Arxiu diari: 2 abril 2019

Concurs de lectura, English department

The girl on the train by Paula Hawkins

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The Girl on the train by Paula Hawkins

I chose this book because when I read the blurb I felt very interested in knowing what the girl was seeing from the train.

     “My head leaning against the carriage window, I watch these houses roll past me like a tracking shot in a film. I see them as others do not; even their owners probably don’t see them from this perspective. Twice a day, I am offered a view into other lives, just for a moment. There’s something comforting about the sight of strangers safe at home.”

It is not what I expected but it is not bad. At the beginning it is rather heavy going and In my opinion the best part of the book is from half ahead when you have to figure out what is true and what is fiction, and finally it gripped me.

I recommend it to those who like complex thriller, with violence, alcohol, characters mentally unstable and jealousy.

https://aplicacions.ensenyament.gencat.cat/epergam/web/fitxa.jsp?id=16826428

Maite Lardiez

Anglès

5è

Biblioteca, English department

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen

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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

This is a novel written by Jane Austen(December 1775 – 18 July 1817), an English novelist whose plots often were about dependence of women on marriage in order to achieve a favourable social standing and economic security.

She is known for six major novels “Sense and sensibility, Mandsfield Park, Emma, Northander Abbey, Persuassion and Pride and prejudice”

This is a romantic,fun and very entertaining novel which I was delighted to read. 

Set in the early 1800´s it gives us a background of that time.

One of the famous quote is:

“It is a truth universally acknowledge, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”

This lines reflects the essential aspiration of middle and upper class families in England in the late 18th century, when the marriage was the first aspiration for women.

The book tells us the story of five sisters(all with very different character)  whose mother only thinks on the importance to have all of them well-married, and throughout the book we find love, disapointments, misunderstandings and reconciliations.

In my opinion Jane Austen’s books are mainly written for women and for those who like romantic novels.

https://aplicacions.ensenyament.gencat.cat/epergam/web/fitxa.jsp?id=16928183

Maite Lardiez

Anglès

5è