The evolution of Calpurnia-rewiew★★★☆☆

Today I review The Evolution of Calpurnia.

The book was published by Bloomsbury in 2011 and has 285 pages in all.

It is a novel, suitable for all the children and/or young people fascinated by science.

The author is Jacqueline Kelly, born in New Zealand. Raised in Canada, now he lives in Texas, including the cities of Austin and the campaign of Fentress. The Evolution of Calpurnia is his first novel, which won, among many other awards, the Newbery Honor, has dominated the charts in America and Spain, where he was called "the missing link between Mark Twain and Charles Darwin", and it is being published in fourteen countries, from Japan to Portugal.

Plot:

In the warm season lawns parched Texas, Calpurnia can not help but notice that the yellow locusts are much, much larger than the green grasshoppers. Why? They are two different species? Calpurnia has heard of the book by a certain Darwin, explaining the origin of species.

Maybe you can find that book in the public library?

Yes, but the librarian does not want to show it to him. Never mind, that book is also at home: in the study of his grandfather, the freethinker family. Accompanied by his grandfather and forbidden book, Calpurnia manages to discover the secrets of the different species of animals, water and earth. He will also discover herself.

"Ah. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. Do not need anything else in life, really."

"At one time he owned an old crow, named Edgar Allan Crow."

This book was given to me long ago by my brother's birthday.

I think I read it in three days or less, still I liked it, because it is simple yet serious. At first I was a little 'critical, because the cover looked as though they had a children's book. But then I started reading it and I was not fascinated because it would say a word exaggerated, but I would say surprise.

The book is about, in a nutshell, this girl who understands what he wants to do in his life; since it is set in the last years of the nineteenth century, that means he does not want to stay home and wash and cook and bake a dozen children, or even yes, regarding the last point, but what I really want to do is naturalist. But the society of that time does not allow her to find out what concerns Darwin and evolution, expecting that all women are in fact home to wash and bake children, considering them inferior.

I stra-liked the main character, or Calpurnia, because it travels upstream and shows others what we're made us women. Although it's still a little girl knows what she wants to do and does not care of those who say that it should stay at home, to learn how to be a good wife, mother and housewife. How many times have we heard address this message, albeit with different words? "No, you should not do that school, it would be better you went to attend this offers you more opportunities." or "You should go to church, you do not fit you to grow without a creed.". People here, people here who tell you what to do with your life.

Some say it's for your own good if they try to give you directions in this way, but it is not true. People who tell you so they just want to cut the legs of your dreams, and it is this that book speaks, the dreams.

And how, if batches, you can get to crowning.

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The solitude of prime numbers-rewiew★★★★☆

Good morning and good Monday to all!

Today, as I had anticipated, I review The solitude of prime numbers, a book that I think is a real pearl, by Paolo Giordano.

Published in 2008 by Mondadori, the book received the accolades Strega (most prestigious literary award in Italy and known in Europe) and Campiello (which is delivered to Venice, the Doge's Palace and the Gran Teatro La Fenice).

The stories are set in Turin between the eighties and the two thousand, twenty years of storytelling, which is divided into chapters also divided into years or sometimes decades.

It is a Buildungsroman (remember, caused by the build + roman) records so that the changes (both physical and psychological) of the two protagonists in the course of their existence and continuous transformation of them, if you can define it like this, report.

Paolo Giordano, born in 1982, is a writer and Italian physicist. At twenty-six is ​​the youngest author to be awarded the Premio Strega, and also won, in addition to this, the literary prize Merck Serono (acknowledgment, essays and novels that have connections between science and literature). In 2008 The solitude of prime numbers was the best selling book in Italy, with more than a million copies sold.

Plot:

Alice is a seven year old girl forced by her father to attend ski school. And a morning of thick fog, separated from his companions, she gets wets. Humiliated, she tries to get down, but ends off the track and breaks a leg.

Mattia is instead a very intelligent child, but he has a sister, Michela, delayed. Her presence humiliates Mattia in front of his comrades, and so, the first time a companion invites them both to his birthday, Mattia leaves Michela in the park, with the promise that she will wait. But in that park, the mate will be lost forever.

The lives of Mattia and Alice will cross, and become teenagers, young people and then adults.

"He knew all the violence

It was enclosed in the accuracy of a detail. "

"He and Alice were like twin primes.

Near,

but not enough to really touching them. "

I think this is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read.

First of all, it is not a banal story. Whatever they tell you, and as you might like, The fault in our stars (better known as "Okey? Okey.") Is a story very, very trivial. From the first pages you understand all the history that still need to read and it was patently obvious that one of two died. Because, nowadays, living the ideal that if at least one person in a book dies, then it is not a drama. Well, Paolo Giordano is able to demonstrate that it is not: in his book, nobody died of two main protagonists, namely Mattia and Alice, but still a something dramatic. A dramatic novel, to be such, must not only have a sad ending, but must have structure, characters and environments that advises throughout the book, an atmosphere of sadness, and even rejection of life, and with this book the author It succeeded in full.

It 'a book that explores the life with rawness and sincerity, based on the life of these two boys, who were threatened by life as a child. The reading goes on sliding, there are no obstacles, but from page 152, right in the middle of the whole book, which has 304, there are thirty pages boring and treated also with more superficial than any other, but, a once passed, the story resumes with the same smoothness earlier. I loved how that story because it is not so heartbreaking, but leaves you shocked already on the first pages, when I was wondering what I was reading (if you try to give it a look you'll understand). It is not a story of some kind of originality, but in its simplicity, Giordano was able to give a touch, just enough, for me to like a lot of drama.

The book instead I liked that certain issues are treated very lightly, almost casually. When are these arguments, in a story, it is right, and that also must be thoroughly investigated. I realize, however, that, with these supplements reflections, the book would be too long and may have become boring, so even that's right. I gave it four stars for this reason, besides the fact of the thirty pages of boring, but I was undecided whether to give four or five, so I'm four, but count them as well as four thirty.

I almost forgot! It 'a serious reading and challenging, so avoid to give it to your grandson of ten years, rather a box of Lego.

laranakermit19

Love Factor-rewiew★★☆☆☆

Today I am quite taken to write at least two reviews. I tell you what books you already have to deal with: Love factor (this) and The Great Gatsby.
Account much failed is a good challenge.

Love factor is a book published in 2011 by Piemme. It is a love story, but since it is mainly addressed to young people, it is better to say that it is a young adults, that is a book that talks about issues that a teenager can live, as the story of this girl, Estella, which is located to take part in a music reality very famous, Music for a dream. It 'also a bildungsroman.
The author, Mathilde Bonetti, born in 1977, is a writer and an Italian translator. She started her career as a freelance journalist for newspapers and magazines, in 1996 she published the book Sent, journalists to be saved and the next year And the elves sang, a collection of fairy tales fantasy. Love factor is one of her last books.

Plot:
Estella has only one dream: to sing. Even as a child, however, his father always prevented it to her, forcing her to attend the high school language, to help in the family business.
Now, with the age, Estella has understood that to be happy must choose their own way in life alone. So, thanks to her best friend Francesca, finds herself participate in the casting of the reality show Music for a dream, where, in addition to demonstrating her skills as a singer, find true love.

"I sing.

Because when I do

it is like I'm crossing the rainbow. "

"It makes me happy and I'm excited

and I think that my listeners test only half

the things that I feel.

See the rainbow, at least for a moment. "

Start by saying that I in this book that I keep jealously in the room I also dedicate the author, and I feel very proud to be angry, even though some may say it's a stupid thing.
It states that the book is nothing as far as vocabulary and structure of the story, however, is very nice as far as giving the message: you can achieve your dreams if you fight for it and believe in yourself. To say that this is a bildungsroman, because Estella, the protagonist, and all the characters that alongside the history, change and mature over the course of the story, and the points of view of the reader also changes accordingly based on this. So this is a book for teenage boys, because it is simple but at the same time is interesting topics.
The descriptions are pretty accurate, at least the minimum to get an idea of ​​the characters, who are still the typical subjects that can be found in every book; I feel that the story speaks to the teenagers who are we women, first of all because one of the topics that make up the backbone of the plot is the competition between a sweet and angelic as Estella and another shapely, manipulative and provocative as Valeria, contestant of the reality, for a man, Ivano. I will not say more because otherwise I want not to spoiler the end (which will overtake) at all, but explain why my vote of two stars out of five of this book that I have so far spoken only good.
I put two because although nice is not a book that can be compared to masterpieces as Narnia or something so if it is a simple story, but that leaves no sign, reflecting down with one or two stars the final impression because this is right.
Just to clarify your possibles doubts.

Bye,
laranakermit19

The curios incident of the dog in the night-time-rewiew☻☻☺☺☺

Well, with this book we arrived (already) at the fifth review of the month.
I hope to reach more and more reviews, and with your support I know I'll make it.
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time is the title of the book rewiewed.
Published by Einaudi in 2003, he won the Whitbread prize for best book of the year in England. It is a mystery novel during the first part (while Christopher tries to solve the case of Wellington), but is primarily a Bildungsroman, from cover to cover (as is Christopher, autistic boy).
A Buildungsroman (from the German building + novel) is a literary genre that concerns the evolution of the main character during the course of the story to maturity. It's a genre that promotes, especially nowadays, the narration of emotions, feelings and projects born from the inside of the protagonist.
The author of this work is Mark Haddon; born in England in 1963, he wrote and illustrated fifteen books for children and has also worked for television and radio. His best known book in Italy is precisely The curious incident of the dog in the night-time, whose rights have already been bought by Warner Bros for the preparation of a film, already released in theaters in 2014.



Plot:
This is a thriller unlike any other, because the investigator is Christopher, a fifteen year old boy who suffers from Asperger's syndrome (1), and therefore has a problematic relationship with the world.
He understands all of mathematics and nothing humans.
He hates yellow and brown, but loves red.
He never went further than the shop around the corner, but when he discovers the corpse of Wellington, the dog of Mrs. Shears, begins an investigation to Sherlock Holmes, who will change his life.

"People confuse me, because often speaks without words

or using of metaphors. "

"An innocent lie is not really a lie.

It is when you tell the truth but not the way it is said. "

"There are many mysteries in life.

But that does not mean that there are no answers to these mysteries. "

I found reading this book as "recommended reading" for summer school (in the language of the professors translated means "Either the law or the laws"), so it was not a spontaneous reading, the kind that if you finish reading and at the end you did not like you will take all the blame and admit you were wrong to choose that book, in a nutshell, it sticks. But no, it has been a professor to advise you (or, in my case, a teacher) must also detain to insult he or she for I wasted two days (and I say two !!) to read a book (of which for sure you will have to speak in front of the class mates and I bet 1000 x thousand that I will not remember anything of what I read because the story I slipped to me) that could do very well without. Two days that you could spend doing something more constructive, such as do the four designs of which you forgot and you have to recover in three weeks, maybe even less, or simply take a walk with the dog, which, who knows, by references years and years.
Anyway. It was not a book so terrible, I admit. And 'almost cute, subjectively.
But, in my opinion, is not a book to be recommended as a summer reading; first because the story of an autistic boy, as moving and touching, you can not expect all teenagers interests of a class of ninth grade that a little do not even know what autism.
Second, knowing that not many people read frequently or have an advanced vocabulary and a dictionary varied, not the best, since it is a work of a fairly high level, which contains reflections sometimes difficult to follow and not just the usual terms and used.
Third and final point (and then I start with the goods considerations), the final I was not excited. 'Cause I'm not a spoiler-girl, however, I do not tell you how it ends and I leave to you to discover!

What I liked about the story is the story, because in its simplicity and in its vision, so to speak, "different", is a really nice plot and consequently a beautiful swing. The fact that Christopher, then, want at all costs to find out who killed the dog Wellington is, for me, something really tender, from which everyone should take example.
Last thing, then I leave because I kept attached to the screen enough, I was pleasantly surprised by how the author Mark Haddon is managed with a few pages (there are 247, if you count the appendix) to make me better understand the world of those who have seen and pointed out as "different" or "special", but that, for me, simply have a different view of their surroundings.
It is they who often show us to have a bigger heart than ours.

And I leave you with this pearl,

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(1): SHORT TO SA IT'S DISORDER NEAR AUTISM PRESENTING A COMPROMISE OF SOCIAL INTERACTION,REPETITIVE AND STEREOTYPED, PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR, ACTIVITY AND INTEREST MAY HAVE VERY TIGHT. FROM AUTISM DIFFERENTLY CLASSIC PRESENTS NOT DELAY IN LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT.