Monthly best books (September)

Hi! this month we decided begin a new section in our blog where we’ll write a short summary of the books that we liked most this month. Let’s start:

1. Frankenstein:

by Mary Shelley. Victor Frankenstein looks for the secret of life and therefore proposes a new project: to create a human being from dead matter. When he sees the result can’t stand it. This book will make you think about the morality of man. Rating: ★★★★✩

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2. Celestina:

by Fernando Rojas. The love story of two young which they are joined by lies by a elderly woman. Celestina (a elderly woman) deceives to all characters for get economic benefits. She represents the greed and love. Rating: ★★★★✩

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3. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button:

By Scott Fitzgerald. Benjamin Button is a strange child, he was born at 70 and he doesn’t get older, on the contrary, he gets younger every year while the rest of the people who know him get older. How could Benjamin study in the university, get a good job, and even love someone with his “peculiarity”? Would be so good get younger every day and end our life being a baby? Rating: ★★★★✩

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See you! 

Book review: Time between us

Author: Tamara Ireland Stone

Pages: 368

Year of publishing: 2012

Rating: ★★★✩✩

Related posts: –

Synopsis: Anna and Bennett were never supposed to meet: she lives in 1995 Chicago and he lives in 2012 San Francisco. But Bennett has the unique ability to travel through time and space, which brings him into Anna’s life, and with him a new world of adventure and possibility.

As their relationship deepens, the two face the reality that time may knock Bennett back to where he belongs, even as a devastating crisis throws everything they believe into question.

Book review: Frankenstein

Author: Mary Shelley

Pages: 156

Year of publishing: 1818

Rating: ★★★★✩

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Synopsis: “I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, & then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life & stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.” A summer evening’s ghost stories, lonely insomnia in a moonlit Alpine’s room & a runaway imagination–fired by philosophical discussions with Lord Byron & Percy Bysshe Shelley about science, galvanism & the origins of life–conspired to produce for Mary Shelley this haunting night specter. By morning, it had become the germ of her Romantic masterpiece,Frankenstein. 

Book review: The Maze Runner.

Author: James Dashner

Pages: 385

Year of publishing: 2009

Rating: ★★★✩✩

Related posts: –

Synopsis: When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his name. He’s surrounded by strangers—boys whose memories are also gone.

Nice to meet ya, shank. Welcome to the Glade.

Outside the towering stone walls that surround the Glade is a limitless, ever-changing maze. It’s the only way out—and no one’s ever made it through alive.

Book Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Author: Scott Fitzgerald

Pages: 80

Year of Publishing: 1922

Rating: ★★★★✩

Related Posts: Not yet Available.

Synopsis: Benjamin Button is a very strange baby. Born with a white beard, he looks like his grandfather. As years pass, he seems to get younger. This brings many problems, for him and the people around him.

Book Review: Celestina

Author: Fernando de Rojas

Pages: 250

Year of publishing: 1499

Rating: ★★★★✩

Related posts: –

Synopsis: In “Celestina” we found the tragic love of Calisto and Melibea and the trickery employed by the procuress Celestina.

Book Review: The Turn of The Screw

Author: Henry James

Pages: 120

Year of publishing: 1898

Rating: ★★★✩✩

Related posts: –

Synopsis: A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger – or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?

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Book review: Every Day

Author: David Levithan

Pages: 384

Year of publishing: 2012

Rating: ★★★✩✩

Related Posts: Will Grayson, Will Grayson (Author); The Lover’s Dictionary (Author)

Synopsis: Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.

Every morning, A wakes in a different person’s body, a different person’s life. There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. 

Book Review: Point of Retreat (Slammed#2)

Author: Colleen Hoover

Pages: 215

Year of Publishing: 2012

Rating: ★★✩✩✩

Related Posts: Slammed (First part)

Synopsis: Hardships and heartache brought them together… now it will tear them apart.
Layken and Will have proved their love can get them through anything; until someone from Will’s past re-emerges, leaving Layken questioning the very foundation on which their relationship was built. Will is forced to face the ultimate challenge…how to prove his love for a girl who refuses to stop ‘carving pumpkins.