems meanwhile. His career - and his life - is turned upside down by the arrival of Julia Priestley, who seeks his help in finding her estranged husband, Arthur, an innocent dentist who has been arrested under severe new anti-terrorism legislation. The authorities admit they have taken him but will not say where he is being held - or why. Discovering a trail that implicates those at the very top of government, Tom and Julia begin a quest to find Arthur, and the truth about his incarceration. But some people will stop at nothing to keep the facility's secret hidden, and soon the couple find themselves fighting for their lives...”&lt;/em&gt; (Taken from &lt;a title="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/simon-lelic/facility.htm" href="http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/simon-lelic/facility.htm"&gt;http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/l/simon-lelic/facility.htm&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Both arguments seem very appealing to me. How about you? Your comments are welcome. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen, la “L” es por Lelic, Simon Lelic&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He estado sin escribir en este blog unos días, pero no quiero dejar de atender mi cita semanal con el Alfabeto del Crimen - un Meme organizado por Kerrie en Mysteries in Paradise. &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-l.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUI&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; pueden visitar las aportaciones de otros participantes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi falta de tiempo y el hecho de que mis lecturas en este, mi género favorito, sean todavía escasas, me obligan a elegir un autor al que no he leído todavía, pero en el que estoy muy interesado. En particular después de las excelentes críticas que ha recibido hasta el momento. Por favor, disculpen mi atrevimiento.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Por lo tanto mi &amp;quot;L&amp;quot; es por Lelic. Simon Lelic ha trabajado como periodista y actualmente dirige su propia empresa. Nació en Brighton en 1976 a dondes acaba de regresar a vivir con su familia. Su primer libro &lt;em&gt;Rupture&lt;/em&gt; (2010), también conocido como &lt;em&gt;A Thousand Cuts&lt;/em&gt; en los EE.UU., tuvo un gran éxito de crítica. &lt;em&gt;The Facility&lt;/em&gt;, su segunda novela, ha sido publicada en enero de 2011. Para más información, visite &lt;a href="http://www.simonlelic.com/"&gt;http://www.simonlelic.com/&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Rupture&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: &amp;quot;En el norte de Londres, en medio de un verano sofocante, el profesor Samuel Szajkowski entra en una reunión del colegio y abre fuego. Tres alumnos y un profesor mueren a tiros antes de que Samuel de la vuelta al arma para dispararse un tiro. Como la única mujer en el CID, el Detective Inspector Lucia May tiene dificultades para que sus compañeros la tomen en serio. Cuando le asignan el caso de los asesinatos en el colegio, se espera de e lla que lo cierre rápidamente y sin complicaciones. El incidente es una tragedia que no se podía haber previsto y Szajkowski es un psicópata sin posibilidad de recibir ayuda alguna. Pero a medida que Lucia comienza a recoger los testimonios de los profesores y de los niños del colegio, una imagen mucho más fea y más compleja de los meses previos al incidente empieza a emerger – una imagen que deja como culpables a muchos en la escuela. A medida que la presión para cerrar el caso crece y las bromas de sus compañeros toman un giro más siniestro, Lucía comienza a darse cuenta de que ella tiene más en común con Samuel Szajkowski de lo que podía haberse imaginado. Y está decidida a contar la verdad sobre lo que realmente sucedió, sin importarle las consecuencias &amp;quot;. (Mi traducción libre)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Facility&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;: &amp;quot;Henry Graves ha dedicado su vida al servicio de prisiones, pero no está preparado para el reto que le presenta su nuevo y secreto nombramiento. Encargado de gestionar un centro de internamiento del gobierno oculto en el campo, Henry se encuentra sometido a una prueba como nunca lo había estado antes: por presos confundidos y asustados, por el siniestro Dr. Silk y, por encima de todo, por su propia conciencia. Mientras tanto, Tom Clarke, un precoz pero ingenuo periodista, tiene sus propios problemas. Su carrera - y su vida – toman un giro inesperado con la llegada de Julia Priestly, que le pide su ayuda en la búsqueda de su marido, Arthur, un inocente dentista que ha sido detenido en virtud de la nueva y severa legislación contra el terrorismo. Las autoridades admiten que se lo han llevado, pero no dicen donde se encuentra - o por qué. El descubrimiento de una pista que implica a las instancias más altas del gobierno, hace que Tom y Julia comiencen la búsqueda para encontrar a Arturo, y conocer la verdad sobre su encarcelamiento. Pero algunas personas no se detendrán ante nada para mantener ocultos los secretos del centro de internamineto, y pronto la pareja se encuentra luchando por su vida ... &amp;quot; (Mi traducción libre)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt; Ambos argumentos me parecen muy atractivos ¿No les parece? Agradezco de antemano sus comentarios.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-4760253995564210601?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/4760253995564210601/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=4760253995564210601' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/4760253995564210601'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/4760253995564210601'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-l-is-for.html' title='The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, L is for Lelic, Simon Lelic'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X3u1m5aV_l4/TY5gtkLvsVI/AAAAAAAABmk/IV0HsUhv_pM/s72-c/letter+L.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8030753552971322632</id><published>2011-03-23T13:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-23T15:55:31.801+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Fighter (2010) a firm by David O. Russell'/><title type='text'>The Fighter (2010) a film by David O. Russell</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/The_Fighter_Poster.jpg" width="129" height="200" /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Begoña and I went to see yesterday night &lt;em&gt;The Fighter&lt;/em&gt;, a 2010 drama directed by David O. Russell, the screenplay, based on a true story, written by Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, and starring Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Amy Adams. The film centres on the life of professional boxer &amp;quot;Irish&amp;quot; Micky Ward (Wahlberg) and his older half-brother Dicky Eklund (Bale). The film also stars Amy Adams as Micky's love interest, and Melissa Leo as Micky's and Dicky's mother.&amp;#160; It was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, winning the awards for Best Supporting Actor (Christian Bale) and Best Supporting Actress (Melissa Leo). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I enjoyed this film although I have to admit that I like boxing (one of my shameful weaknesses) and sports in general. The story is human, the argument is realistic and it has some great characters. Besides Christian Bale’s performance is absolutely superb. Maybe not a great film, it may fall on too many commonplaces and nothing is new, but I liked it and and I had a great time. Which is not bad at all.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My&amp;#160; rating: 6/10&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Released date in Spain: Friday 4 February, 2011&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thefightermovie.com/"&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;The Fighter (2010) película dirigida por David O. Russell&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.elseptimoarte.net/carteles/the_fighter_7994.jpg" width="136" height="200" /&gt; Begoña y yo fuimos a ver ayer por la noche &lt;em&gt;The Fighter&lt;/em&gt;, un drama de 2010 dirigido por David O. Russell, está basado en una historia real escrita por Scott Silver Scott Silver, Paul Tamasy y Eric Johnson, y protagonizado por Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo y Amy Adams. La película narra la vida del boxeador profesional de origen irlandés Micky Ward (Wahlberg) y su hermano de madre Dicky Eklund (Bale). Está protagonizada también por Amy Adams en el papel de novia de Micky, y por Melissa Leo como la madre. Tuvo siete nominaciones a los premios Oscar de este año, incluyendo los de Mejor Película y Mejor Director, y consiguó los Oscar al mejor actor de reparto (Christian Bale) y a la mejor actriz de reparto (Melissa Leo).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Me gustó esta película, aunque tengo que admitir que me gusta el boxeo (una de mis debilidades vergonzosas) y los deportes en general. La historia es humana, el argumento es realista y tiene algunos personajes muy buenos. Además la interpretación de Christian Bale es extraordinaria. Tal vez no sea&amp;#160; una gran película, puede que caiga en demasiados tópicos y no aporta nada nuevo, pero me gustó y me lo pasé muy bien. Lo que no está nada mal.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi calificación:&amp;#160; 6/10&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Fecha de Estreno en España: Viernes, 04 de febrero de 2011 &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.tripictures.com/thefighter/"&gt;Web Oficial en Español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:b0558d62-9924-48e1-8ee1-29f95c97331a" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="3b210778-aa58-4336-a1a2-6aa0c25041e7" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_zijS_UAtw" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TYoJ4h7mq4I/AAAAAAAAUqg/5FiFtFjCyHo/videocf5a9a7cc74e%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('3b210778-aa58-4336-a1a2-6aa0c25041e7'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/1_zijS_UAtw&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/1_zijS_UAtw&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8030753552971322632?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8030753552971322632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8030753552971322632' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8030753552971322632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8030753552971322632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/fighter-2010-film-by-david-o-russell.html' title='The Fighter (2010) a film by David O. Russell'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TYoJ4h7mq4I/AAAAAAAAUqg/5FiFtFjCyHo/s72-c/videocf5a9a7cc74e%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1965346450724276426</id><published>2011-03-22T10:04:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T10:07:48.470+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Margot Kinberg'/><title type='text'>The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, K is for Kinberg, Margot Kinberg</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Alphabet in Crime Fiction hosted by Kerrie at Mysteries in Paradise has arrived this week to letter K. Please visit her site &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="tp://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-k.html"&gt;HERE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and read the contributions of other participants. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kRhLezEkj3k/TXwXIHM8LfI/AAAAAAAABmM/Fe-HTKXNmzc/s320/letter+K.jpg" width="148" height="100" /&gt; K is for Kinberg. Margot Kinberg was born and raised in Pennsylvania, where she graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and later received her Master’s degree from LaSalle University. After teaching at the University of Delaware for several years and earning her Ph.D. there, Kinberg moved west. She taught at Knox College in Galesburg, IL and is currently an associate professor at National University in Carlsbad, California. Kinberg currently resides in southern California with her husband, daughter and two dogs.&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="67" height="100" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Her research interests are second language acquisition and foreign language pedagogy. She is particularly interested in foreign language immersion programs, and have done several studies of these programs.&amp;#160; Some of the questions she researches are, &amp;quot;How proficient do children in immersion programs become?,&amp;quot;&amp;#160; &amp;quot; Are immersion programs appropriate for students with special needs?,&amp;quot; &amp;quot; Does learning a second language affect one's first language?&amp;quot; . For more information click &lt;a href="http://www.angelfire.com/il3/mkinberg/MKVita.htm"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;HERE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to see her CV.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Margot Kinberg is also a writer of crime and mystery novels. So far she has published: &lt;a href="http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/PublishOrPerish.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publish or Perish&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/a&gt;and &lt;a href="http://www.publishamerica.net/product89198.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, and keeps a daily blog at &lt;a href="http://www.authorsden.com/link/externalsiteredirect.asp?authorID=109599&amp;amp;ref=/visit/author.asp?authorID=109599&amp;amp;destURL=http://margotkinberg%2Eblogspot%2Ecom"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Confessions of a Mystery Novelist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, where she writes about all sorts of aspects of crime and mystery fiction. And, most important, I feel very much honoured to have met Margot thanks to my blog.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://kiwicrime.blogspot.com/2010/04/9mm-interview-with-margot-kinberg.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crime Watch - 9mm: An interview with Margot Kinberg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’m currently reading &lt;em&gt;B-Very-Flat, &lt;/em&gt;my review will be coming in due time. Stay tuned. &lt;em&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:d5bd3fe7-a961-4247-b4c2-337ecc54282a" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="5e264b47-4fe4-4195-9969-62e4d869ec86" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpSdKQhfKzM" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TYhmhFIsXaI/AAAAAAAAUqU/3Ba46MddBjk/video5e8afda50325%5B6%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('5e264b47-4fe4-4195-9969-62e4d869ec86'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/EpSdKQhfKzM&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/EpSdKQhfKzM&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El Alfabeto del crimen, organizado por Kerrie en Mysteries in Paradise, llega esta semana a la letra K. Por favor visiten su sitio &lt;a href="tp://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-k.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; y lean las aportaciones del resto de los participantes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;K es por Kinberg. Margot Kinberg nació y se crió en Pennsylvania, donde se graduó de la Universidad de Indiana de Pennsylvania y más tarde obtuvo su grado de Master por la Universidad LaSalle. Después de enseñar en la Universidad de Delaware durante varios años y de obtener allí su doctorado, se trasladó al oeste. Enseñó en Knox College en Galesburg, Illinois, y actualmente es profesora asociada en la Universidad Nacional en Carlsbad, California. Kinberg reside actualmente en el sur de California con su marido, su hija y dos perros.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sus investigaciones e intereses se centran en el acceso a un segundo idioma y en la pedagogía de lenguas extranjeras. Está particularmente interesada en programas de inmersión en idiomas extranjeros, y ha hecho varios estudios sobre estos programas. Algunas de las preguntas que se hace en sus investigaciones son: &amp;quot;¿Qué nivel de dominio alcanzan los niños en los programas de inmersión?&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Son los programas de inmersión apropiados para estudiantes con necesidades especiales?&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;¿Tiene el aprendizaje de una segunda lengua algún efecto sobre la lengua materna?&amp;quot; . Para obtener más información, haga clic &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.angelfire.com/il3/mkinberg/MKVita.htm"&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; para ver su CV. (Mis disculpas Margot si no he sabido traducir al español de manera adecuada tus palabras)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Margot Kinberg también es una escritora de novelas de crimen y misterio. Hasta el momento ha publicado: &lt;a href="http://www.strategicbookpublishing.com/PublishOrPerish.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Publish or Perish&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/a&gt;y &lt;a href="http://www.publishamerica.net/product89198.html"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;strong&gt;B-Very Flat&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, y mantiene un blog &lt;a href="http://www.authorsden.com/link/externalsiteredirect.asp?authorID=109599&amp;amp;ref=/visit/author.asp?authorID=109599&amp;amp;destURL=http://margotkinberg%2Eblogspot%2Ecom"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Confessions of a Mystery Novelist&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; en donde escribe a diario sobre todo tipo de aspectos relacionados con las novelas de crimen y misterio. Y, lo más importante, me siento muy honrado de haber conocido a Margot, por medio de mi blog.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Actualmente estoy leyendo &lt;em&gt;B-Very-Flat, &lt;/em&gt;mi reseña saldrá a su debido tiempo. Continúen sintonizados. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1965346450724276426?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1965346450724276426/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1965346450724276426' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1965346450724276426'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1965346450724276426'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-k-is-for.html' title='The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, K is for Kinberg, Margot Kinberg'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-kRhLezEkj3k/TXwXIHM8LfI/AAAAAAAABmM/Fe-HTKXNmzc/s72-c/letter+K.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-2692323192657163975</id><published>2011-03-22T00:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-22T00:19:30.268+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Agatha Christie'/><title type='text'>Hickory, Dickory, Dock by Agatha Christie</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;First published in Great Britain by Collins 1955. This &lt;em&gt;Agatha Christie Signature Edition&lt;/em&gt; published 2002 by HarperCollins. 304 p. ISBN: 978-0-00-712099-0.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.agathachristie.com/cms-media/uploaded-images/thumbs/Hickory___jpg_235x600_q95.jpg" width="100" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;/em&gt; (aka &lt;em&gt;Hickory Dickory Death&lt;/em&gt;) is a Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie published in 1955. The title is taken, as are other of Christie’s titles, from a nursery rhyme: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickory_Dickory_Dock"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#160; Nevertheless the only link to the original nursery rhyme is little more than the name of a road. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;One day Miss Lemon, the perfect secretary, makes three mistakes while typing a simple letter. Poirot suspects that something is worrying her. Thus we learn that Miss Lemon has a sister, Mrs. Hubbard who runs a student hostel at 24-26 Hickory Road , where a series of petty thefts and other acts of vandalism had recently taken place. The list of stolen items include one evening shoe, a bracelet, a diamond ring, a powder compact, a lipstick, a stethoscope, ear-rings, a cigarette lighter, old flannels trousers, electric light bulbs, a box of chocolates, a silk scarf and a rucksack, both cut into pieces, boracid powder, bath salts, and a cookbook. Poirot, fascinated by this incomprehensible list, is ready to help Mrs. Hubbard when Celia Austin, a young resident, confesses that she has been behind most of these petty thefts. Her intention was to draw the attention of Colin McNabb, a psychology student she is in love with. Case closed. But the next day Celia is found dead in her room. Although it seems at first sight that she has committed suicide, soon it is confirmed that she has been murdered. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I thoroughly enjoyed reading this wonderfully written book with Agatha Christie's usual trademark. Maybe there are some aspects that makes it a minor novel in her Poirot series but the characters are pretty well drawn, the relationship between the students at the hostel is nicely developed and the plot is quite ingenious. It is certainly a worthwhile reading. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;h3&gt;Links&lt;/h3&gt;    &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.harpercollins.com/books/Hickory-Dickory-Dock-Agatha-Christie/?isbn=9780062073969?AA=index_RecentBooks_11085"&gt;Harper Collins Publishers&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.audiobookscorner.com/title.aspx?titleId=6942"&gt;Audio Book – Read by Hugh Fraser&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.agathachristie.com/"&gt;Agatha Christie Homepage&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Asesinato en la calle Hickory de Agatha Christie&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Asesinato en la calle Hickory &lt;/em&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;/em&gt;) es una novela de Agatha Christie protagonizada por Hércules Poirot y publicada en 1955. El título hace referencia a una canción infantil: &lt;em&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;/em&gt;. Sin bien la única relación que tiene con esta canción es el nombre de una calle.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Un día Miss Lemon, la perfecta secretaria, comete tres errores al escribir una simple carta. Poirot sospecha que algo le preocupa. De esta manera conocemos que Miss Lemon tiene una hermana, la señora Hubbard que dirige un albergue de estudiantes en Hickory Road 24-26, en donde han tenido lugar recientemente una serie de hurtos insignificantes y algunos actos de vandalismo. La lista de artículos robados incluye un zapato de noche, una pulsera, un anillo de diamantes, una polvera, un lápiz de labios, un estetoscopio, pendientes, un encendedor, unos pantalones viejos de franela, bombillas, una caja de bombones, una bufanda de seda y una mochila, ambas hechas pedazos, ácido bórico en polvo, sales de baño, y un libro de cocina. Poirot, fascinado por lo incomprensible de esta lista, está dispuesto a ayudar a la Sra. Hubbard cuando Celia Austin, una joven residente, confiesa que ella ha sido la autora de la mayoría de estos pequeños hurtos. Su intención era llamar la atención de Colin McNabb, un estudiante de psicología del que está enamorada. Caso cerrado. Pero al día siguiente, Celia es encontrada muerta en su habitación. Aunque a primera vista parece que se ha suicidado, pronto se confirma que ha sido asesinada. