33. The Hunger Games.

33. The Hunger Games. Suzanne Collins. 367 Pages. March 2012.

What must it be like, I wonder, to live in a world where food appears at the press of a button? How would I spend the hours I now commit to combing the woods for sustenance if it were so easy to come by? What do they do all day, these people in the Capitol, besides decorating their bodies and waiting around for a new shipment of tributes to roll in and die for their entertainment?

I look up and find Cinna’s eyes trained on mine. “How despicable we must seem to you,” he says.

Has he seen this in my face or somehow read my thoughts? He’s right, though. The whole rotten lot of them is despicable.

It crosses my mind that Cinna’s calm and normal demeanor masks a complete madman.

Great books for medical professionals

Great books for medical professionals

1. The emperor of all maladies; a biography of cancer. Siddharta Mukherjee.

2. My own country; a doctor's story by abraham verghese.

3. Cutting for stone, abraham verghese.

4. El amor en los tiempos del colera.

5. The immortal life of henrietta lacks, rebecca skloot.

6. The house of god, Samuel Shem.

7. Del amor y otros demonios.

8. Arrowsmith, Sinclair Lewis.

9. Complicatios: a surgeons notes on an imperfect science

and Better. Both by Atul Gawande

10. The spirit catches you and you fall down. Anne Fadiman

32. Africanus. El Hijo del Consul.

32. Africanus. El Hijo del Consul. Santiago Posteguillo. 712 paginas. Marzo 2012.

31. El Cuaderno de Maya.

31. El Cuaderno de Maya. Isabel Allende. 443 paginas. Marzo 2012.

Section on Reading.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWwXJT4LA5A

Girl You Should Date.Mark Grist on Girls who read.

What do you go for in a girl? I like a girl who reads... a girl who feeds her addiction for fiction.... for days and days and days she will seat addicted at breakfast... because she is interesting and she is unique... is a girl with passion, wits and dreams...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Adzywe9xeIU

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore.

In a world ruled by books, with a humble Humpty Dumpty, where books come to life when read by a Doctor, and where eternity is granted. If life is enjoyed does it have to make sense?

Oscar nominated - Short Film Commercial.

http://nonamerah.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/869/

A Girl You Should Date.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/books/review/Donadio-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=it%27s+not+you+it%27s+your+books&st=nyt

Essay about Love and Literary Taste.

Listing your favorite books and authors is a crucial, if risky, part of self-branding.

reading habits can be a rough indicator of other qualities. “It tells something about ... their level of intellectual curiosity, what their style is.

After all, women read more.

Naming a favorite book or author can be fraught.

sometimes people can end up liking the same things for vastly different reasons.

30. Los Asesinos del Emperador.

30. Los Asesinos del Emperador. Santiago Posteguillo. 1185 paginas. Febrero 2012.

Bienvenidos al mundo de Marco Ulpio Trajano. Esta es una de las novelas históricas mas fieles a la historia. Es excelente para aprender y entretenida a la vez. La novela sigue varios personajes, alrededor del asesinato del emperador Domiciano, y los eventos que precedieron a un gran cambio en las políticas de Roma. El ascenso de un emperador no ciudadano romano sino, nacido en una provincia de Hispania. Es uno de los libros que me hizo recordar la gran importancia de Roma para la formación del mundo actual y como por pequeños eventos de la antigüedad sucedieron los eventos que condujeron el mundo.

Los personajes son muy bien elaborados. Llama la atención que los capítulos de Trajano no son el centro de la historia, sino los relacionados con el emperador en Roma.

"Nunca sabes cuanto duele perder algo que quieres hasta que llega el momento..."

" En este mundo hay que aprender a observar primero y hacer las preguntas adecuadas después. Quien yerra en cualquiera de estos dos puntos esta condenado al sufrimiento propio...

"

29. El Regreso del Joven Príncipe.

29. El Regreso del Joven Príncipe. A.G. Roemmers. 124 paginas. Enero 2012.

Trata de ser como el principito, pero no lo es. Es extraño y es imposible no comparar pero el desarrollo del libro es extraño, si bien tiene varios aspectos que he pensado varias veces y que son importantes recordar, pero a veces suenan muy sentimentales o muy forzados en la conversación entre el príncipe y el autor.

Los temas interesantes recorren entre otros: El vivir en el pasado y en el futuro en vez de en el presente, dilemas entre el ser y tener, la orientación de los medios y los fines, la felicidad y el amor, la actitud de felicidad frente a la vida, el dar y el recibir.

27. Inheritance.

27. Inheritance. Christopher Paolini. 860 pages. October 2011.

Paolini decreased the interest of the history with every book. This one is the proof that the story got bigger than what he imagined and he could not deal with a good development and end for it.

Most of the books is useless, everything resolves in a few chapters and in a stupid way. Galbatorix was so powerful that he was virtually impossible to defeat.

"Was a broad but shallow education superior to one that was narrow but deep?"

"It is easy to be calm when there is nothing to worry about. The true test of your self control, however, is whether you can remain calm in a trying situation."

"Change itself is never good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful."

39. X-Men: First Class. September 2011. Matthew Vaughn.

39. X-Men: First Class. September 2011. Matthew Vaughn.

It was good to see the origin of the old mutants, and the beginning of the friendship between Magneto and Professor X, when they were called Eric and Charles. The movie is not very good and it relies a lot on the special effects more than in the story itself.

38. Bodyguard. September 2011. Siddique.

38. Bodyguard. September 2011. Siddique.

Not as good as the other indian movie I saw. This one was more representative of Bollywood as it had more dancing and more festivities.

The movie is bad, but is interesting to see movies from another culture.