Wrap Up, February 2019

Wrap Up



Hello!! I was able to read 9 books for the month of February and I like some of them!


Upon Destiny's Song, Mike Ericksen & Sage Steadman
4/5⭐⭐⭐⭐
"Upon Destiny's Song" is a remarkable true story about sacrifice, courage and love. Ane Marie Madsen was only ten-years-old when she immigrated to Utah with her family. She was numbered in the ill-fated Willie Handcart Company of 1856, which saw the deaths of almost a third of the company when storms hit Wyoming. After settling in Utah, Ane Marie's faith is tested once again as her path moves through the misadventures of colonizing a new territory ridden with danger and disease. Over 150 years later, descendent Mike Ericksen retells this epic journey and discovers lessons for his own modern sojourn.
Ericksen has previously told the story of his ancestors harrowing trek through song and speaking engagements held across the country. Now the amazing story and its beautiful message is finally available in "Upon Destiny's Song."

The Field guide (The Spiderwick Chronicles #1), Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
It all starts when Jared Grace finds their great uncle's book, "Arthur Spiderwick's Field Guide to the Fantastic World Around You" and the Grace kids realize that they are not alone in their new house. Now the kids want to tell their story but the faeries will do everything they can to stop them.

The Seeing Stone (The Spiderwick Chronicles #2), Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

We said no still you looked
now instead
someone gets cooked
The Grace kids are just beginning to get used to Aunt Lucinda's strange old mansion when Simon suddenly disappears. Jared and his sister have to rely on the help of a mischievous house boggart, a nasty bridge troll, and a loud-mouthed hobgoblin to get him back.
Lucinda's Secret (The Spiderwick Chronicles #3), Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Let the story of my niece and nephews be a warning. The more you know, the more danger you're in. And trust me, you don't want to meddle with the Little People. --S.S.
One thrilling adventure -- The Spiderwick Chronicles!
Their world is closer than you think.

The Ironwood Tree (The Spiderwick Chronicles #4), Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwick's Guide? And will the Grace kids be left alone, now that the Guide has mysteriously disappeared? Don't count on it.
At school, someone is running around pretending to be Jared, and it's not Simon. To make matters even worse, now Mallory has disappeared and something foul in the water is killing off all the plants and animals for miles around. Clues point to the old abandoned quarry, just outside of town. Dwarves have taken over an abandoned mine there. And the faerie world's abuzz with the news that a creature with plans to rule the world has offered them a gift to join with him -- he's given them a queen...
The Wrath of Mulgarath (The Spiderwick Chronicles #5), Tony DiTerlizzi & Holly Black
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Bruised and battered, Jares, Simon and Mallory return home to find their home ransacked and learn that Mulgarath has made off with their mother and Spiderwick's Guide. With only the help of Thimbletack, Hogsqueal and Byron, the Grace kids have to defeat Mulgarath and his goblin army. But they have to rescue Arthur Spiderwick from Lorengorn and the elves first.


The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten.
El manuscrito encontrado en Accra, Paulo Coelho
3/5 ⭐⭐⭐
14 de julio de 1099. Mientras Jerusalén se prepara para la invasión de los cruzados, un griego conocido como el Copto convoca al pueblo, jóvenes y viejos, hombres y mujeres, a reunirse junto a él. Mientras esperan el ataque enemigo, las gentes le preguntan acerca de la derrota y la soledad, la lucha y el cambio, sobre el amor y la lealtad, el destino, el sexo y la elegancia, la sabiduría y, también, lo que aguarda en el futuro...
Las respuestas que obtuvierno siguen siendo válidas mil años después. Paulo Coelho recoge en El manuscrito encontrado en Accra las reflexiones que se dieron en esa noche mágica en la que la derrota era inminente y el Copto habló.
La alargada sombra del amor, Mathias Malzieu
3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

Mathias, un joven treintañero, acaba de perder a su madre. El período de duelo se cierne sobre él. Mientras espera en el parking del hospital a su padre y a su hermana, ocurre un hecho insólito. Un gigante se le aparece y le anuncia: «Soy el gigante Jack, doctor en sombrología. Trato a las personas aquejadas de duelo administrándoles un trozo de mi sombra. Con la sombra se puede batir el dolor y la muerte.»
Será Mathias capaz de vencer el dolor? ¿Evitará al abismo? ¿Somos nosotros mismos capaces de asumir la pérdida de un amor, un familiar o un amigo? 

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Wrap Up, January 2019

Wrap Up



Hello!! I was able to read 8 books for the month of January and I like some of them!