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He disfrutado leyendo este libro maravillosamente escrito con la marca habitual de Agatha Christie. Tal vez tiene algunos aspectos que hacen que esté considerado una obra menor en la serie de Poirot, pero los personajes están muy bien dibujados, la relación entre los alumnos en el albergue está muy bien desarrollada y la trama es muy ingeniosa. Sin duda, es una lectura que merece la pena.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2692323192657163975?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2692323192657163975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2692323192657163975' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2692323192657163975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2692323192657163975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/hickory-dickory-dock-by-agatha-christie.html' title='Hickory, Dickory, Dock by Agatha Christie'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-7710382839215144245</id><published>2011-03-20T13:03:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-20T13:05:50.709+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='April Aussie Authors Month'/><title type='text'>April is Aussie Authors Month</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Thanks to Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/sunday-salon-20-march-2011-bin.html"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt; I find out that April is Aussie Authors Month. A nice opportunity to remind me that I’m well behind the &lt;a href="http://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/p/2011-aussie-author-challenge.html"&gt;2011 Aussie Author Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. And I'm trying to remedy it by reading some of the books I've selected for this purpose, namely &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; by Adrian Hyland, &lt;em&gt;The Broken Shore&lt;/em&gt; by Peter Temple and &lt;em&gt;The Suspect&lt;/em&gt; by Michael Robotham.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Gracias a Kerrie en &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/sunday-salon-20-march-2011-bin.html"&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/a&gt; me entero de que abril es el mes de los autores australianos. Una buena oportunidad para recordarme que estoy muy retrasado en el &lt;a href="http://www.bookloverbookreviews.com/p/2011-aussie-author-challenge.html"&gt;2011 Aussie Author Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. Y estoy tratando de ponerle remedio mediante la lectura de algunos de los libros que he seleccionado para este propósito, a saber, &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; de Adrian Hyland, &lt;em&gt;The Broken Shore&lt;/em&gt; de Peter Temple y &lt;em&gt;The Suspect&lt;/em&gt; de Michael Robotham. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-7710382839215144245?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/7710382839215144245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=7710382839215144245' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7710382839215144245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7710382839215144245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/april-is-aussie-authors-month.html' title='April is Aussie Authors Month'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-2796257360859845501</id><published>2011-03-19T10:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-19T10:54:42.836+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Agatha Christie'/><title type='text'>Agatha Christie and Nursery Rhymes</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;I’m currently reading &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.agathachristie.com/story-explorer/stories/hickory-dickory-dock/"&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by Agatha Christie and, searching the Internet, I’ve come across this blog post: &lt;a href="http://bookclubs.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Mystery/Agatha-Christie-and-Nursery-Rhymes/m-p/650000"&gt;Agatha Christie and Nursery Rhymes&lt;/a&gt;. I hope it will be of your interest .&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;/em&gt; may not be considered one of her best books. Certainly you will not find it among Agatha Christie’s top ten but, like most of her books, it’s a worthwhile reading.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Actualmente estoy leyendo &lt;em&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Asesinato en la calle Hickory&lt;/em&gt;) de Agatha Christie y, buscando en Internet, he encontrado esta entrada en inglés sobre Agatha Christie y los títulos de sus libros que hacen referencia a canciones infantiles. Espero que sea de su interés.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;/em&gt; puede que no esté considerado como uno de sus mejores libros. No lo encontrará seguramente entre los diez mejores de Agatha Christie pero, como la mayoría de sus libros, merece la pena su lectura.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:dccb3423-2901-445c-84f8-edf6de37c5c9" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="bdfb7c12-29a2-450c-aaa0-96d5f6fdecfb" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI_W-Zlvonk" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TYR8gK-N4xI/AAAAAAAAUqM/3heVsUS4cV8/videodb2119ea5f25%5B9%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('bdfb7c12-29a2-450c-aaa0-96d5f6fdecfb'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HI_W-Zlvonk&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HI_W-Zlvonk&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2796257360859845501?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2796257360859845501/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2796257360859845501' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2796257360859845501'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2796257360859845501'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/agatha-christie-and-nursery-rhymes.html' title='Agatha Christie and Nursery Rhymes'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TYR8gK-N4xI/AAAAAAAAUqM/3heVsUS4cV8/s72-c/videodb2119ea5f25%5B9%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-2835119705648638907</id><published>2011-03-18T12:52:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-18T12:57:15.032+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jo Nesbo'/><title type='text'>The Snowman by Jo Nesbo</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett. Original title: &lt;i&gt;Snømannen &lt;/i&gt;(2007). Vintage Books, 2010. 550 p. ISBN: 978-0-099-52027-6. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Once again, I leave my self imposed break for a brief comment on a superb book.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0099520273.01._SX140_SY225_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" width="106" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; is the seventh instalment in Harry Hole’s series and the fifth book translated into English. The first two novels are not available in English yet. It opens one night, with the first snow fall. A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Their house is empty but outside in the garden he sees his mother’s favourite scarf wrapped around the neck of a snowman. Inspector Harry Hole is convinced there is a link between the disappearance and a menacing letter he received a few months earlier. Searching unsolved case files he discovers that an alarming number of wives and mothers have gone missing over the years. When a second woman disappears his worst suspicions are confirmed. Hole is just a pawn in a deadly game. For the first time in his career Hole has to face a serial killer operating on his home turf. A killer who will drive him to the brink of insanity.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Most likely &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; is the best novel by Jo Nesbo I've read so far. I can only praise it and, possibly, I'll run out of adjectives. Therefore I will not even try. I just want to stress that it can be read as a standalone, it doesn’t matter if you have not read any of the previous books yet. If you begin with the best novel, you can always find the time to read the rest of the series later on and discover how Jo Nesbo has arrived here. I’m convinced that this will be a fascinating adventure. Pity I can no longer undertake it. Don’t miss it, go and get it. You won’t be able to put it down until the last page. Read it and judge by yourselves.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; was awarded The Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize 2007 for Best Novel of the Year and The Norwegian Book Club Prize (Den norske leserprisen) 2007 for Best Novel of the Year.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Links:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;ul&gt;     &lt;li&gt;Official website for &lt;a href="http://www.jonesbo.com/"&gt;Jo Nesbø&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;UK site for &lt;a href="http://www.jonesbo.co.uk/"&gt;Jo Nesbo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Wikipedia page for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Nesb%C3%B8"&gt;Jo Nesbø&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099520273/jo-nesbo/the-snowman/"&gt;Vintage Books&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.salomonssonagency.se/php/book.php?lang=en&amp;amp;bookid=176"&gt;Salomonsson Agency&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;The Independent review of &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-snowman-by-jo-nesb248--trans-don-bartlett-1916170.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Scandinavian Books review of &lt;a href="http://www.scandinavianbooks.com/crime-book/norwegian/jo-nesbo2.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Euro Crime review of &lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/The_Snowman.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Crime Scraps review of &lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2010/04/snowman-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Material Witness review of &lt;a href="http://materialwitness.typepad.com/material_witness/2010/05/review-the-snowman-by-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;International Noir Fiction review of &lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2010/03/first-thoughts-on-jo-nesbs-snowman.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Mysteries in Paradise review of &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2010/05/review-snowman-jo-nesbo.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Yet Another Crime Fiction Blog review of &lt;a href="http://avidmysteryreader.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/the-snowman-harry-hole-no-5-jo-nesb%C3%B8-writer-and-don-bartlett-translator/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Irresistible Targets &lt;a href="http://irresistibletargets.blogspot.com/2010/06/jo-nesbo-snowman-interview.html"&gt;Jo Nesbo: &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; Interview&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;      &lt;li&gt;Crime Always Pays: &lt;a href="http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.com/2011/03/ya-wanna-do-it-here-or-down-station_15.html"&gt;“Ya Wanna Do It Here Or Down The Station, Punk?”: Jo Nesbo&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;   &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;The Snowman por Jo Nesbo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Una vez más, abandono mi auto impuesto descanso por un breve comentario sobre un libro extraordinario.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; (El muñeco de nieve) es la séptima entrega en la serie protagonizada por Harry Hole y el quinto libro traducido al inglés. Las dos primeras novelas no están disponibles todavía en inglés. Comienza una noche, con la primera nevada. Un niño se despierta y encuentra que su madre no está. Su casa está vacía, pero en el jardín ve la bufanda favorita de su madre alrededor del cuello de un muñeco de nieve. El inspector Harry Hole está convencido de que hay un vínculo entre la desaparición y una carta amenazadora que ha recibido pocos meses antes. Buscando en los archivos de casos sin resolver descubre que un alarmante número de esposas y madres han desaparecido en los últimos años. Y cuando una segunda mujer desaparece se confirman sus peores sospechas. Hole es sólo un peón en un juego mortal. Por primera vez en su carrera Hole se enfrenta a un asesino en serie que opera en su propio territorio. Un asesino que lo llevara al borde de la locura.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Lo más probable es que &lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; sea la mejor novela de Jo Nesbo que he leído hasta ahora. Sólo puedo alabarla y, posiblemente, me quedaré sin adjetivos. Por tanto ni siquiera voy a intentarlo. Sólo quiero hacer hincapié en que se puede leer como un libro independiente, no importa si no han leído todavía ninguna de sus novelas anteriores. Si comienzan por la mejor, siempre podrán encontrar tiempo para leer el resto de la serie más adelante y descubrir cómo Jo Nesbo ha llegado hasta aquí. Estoy convencido de que esta será una aventura fascinante. Lástima que yo ya no puede llevarla a cabo. No se lo pierdan, vayan a buscarlo. No serán capaces de abandonarlo antes de la última página. Léanlo y juzguen por ustedes mismos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2835119705648638907?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2835119705648638907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2835119705648638907' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2835119705648638907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2835119705648638907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/snowman-by-jo-nesbo.html' title='The Snowman by Jo Nesbo'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-619164496273566291</id><published>2011-03-16T16:46:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-16T16:59:06.992+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='In the Electric Mist (2009) a film by Bernard Tavernier'/><title type='text'>In the Electric Mist (2009) a film by Bernard Tavernier</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Although this blog has taken a few days off I found interesting to highlight this film. Begoña and I went to see yesterday &lt;em&gt;In the Electric Mist&lt;/em&gt;. It was released in Spain on 11 March 2011. While nothing extraordinary I really enjoyed it and I had a good time. I will certainly recommend it to all crime fiction readers and I’m looking forward to read the book by James Lee Burke on which it’s based. I particularly liked the actors’ performances, the pace of the film and a photography very appropriate with the story and its setting.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My Rating: 7 / 10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.worstpreviews.com/images/posters/intheelectricmist/intheelectricmist1_large.jpg" width="143" height="200" /&gt; In the Electric Mist&lt;/i&gt; (2009) is a Franco-American thriller based on the novel &lt;i&gt;In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead&lt;/i&gt; by James Lee Burke, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, written by Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski, and starring Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald, Ned Beatty, James Gammon, Levon Helm, Justina Machado, Pruitt Taylor Vince&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The film has never been released theatrically in the U.S., only in Europe and Asia. A trimmed-down version (102:00 minutes NTSC), cut by the studio, was released direct-to-DVD in the United States.&amp;#160; A longer director's cut version (112:23 minutes) was released in the rest of the world and premiered at the 2009 Berlin International Film Festival.&lt;sup&gt; &lt;/sup&gt;In 2009, the director's cut version won the Grand Prix at the first &amp;quot;Festival International du Film Policier de Beaune&amp;quot;. In December 2009, Bertrand Tavernier released a book titled &lt;i&gt;Pas à Pas dans la Brume Électrique&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Step by Step into The Electric Mist&lt;/i&gt;), which is a day-by-day account of the shooting of this movie. (From Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Synopsis: Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is on the trail of a serial killer who has a weakness for young women. One day, while returning home from the scene of another crime, Dave encounters the glamorous Hollywood star Elrod Sykes. Sykes is in town while shooting his new film, co-produced by one of the&amp;#160; local mobster leaders, Baby Feet Balboni. Sykes tells Dave he has seen a body lying in a swamp, the decomposed and chained corpse of a black man. This discovery brings him back memories of the past and he has the feeling that the two cases are related. But as Dave is getting closer to the murderer, the murderer is also getting closer to Dave and his family ...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.intheelectricmist.com/"&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2010/07/electricity-and-pedantry.html"&gt;Crime Scraps: Electricity and Pedantry&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:fd4ce263-38d9-4416-baa6-3c82fe994f71" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="1552a64e-34a6-44ff-b31d-0809189327fe" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuIa00bPJHw" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TYDbwEb1bdI/AAAAAAAAUqA/IciSeK5vhK0/video13f6eee09225%5B9%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('1552a64e-34a6-44ff-b31d-0809189327fe'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/zuIa00bPJHw&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/zuIa00bPJHw&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;En el Centro de la Tormenta (2009), película dirigida por Bernard Tavernier &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Aunque este blog se ha tomado unos días de descanso me ha parecido interesante destacar esta película. Begoña y yo fuimos a ver ayer &lt;em&gt;En el Centro de la Tormenta&lt;/em&gt;. Se estrenó en España el 11 de marzo de 2011. Aunque nada extraordinaria la he disfrutado mucho y pasé un buen rato. Yo sin duda la recomiendo a todos los lectores de novela negra y tengo muchas ganas de leer el libro de James Lee Burke en el que está basada. Me han gustado en particular las interpretaciones de los actores, el ritmo de la película y una fotografía muy apropiada con la narración y su entorno.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi calificación: 7/10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.elmulticine.com/imagenes/carteles/2/centro-tormenta-pos-b.jpg" width="141" height="200" /&gt; En el centro de la tormenta &lt;/em&gt;(2009) es un thriller franco-estadounidense basado en la novela &lt;i&gt;In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead &lt;/i&gt;de James Lee Burke, dirigido por Bertrand Tavernier, escrito por Jerzy Kromolowski y Mary Olson-Kromolowski, y protagonizado por Tommy Lee Jones, John Goodman, Peter Sarsgaard, Mary Steenburgen, Kelly Macdonald, Ned Beatty, James Gammon, Levon Helm, Justina Machado, Pruitt Taylor Vince.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La película no se ha estrenado en los EE.UU., sólo en Europa y en Asia. Una versión reducida (102,00 minutos NTSC), montada por el estudio, está a la venta en DVD en los Estados Unidos. Una versión más larga montada por el director (112,23 minutos) se estrenó en el resto del mundo y, por primera vez, en el Festival de Berlín de 2009. La versión montada por Tavernier, ganó el Gran Premio en el primer &amp;quot;Festival Internacional du Film Policier de Beaune&amp;quot; en 2009. En diciembre de 2009, Bertrand Tavernier publicó un libro titulado &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Pas à pas dans la Brume Electrique&lt;/em&gt;” (&lt;em&gt;Paso a Paso En el Centro de la Tormenta&lt;/em&gt;), un relato de cada día del rodaje de esta película. (De Wikipedia)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sinopsis: El teniente Dave Robicheaux, un detective de Nueva Iberia, Luisiana, está sobre la pista de un asesino en serie que siente debilidad por las mujeres jóvenes. Un día, mientras regresa a casa desde la escena de otro crimen, Dave se encuentra con la glamorosa estrella de Hollywood Elrod Sykes. Sykes está en la ciudad durante el rodaje de su nueva película, coproducida por uno de los líderes mafiosos locales, Baby Feet Balboni. Sykes le dice a Dave que ha visto un cuerpo tirado en un pantano, el cadáver descompuesto y encadenado de un hombre negro. Este descubrimiento le trae recuerdos del pasado y tiene la sensación de que los dos casos están relacionados. Pero a medida que Dave se acerca al asesino, el asesino se acerca también a Dave y a su familia ...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://enelcentrodelatormenta.filmax.com/"&gt;Web Oficial en Español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-619164496273566291?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/619164496273566291/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=619164496273566291' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/619164496273566291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/619164496273566291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-electric-mist-2009-film-by-bernard.html' title='In the Electric Mist (2009) a film by Bernard Tavernier'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TYDbwEb1bdI/AAAAAAAAUqA/IciSeK5vhK0/s72-c/video13f6eee09225%5B9%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6148663111312767760</id><published>2011-03-14T09:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-15T16:42:38.049+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='P. D. James'/><title type='text'>The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, J is for James, P. D. James</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k6zRM7b3UQo/TXwVz5bmI8I/AAAAAAAABmI/6L0XXzC3WBI/s320/letter+J.jpg" width="150" height="102" /&gt; Although this blog is taking a voluntary break I do not want to miss my appointment this week with the Crime Fiction Alphabet, a community meme put together by Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Please visit &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-j.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; the contribution of other fellow participants. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;“J” is for James, Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park OBE, commonly known as P. D. James, born on 3&amp;#160; August 1920 in Oxford. For a complete biography you can either check the British Council page on Contemporary Writers, &lt;a href="http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth193"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, or P.D. James Wikipedia page, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._James"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="69" height="100" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to Maxine at Petrona - &lt;a href="http://petronatwo.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/in-praise-of-crime-fiction/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In praise of crime fiction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - I’ve came across this article: A Taste for Death. The detective novels of P.D. James are a window on our times. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;The work of Baroness James of Holland Park has elevated English detective fiction far beyond the diverting puzzles typical of the genre novelists of an earlier generation……. Lady James is a perceptive chronicler of the changing landscape of London; the flux of urban development and the housing market; the corrosive culture of sink estates; the ruthless politics of the professions; and even the use of the internet for hedonistic purposes…….. Like Wilkie Collins and Edgar Allan Poe, she has looked at the darkness of the human psyche, and created from it not just entertainment but literature&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I could not have put it better. You can read this article &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4719603.ece#"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I've read a fair amount of P.D. James novels but most were read before I began blogging. I am planning to reread a few of them, stay tuned. Anyway you can read my reviews of&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/12/certain-justice-by-pd-james.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Certain Justice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/a&gt;(in English) and &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2009/10/p-d-james-private-patient-2008-muerte.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Private Patient&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in Spanish).&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;See also: &lt;a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/features/pdjames/"&gt;PD James Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen, la J es por James, P.D. James&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Aunque este blog se está tomando un descanso voluntario no quiero perderme mi cita semanal con el Alfabeto del Crimen un meme organizado por Kerrie en &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Por favor visite &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-j.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; las aportaciones del resto de los participantes. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La &amp;quot;J&amp;quot; es por James, Phyllis Dorothy James, la baronesa James de Holland Park OBE, comúnmente conocida como PD James, nacida el 3 de agosto de 1920 en Oxford. Una completa biografía se puede consultar en la página del British Council sobre Escritores de hoy &lt;a href="http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth193"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, o en la página de Wikipedia sobre PD James &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._James"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Gracias a Maxine en Petrona, &lt;a href="http://petronatwo.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/in-praise-of-crime-fiction/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In praise of crime fiction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, encontré este artículo: Sabor a muerte. Las novelas de detectives de P.D. James son una ventana a nuestros tiempos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;La obra &lt;em&gt;de la baronesa James de Holland Park ha elevado a la novela inglesa de detectives más allá del entretenido misterio propio de los novelistas del género de una generación anterior ….. Lady James es una perspicaz cronista del cambiante paisaje de Londres; del flujo del desarrollo urbano y del mercado de la vivienda; de la cultura destructiva de los barrios marginales; de las implacables políticas de los profesionales liberales; e incluso del uso de Internet con propósitos voluptuosos. Como Wilkie Collins y Edgar Allan Poe, ha penetrado en el lado oscuro subconsciente humano, y ha creado desde él no sólo entretenimiento, sino literatura.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; (La traducción libre es mía)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Pueden leer el artículo completo &lt;a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4719603.ece#"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AQUÍ&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He leído muchas novelas de P.D. James, la mayoría antes de empezar este blog. Tengo la intención de volver a leer algunas, continúen sintonizados. También pueden ver mis comentarios sobre&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/12/certain-justice-by-pd-james.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Certain Justice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;(en inglés) y &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2009/10/p-d-james-private-patient-2008-muerte.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Muerte en la clínica privada&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (en español). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6148663111312767760?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6148663111312767760/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6148663111312767760' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6148663111312767760'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6148663111312767760'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/alphabet-in-crime-fiction-j-is-for.html' title='The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, J is for James, P. 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James'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-k6zRM7b3UQo/TXwVz5bmI8I/AAAAAAAABmI/6L0XXzC3WBI/s72-c/letter+J.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1309728176715029027</id><published>2011-03-10T20:50:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T20:51:41.874+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Zygmut Miloszewski'/><title type='text'>Entanglement by Zygmunt Miloszewski</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones. Original title:&amp;#160; &lt;i&gt;Uwikłanie&lt;/i&gt;, 2007. Bitter Lemon Press, 2010. 342 p. ISBN: 978-1-904738-44-2.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/images_books/books/64_165.jpg" width="105" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entanglement &lt;/em&gt;is set during the summer of 2005. A group of four people together with their therapist have retired to a former monastery in Warsaw for a week-end therapy session called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Constellations"&gt;Family Constellation&lt;/a&gt;. The morning after a tense session, one of the participants is found dead with a meat skewer stuck in one eye. Public Prosecutor Teodor Szacki is in charge of the investigation. The main suspects are the other participants and the psychotherapist who was leading the group. Most of the book follows Szacki during the investigation, at home with his family, and during a romantic encounter with a flirtatious young journalist. Occasionally other characters are closely following the course of the events making it clear that there is more at stake. The action develops very slowly until another murder is unearthed, a murder that took place twenty years earlier, before the fall of communism. But the events precipitate and the life of Szacki and his family will be in danger.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entanglement&lt;/em&gt; is a superb police procedural nicely crafted. The argument is rather tangled, as the title suggests, and the pace is sometimes slow, but eventually all the pieces of this jigsaw puzzle fall into place, ….or maybe not. There is room for a sequel as suggested in the publisher’s biographical note. I found it a very entertaining read with well drawn characters. I could also constantly feel the presence of the city of Warsaw. The plot is intelligent and the solution is clever with an interesting twist at the end. Finally I felt that the translation is excellent. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Entanglement&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Uwikłanie&lt;/i&gt;) is the third book by Zygmunt Miłoszewski, born in Warsaw in 1976, and his biggest success so far. Previously he had been a journalist and editor for the Polish edition of Newsweek&lt;em&gt;. &lt;/em&gt;With this book he won the Wielki Kaliber Prize for the Best Polish Detective Novel of 2007. &lt;em&gt;Entanglement, &lt;/em&gt;his first novel translated into English, was published in 2010 by Bitter Lemon Press. The author is writing a sequel also featuring Public Prosecutor Teodor Szacki.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Entanglement&lt;/i&gt; has been reviewed by Glenn at &lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2010/05/polish-noir-zygmunt-miloszewskis.html"&gt;International Noir Fiction&lt;/a&gt;, Maxine at &lt;a href="http://petronareviews.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/entanglement-by-zygmunt-miloszewski/"&gt;Petrona&lt;/a&gt; and at &lt;a href="http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/review.html?id=8597"&gt;Reviewing the evidence&lt;/a&gt; among others. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/new-books/entanglement.asp"&gt;Bitter Lemon Press&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Finally I've been able to publish this post before my break. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’ll count this book for my participation in the &lt;a href="http://www.theblacksheepdances.com/2010/12/2011-eastern-european-reading-challenge.html"&gt;2011 Eastern European Reading Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Entanglement por Zygmunt Miloszewski &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La acción de &lt;em&gt;Entanglement&lt;/em&gt; (Enredo o implicación - sentimental o criminal) se desarrolla durante el verano del 2005. Un grupo de cuatro personas, junto con su terapeuta, se han retirado a un antiguo monasterio en Varsovia para una sesión terapéutica de fin de semana llamada &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constelaciones_familiares"&gt;Constelaciones Familiares&lt;/a&gt;. La mañana siguiente a una tensa sesión, uno de los participantes aparece muerto con un pincho de carne clavado en un ojo. El fiscal Teodor Szacki se encarga de la investigación. Los principales sospechosos son los otros participantes y el psicoterapeuta que lideraba al grupo. La mayor parte del libro sigue a Szaski durante su investigación, en su casa con su familia, y durante un encuentro romántico con una joven y seductora periodista. Ocasionalmente otros personajes siguen de cerca el curso de los acontecimientos por lo que está claro que hay algo más en juego. La acción se desarrolla muy lentamente hasta que se descubre otro asesinato ocurrido veinte años atrás, antes de la caída del comunismo. Los acontecimientos se precipitan poniendo en peligro la vida de Szacki y de su familia.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entanglement &lt;/em&gt;es un procedimiento policial soberbio, muy bien diseñado. El argumento es algo enredado, como sugiere el título, y el ritmo es a veces lento, pero, finalmente todas las piezas de este rompecabezas caen en su lugar .... o quizás no. Hay sitio para una continuación como se sugiere en la nota biográfica de la editorial. Me ha parecido una lectura muy entretenida con personajes bien dibujados. También he podido sentir continuamente la presencia de la ciudad de Varsovia. La trama es inteligente y la solución ingeniosa con un giro interesante al final. Para finalizar me ha parecido que la traducción es excelente.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Entanglement &lt;/em&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Uwikłanie&lt;/em&gt;) es el tercer libro de Zygmunt Miłoszewski, nacido en Varsovia en 1976, y su mayor éxito hasta el momento. Anteriormente había trabajado como periodista y editor de la edición polaca de la revista&amp;#160; Newsweek. Con este libro ganó el Premio Wielki Kaliber a la mejor novela negra polaca del 2007. &lt;em&gt;Entanglement, &lt;/em&gt;su primera novela traducida al Inglés, ha sido publicada por Bitter Lemon Press en el 2010. El autor está escribiendo una continuación protagonizada también por el fiscal Teodor Szacki.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1309728176715029027?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1309728176715029027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1309728176715029027' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1309728176715029027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1309728176715029027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/entanglement-by-zygmunt-miloszewski.html' title='Entanglement by Zygmunt Miloszewski'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6887182331693812282</id><published>2011-03-10T11:39:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-10T11:39:29.580+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Break'/><title type='text'>Taking a Break</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;This blog is taking a few days break, back in a fortnight. I wish you all good readings.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6887182331693812282?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6887182331693812282/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6887182331693812282' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6887182331693812282'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6887182331693812282'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/taking-break.html' title='Taking a Break'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-3617509125564069398</id><published>2011-03-09T10:43:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-09T10:57:47.389+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='San Juan Reservoir'/><title type='text'>O.T.: San Juan Reservoir</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;This is one of the Region’s largest, known as the &amp;quot;Madrid Beach&amp;quot;. It is in the Region’s Sierra Oeste Mountains, between the municipal districts of Pelayos de la Presa and San Martín de Valdeiglesias. Access is on the M-501&amp;#160; and its waters come from the Alberche River. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For more information: Embalse de San Juan at &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embalse_de_San_Juan"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; (in Spanish). I took these pictures yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdPBwIx3QI/AAAAAAAAUpA/Ov4zYRTXXVA/s1600-h/JGCP%20021.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="JGCP 021" border="0" alt="JGCP 021" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdL8jAx00I/AAAAAAAAUpE/xvyRMDAfT3Q/JGCP%20021_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdMkHBua3I/AAAAAAAAUpI/uUK02twz0KQ/s1600-h/JGCP%20023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="JGCP 023" border="0" alt="JGCP 023" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdMkr4CLMI/AAAAAAAAUpM/j8icqTS0Nxo/JGCP%20023_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdL_NwPkYI/AAAAAAAAUpQ/vTQVTuqaqoo/s1600-h/JGCP%20052.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="JGCP 052" border="0" alt="JGCP 052" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdL_ic2CzI/AAAAAAAAUpU/5ZeXGR7xeeM/JGCP%20052_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdMAt6bguI/AAAAAAAAUpY/BOsRsm_SjpU/s1600-h/JGCP%20053.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="JGCP 053" border="0" alt="JGCP 053" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdMAwhyXfI/AAAAAAAAUpc/1mNGjt8im40/JGCP%20053_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-3617509125564069398?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/3617509125564069398/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=3617509125564069398' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3617509125564069398'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3617509125564069398'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/ot-san-juan-reservoir.html' title='O.T.: San Juan Reservoir'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TXdL8jAx00I/AAAAAAAAUpE/xvyRMDAfT3Q/s72-c/JGCP%20021_thumb.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-5854382623877974028</id><published>2011-03-09T10:09:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-09T10:11:22.576+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Emerald Noir'/><title type='text'>Emerald Noir: The Rise of Irish Crime Fiction</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Listen out to Emerald Noir: The Rise of Irish Crime Fiction, if interested you have six days left to listen at bbc.co.uk&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00z5c85"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;HERE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Val McDermid presents this insightful look at the rise of crime fiction on both side of the borders since the peace process in the North, and boom and bust in the South. For more information on Irish Crime Fiction, &lt;a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/22/mcgilloway-irish-crime-novels"&gt;Brian McGilloway's top 10 modern Irish crime novels&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.thethoughtfox.co.uk/?p=2395"&gt;In Praise of Emerald Noir&lt;/a&gt; and Declan Burke’s blog &lt;a href="http://crimealwayspays.blogspot.com/2011/03/emerald-noir-val-mcdermid-speaks.html"&gt;Crime Always Pay&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Have you read any Irish Crime Fiction writers?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If yes, Which ones? What are your favourites? &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;If not, Why loosing your time reading this post? Go and look for a book to read.&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-5854382623877974028?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/5854382623877974028/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=5854382623877974028' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5854382623877974028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5854382623877974028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/emerald-noir-rise-of-irish-crime.html' title='Emerald Noir: The Rise of Irish Crime Fiction'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-5614907764402045766</id><published>2011-03-07T16:35:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-07T16:35:43.849+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arnaldur Indridason'/><title type='text'>Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Further to my previous post you may be interested in finding out that &lt;a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Outrage-Arnaldur-Indridason/dp/1846554233/ref=cm_lmf_tit_17"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Outrage&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Harvill Secker, 2011) by Arnaldur Indridason is available to pre-order for 23 June 2011.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://pubimages.randomhouse.co.uk/getimage.aspx?class=books&amp;amp;size=custom&amp;amp;dpi=72&amp;amp;quality=80&amp;amp;type=jpg&amp;amp;width=96&amp;amp;id=1846555507-1" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Synopsis: &lt;em&gt;In a flat near Reykjavík city centre, a young man lies dead in a pool of blood. There is no sign of a break-in or any struggle. A purple shawl, found under the bed, gives off a strong and unusual aroma.        &lt;br /&gt;Soon, a vial of narcotics found in the victim´s pocket and other clues will lead Erlendur´s colleagues down a trail of hidden violence, psychological brutality and of wrongs that will never be fully righted.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-5614907764402045766?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/5614907764402045766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=5614907764402045766' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5614907764402045766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5614907764402045766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/outrage-by-arnaldur-indridason.html' title='Outrage by Arnaldur Indridason'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-244763218458393062</id><published>2011-03-07T12:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-07T12:29:38.477+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Arnaldur Indridason'/><title type='text'>2011 Crime Fiction Alphabet: I is for Indriðason, Arnaldur.</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Alphabet in Crime Fiction, a Community Meme hosted by Kerrie at&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-i.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; has arrived this week to letter “i”. My “i” is for Indriðason, Arnaldur. Yes, I do know that in Iceland the last name is a patronymic or matronymic, not a family name; this person is properly referred to by the given name &amp;quot;Arnaldur&amp;quot; but, even if I’m using only family names, please allow me to bend my own rules.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zcY9EPUt3gI/TXGqL99CjRI/AAAAAAAABl8/1YlPv5skg6k/s1600/letter+i.jpg" width="76" height="100" /&gt; Arnaldur Indriðason was born in Reykjavik on January 8 1961. He graduated with a B.A. degree in history from the University of Iceland in 1996. He was a journalist at Morgunbladid newspaper from 1981 – 1982 after which he became a freelance script writer. From 1986 – 2001 he worked as a film critic for Morgunbladid. In the year 2004 his books were seven of the ten most popular titles borrowed in Reykjavík City Library.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Arnaldur has published a number of thrillers, the first was Synir duftsins (Sons of Earth) in 1997 and many believe that that publication marked the start of a new wave of Icelandic crime fiction. Most of his novels involve the same team of detectives. Arnaldur is one of Iceland's leading crime story writers. He has received numerous awards for his books, among them the Glass Key Prize, an award given by Skandinaviska Kriminalselskapet (Crime Writers of Scandinavia) two years in a row, the first author to do so. In 2002 for his book &lt;em&gt;Mýrin&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Jar City&lt;/em&gt;) and in 2003 for &lt;em&gt;Grafarþögn&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Silence of the Grave&lt;/em&gt;). Silence of the Grave also received the CWA Gold Dagger Award in 2005. Arnaldur received The Drop of Blood, the Icelandic Crime Fiction Award, for &lt;em&gt;Harðskafi&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Hypothermia&lt;/i&gt;) and so was nominated for the Glass Key Prize a third time.&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="67" height="100" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Arnaldur's books have been published in 26 countries and have been translated into German, Danish, English, Italian, Czech, Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Portuguese and French. Arnaldur Indriðason lives in Reykjavík with his wife and three children. He is the son of writer Indriði G. Þorsteinsson.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can see my reviews: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/05/reykjavik-rotterdam-2008.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reykjavik Rotterdam&lt;/em&gt; (2008)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/05/reykjavik-rotterdam-2008_28.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reykjavík-Rotterdam&lt;/em&gt; (2008) - 2nd Part&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/02/arnaldur-indridason-las-marismas.html"&gt;Arnaldur Indridason - &lt;em&gt;Las marismas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Mýrin)&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/05/silence-of-grave-by-arnaldur-indriason_27.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Silence of the Grave&lt;/em&gt; by Arnaldur Indriðason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/07/hypothermia-by-arnaldur-indridason.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hypothermia &lt;/em&gt;by Arnaldur Indridason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bibliography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a name="The_Main_Series"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Detective Erlendur series&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;1997 -&amp;#160; Synir duftsins&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Sons of Dust&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;1998 -&amp;#160; Dauðarósir&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Silent Kill&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2000 -&amp;#160; Mýrin&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Tainted Blood&lt;/i&gt;, also known as &lt;i&gt;Jar City&lt;/i&gt;, 2004) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2001 -&amp;#160; Grafarþögn&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Silence of the Grave&lt;/i&gt;, 2005) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2003 -&amp;#160; Röddin&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Voices&lt;/i&gt;, 2006) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2004 -&amp;#160; Kleifarvatn&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;The Draining Lake&lt;/i&gt;, 2007) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2005 - Vetrarborgin&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Arctic Chill&lt;/i&gt;, 2008) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2007 - Harðskafi&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Hypothermia&lt;/i&gt;, 2009) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2008 - Myrká&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Outrage&lt;/em&gt;, 2011) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2009 - Svörtuloft&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2010 - Furðustrandir&lt;/i&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="Other_Novels"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other novels&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;1999 - Napóleonsskjölin&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Operation Napoleon&lt;/i&gt;, 2010) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2003 - Bettý&lt;/i&gt; (Icelandic) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2006 - Konungsbók&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;The King's Book&lt;/i&gt;) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other writings&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2000 - Leyndardómar Reykjavíkur &lt;/i&gt;(one chapter; 2000) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;i&gt;2008 - Reykjavík-Rotterdam&lt;/i&gt; (screenplay co-writer) &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name="External_links"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’m planning to read &lt;em&gt;Voices&lt;/em&gt; soon, stay tuned. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;2011 Crime Fiction Alphabet: La “i” is por Indridason, Arnaldur&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El Crime Fiction Alphabet, un Community Meme organizado por Kerrie en &lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/03/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-i.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; ha llegado esta semana a la letra &amp;quot;i&amp;quot;. Mi &amp;quot;i&amp;quot; es por Indridason, Arnaldur. Sí, yo sé que en Islandia, el apellido es un patronímico, no es el nombre de la familia, esta persona está debidamente identificada por su nombre de pila &amp;quot;Arnaldur&amp;quot;, pero, aunque sólo estoy utilizando los apellidos, permítanme, por favor, que me salte mis propias reglas. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Arnaldur Indridason nació en Reykjavik el 8 de enero de 1961. Se licenció en Historia por la Universidad de Islandia en 1996. Fue periodista en el periódico Morgunbladid entre 1981 - 1982 después se convirtió en un guionista “freelance”. De 1986 a 2001 trabajó como crítico de cine en Morgunbladid. En el año 2004 siete de sus libros estuvieron entre los diez títulos más prestados por la Biblioteca Municipal de Reykjavik. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Arnaldur ha publicado una serie de novelas de suspense, la primera &lt;em&gt;Synir duftsins&lt;/em&gt; en 1997 y muchos consideran que su publicación marcó el inicio de una nueva etapa en la novela negra de Islandia. La mayoría de sus novelas están protagonizadas por el mismo equipo de detectives. Arnaldur es uno de los principales autores de novela negra en la historia de Islandia. Ha recibido numerosos premios por sus libros, entre ellos la Glass Key Prize, un galardón otorgado por Skandinaviska Kriminalselskapet (Asociación de Escritores de Novela Negra de Escandinavia), el primer autor que lo consigue en dos años consecutivos. En el año 2002 por su libro &lt;em&gt;Myrin &lt;/em&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Las marismas)&lt;/em&gt; y en 2003 para &lt;em&gt;Grafarþögn&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La mujer de verde&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;em&gt;La mujer de verde &lt;/em&gt;también consiguió recibió el CWA Gold Dagger Award en el 2005. Arnaldur recibió La Gota de Sangre, el premio de Novela Negra es Islandia por &lt;em&gt;Harðskafi&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Hipotermia&lt;/em&gt;) y estuvo nominado por tercera vez para el premio Glass Key.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Los libros de Arnaldur se han publicado en 26 países y han sido traducidos al alemán, danés, Inglés, italiano, checo, sueco, noruego, holandés, finlandés, español, portugués y francés. Arnaldur Indridason vive en Reikiavik, con su esposa y sus tres hijos. Es hijo del también escritor Indridi G. Þorsteinsson. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Pueden ver mis entradas anteriores: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/05/reykjavik-rotterdam-2008.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reykjavik Rotterdam&lt;/em&gt; (2008)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/05/reykjavik-rotterdam-2008_28.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Reykjavík-Rotterdam&lt;/em&gt; (2008) - 2nd Part&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/02/arnaldur-indridason-las-marismas.html"&gt;Arnaldur Indridason - &lt;em&gt;Las marismas&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Mýrin&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/05/silence-of-grave-by-arnaldur-indriason_27.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Silence of the Grave&lt;/em&gt; by Arnaldur Indriðason&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;La mujer de verde&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/07/hypothermia-by-arnaldur-indridason.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hypothermia &lt;/em&gt;by Arnaldur Indridason&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Más información y bibliografía en &lt;a href="http://serienegra.es/autores/arnaldur-indridason/"&gt;Serie Negra&lt;/a&gt; y &lt;a href="http://www.rbalibros.com/arnaldur-indridason_autor-1765-es.html"&gt;RBA libros&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; Tengo la intención de leer pronto &lt;em&gt;La Voz&lt;/em&gt;, permanezcan sintonizados. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-244763218458393062?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/244763218458393062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=244763218458393062' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/244763218458393062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/244763218458393062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/2011-crime-fiction-alphabet-i-is-for.html' title='2011 Crime Fiction Alphabet: I is for Indriðason, Arnaldur.'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zcY9EPUt3gI/TXGqL99CjRI/AAAAAAAABl8/1YlPv5skg6k/s72-c/letter+i.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-2688957358296957777</id><published>2011-03-06T19:17:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-06T19:18:19.688+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Taberna Entrevinos'/><title type='text'>Entrevinos Tavern / Taberna Entrevinos</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Yesterday I had a full day, besides a great film I discovered &lt;a href="http://www.entrevinos.net/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entrevinos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; tavern.The food is good, the wine list extensive, and you can taste some superb wines. Do not miss it, if you ever come to Madrid. Good value for money.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ayer tuve un día completo, además de una gran película descubrí Taberna &lt;a href="http://www.entrevinos.net/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Entrevinos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. La comida es buena, la carta de vinos muy amplia, y se pueden degustar algunos vinos magníficos. No se la pierda si alguna vez viene por Madrid. Buena relación calidad-precio.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2688957358296957777?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2688957358296957777/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2688957358296957777' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2688957358296957777'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2688957358296957777'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/entrevinos-tavern-taberna-entrevinos.html' title='Entrevinos Tavern / Taberna Entrevinos'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-594194872470193031</id><published>2011-03-06T14:32:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-06T14:34:10.247+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='WINTER&apos;S BONE - Official US Trailer'/><title type='text'>Winter’s Bone - Official US Trailer</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Sorry I forgot to add.&lt;/p&gt; 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 &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://bitcast-a-sm.bitgravity.com/slashfilm/wp/wp-content/images/winters-bone-poster.jpg" width="136" height="200" /&gt; Winter’s Bone&lt;/em&gt; is a naturalistic drama in the form of a thriller directed by Debra Granik. It was written by Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini, based on the novel by Daniel Woodrell, and starring Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee, Tate Taylor. The winner of the last Sundance Film Festival for best picture and best screenplay, received four Oscar nominations in the 83rd Academy Awards (best picture, best actress, best supporting actor and best writing - adapted screenplay) &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Synopsis: &lt;em&gt;Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña and I went yesterday to see &lt;em&gt;Winter's Bone&lt;/em&gt;. An indie film that could have gone unnoticed, but fortunately received 4 Oscar nominations, despite its low budget. It is not an easy film to watch, but a hard drama that grabs you from the beginning to the end without giving you a break. It shakes you up to the limits of your comfort zone without concessions, but carefully avoids any unpleasant scene, or at least it does not delight in them. Nothing is gratuitous. It is beautifully narrated at a quiet but adequate pace, and it has an incredibly performance by mostly non-professional actors. The photography, the landscape and the music fit perfectly well into the narrative. A little gem and a great example of why I love so much going to the cinema.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Release Date in Spain: Friday, 11th February, 2011.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My rating 9/10&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wintersbonemovie.com/cast.html"&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://southernspaces.org/2010/life-shatter-zone-debra-graniks-film-winters-bone"&gt;Life in a Shatter Zone: Debra Granik's Film Winter's Bone&lt;/a&gt; (Spoiler alert: this review contains details of the plot).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="3"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="3"&gt;Winter’s Bone (2010) película dirigida por Debra Granik&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.elseptimoarte.net/carteles/207/winters_bone_8111.jpg" width="137" height="200" /&gt; Winter’s Bone&lt;/em&gt; es un drama naturalista en forma de thriller dirigido por Debra Granik. Está escrito por Debra Granik y Anne Rosellini, basado en la novela de Daniel Woodrell y protagonizado por Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Dale Dickey, Garret Dillahunt, Sheryl Lee, Tate Taylor. Fue la película ganadora del último Festival de Cine de Sundance, mejor película y mejor guión, y recibió 4 nominaciones a los Oscar en su 83ª edición, a la mejor película, mejor actriz, mejor actor de reparto y mejor guión adaptado. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Sinopsis&lt;strong&gt;:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt; La adolescente de 17 años, Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence), se embarca en la búsqueda desesperada de su padre, que desapareció tras haber puesto el dinero de la casa familiar para pagar su fianza. Si no lo logra, perderán su casa y ella y su familia serán devueltos a los bosques Ozark. Desafiando el código de silencio y las amenazas y arriesgando su vida para salvar a los suyos, Ree Dolly descubrirá que entre lo que ve y lo que oye se esconde la verdad que no quieren que conozca. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña y yo fuimos ayer a ver &lt;em&gt;Winter's Bone&lt;/em&gt;. Una película independiente que podría haber pasado desapercibida, pero afortunadamente recibió 4 nominaciones a los Oscar, a pesar de su bajo presupuesto. No es una película fácil de ver, sino un drama duro que te atrapa desde el principio hasta el final sin darte un descanso. Te sacude hasta los límites de tu zona de confort sin concesiones, pero evita cuidadosamente cualquier escena desagradable, o al menos no se deleita en ellas. Nada es gratuito. Está magníficamente narrada a un ritmo tranquilo pero adecuado y con una interpretación increíble por parte de actores no profesionales en su mayoría. La fotografía, el paisaje y la música encajan perfectamente en la narración. Una pequeña joya y un gran ejemplo de por qué me gusta tanto ir al cine.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Fecha de estreno en España: Viernes, 11 de febrero de 2011 &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi calificación: 9/10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.golem.es/wintersbone/"&gt;Web Oficial en Español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2823367048496928945?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2823367048496928945/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2823367048496928945' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2823367048496928945'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2823367048496928945'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/winters-bone-2010-film-by-debra-granik.html' title='Winter’s Bone (2010), a film by Debra Granik'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-3403212910031182725</id><published>2011-03-05T08:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-05T10:25:24.111+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Black Swan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='a film by Darren Aronofsky'/><title type='text'>Black Swan (2010) a film by Darren Aronofsky</title><content type='html'>&lt;h6&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h6&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://creativefan.com/files/2010/12/black-swan-5-500x740.jpg" width="117" height="168" /&gt; Black Swan is a psychological thriller directed by Darren Aronofsky, sreenplay by Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin and Andrés Heinz, and starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Sebastian Stan, Kristina Anapau, Ksenia Solo, Toby Hemingway, Janet Montgomery, Christopher Gartin, Marcia Jean Kurtz. Natalie Portman won the Oscar for Best Actress for her role as Nina at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, 27th February, 2011.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Synopsis: &lt;em&gt;Black Swan follows the story of Nina (Natalie Portman) a ballerina in a New York City ballet company whose life, like all those in her profession, is completely consumed with dance. She lives with her obsessive mother Erica (Barbara Hershey) a former ballerina who exerts a suffocating control over her. When artistic director Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decides to replace prima ballerina Beth MacIntyre (Winona Ryder) for the opening production of their new season, Swan Lake, Nina is his first choice. But a new dancer, Lily (Mila Kunis), also impresses Leroy and becomes Nina’s competition. Swan Lake requires a dancer who can play both the White Swan with innocence and grace, and the Black Swan, who represents guile and sensuality. Nina fits the White Swan role perfectly but Lily is the personification of the Black Swan with her fiery personality. As the two young dancers expand their rivalry into a twisted friendship, Nina begins to get more in touch with her dark side with a recklessness that threatens to destroy her.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Released Date in Spain: Friday, 18th February 2011.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.foxsearchlight.com/blackswan/"&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña and I went to see Black Swan last Thursday. Nothing to write home about. I was left totally indifferent. I found the story empty. The recourse to a world of dreams is too easy, there is no need to explain a particular scene and, deliberately, the film keeps some ambiguity between reality and imagination, just for the sake of it. Only Natalie Portman’s interpretation can be saved from the mediocrity of the film.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My rating: 4/10&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Cisne Negro (2010), película dirigida por Darren Aronofsky&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.elmulticine.com/imagenes/carteles/2/cisne-negro-b.jpg" width="112" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Cisne Negro es un thriller psicológico dirigido por Darren Aronofsky, guión de Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin, Andrés Heinz, y protagonizado por Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Sebastian Stan, Kristina Anapau, Ksenia Solo, Toby Hemingway, Janet Montgomery, Christopher Gartin, Marcia Jean Kurtz.. Natalie Portman, ganó el Oscar a la Mejor Actriz por su papel de Nina el 27 de febrero de 2011.&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Portman"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Sinopsis: &lt;em&gt;Cisne Negro narra la historia de Nina (Natalie Portman), una bailarina de una compañía de ballet de la ciudad de Nueva York cuya vida, como la de todos los de su profesión, está completamente dedicada a la danza. Nina vive con su madre, Erica (Barbara Hershey), una bailarina ya retirada que apoya con entusiasmo la ambición profesional de su hija. Cuando el director artístico Thomas Leroy (Vincent Cassel) decide sustituir a la prima ballerina Beth Macintyre (Winona Ryder) en la nueva producción de la temporada, “El lago de los cisnes”, Nina es su primera elección. Pero Nina tiene competencia: una nueva bailarina, Lily (Mila Kunis), que también ha impresionado gratamente a Leroy. “El lago de los cisnes” requiere una bailarina que pueda interpretar tanto al Cisne Blanco, con inocencia y elegancia, como al Cisne Negro, que representa la astucia y la sensualidad. Nina se adecua perfectamente al papel del Cisne Blanco, pero Lily es la absoluta personificación del Cisne Negro. Mientras la rivalidad entre las dos jóvenes bailarinas va transformándose en algo más que una encrespada relación, Nina empieza a conectar con su lado más oscuro, con una temeridad tal que amenaza destruirla. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Fecha de Estreno en España: Viernes, 18 de febrero de 2011 &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cisnenegropelicula.es/"&gt;Web Oficial en Español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña y yo fuimos a ver Cisne Negro el pasado jueves. Nada del otro mundo. Me dejó totalmente indiferente. Me encontré con una historia vacía. El recurso a un mundo onírico es demasiado fácil, no hay necesidad de explicar ninguna escena en particular y deliberadamente mantiene cierta ambiguedad entre realidad e imaginación, sin más ni más. Sólo la interpretación de Natalie Portman se puede salvar de la mediocridad de la película.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi calificación: 4/10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-3403212910031182725?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/3403212910031182725/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=3403212910031182725' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3403212910031182725'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/3403212910031182725'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/black-swan-2010-film-by-darren.html' title='Black Swan (2010) a film by Darren Aronofsky'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8807854470577848052</id><published>2011-03-04T22:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T22:02:59.184+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Do the Write Thing!</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DZrw3Ib0Hhc/TXFB3m-bOrI/AAAAAAAABus/zh3YB797AOc/s320/Do+The+Write+Thing.jpg" /&gt; Do the Write Thing!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a charity raffle put together by Margot Kinberg at &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/"&gt;Confessions of a Mystery Novelist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; to raise funds for Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake relief. To enter the raffle click &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/2011/03/do-write-thing-raffle-with-benefits.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;HERE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8807854470577848052?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8807854470577848052/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8807854470577848052' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8807854470577848052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8807854470577848052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/do-write-thing.html' title='Do the Write Thing!'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DZrw3Ib0Hhc/TXFB3m-bOrI/AAAAAAAABus/zh3YB797AOc/s72-c/Do+The+Write+Thing.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-572381340087447532</id><published>2011-03-04T13:28:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-04T13:30:03.167+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'/><title type='text'>A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2c/ArthurConanDoyle_AStudyInScarlet_annual.jpg/200px-ArthurConanDoyle_AStudyInScarlet_annual.jpg" width="104" height="160" /&gt;In my contribution to the &lt;a href="http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2010/11/2011-vintage-mystery-reading-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; I arrive today at &lt;em&gt;A Study in Scarlet&lt;/em&gt;. The relevance of this book lies in the fact that the universal character of Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was first introduced to the public in this detective novel published in 1887. The first of the four novels and fifty-six short stories that make up what it is known today as the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;canon of Sherlock Holmes&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/a&gt; Despite its later success and its universal recognition, neither this first book nor its main character attracted much public interest at that time. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The book is split in two halves. The first one is told in first person by Dr. Watson. He describes his first encounter with Sherlock Holmes through a mutual friend in 1881. Both agree to share rooms at 221B Baker Street. At this point the reader gets familiar with Holmes's eccentricities and with his uncanny ability to deduce information from his own observations. Watson is then given the opportunity to follow Holmes during the investigation of the Brixton mystery. The second part is narrated in third person and the story moves in a flashback to a Mormon community in the United States. In the last two chapters Watson takes back the accounts of the investigation to finish with Holmes’ own explanation.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The novel is relatively short, just 166 pages in my edition, and can easily be found on the Internet. An easy read as well and nicely told, except perhaps for the long flashback that can distract the reader's attention. But keep in mind that Conan Doyle did not use it again as a narrative tool. Anyway, it provides a contemporary account of (one of the ways) how the West of the United States was won, which was probably as exciting at that time and it is today. A nice mix of detective fiction and adventures. A must read for any genre aficionado.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;Estudio en escarlata de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;En mi contribución al &lt;a href="http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2010/11/2011-vintage-mystery-reading-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; llego hoy a &lt;em&gt;Estudio en escarlata&lt;/em&gt;. La relevancia de este libro reside en el hecho de que el personaje universal de Sherlock Holmes, creado por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, se da a conocer por primera vez al público en esta novela policíaca publicada en 1887. La primera de las cuatro novelas y cincuenta y seis cuentos que componen lo que hoy se conoce como el &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_holmesiano"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Canon holmesiano&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. A pesar de su éxito posterior y de su reconocimiento universal, ni este primer libro, ni su protagonista suscitaron mucho interés por parte del público en ese momento.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El libro se divide en dos partes. La primera está contada en primera persona por el Dr. Watson. Nos describe su primer encuentro con Sherlock Holmes a través de un amigo común en 1881. Ambos acuerdan compartir habitaciónes en el 221B de Baker Street. En este punto el lector empieza a conocer las excentricidades de Holmes y su asombrosa habilidad para sacar deducciones a partir de sus propias observaciones. Watson tiene entonces la oportunidad de seguir a Holmes durante la investigación del misterio de Brixton. La segunda parte está narrada en tercera persona. En un flashback la historia se traslada a una comunidad mormona en los Estados Unidos. En los dos últimos capítulos Watson retoma la narración de la investigación para terminar con la explicación de Holmes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La novela es relativamente corta, apenas 166 páginas en mi edición, y se pueden encontrar fácilmente en Internet. De fácil lectura y muy bien contada, a excepción quizás del largo flashback que pueden distraer la atención del lector. Pero tengan en cuenta que Conan Doyle no lo volvió a utilizar como herramienta narrativa. De todos modos, nos proporciona un relato contemporáneo de (una de las formas) cómo se conquistó el Oeste de los Estados Unidos, que era probablemente tan interesante en ese momento como lo es hoy. Una buena mezcla entre la novela policíaca y la de aventuras. Una lectura obligada para cualquier aficionado al género.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-572381340087447532?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/572381340087447532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=572381340087447532' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/572381340087447532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/572381340087447532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/study-in-scarlet-by-sir-arthur-conan.html' title='A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1323248473131993114</id><published>2011-03-02T10:14:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-02T11:22:44.429+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='January and February Reading'/><title type='text'>My January and February Reading</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/darkside-by-belinda-bauer.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Darkside&lt;/em&gt; by Belinda Bauer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/yours-until-death-by-gunnar-staalesen.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Yours Until Death&lt;/em&gt; by Gunnar Staalesen&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/three-seconds-by-anders-roslund-and.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Three Seconds&lt;/em&gt; by Anders Roslund and Börge Hellström&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-hay-que-morir-dos-veces-de-francisco.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;No hay que morir dos veces&lt;/em&gt; de Francisco González Ledesma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/borderlands-by-brian-mcgilloway.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Borderlands &lt;/em&gt;by Brian McGilloway&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/blanco-nocturno-de-ricardo-piglia.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt; de Ricardo Piglia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/murders-in-rue-morgue-by-edgar-allan.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Murders in the Rue Morgue&lt;/em&gt; by Edgar Allan Poe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/testigo-involuntario-de-gianrico.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Testigo Involuntario&lt;/em&gt; de Gianrico Carofiglio&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Involuntary Witness&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/nadie-lo-ha-visto-de-mari-jungstedt.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nadie lo ha visto&lt;/em&gt; de Mari Jungstedt&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; (&lt;em&gt;Unseen&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/el-chino-de-henning-mankell.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;El chino&lt;/em&gt; de Henning Mankell&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Man from Beijing&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/red-wolf-den-roda-vargen-by-liza.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Red Wolf&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Den röda vargen&lt;/em&gt;) by Liza Marklund&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/redeemer-frelseren-by-jo-nesb.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Redeemer&lt;/em&gt; (Frelseren) by Jo Nesbø&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;And my preferences go to……..&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You bet,&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jo Nesbo, &lt;em&gt;The Redeemer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Ricardo Piglia, &lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1323248473131993114?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1323248473131993114/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1323248473131993114' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1323248473131993114'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1323248473131993114'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-january-and-february-reading.html' title='My January and February Reading'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6342884177130562628</id><published>2011-03-01T12:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T12:58:11.111+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='In the electric mist'/><title type='text'>In the Electric Mist by Bertrand Tavernier</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In the Electric Mist, &lt;/em&gt;2009 (&lt;em&gt;Dans la brume electrique&lt;/em&gt;) by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Tavernier"&gt;Bertrand Tavernier&lt;/a&gt; will be released in Spain on Friday, 11th March. It is based on a novel by James Lee Burke starring Tommy Lee Jones. The blurb reads: &lt;em&gt;While on an investigation into a series of grisly murders, veteran detective Dave Robicheaux (Jones) navigates his way through the Louisiana bayou and the dark, sultry world of New Orleans mobster &amp;quot;Baby Feet&amp;quot; Balboni (John Goodman). Layers of corruption and long-dead secrets reawaken grudges and a lethal alliance A tangled web of killings, past and present, converges in a shocking showdown with stakes that become deeply personal to Robicheaux and his family. Featuring music from five-time GRAMMY Award-winner Buddy Guy, this film takes you deep into Cajun country's hidden worlds.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.intheelectricmist.com/"&gt;Official Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have enjoyed some Tavernier’s films, namely &lt;i&gt;Life and Nothing But&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;La Vie et rien d'autre&lt;/i&gt;), &lt;i&gt;Capitaine Conan&lt;/i&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Ça commence aujourd'hui&lt;/em&gt;). Maybe I'll go and see it. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;En el centro de la tormenta de Bertrand Tavernier&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;En el centro de la tormenta, &lt;/em&gt;2009 (&lt;em&gt;Dans la brume electrique&lt;/em&gt;) de &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Tavernier"&gt;Bertrand Tavernier&lt;/a&gt; se estrenará en España el viernes 11 de marzo. Está basada en una novela de James Lee Burke y protagonizada por Tommy Lee Jones. La propaganda dice: &lt;em&gt;Nueva Iberia, Luisiana. El detective Dave Robicheaux sigue la pista de un asesino en serie cuya debilidad son las chicas jóvenes. Mientras vuelve a casa después de estar en la escena de un nuevo crimen, Dave conoce al glamuroso actor de Hollywood Elrod Sykes. Sykes se encuentra en la ciudad rodando su nueva película, que está coproducida por uno de los líderes locales del crimen organizado, Baby Feet Balboni. Es el propio Sykes quien le cuenta a Dave que ha visto un cuerpo tirado en un pantano, el cadáver descompuesto y encadenado de un hombre negro. El descubrimiento saca a relucir recuerdos del pasado de Dave. Y tiene la sensación que los dos casos están relacionados. Pero a medida que Dave se acerca al asesino, el asesino también se acerca a Dave y a su familia...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://enelcentrodelatormenta.filmax.com/"&gt;Página web en español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He disfrutado con algunas películas de Tavernier, &lt;em&gt;La vida y nada más, Capitan Conan, El mañana empieza hoy&lt;/em&gt;. Tal vez vaya a verla.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6342884177130562628?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6342884177130562628/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6342884177130562628' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6342884177130562628'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6342884177130562628'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/in-electric-mist-by-bertrand-tavernier.html' title='In the Electric Mist by Bertrand Tavernier'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6450943795700890138</id><published>2011-03-01T11:37:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-01T11:54:20.718+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Upcoming Readings'/><title type='text'>Upcoming Readings</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Readers of this blog may be familiar with my habit to publicise my upcoming readings. Well here they are. I'm planning to read in the next two months at least:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Currently Reading: &lt;em&gt;Entanglement &lt;/em&gt;by Zygmunt Miloszewski (Bitter Lemon, 2010) Translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Followed by (not necessarily in this order):&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Echoes from the Dead&lt;/em&gt; by Johan Theorin (Black Swan, 2009) Translated from the Swedish by Marlaine Delargy      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; by Jo Nesbo (Vintage Books, 2010) Translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Suspect&lt;/em&gt; by Michael Robotham (Time Warner Paperback, 2005)      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Broken Shore&lt;/em&gt; by Peter Temple (Quercus, 2007)      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Voices&lt;/em&gt; by Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage Books, 2007) Translated from the Icelandic by Bernard Scudder      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Widow Killer&lt;/em&gt; by Pavel Kohout (Picador paperback edition, 2000) Translated by Neil Bermel      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winterland&lt;/em&gt; by Alan Glynn (Faber and faber, 2009)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Próximas Lecturas&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Los lectores de este blog puede que esten familiarizados con mi costumbre de dar a conocer mis próximas lecturas. Pues bien aquí están. Tengo la intención de leer en los próximos dos meses al menos:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Estoy leyendo actualmente: &lt;em&gt;Entanglement &lt;/em&gt;de Zygmunt Miloszewski (Bitter Lemon, 2010) Traducido del polaco por Antonia Lloyd-Jones.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Seguidos de (no necesariamente en este orden):&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Echoes from the Dead&lt;/em&gt; de Johan Theorin (Black Swan, 2009) Traducido del sueco por Marlaine Delargy      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Snowman&lt;/em&gt; de Jo Nesbo (Vintage Books, 2010) Traducido del noruego por Don Bartlett      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Suspect&lt;/em&gt; de Michael Robotham (Time Warner, 2005)      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Broken Shore&lt;/em&gt; de Peter Temple (Quercus, 2007)      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Voices&lt;/em&gt; de Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage Books, 2007) Traducido del islandés por Bernard Scudder      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Widow Killer&lt;/em&gt; de Pavel Kohout (Picador, 2000) Traducido por Neil Bermel      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Winterland&lt;/em&gt; de Alan Glynn (Faber and Faber, 2009)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6450943795700890138?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6450943795700890138/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6450943795700890138' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6450943795700890138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6450943795700890138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/03/upcoming-readings.html' title='Upcoming Readings'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-7388375670649698506</id><published>2011-02-28T16:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-28T17:08:49.203+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Brian McGilloway'/><title type='text'>Borderlands by Brian McGilloway</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.panmacmillan.com/images/frontCovers/main/9780330452557-01.jpg" width="101" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;First published 2007 by Macmillan New Writing. This edition published 2007 by Pan Books. 300 p. ISBN: 978-0-330.45255-7.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;When the book opens the reader is informed about the peculiarities of the Irish border, an area known as the borderlands:&amp;#160; “&lt;em&gt;Eighty years ago it was drawn through fields, farms and rivers by civil servants who knew little more about the area than that which they’d learnt from a map. Now people live with the consequences, owning houses where TV licences are bought in the North and the electricity needed to run them is paid for in the South.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;When a crime occurs in an area not clearly in one jurisdiction or another, the Irish Republic’s An Garda Siochana and the Police Service of Northern Ireland work together, each offering all the practical help and advice they can, the lead detective determined generally by either the location of the body or the nationality of the victim&lt;/em&gt;”. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;On the 21st December 2002 the corpse of fifteen year-old Angela Cashell is found naked in this no-man’s land. Being a citizen of the Republic Angela’s case belongs to Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin. But there are almost no clues but an expensive ring engraved AC and an old picture of a woman no one recognizes. Days later the body of a young University student, is found burned beyond recognition. No one can relate him to Angela, but the same picture is found nearby. The investigation of the ring leads to the identity of the woman in the photo, a prostitute that disappeared some twenty five years ago. Is there any connection between these cases that could eventually bring some light?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I have enjoyed reading this interesting and very entertaining police procedural that caught my attention from page one. The characters are human and very real, and it has a superb sense of place. I enjoyed as well the atmosphere surrounding the story. The plot might have some loose ends and I did found the ending slightly confusing. It seems to me it was written in a hurry. All in all the book is a worthwhile read and I'm looking forward to &lt;em&gt;Gallows Lane&lt;/em&gt;, the next one in Inspector Devlin series.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Borderlands&lt;/i&gt; is Brian McGilloway debut novel, the first in a new series featuring Inspector Benedict Devlin. It was shortlisted for the CWA New Blood Dagger 2007.&amp;#160; The second novel in the series, &lt;em&gt;Gallows Lane&lt;/em&gt;, was shortlisted for both the 2009 Irish Book Awards/Ireland AM Crime Novel of the Year and the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2010. &lt;em&gt;Bleed A River Deep&lt;/em&gt;, the third Devlin novel, was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of their Best Books of 2010. The fourth novel, &lt;em&gt;The Rising&lt;/em&gt;, will be published in paperback in Spring 2011 alongside the new standalone novel, &lt;em&gt;Little Girl Lost&lt;/em&gt;, featuring DS Lucy Black. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Borderlands has been reviewed by Maxine at &lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/Borderlands.html"&gt;Euro Crime&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://itsacrime.typepad.com/its_a_crime_or_a_mystery/2007/04/borderlands_bri.html"&gt;It’s a crime (or a mystery…)&lt;/a&gt;, among others.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://itsacrime.typepad.com/its_a_crime_or_a_mystery/2007/04/brian_mcgillowa.html"&gt;Brian McGilloway - Interview with the Author&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panmacmillan.com/titles/displayPage.asp?PageTitle=Individual%20Title&amp;amp;BookID=403709"&gt;Pan McMillan UK publisher site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://us.macmillan.com/borderlands-1"&gt;McMillan US publisher site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.brianmcgilloway.com/"&gt;Brian McGilloway’s Website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’m counting this book for the &lt;a href="http://booksandmovies.colvilleblogger.com/2010/12/06/announcing-ireland-reading-challenge-2011/"&gt;2011 Ireland Reading Challenge&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Borderlands de Brian McGilloway &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Al comenzar el libro se informa al lector de las peculiaridades de la frontera irlandesa, una zona conocida como los borderlands: &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Se trazó hace ochenta años a través de campos, granjas y ríos por funcionarios que sólo conocían de la zona lo que habían visto en un mapa. Ahora la gente soporta las consecuencias de esa decisión en casas donde la licencia de la televisión se compra en el Norte y la electricidad necesaria para que funcione se paga en el Sur.        &lt;br /&gt;Cuando se produce un delito en una zona que no pertenece claramente a ninguna jurisdicción,&amp;#160; un policia de la República de Irlanda (An Garda Siochana) y otro de Irlanda del Norte, colaboran ofreciendo cada uno toda la ayuda y los consejos prácticos que pueda aportar, el detective principal se determina bien por el lugar del delito o por la nacionalidad de la víctima&lt;/em&gt; &amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El 21 de diciembre de 2002 el cadáver de Angela Cashell de quince años de edad, se encuentra desnudo en esta tierra de nadie. Al ser ciudadana de la República de Irlanda el caso de Angela le corresponde al Inspector Benedict Devlin. Pero no hay casi ninguna pista, sólo un anillo muy caro con las iniciales AC y una fotografía antigua de una mujer a la que nadie reconoce. Días después el cuerpo de un joven estudiante universitario, aparece completamente calcinado, dificilmente reconocible. Nadie le puede relacionar con Angela, pero cerca se encuentra la misma fotografía. La investigación del anillo nos lleva a averiguar la identidad de la mujer en la fotografía, una prostituta que desapareció hace unos veinticinco años. ¿Existe alguna relación entre estos casos que eventualmente pueda arrojar algo de luz?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;He disfrutado leyendo este interesante y muy entretenido procedimiento policial que me atrapó desde la primera página. Los personajes son humanos y muy reales, y tiene un excelente el sentido del lugar. También he disfrutado con el ambiente que rodea la historia. La trama puede&amp;#160; tener algunos cabos sueltos y he encontrado el final algo confuso. Me parece como si hubiera estado escrito con prisas. En conjunto el libro merece la pena y estoy deseando leer &lt;em&gt;Gallows Lane&lt;/em&gt;, el siguiente en la serie del Inspector Devlin. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Brian McGilloway debutó con &lt;em&gt;Borderlands&lt;/em&gt;, la primera novela de la serie protagonizada por el inspector Benedict Devlin y fue seleccionada para el Premio New Dagger de la CWA el 2007. La segunda novela de la serie, &lt;em&gt;Gallows Lane&lt;/em&gt;, fue seleccionada para el Premio Irish Book del 2009 / Irlanda AM Novela Negra del Año y el Theakston's Old Peculier Novela Negra del año 2010. &lt;em&gt;Bleed A River Deep&lt;/em&gt;, la tercera novela del inspector Devlin, fue seleccionada por Publishers Weekly como uno de los mejores libros del 2010. La cuarta novela, &lt;em&gt;The Rising&lt;/em&gt;, saldrá esta primavera en edición de bolsillo junto con una nueva novela, independiente en esta ocasión,&lt;em&gt; Little Girl Lost&lt;/em&gt;, protagonizada por DS Lucy Black.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Creo que aún no se ha publicado en español. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-7388375670649698506?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/7388375670649698506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=7388375670649698506' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7388375670649698506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/7388375670649698506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/borderlands-by-brian-mcgilloway.html' title='Borderlands by Brian McGilloway'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-9040150551105336027</id><published>2011-02-28T11:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-28T11:16:55.438+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Adrian Hyland'/><title type='text'>Crime Fiction Alphabet 2011: H is for Hyland, Adrian</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4egZ8Ovqu1U/TWY2Fw9APZI/AAAAAAAABlc/Be02qp8U030/s1600/letter+H.jpg" width="70" height="100" /&gt; On our journey through the &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-h.html"&gt;Crime Fiction Alphabet&lt;/a&gt; hosted by Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; we stop this week at letter &amp;quot;H&amp;quot;. And my “H” goes to……&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Hyland, Adrian (1955) spent many years in the Northern Territory, living and working among Indigenous people. He now lives in St Andrews, Victoria, and teaches at LaTrobe University. His first book, &lt;em&gt;Moonlight Downs&lt;/em&gt; –originally published in Australia under the title &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt;, won the 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and is the first crime novel to feature an Indigenous protagonist since Arthur Upfield's &lt;em&gt;Boney&lt;/em&gt; series. &lt;i&gt;Gunshot Road&lt;/i&gt; is his second novel. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Diamond Dove publisher’s blurb: &lt;em&gt;Something has drawn Emily Tempest back to Central Australia—to Moonlight Downs, the community she left half a lifetime ago. Not much has changed; the barefoot kids are bush mechanics now, but Emily still doesn’t know if she belongs in the Aboriginal world or the white.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;And trouble still seems to follow her. Within hours of her arrival an old friend lies brutally murdered and mutilated, an old enemy the only suspect. Until Emily starts asking questions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’ve recently ordered a copy of &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt; and I do expect to receive it soon. Stay tuned. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Gunshot Road publisher’s blurb: &lt;em&gt;Emily Tempest is small, black, as snaky as a taipan’s tooth and is the woman least likely ever to embark on a career in policing. But her old mate Superintendent Tom MacGillivray has persuaded her to sign on as the Aboriginal Community Police Officer for the outback (not to mention throwback) township of Bluebush.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Then Tom is hospitalised and Emily finds herself working for a new bloke instead: an east-coast ring-in, a martinet called Cockburn. Being allergic both to authority and to keeping her big mouth shut, Emily is immediately at odds with the new boss. And the death at the Green Swamp Well Roadhouse only complicates things. Cockburn thinks it’s a simple case of two old drunks and a hammer. Emily’s not convinced.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adrian Hyland takes us to the outback—a place we think we know, and have mostly never seen. Introducing us to the people who belong there—a different people, as wise, foolish and fallible as the rest of us. And spinning for us a veil of wit and lyrical beauty through which we can see them truly&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can read my review of &lt;em&gt;Gunshot Road&lt;/em&gt; in two instalments &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/10/gunshot-road-by-adrian-hyland-1.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/10/gunshot-road-by-adrian-hyland-2.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/desert-tales-20100821-139ra.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Desert tales&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.readings.com.au/news/the-story-of-my-book-adrian-hyland-on-gunshot-road"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Story of my Book: Adrian Hyland on Gunshot Road&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://afterdarkmysweet.blogspot.com/2008/03/australian-crime-fiction-snapshot.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Australian Crime Fiction Snapshot : Adrian Hyland&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;Alfabeto del Crimen 2011: H por Hyland, Adrian&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;En nuestro recorrido por el Alfabeto del Crimen nos detenemos esta semana en la letra &amp;quot;H&amp;quot;. Y mi &amp;quot;H&amp;quot; es para……..&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Hyland, Adrian (1955) pasó muchos años en el &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorio_del_Norte"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Territorio del Norte&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, viviendo y trabajando entre aborígenes. Actualmente vive en St Andrews, Victoria, y enseña en la Universidad de LaTrobe. Su primer libro, &lt;em&gt;Moonlight Downs&lt;/em&gt; -publicado originalmente en Australia con el título de &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt;, ganó el Premio Ned Kelly a la Mejor Primera Novela en 2007 y es la primera novela negra que tiene un protagonista aborígen después de la serie &lt;em&gt;Boney&lt;/em&gt; de Arthur Upfield. &lt;em&gt;Gunshot Road&lt;/em&gt; es su segunda novela. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Del editor de &lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Algo ha hecho que Emily Tempest regresara a Australia Central –a Moonlight Downs, la comunidad que dejó hace media vida. No ha cambiado mucho; los niños descalzos, trabajan ahora como mecánicos en el campo, Emily no sabe todavía si pertenece al mundo aborigen o al de los blancos.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Y parece que los problemas le persiguen. A las pocas horas de su llegada un viajo amigo aparece brutalmente asesinado y mutilado, un viejo enemigo el único sospechoso. Hasta que Emily comienza a hacer preguntas&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Acabo de compra Diamond Dove por Internet, espero recibirlo pronto, estén atentos.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Del editor de &lt;em&gt;Gunshot Road:&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Emily Tempest es pequeña, negra, tan retorzida como el diente de una serpiente, la última mujer que ingresaría en la policía. Pero su viejo amigo el superintendente Tom MacGillivray le ha convencido de que trabaje como oficial de policía para la comunidad aborigen en las zonas despobladas del interior del municipio de Bluebush.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pero cuando Tom tiene que ser hospitalizado, Emily se encuentra trabajando para un nuevo tipo, un recién llegado de la costa este, un tal Cockburn que se rige estrictamente por las ordenanzas. Alérgia tanto a la autoridad como a mantener la boca cerrada, Emily choca de inmediato con su nuevo jefe. Y la muerte en Green Swamp Well Roadhouse sólo sirve para complicar las cosas. Cockburn considera que únicamente se trata de un simple caso entre dos viejos borrachos y un martillo. Pero Emily no lo ve así.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Adrian Hyland nos introduce en las zonas despobladas del interior, en un lugar que creemos conocer, pero que no hemos visto nunca. Nos presenta a las personas que son de allí –personas diferentes, tan sabias, necias e imperfectas como el resto de nosotros. Y nos desvela una historia de ingenio y de poética belleza a través de la cual podemos verlos como en realidad son&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Lamentablemente los libros de Adrian Hyland no están disponibles en español (mis disculpas por mi traducción libre, de los textos citados).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-9040150551105336027?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/9040150551105336027/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=9040150551105336027' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/9040150551105336027'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/9040150551105336027'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-h-is-for.html' title='Crime Fiction Alphabet 2011: H is for Hyland, Adrian'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4egZ8Ovqu1U/TWY2Fw9APZI/AAAAAAAABlc/Be02qp8U030/s72-c/letter+H.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8247572034918421907</id><published>2011-02-27T16:29:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T16:31:57.443+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Garfield dixit'/><title type='text'>It takes a lot of courage to do that.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;…… who said I have a lot of courage (Garfield) &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Remember my self imposed ban to purchase more books. Well I just lift it and went through a shopping spree. I bought:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Inspector and Silence&lt;/em&gt;, by Hakan Nesser&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Wings of the Sphinx&lt;/em&gt;, by Andrea Camilleri&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Diamond Dove,&lt;/em&gt; by Adrian Hyland&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Ice Princess&lt;/em&gt;, by Camila Läckberg&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Quiet Belief in Angels&lt;/em&gt;, by R. J. Ellory&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lennox&lt;/em&gt;, by Craig Rusell&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Last Rituals&lt;/em&gt;, by Yrsa Sigurdardottir&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Crossing Places&lt;/em&gt;, by Elly Griffiths&lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bad Intentions&lt;/em&gt;, by Karin Fossum (pre-ordered)&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Afraid a new ban is on its way, the question remains, till when….&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8247572034918421907?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8247572034918421907/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8247572034918421907' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8247572034918421907'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8247572034918421907'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/it-takes-lot-of-courage-to-do-that.html' title='It takes a lot of courage to do that.....'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-8931637582027875982</id><published>2011-02-27T10:02:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-27T10:02:38.079+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Joaquin Sorolla'/><title type='text'>Google celebra hoy el 148 aniversairo del nacimiento de Joaquín Sorolla</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version.&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px" border="0" src="http://www.google.es/logos/2011/sorolla11-hp.jpg" width="248" height="100" /&gt; En el 148 aniversario del nacimiento de Joaquin Sorolla, Google le rinde homenaje con un 'doodle'.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla"&gt;Joaquin Sorolla en Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://museosorolla.mcu.es/"&gt;Museo Sorolla (Madrid)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;Google Celebrates Today the 148 Anniversary of Sorolla’s Birth&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In the 148 anniversary of Joaquin Sorolla's birth, &lt;a href="http://gdoodle.blogspot.com/2011/02/148-joaquin-sorollas-birthday.html"&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; pays him homage with a 'doodle'.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaqu%C3%ADn_Sorolla"&gt;Joaquin Sorolla in Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gomadrid.com/museums/museo-sorolla.html"&gt;Sorolla Museum (Madrid)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-8931637582027875982?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/8931637582027875982/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=8931637582027875982' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8931637582027875982'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/8931637582027875982'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/google-celebra-hoy-el-148-aniversairo.html' title='Google celebra hoy el 148 aniversairo del nacimiento de Joaquín Sorolla'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-2229578940402238377</id><published>2011-02-26T14:54:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T14:57:59.277+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Patones de Arriba'/><title type='text'>O. T. Patones de Arriba</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/features/article_1445635.php/Tourism_turns_poor_villages_into_classy_resorts_in_Spain_Feature"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patones de Arriba&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a small village hidden in the mountains 60 km away from Madrid. Its charm is mainly given by its architecture, considered a Heritage of Cultural Interest (Bien de Interés Cultural). I took these pictures last Tuesday, 22nd February.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGZJntY4I/AAAAAAAAUjk/1P3RQkjSb3I/s1600-h/JGCP%20026%5B5%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="JGCP 026" border="0" alt="JGCP 026" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGZngbsRI/AAAAAAAAUjo/_IMuvZAhDKw/JGCP%20026_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGa5QTV-I/AAAAAAAAUjs/NN_9aTdydxw/s1600-h/JGCP%20160%5B7%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="JGCP 160" border="0" alt="JGCP 160" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGbq65-wI/AAAAAAAAUjw/ORut2S72TRE/JGCP%20160_thumb%5B5%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGc_OZ2jI/AAAAAAAAUj0/peFU424VYFQ/s1600-h/JGCP%20168%5B8%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" title="JGCP 168" border="0" alt="JGCP 168" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGde6q3NI/AAAAAAAAUj4/lP13AfKPqAY/JGCP%20168_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGegq8WvI/AAAAAAAAUkM/KE0EN6sSx8A/s1600-h/JGCP%20169%5B8%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;img title="JGCP 169" border="0" alt="JGCP 169" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGfGp2yyI/AAAAAAAAUkA/McDBQSc5bhw/JGCP%20169_thumb%5B4%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" width="240" height="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGegq8WvI/AAAAAAAAUkM/KE0EN6sSx8A/s1600-h/JGCP%20169%5B8%5D.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGegq8WvI/AAAAAAAAUkU/tCA6fSqnVpU/s1600-h/JGCP%20169%5B7%5D.jpg"&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2229578940402238377?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2229578940402238377/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2229578940402238377' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2229578940402238377'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2229578940402238377'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/o-t-patones-de-arriba.html' title='O. T. Patones de Arriba'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWkGZngbsRI/AAAAAAAAUjo/_IMuvZAhDKw/s72-c/JGCP%20026_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-6476732705389752155</id><published>2011-02-26T13:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-26T13:56:13.225+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Júlio Pereira - Os Índios da Meia-Praia'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Dulce Pontes'/><title type='text'>Dulce Pontes, Júlio Pereira - Os Índios da Meia-Praia</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:a1117b5a-1752-475d-98c0-d37d59f15453" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"&gt;&lt;div id="7f9f15e5-1093-4c43-88b4-0ab014b8e359" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0ZDxH_wzgM" target="_new"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWj4a6qvjoI/AAAAAAAAUjc/mOV3JvA-B3o/videoc75892e733c0%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('7f9f15e5-1093-4c43-88b4-0ab014b8e359'); downlevelDiv.innerHTML = &amp;quot;&amp;lt;div&amp;gt;&amp;lt;object width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;param name=\&amp;quot;movie\&amp;quot; value=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/_0ZDxH_wzgM&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/param&amp;gt;&amp;lt;embed src=\&amp;quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/_0ZDxH_wzgM&amp;amp;hl=en\&amp;quot; type=\&amp;quot;application/x-shockwave-flash\&amp;quot; width=\&amp;quot;425\&amp;quot; height=\&amp;quot;355\&amp;quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/embed&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/object&amp;gt;&amp;lt;\/div&amp;gt;&amp;quot;;" alt=""&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-6476732705389752155?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/6476732705389752155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=6476732705389752155' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6476732705389752155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/6476732705389752155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/dulce-pontes-julio-pereira-os-indios-da.html' title='Dulce Pontes, Júlio Pereira - Os Índios da Meia-Praia'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://lh3.ggpht.com/_OqQza3vSNso/TWj4a6qvjoI/AAAAAAAAUjc/mOV3JvA-B3o/s72-c/videoc75892e733c0%5B3%5D.jpg?imgmax=800' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-2700853766091968506</id><published>2011-02-25T19:12:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-25T19:16:51.575+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='True Grit'/><title type='text'>True Grit (Valor de Ley) by Joel &amp; Ethan Coen (2010)</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña and I went yesterday to see True Grit (Spanish title Valor de Ley) by Joel &amp;amp; Etan Coen.&amp;#160; With 10 nominations, including best picture, it is based on the novel of the same title by Charles Portis. The same novel was previously adapted in 1968 directed by Henry Hathaway and John Wayne won a best-actor Oscar as one-eyed U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, but I have not seen it. Despite some great scenes at the opening and during part of the chase, I lost interest completely at a certain point and I kept waiting for the end. But I did like the actors' performances though.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;My rating 6/10. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://img2.gamespotcdn.com/metacritic/public/www/images/products/movies/6/73e1fc51aaa6da948613ccd6a5d36142-98.jpg" width="111" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;True Grit, 2010&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Directed by Joel Coen &amp;amp; Ethan Coen&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Sreenplay: Joel Coen &amp;amp; Ethan Coen, based on the novel by the same title by Charles Portis.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Cast: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Synopsis&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;em&gt;Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross's (Hailee Steinfeld) father has been shot in cold blood by the coward Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), and she is determined to bring him to justice. Enlisting the help of a trigger-happy, drunken U.S. Marshal, Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), she sets out with him -- over his objections -- to hunt down Chaney. Her father's blood demands that she pursue the criminal into Indian territory and find him before a Texas Ranger named LeBoeuf (Matt Damon) catches him and brings him back to Texas for the murder of another man&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.truegritmovie.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Official Website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uco41pOKeJg"&gt;True Grit Trailer 2010&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Valor de Ley (True Grit), 2010 de Joel y Ethan Coen&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña y yo fuimos ayer a ver True Grit (Valor de Ley) de Joel y Etan Coen. Con 10 nominaciones, incluyendo la de mejor película, está basada en la novela del mismo título de Charles Portis. La misma novela que fue adaptada en 1968, dirigida por Henry Hathaway y con la que John Wayne ganó un Oscar como mejor actor interpretanto a Rooster Cogburn, pero no la he visto. A pesar de algunas magníficas escenas al comienzo y durante parte de la persecución, perdí el interés por completo en un determinado momento y me quedé esperando a que acabara. Sin embargo me gustó la interpretación de los actores.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi calificación: 6/10.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://peliculas.labutaca.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/valor-de-ley-cartel.jpg" width="113" height="160" /&gt; Título: Valor de Ley 2010 &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Título Original: True Grit 2010&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Dirigida por: Joel Coen y Ethan Coen&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Guión: Joel Coen y Ethan Coen, basado en la novela del mismo título de Charles Portis.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Reparto: Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper, Hailee Steinfeld&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Sinopsis: &lt;em&gt;El padre de la niña de catorce años Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) es asesinado de un disparo a sangre fría por el cobarde Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin), y ahora ella está dispuesta a hacer justicia. Buscando la ayuda del U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), un borracho de gatillo fácil, se marcha con él -a pesar de su oposición- para atrapar a Chaney. La sangre vertida de su padre le hace perseguir al criminal hasta el territorio Indio y encontrarle antes de que el Ranger de Texas llamado LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) le atrape y lo lleve de vuelta a Texas por haber asesinado a otro hombre&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Fecha de Estreno en España: 11 de febrero de 2011 &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.valordeley.com/"&gt;Web Oficial en Español&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2700853766091968506?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2700853766091968506/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2700853766091968506' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2700853766091968506'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2700853766091968506'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/true-grit-valor-de-ley-by-joel-ethan.html' title='True Grit (Valor de Ley) by Joel &amp;amp; Ethan Coen (2010)'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1427667682626761345</id><published>2011-02-25T09:27:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-25T09:27:31.089+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Do the write thing'/><title type='text'>Do the Write Thing</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ybNmQwZ733M/TWarp4XPK9I/AAAAAAAABtc/7x5S4Xif_B4/s320/NZFlag.jpg" width="100" height="100" /&gt; Do the Write Thing&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is a charity raffle put together by Margot at &lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/"&gt;Confessions of a Mystery Novelist&lt;/a&gt;…. to raise funds for Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake relief.&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;You can find the details &lt;a href="http://margotkinberg.blogspot.com/2011/02/lets-all-do-write-thing.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;HERE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Stay tuned. Let’s all do the write thing! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;You can also find additional information at Crime Watch: &lt;a href="http://kiwicrime.blogspot.com/2011/02/christchurch-earthquake-update.html"&gt;Christchurch earthquake - how you can help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1427667682626761345?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1427667682626761345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1427667682626761345' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1427667682626761345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1427667682626761345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/do-write-thing.html' title='Do the Write Thing'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ybNmQwZ733M/TWarp4XPK9I/AAAAAAAABtc/7x5S4Xif_B4/s72-c/NZFlag.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1647147441870445119</id><published>2011-02-24T22:25:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T23:40:52.716+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ricardo Piglia'/><title type='text'>Blanco Nocturno de Ricardo Piglia</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version.&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Anagrama 2010. 302 p. ISBN: 978-84-339-7215-6. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/41/b2/41b2d04c239d8eb5937444e58774141414c3441.jpg" width="104" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt; (2011) es el primer libro que he leído de Ricardo Piglia. Una novela muy esperada que aparece trece años después de su última novela, &lt;em&gt;Plata Quemada&lt;/em&gt; (1997). Esto no es raro en el caso de Piglia, anteriormente había publicado &lt;em&gt;Respiración artificial&lt;/em&gt; (1980) y &lt;em&gt;La ciudad ausente&lt;/em&gt; (1992).Tengo que reconocer que &lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt; está a la altura de estas expectativas.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La acción se desarrolla en 1972, poco antes del regreso a la Argentina de Perón. La novela está dividida en dos partes de diferente extensión y finaliza con un breve epílogo. En la primera parte, la más extensa, se narra el asesinato de Tony Duran en un pueblo de la provincia de Buenos Aires, que puede ser Adrogué, la ciudad natal de Piglia, según se indica en la novela. Tony Duran, un puertorriqueño con pasaporte estadounidense, acaba de llegar siguiendo los pasos de las hermosas hermanas Belladona, las gemelas Ada y Sofía, hijas de un rico terrateniente. A partir de este crimen la acción se desdobla en múltiples historias que se van entrelazando. Las gemelas tienen dos hermanos por parte de padre, Lucio, ya fallecido, y Luca, que persigue un proyecto demencial, la construcción de una fábrica perdida en medio de la nada. La investigación del crimen es narrada inicialmente por Croce, el jefe de la policía local. Pero Croce es expulsado y acaba en un manicomio; para descansar unos días según dice. A continuación es Emilio Renzi, un periodista de Buenos Aires llegado para cubrir el asesinato, el que toma su papel como narrador. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La novela de Piglia me trae un sinfín de recuerdos y evocaciones difíciles de detallar aquí. La historia es muy original y está construida por diferentes tramas que se multiplican. La propuesta de Piglia es un nuevo género de novela policíaca que tiene que ser inventado, una ficción paranoica, un cuento de nunca acabar. El libro también introduce como nuevo dispositivo narrativo las notas a pie de página.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Excelente novela, muy innovadora, aunque quizá no sea adecuada para todos los gustos. Está maravillosamente escrita y tiene unos personajes y unas historias memorables. Una obra maestra.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Otras reseñas de &lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt; en &lt;a href="http://desdelaciudadsincines.blogspot.com/2010/09/blanco-nocturno-por-ricardo-piglia.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Desde la ciudad sin cines&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; y en &lt;a href="http://golem-librosycomentarios.blogspot.com/2011/02/blanco-nocturno-de-ricardo-piglia.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Golem – Memorias de lectura&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Ricardo Piglia en &lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Piglia"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (in Spanish)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/09/09/cultura/1284069552.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;'Uno siempre escribe contra algo'&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/Delator/realidades/elpepuculbab/20100904elpbabpor_3/Tes"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Delator de realidades&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Entrevista con Ricado Piglia: &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://www.elcultural.es/noticias/LETRAS/823/Ricardo_Piglia"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Escribir es buscar en la oscuridad la música del lenguaje&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c49om9oAWE"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ricardo Piglia. Entrevistamos al escritor argentino&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; en You Tube.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anagrama-ed.es/titulo/NH_476"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Anagrama&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Nocturnal Target by Ricado Piglia&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This book is not available in English yet.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nocturnal Target&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Blanco nocturno&lt;/em&gt;, 2011) is the first book I’ve read by Ricardo Piglia. A long-awaited novel that appears thirteen years after his last novel, &lt;em&gt;Money to Burn&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Plata Quemada&lt;/em&gt;, 1997). This is not unusual in Piglia’s case, he has previously published &lt;em&gt;Artificial Respiration&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Respiración artificial, &lt;/i&gt;1980) and &lt;em&gt;The Absent City&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;i&gt;La ciudad ausente, &lt;/i&gt;1992). I have to admit that Nocturnal Target falls short to these expectations.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The action takes place in 1972, shortly before the return of Perón to Argentina.The novel has two parts of unequal length and ends with a brief epilogue. The first part, the largest, narrates the murder of Tony Duran in a village in the province of Buenos Aires, which can be Adrogué, Piglia’s hometown, as suggested in the book. Tony Duran, a Puerto Rican with a U.S. passport, has arrived following the footsteps of the beautiful Belladona sisters, the twins Ada and Sophia, daughters of a wealthy landowner. After the crime the action unfolds in multiple stories that often intertwined. The twins have two siblings by their father, Lucio, now deceased, and Luca, which pursues an insane project, the construction of a factory lost in the middle of nowhere. The investigation of the crime is told initially by Croce, the local chief of police, but Croce is dismissed and ends up in a mental assylum for a few days rest, he says. Then Emilio Renzi, a journalist from Buenos Aires who arrived to cover the crime, takes his role as narrator.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Piglia's novel brings to me a myriad of memories and evocations difficult to detail here. The story is very original and it’s built up by different plots that multiplied themselves. Piglia’s proposal is a new genre of detective fiction that has to be invented, a paranoid fiction, a never ending story. The book also introduces footnotes as a new narrative device.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Superb novel, very innovative, though perhaps not for everyone taste. Beautifully written, it has some memorable characters and stories. A masterpiece.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ricardo Piglia en &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Piglia"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt; (in English).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Money to Burn&lt;/em&gt; has been reviewed by Glenn at &lt;a href="http://internationalnoir.blogspot.com/2010/07/noir-meets-real-life-in-argentina.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;International Noir Fiction&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’m counting &lt;em&gt;Blanco Nocturno&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Nocturnal Target&lt;/em&gt;) for the &lt;a href="http://2011globalreadingchallenge.blogspot.com/"&gt;2011 Global Reading Challenge&lt;/a&gt; (Argentina) and for &lt;a href="http://argentinareadingchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/01/introducing-ficciones-2011-argentina.html"&gt;Ficciones: 2011 Argentina Reading Challenge&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1647147441870445119?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1647147441870445119/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1647147441870445119' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1647147441870445119'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1647147441870445119'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/blanco-nocturno-de-ricardo-piglia.html' title='Blanco Nocturno de Ricardo Piglia'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1560387459125045424</id><published>2011-02-24T10:49:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T10:49:18.820+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ACRC'/><title type='text'>February 2011 Edition of Agatha Christie Blog Carnival‏</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;This month's edition of the Agatha Christie Blog Carnival has now been posted. You'll find it &lt;a href="http://acrccarnival.blogspot.com/2011/02/acrc-carnival-2011-2-february-2011.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;HERE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. And remember: You can now &lt;a href="http://acrccarnival.blogspot.com/2011/01/how-to-join-agatha-christie-reading.html"&gt;join the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge&lt;/a&gt; too, so just click on the link and sign up. Read at your own pace, write a review on your blog, &lt;a href="http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit_6057.html"&gt;go to the Carnival collecting space&lt;/a&gt; and put in the URL, your details, and a comment about the post.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1560387459125045424?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1560387459125045424/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1560387459125045424' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1560387459125045424'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1560387459125045424'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/february-2011-edition-of-agatha.html' title='February 2011 Edition of Agatha Christie Blog Carnival‏'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1981261151807205998</id><published>2011-02-24T10:31:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-24T10:31:30.278+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Paris Book Fair 2011'/><title type='text'>Salon du livre de Paris 2011</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;This is the link to the &lt;a href="http://www.salondulivreparis.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Paris Book Fair 2011&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 18-21 March. I wish I could be there.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1981261151807205998?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1981261151807205998/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1981261151807205998' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1981261151807205998'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1981261151807205998'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/salon-du-livre-de-paris-2011.html' title='Salon du livre de Paris 2011'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-281871673782333195</id><published>2011-02-23T13:48:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-23T13:49:25.752+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Javier Cercas'/><title type='text'>The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://www.bloomsbury.com/images/Books/small/9781408805602.jpg" width="107" height="160" /&gt; Given that today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the attempted &lt;em&gt;coup d'état &lt;/em&gt;in Spain by Lt. Col. Tejero, I’m bringing to your attention the book &lt;em&gt;Anatomy of a Moment&lt;/em&gt;, by Javier Cercas. Highly recommended. See&amp;#160; review at &lt;a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-anatomy-of-a-moment-by-javier-cercas-trans-anne-mclean-2203547.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Independent&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/23-F"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia 23-F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Overview: &lt;em&gt;In February 1981, just as Spain was finally leaving Francos’ dictatorship and during the first democratic vote in parliament for a new prime minister – Colonel Tejero and a band of right-wing soldiers burst into the Spanish parliament and began firing shots. Only three members of Congress defied the incursion and did not dive for cover,: Adolfo Suarez the then outgoing prime minister, who had steered the country away from the Franco era, Guttierez Mellado, a conservative general who had loyally served democracy, and Santiago Carillo, the head of the Communist Party, which had just been legalised.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;In The Anatomy of a Moment, Cercas examines a key moment in Spanish history, just as he did so successfully in his Spanish Civil War novel, Soldiers of Salamis. This is the only coup ever to have been caught on film as it was happening, which, as Cercas says, 'guaranteed both its reality and its unreality'. Every February a few seconds of the video are shown again and Spaniards congratulate themselves for standing up for democracy, but Cercas says that things were very quiet that afternoon and evening while all over Spain people stayed inside waiting for the coup to be defeated .... or to triumph&lt;/em&gt;. (&lt;a href="http://www.bloomsbury.com/Anatomy-of-a-Moment/Javier-Cercas/books/details/9781408805602"&gt;Bloomsbury&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.randomhousemondadori.es/var/plain_site/storage/images/libros/a/anatomia-de-un-instante-es/anatomia-de-un-instante/1387194-1-esl-ES/Anatomia-de-un-instante-TAPA-DURA_libro_image_zoom.png" width="95" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Anatomía de un instante de Javier Cercas&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Teniendo en cuenta que hoy se cumple el trigésimo aniversario del intento de golpe de Estado protagonizado por el Teniente Coronel Tejero, traigo a su atención el libro&lt;em&gt; Anatomía de un instante&lt;/em&gt;, de Javier Cercas. Altamente recomendado. Ver reseña en &lt;a href="http://www.que-leer.com/1488/javier-cercas-anatomia-de-un-instante.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Qué leer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golpe_de_Estado_en_Espa%C3%B1a_de_1981"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia 23-F&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;«&lt;em&gt;Este libro es un ensayo en forma de crónica o una crónica en forma de ensayo. Este libro no es una ficción. Este libro es la anatomía de un instante: el instante en que Adolfo Suárez permaneció sentado en la tarde del 23 de febrero de 1981, mientras las balas de los golpistas zumbaban a su alrededor en el hemiciclo del Congreso de los Diputados y todos los demás parlamentarios -todos menos dos: el general Gutiérrez Mellado y Santiago Carrillo- buscaban refugio bajo sus escaños. Este libro es la crónica de ese gesto y la crónica de un golpe de estado y la crónica de unos años decisivos en la historia de España. Este libro es un libro inclasificable. Un libro único&lt;/em&gt;.» Javier Cercas. &lt;a href="http://www.randomhousemondadori.es/me_gusta_leer/Libros/A/Anatomia-de-un-instante-ES/Anatomia-de-un-instante"&gt;Random House Mondadori&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-281871673782333195?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/281871673782333195/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=281871673782333195' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/281871673782333195'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/281871673782333195'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/anatomy-of-moment-by-javier-cercas.html' title='The Anatomy of a Moment by Javier Cercas'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-1116715286835024597</id><published>2011-02-21T09:21:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-21T09:32:11.024+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Alicia Giménez Bartlett'/><title type='text'>Crime Fiction Alphabet 2011: G is for Giménez Bartlett, Alicia</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bUjAaxHL-jU/TV0AskTOJzI/AAAAAAAABlY/wwoKy8S4CAY/s200/letter+G.jpg" width="99" height="100" /&gt; The Alphabet in Crime Fiction Community Meme hosted by Kerrie at &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-g.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; arrives this week to letter &amp;quot;G&amp;quot;. My G goes to Giménez Bartlett, Alicia.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Alicia Gimenez Bartlett was born in Almansa, Spain, in 1951 and has lived in Barcelona since 1975. After the enormous success of her first novels, she decided to leave her work as a teacher of Spanish literature, to dedicate herself full-time to writing. In 1997, she was awarded the Femenino Lumen prize for the best female writer in Spain. She subsequently launched her Petra Delicado series, quickly making her into one of Spain’s most popular and loved crime writers. (Taken from &lt;a href="http://www.europaeditions.com/author.php?Id=14"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Europa editions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6ZzKkuCjKG4/SsXcwXVXqzI/AAAAAAAABFQ/gsH6nxILejU/s200/crime_fiction_alphabet.png" width="67" height="100" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Her last novel &lt;em&gt;Donde Nadie Te Encuentre&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Where Nobody Finds You&lt;/em&gt;) won the Nadal Prize 2011, Spain’s oldest literature award. The novel tells the story of Teresa Pla Meseguer (1917-2004), a female bandit who joined the resistance movement against Franco’s dictatorship (1939-75).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Petra Delicado series (available in English)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.europaeditions.com/book.php?Id=53"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Death Rites&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2008) Spanish title: &lt;a href="http://www.planetadelibros.com/ritos-de-muerte-libro-37816.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ritos de muerte&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 1996 &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.europaeditions.com/book.php?Id=15"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dog Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2006) Spanish title: &lt;a href="http://www.planetadelibros.com/dia-de-perros-libro-37817.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Día de perros&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; 1997 &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.europaeditions.com/book.php?Id=34"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Prime Time Suspect&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (2007) Spanish title: &lt;a href="http://www.planetadelibros.com/muertos-de-papel-libro-11186.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Muertos de papel&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 2000 &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Other books in the Petra Delicado series, not available in English yet:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;ul&gt;   &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.planetadelibros.com/mensajeros-de-la-oscuridad-libro-46553.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mensajeros de la oscuridad&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; 1999 &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.planetadelibros.com/serpientes-en-el-paraiso-libro-11091.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Serpientes en el paraíso&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 2002 &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.planetadelibros.com/un-barco-cargado-de-arroz-libro-8700.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Un barco cargado de arroz&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 2004 &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.planetadelibros.com/nido-vacio-libro-8902.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nido vacío&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, 2007 &lt;/li&gt;    &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.planetadelibros.com/el-silencio-de-los-claustros-libro-1412.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;El silencio de los claustros&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; 2009 &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For additional information you may see my reviews of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/01/death-rites-original-title-ritos-de.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Death Rites&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2010/04/dog-day-original-title-dia-de-perros-by.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dog Day&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.readallday.org/blog/2009/09/22/alicia-gimenez-bartlett-crime-and-purpose-in-barcelona/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alicia Gimenez-Bartlett: Crime and Purpose in Barcelona&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://etd.lib.ttu.edu/theses/available/etd-10312006-210825/unrestricted/rutledge_tracy_dissfinal.pdf"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Spanish Female Detective: A Study of Petra Delicado and the Evolution of a Professional Sleuth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (pdf.)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.aliciagimenezbartlett.es/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alicia Giménez Bartlett webpage&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (In Spanish)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mensajeros de la oscuridad&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Messengers of Darkness&lt;/em&gt;) is sitting on my TBR shelves. Plan to read it soon. Stay tuned. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen: G, por Giménez Bartlett, Alicia&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;El Alfabeto del Crimen&amp;#160; organizado por Kerrie en &lt;a href="http://paradise-mysteries.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-letter-g.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mysteries in Paradise&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; llega esta semana a la letra &amp;quot;G&amp;quot;. La G de Giménez Bartlett, Alicia.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Alicia Giménez Bartlett nació en Almansa, España, en 1951 y ha vivido en Barcelona desde 1975. Después del enorme éxito de sus primeras novelas, decidió dejar su trabajo como profesora de literatura española, para dedicarse a escribir a tiempo completo. En 1997, fue galardonada con el Premio Femenino Lumen a la mejor escritora española. Posteriormente empezó a publicar su serie protagonizada por Petra Delicado, con la que consiguió una gran popularidad en toda España.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Su última novela &lt;em&gt;Donde nadie te encuentre&lt;/em&gt; ha sido galardonada con el Premio Nadal de 2011, el más antiguo de los premios literarios españoles. La novela cuenta la historia de Teresa Pla Meseguer (1917-2004) una mujer bandido que se unió a la resistencia contra la dictadura de Franco (1939-1975).&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Para más información consultar &lt;a href="http://detectivesdelibro.blogspot.com/2009/04/petra-delicado-alicia-gimenez-bartlett.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mis detectives favoritos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-1116715286835024597?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/1116715286835024597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=1116715286835024597' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1116715286835024597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/1116715286835024597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/crime-fiction-alphabet-2011-g-is-for.html' title='Crime Fiction Alphabet 2011: G is for Giménez Bartlett, Alicia'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bUjAaxHL-jU/TV0AskTOJzI/AAAAAAAABlY/wwoKy8S4CAY/s72-c/letter+G.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-870983898699571305</id><published>2011-02-20T18:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-20T23:12:20.528+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Pa Negre'/><title type='text'>Pa Negre de Agustí Villaronga</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version.&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña y yo fuimos a ver ayer &lt;em&gt;Pa Negre&lt;/em&gt;, una película que ganó la semana pasada la mayor parte de los Premios Goya, 9 de 14 nominaciones. Después de una impresionante secuencia de apertura no me ha gustado demasiado su desarrollo. Me he encontrado con una historia muy confusa y demasiado compleja. No he leído el libro en el que se basa pero me ha parecido de muy difícil adaptación. El resultado final no me ha convencido. Nos podríamos haber ahorrado algunas escenas y algunos personajes, mientras que otros personajes no están suficientemente desarrollados. De hecho, es un drama muy triste, demasiado deprimente para mi gusto. La película es aterradora. Los personajes son demasiado lineales, pero se salvan gracias a la excelente interpretación de la mayoría de los actores. Además de una excelente secuencia de apertura y de una magnífica interpretación se puede destacar también la fotografía, la atmósfera creada y el vestuario.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Mi clasificación: 6/10.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img border="0" align="left" src="http://www.tublogdecine.es/wp-content/themes/Cinestar2/img2/panegre.jpg" width="134" height="200" /&gt;Título original: Pa Negre (Pan Negro)     &lt;br /&gt;Año: 2010     &lt;br /&gt;País: España     &lt;br /&gt;Duración: 108 min.     &lt;br /&gt;Estreno en España: 15 de octubre de 2010     &lt;br /&gt;Director: Agustí Villaronga     &lt;br /&gt;Reparto: Francesc Colomer, Marina Comas, Nora Navas, Roger Casamajor, Laia Marull, Eduard Fernández, Sergi López.&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;Guión: Agustí Villaronga, basado en una novela de Emili Teixidor&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;Música: José Manuel Pagán     &lt;br /&gt;Producción: Lluis Ferrando, Isona Passola     &lt;br /&gt;Dirección de fotografía: Antonio Riestra     &lt;br /&gt;Vestuario: Mercè Paloma. Maquillaje: Alma Casa. Peluquería: Satur Merino     &lt;br /&gt;Montaje: Raúl Román. Sonido: Dani Fontrodona     &lt;br /&gt;Dirección de arte: Ana Alvargonzález     &lt;br /&gt;Dirección de producción: Aleix Castellón     &lt;br /&gt;Productora: Massa D'or produccions / Televisió de Catalunya / TVE     &lt;br /&gt;Género: Drama&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sinopsis: &lt;em&gt;En los crudos años de la posguerra rural en Catalunya, Andreu, un niño que pertenece al bando de los perdedores, encuentra un día en el bosque los cadáveres de un hombre y su hijo. Las autoridades quieren cargar el muerto a su padre pero él, para ayudarle, intenta averiguar quien los mató. En ese recorrido, se produce en Andreu el despertar de una conciencia moral frente a un mundo de adultos alimentado por las mentiras. Para sobrevivir, traiciona sus propias raíces y acaba descubriendo el monstruo que habita en él.&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.panegre.com/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Web Oficial&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1FuF2lXVWY"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You Tube trailer oficial en català&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080" size="4"&gt;Pa Negre (Black Bread) by Agustí Villaronga&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Begoña and I went to see yesterday &lt;em&gt;Pa Negre&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Dark Bread&lt;/em&gt;), a film that won last week most of the Goya Awards, 9 out of 14 nominations. After an impressive opening I did not like the further development of the film. I found it confusing and complex. I have not read the book on which the story is based, but I found it very difficult to adapt and the end result has not convinced me. Some scenes and some characters could have been avoided, while other characters were not developed properly. In fact it is a very sad drama, too depressing for my taste. The film is terrifying. I found the characters too linear, but they can be saved due to the excellent performance of most actors. Besides the impressive opening and the actor’s excellent performance, the photography, the atmosphere created and the costumes can be highlighted. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Synopsis: &lt;i&gt;In the harsh years of post-war rural Catalonia, Andreu, a youngster relegated to the losers' side, comes across the bodies of a man and his son in the woods. When the authorities want to pin the blame on his father, the boy decides to try and help him, setting out to find out who killed them. The experience teaches Andreu moral awareness in a world of adults nourished by lies. To survive, he betrays his own roots, eventually finding the monster deep inside himself.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-870983898699571305?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/870983898699571305/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=870983898699571305' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/870983898699571305'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/870983898699571305'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/pa-negre-de-agusti-villaronga.html' title='Pa Negre de Agustí Villaronga'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-5451331528595168251</id><published>2011-02-19T21:19:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-19T21:23:18.751+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Edgar Allan Poe'/><title type='text'>The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;Published in Great Britain in 2002 by Orion Books. 40 pages. ISBN: 0-75284-770-8&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h5&gt;Esta entrada es bilingüe, para ver la versión española desplazarse por la pantalla hacia abajo &lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/9e/f8/9ef8d5fb4056ce75934556c52674141414c3441.jpg" width="111" height="168" /&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Poe’s tales of mystery and imagination laid the groundwork for a new genre in the history of literature, the detective story. In &lt;em&gt;The Murders in the Rue Morgue&lt;/em&gt; (1841), the first of the three tales starring the fictitious C. Auguste Dupin, we find the prototype for many fictional detectives, including Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot. The story is told in first person by an unnamed narrator and it is also considered the first locked-room mystery.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;After a philosophical introduction about the mental features discoursed of as the analytical, the reader is introduced to C. Auguste Dupin by an unnamed narrator:&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;“&lt;em&gt;This young gentleman was of an excellent – indeed of an illustrious family, but, by a variety of untoward events, had been reduced to such poverty that the energy of his character succumbed beneath it, and he ceased to bestir himself in the world, or to care for the retrieval of his fortunes. By courtesy of his creditors, there still remained in his possession a small remnant of his patrimony; and, upon de income arising from this, he managed, by means of a rigorous economy, to procure the necessaries of life, without troubling himself about its superfluities. Books, indeed, where his sole luxuries, and in Paris these are easily obtained&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The story then revolves around the double murder of Madame L'Espanaye and her daughter in the Rue Morgue and how C. August Dupin finds an explanation and solves the mystery surrounding the case. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Given its historical significance, its length and its easy accessibility by means of&amp;#160; the Internet, this is a must read for every genre aficionado. If you have not read it yet, you won't be disappointed. I'm sure you will enjoy the prose of one of the world's best storytellers.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Edgar Allan Poe at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This is my first book for the &lt;a href="http://myreadersblock.blogspot.com/2010/11/2011-vintage-mystery-reading-challenge.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2011 Vintage Mystery Reading Challenge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;Los Crímenes de la Calle Morgue por Edgar Allan Poe&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://pics.librarything.com/picsizes/6b/88/6b880b5693015b75979685654774141414c3441.jpg" width="108" height="160" /&gt; Poe sentó las bases de un nuevo género en la historia de la literatura, la historia de detectives en &lt;em&gt;Cuentos de misterio y de imaginación&lt;/em&gt;. En &lt;em&gt;Los Crímenes de la Calle Morgue&lt;/em&gt; (1841), el primero de los tres cuentos protagonizada por C. Auguste Dupin, nos encontramos con el prototipo de muchos detectives de ficción, como Sherlock Holmes y Hércules Poirot. La historia está contada en primera persona por un narrador sin nombre y también está considerado como el primer misterio de cuarto cerrado.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Después de una introducción filosófica acerca de las características de la inteligencia que suelen calificarse de analíticas, C. Auguste Dupin es presentado al lector por un narrador sin nombre: &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;Este joven caballero procedía de una excelente&amp;#160; - de hecho de una ilustre familia, pero una serie de desdichadas circunstancias lo habían reducido a tal pobreza que la energía de su carácter sucumbió ante la desgracia, llevándolo a alejarse del mundo y a no preocuparse por recuperar su fortuna. Gracias a la cortesía de sus acreedores le quedó una pequeña parte del patrimonio, y la renta que le producía bastaba, mediante una rigurosa economía, para subvenir a sus necesidades, sin preocuparse de lo superfluo. Los libros constituían su único lujo, y en París éstos son fáciles de obtener&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;La historia gira alrededor del doble asesinato de la señora L'Espanaye y de su hija en la calle Morgue y cómo C. Auguste Dupin encuentra la explicación y resuelve el misterio que rodea al caso. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Por su importancia histórica, su extensión y su fácil accesibilidad a través de Internet, esta es una lectura obligada para todos los aficionado al género. Si no lo han leído, no se sentirán decepcionados. Estoy seguro de que podrán disfrutar de la prosa de uno de los mejores narradores del mundo. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Edgar Allan Poe en&lt;strong&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-5451331528595168251?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/5451331528595168251/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=5451331528595168251' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5451331528595168251'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/5451331528595168251'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/murders-in-rue-morgue-by-edgar-allan.html' title='The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5702794959357150747.post-2476730692502073966</id><published>2011-02-18T17:39:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-18T21:05:59.274+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Gianrico Carofiglio'/><title type='text'>Testigo Involuntario de Gianrico Carofiglio</title><content type='html'>&lt;h5&gt;&lt;font color="#008080"&gt;This post is bilingual; scroll down for the English-language version.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Traducción de Vanlentí Gómez Oliver, 2007. Publicado originalmente como Testimone inconsapevole, 2002. 1ª edición books4pocket octubre 2010. 318 p. ISBN: 978-84-92801-61-9.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="left" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_lagqQLKCKMA/TJ7rw1c7NiI/AAAAAAAABHY/Mx8-wxyVP8c/s320/400000178c-758933.jpg" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;En Bari, el abogado Guido Guerrieri lleva una vida monótona y mediocre. Su mujer acaba de abandonarlo, su carrera se encuentra estancada. Un día acepta un caso aparentemente desesperado, la defensa de Abdou Thiam, un vendedor ambulante senegalés, acusados del secuestro y asesinato de un niño de nueve años de edad. Su cuerpo ha sido encontrado en el fondo de un pozo cerca de una playa popular. Un proceso abreviado ahorrará&amp;#160; tiempo y dinero al Estado, pero el resultado implicará una condena cierta. A cambio el acusado puede obtener una sentencia más corta y evitar la cadena perpetua. Alternativamente un proceso ordinario, largo y costoso, tiene pocas probabilidades de éxito y sin duda le condenarán a cadena perpetua.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Testigo involuntario, &lt;/em&gt;la primera novela de Gianrico Carofiglio, está narrada en primera persona por Guido Guerrieri, un personaje atractivo y muy humano. Aunque la trama está muy bien elaborada la historia está dirigida por los personajes. El libro nos ofreces aspectos interesantes sobre el sistema judicial italiano, un retrato perfecto del ambiente en el que se desarrolla y tiene un fuerte sentido del lugar. Me ha gustado&amp;#160; y he disfrutado con su lectura. Merece la pena. Muy recomendable.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Gianrico Carofiglio (Bari, 1961), ha sido durante años fiscal antimafia en Bari, la capital de la región de Puglia, en la costa del Mar Adriático en el sur de Italia. En el período 2007-2008 fue asesor del Comité de lucha contra la mafia en el Parlamento italiano en Roma y en 2008 fue elegido senador por el Partido Demócrata. A su primera novela &lt;em&gt;Testigo involuntario&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Testimone inconsapevole&lt;/em&gt;, 2002) le siguieron &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.edicionesplata.com/2008/04/con-los-ojos-cerrados-de-gianrico.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Con los ojos cerrados&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Ad occhi Chiusi&lt;/em&gt;, 2003) y &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.edicionesplata.com/2008/10/gianrico-carofliglio-dudas-razonables.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Dudas razonables&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Ragionevoli Dubbi&lt;/em&gt;, 2007) protagonizadas también por Guido Guerrieri. Una novela independiente, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.edicionesplata.com/2009/03/el-pasado-es-un-pais-extranjero.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;El pasado es un país extranjero&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Il passato è una terra straniera&lt;/em&gt;), se publicó en 2004. En enero de 2010 Sellerio publicó la cuarta novela de la serie Guido Guerrieri, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.esferalibros.com/libros/librodetalle.html?libroISBN=9788497341462"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Las perfecciones provisionales&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/em&gt;(&lt;em&gt;Le provvisorie perfezioni&lt;/em&gt;) recientemente publicada en España por La esfera de los libros.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Para más información ver &lt;a href="http://detectivesdelibro.blogspot.com/2010/12/guido-guerreri-gianrico-carofiglio.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mis detectives favoritos&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; y la reseña de &lt;a href="http://modestino.blogspot.com/2010/10/un-thriller-legal-italiano.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cajón de sastre&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.books4pocket.com/2010/09/testigo-involuntario-gianrico.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Books4pocket&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gianricocarofiglio.com/index.shtml#"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gianrico Carofiglio official website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (en italiano)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0000" size="4"&gt;Involuntary Witness by Gianrico Carofiglio&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/images_books/books/66_165.jpg" width="106" height="160" /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;In Bari, lawyer Guido Guerrieri carries a monotonous and mediocre life. His wife has just left him, his career is stalled. One day he accepts a seemingly hopeless case, the defence of Abdou Thiam, a Senegalese peddler, accused of kidnapping and murder a nine-year-old boy. His body was found at the bottom of a well near a popular beach. A shortened process will save time and money to the state but the result will be a certain conviction. In return the defendant can get a shorter sentence and avoid life imprisonment. Alternatively a long and costly regular process has few probabilities of success and will certainly sentenced him to life.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Involuntary Witness, &lt;/em&gt;Gianrico Carofiglio’s debut novel, is a first person narrative by Guido Guerrieri, an attractive and very human character. Although the plot is very well drawn the story is character driven. The book provides some interesting insights on the Italian legal system, a perfect portrait of the environment and it has a strong sense of place. I liked it very much and I have enjoyed this reading. It was worthwhile. Highly recommended.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Gianrico Carofiglio (Bari 1961), has been for years an anti-Mafia prosecutor in Bari, main town of the southern region of Puglia, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. In 2007-2008 he was advisor of the anti-Mafia Committee in the Italian Parliament in Rome and in 2008 he has been elected Senator with the Democratic Party. His first novel &lt;i&gt;Testimone inconsapevole&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Involuntary Witness&lt;/em&gt;), 2002, was followed by &lt;i&gt;Ad occhi chiusi&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;em&gt;A Walk in the Dark&lt;/em&gt;), 2003 and &lt;i&gt;Ragionevoli Dubbi&lt;/i&gt;, 2007 (&lt;i&gt;Reasonable Doubts&lt;/i&gt;) also featuring Guido Guerrieri. A standalone novel, &lt;i&gt;Il passato è una terra straniera&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;em&gt;The Past is a Foreign Country&lt;/em&gt;), was published in 2004. In January 2010 Sellerio launched the fourth novel with the Guido Guerrieri character, &lt;i&gt;Le perfezioni provvisorie&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Temporary Perfections&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Involuntary Witness&lt;/em&gt; has been reviewed at &lt;a href="http://www.eurocrime.co.uk/reviews/Involuntary_Witness.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Euro Crime&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://camberwell-crime.blogspot.com/2006_11_01_archive.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Crime Scraps&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://petrona.typepad.com/petrona/2006/10/involuntary_wit.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Petrona&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.thefictiondesk.com/blog/involuntary-witness-by-gianrico-carofiglio/"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Fiction Desk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gianricocarofiglio.com/index.shtml#"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gianrico Carofiglio official website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (Italian)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gianricocarofiglio.com/biography.shtml"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gianrico Carofiglio biography&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (English version)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bitterlemonpress.com/new-books/involuntary-witness.asp"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bitter Lemon Press&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;I’ll count this as book # 1 for my unofficial participation in &lt;a href="http://bookafterbook.blogspot.com/2010/12/italy-in-books-reading-challenge-2011.html"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;“Italy in books” - reading challenge 2011&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/5702794959357150747-2476730692502073966?l=ignacioescribano.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/feeds/2476730692502073966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5702794959357150747&amp;postID=2476730692502073966' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2476730692502073966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/5702794959357150747/posts/default/2476730692502073966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://ignacioescribano.blogspot.com/2011/02/testigo-involuntario-de-gianrico.html' title='Testigo Involuntario de Gianrico Carofiglio'/><author><name>Jose Ignacio Escribano</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00296527986083953692</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='30' height='32' src='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_OqQza3vSNso/SmiqRggKtSI/AAAAAAAAP0w/CHSGxEDz2tk/S220/untitled.bmp'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http:
