Changing My Mind, Essays - Zadie Smith

This is the witty opening line: "This book has been written without my knowledge", and so it was, because this is a collection of articles, lectures, film reviews and the kind written by Zadie Smith along the first years of this century; presumably not thinking in a future gathering as a book. The stuff is diverse, from academic complex works to more understable pieces; always in a humorous style and with her particular (and wandering I presume it must be assumed) points of view.

El mes más cruel - Pilar Adón

Lo siento Pilar, no me han gustado. Puede que estos cuentos sean demasiado femeninos o jovenes o líricos o simplemente demasiado buenos para mí. Y es que a mí me han parecido lejanos a la realidad; con esas casas con jardín cerca del bosque, esos personajes lánguidos y depresivos que, eso sí, leen. Bueno, el libro es cortito.

Autokarabana - Fermin Etxegoien

Narratzaile eta protagonista berrogei urte inguruko gizona dugu; bananduta, ironikoa, zinikoa ta berekoia, momentuz maitagarria eta generalean arbuiagarri samar. Hau da, gutariko edonor bezala. Baita esan behar gure begikotasuna erakartzen duela azken finean galtzaile bat delako. Argumentuak, enpresaren gorabeherei dagokienez, agian sinesgarritasun falta darama. Amaiera gustatu zait, oso "amerikarra". Euskera ulerkorrean gure gizarteko hainbat erdigezur agerian uzten du.

Dear Life - Alice Munro

Last of the short-story collections by the newly Nobel awarded Munro and the same world of her previous books; mostly the Huron County in Canada. But by world I don't mean only that geographical sense but mainly the spiritual environment the writer inhabited (for it's the past she mainly talks us about). Beautifully written as usual.