The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown
5/5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Harvard professor Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call while on business in Paris: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been brutally murdered inside the museum. Alongside the body, police have found a series of baffling codes. As Langdon and a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, begin to sort through the bizarre riddles, they are stunned to find a trail that leads to the works of Leonardo Da Vinci - and suggests the answer to a mystery that stretches deep into the vaults of history.
Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine code and quickly assemble the pieces of the puzzle, a stunning historical truth will be lost forever...

The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown
5/5⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Famed Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear at the U.S. Capitol Building. His planned lecture is interrupted when a disturbing object—artfully encoded with five symbols—is discovered in the building. Langdon recognizes in the find an ancient invitation into a lost world of esoteric, potentially dangerous wisdom. When his mentor Peter Solomon—a longstanding Mason and beloved philanthropist—is kidnapped, Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to accept the mystical invitation and plunge headlong into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and one inconceivable truth . . . all under the watchful eye of Dan Brown's most terrifying villain to date. Set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., The Lost Symbol is an intelligent, lightning-paced story with surprises at every turn--Brown's most exciting novel yet.

Inferno, Dan Brown
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon awakens in an Italian hospital, disoriented and with no recollection of the past thirty-six hours, including the origin of the macabre object hidden in his belongings. With a relentless female assassin trailing them through Florence, he and his resourceful doctor, Sienna Brooks, are forced to flee. Embarking on a harrowing journey, they must unravel a series of codes, which are the work of a brilliant scientist whose obsession with the end of the world is matched only by his passion for one of the most influential masterpieces ever written, Dante Alighieri's The Inferno. 
Dan Brown has raised the bar yet again, combining classical Italian art, history, and literature with cutting-edge science in this sumptuously entertaining thriller.

La Vida Nueva, Dante Alighieri
4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Dante's sequence of poems tells the story of his passion for Beatrice, the beautiful sister of one of his closest friends, transformed through his writing into the symbol of a love that was both spiritual and romantic. Vita Nuova begins with the moment Dante first glimpses Beatrice in her childhood, follows him through unrequited passion and ends with his profound grief over the loss of his love.


Las flores del mal, Charles Baudelaire
3/5⭐⭐⭐
The greatest example of modern poetry in any language shocked the literary world of nineteenth-century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love, it's linking of sexuality and death, its unremitting irony, and its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life.


Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green & David Levithan
4/5⭐⭐⭐⭐
Will Grayson meets Will Grayson. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers are about to cross paths. From that moment on, their world will collide and lives intertwine. 
It's not that far from Evanston to Naperville, but Chicago suburbanites Will Grayson and Will Grayson might as well live on different planets. When fate delivers them both to the same surprising crossroads, the Will Graysons find their lives overlapping and hurtling in new and unexpected directions. With a push from friends new and old - including the massive, and massively fabulous, Tiny Cooper, offensive lineman and musical theater auteur extraordinaire - Will and Will begin building toward respective romantic turns-of-heart and the epic production of history's most awesome high school musical.

The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller
4/5⭐⭐⭐⭐
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. By all rights, their paths should never cross, but Achilles takes the shamed prince as his friend, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles' mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But then word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus journeys with Achilles to Troy, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Profoundly moving and breathtakingly original, this rendering of the epic Trojan War is a dazzling feat of the imagination, a devastating love story, and an almighty battle between gods and kings, peace and glory, immortal fame and the human heart.

Starfish, Akemi Dawn Bowman
4/5⭐⭐⭐⭐
A half-Japanese teen grapples with social anxiety and her narcissist mother in the wake of a crushing rejection from art school in this debut novel.
Kiko Himura has always had a hard time saying exactly what she’s thinking. With a mother who makes her feel unremarkable and a half-Japanese heritage she doesn’t quite understand, Kiko prefers to keep her head down, certain that once she makes it into her dream art school, Prism, her real life will begin. 
But then Kiko doesn’t get into Prism, at the same time her abusive uncle moves back in with her family. So when she receives an invitation from her childhood friend to leave her small town and tour art schools on the west coast, Kiko jumps at the opportunity in spite of the anxieties and fears that attempt to hold her back. And now that she is finally free to be her own person outside the constricting walls of her home life, Kiko learns life-changing truths about herself, her past, and how to be brave.

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TTT: 10 series I NEED to read in 2019

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday (TTT) es un sección semanal creada por el blog The Broke and the Bookish. En la cuál todos los martes de cada semana el blog propone un tema a partir del cual nosotros creamos nuestras listas de nuestros diez libros, autores, dependiendo de lo elegido.

Every time my TBR grows and grows hundred of pending books for reading, for this reason, I've decided that this year I'll finish the pending series and start which have been postponed for years. 
Well, these are the book series I hope/wish to read and finish this year.


Happy 2019 for all, wish you have a good reading year! 💛📚