So, I'm sure you've noticed that very little stuff has gone up through the month of September. Do not despair: things will be back to normal!
However, during this month, I've been doing some changes. Some, you can already see: do you like the new design? Hopefully, it's much more streamlined, dynamic, and clear than before!
Other changes won't hit the blog until January the 1st, because I'm a firm believer in significant dates and what's better for new things than to start on New Year? Look forward to the novelties ahead, because I've been working hard on them!
Meanwhile, though, I plan to keep running the blog as it was before. Which means my reviews will be back, yippeee! I hope we'll get to reconnect again after this short hiatus, and that everything will be even better than before.
Thanks for your patience!
October 5, 2012
September 27, 2012
Banned Books Week Hop
You know, I used to think that I lived in a free country, that banned books and censored novels were a thing of the past. I thought that fiction was the one thing we could take for granted. And you know what?
I was wrong.
I'm not American; I'm Spanish. Here, we don't have lists of challenged books or lists of books that might be a poor influence for our youth... that's why I thought we were just fine. But the fact is that we still censor contents, bias stories to make them suitable to what should be considered "proper" and "right". The first time I notice it was after reading a manga, a comic: I had devoured the original story in Japanese, and when I saw the translated, licensed volume in Spanish I just went and browsed for my favorite scenes, out of curiosity.
The violence was toned down. One of the secondary characters was in love with a travestite, and the small nuances that conveyed those feelings in the original were gone in the translation. Two samurai, minor roles who appear in just a couple of chapters in a series of over 30 volumes, had a relationship: now, it had become friendship.
It was the same story, only... more "appropiate".
I'd like you to be aware of this: even if you don't know it, there's a lot of people out there who is still trying to tell us what kind of world we should see... and worse. what kind of world we should imagine. And I'd like you to use choose a book that deals with something problematic, something not pretty, something that makes the book challenging and real.
You can pick whichever book you want, from Book Depository, under 10$
To win, just fill in the rafflecopter form below. And if you have time, check out more info about Banned Books Week in this link. a Rafflecopter giveaway Visit the rest of the blogs taking part on this hop:
September 25, 2012
VBT: Brightest Kind of Darkness Series, by P.T. Michelle
What series am I exactly talking about, you say? Well, you should know by now: other than being a huge indie hit, I've been raving about Brightest Kind of Darkness and its sequel, Lucid, for quite a while. In case you missed it, you can check out my reviews of both instalments here for Book 1 and here for Book 2.
After reading that, you should be in a hurry to meet P.T. Michelle... Okay, I can help you. Here, some info!
ABOUT P.T. MICHELLEP.T. Michelle is author of the young adult series BRIGHTEST KIND OF DARKNESS. When P.T. isn’t writing, she can usually be found reading or taking pictures of landscapes, sunsets and anything beautiful or odd in nature.
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And now, the most super-important things: the excerpt I know you're just dying to read... and the GIVEAWAY afterwards! Ready? Here we go!
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