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THE CHEETAHS’ SMILE

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 20 January 2022

This week the Blog is about the new publication of Sebastià Bennassar, The CHEETAHS’ SMILE, published in Catalan by the publishing house ALREVÉS, which has always been very secure of this line of the author.

It pains me not having the Spanish version because I think it is a very adequate novel with all the ingredients to work in the countries in which this genre is the king. That’s why I encourage even the editors from outside the country to read it in Catalan because they will not lose their time. Mafias, drugs, and violence in a novel that the readers asked after the success of THE EMPIRE OF THE LIONS.

January 2022. Catalunya in the middle of a cold wave, Pascal Neige must find out who has killed Michel Aubriot, one of the last survivors of the Lyonnaise mafia that his father run and now he does with her sisters and lover. At the same time, he must control that all of those who cultivate marijuana in the country pay their fee. Pascal is going to live a crazy week if he wants to keep the smile of the cheetahs.

After The land of twilight, Where the grass never grows and The empire of the lions (the later winner of the Valencia Negra prize as the best Catalan novel), Sebastià Bennasar comes back to the collection «crims.cat» and offers a new story of the Neige family and its criminal gang. An addictive, violent, sexual novel that mixes with efficiency the brutality of the series like Gangs of London with the best literary tradition of the noir genre in our country.

BOOKS AS A TOOL FOR LIFE

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 13 January 2022

Second week of the year and first one of normality. Everything starts again, kids go back to school and set those weekly routines that orchestrate life to the families. It is difficult come back after holidays and almost all of us start this year with a list of resolutions for this year. Although I have decided to not do it and let it flow, I have witnessed different conversations between my friends about that repetitive list that year after year it is almost the same one: lose weight, quit smoking, finding the perfect man, go to the gym at least two times a week. This is the list that people tell each other but there are the personal ones with ambitious or personal goals that we often mix up with unachievable wishes, but we should put them as goals as well. Why not?

That is why, the book that I would like to suggest this week is a tool to get to know ourselves better. I believe that it is vital to look inside of us to know what we really want, how we are, and in what moment we are. With THE CUBE’S GAME, by Mayde Molina and Amir Zare, we will be able to see the canvas of our lives. Through the journey of a young Shiraz, where she will meet a wise sufi who will guide her to some other place and will reveal her the secrets of the inside world, we will be able to trace our own journey. Can an ancestral game reveal to us how we are against life? It can, and not only it will help the lead of the book but also you, as a reader among her, you will discover your inside world and the map that you will draw with this game, you will be able to take control of your destiny. Aren’t you curious about what route this 2022 has in store for you?

I did it and it came out the perfect portrait of my actual state and my goals. An ideal tool to start the year with a roadmap that will help us achieve those external and internal lists that everyone does to follow what we most desire.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 23 December 2021

Sandra Bruna’s team wishes you a Merry Christmas and a 2022 filled with happiness, health, and books, and that we can share it all.

We will take a break the week from the 3rd to the 9th of January to come back recharged and ready to start a new year, which we hope will be better.

THE POWER OF HAVING COURAGE

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 16 December 2021

This week, and with Christmas very near, I love to recommend a family book. Álex Rovira and Francesc Miralles publish their third book of the Tales collection with Destino. After the success with TALES TO LOVE YOURSELF BETTER with 8 editions in Spanish and 5 in Catalan and sold to Rumania, Italy and Poland, and TALES FOR HAPPY BOYS AND GIRLS with 2 editions and going up, they publish TALES TO HAVE COURAGE, with 35 tales to help you empower yourself and overcome adversities. Who teaches us how to deal with life?

Both the children and adults have in our hands a great power, and with great power comes a great responsibility, like the superheroes, to shape our life and the new world that waits for us is necessary to wake up the courage that comes from self-knowledge of one’s strengths. Because of this, this anthology works the resilience, the art of sailing through the difficulties, the creative thinking and the of cultivation nutritive relationships, among a lot of other subjects that will help us have more courage.

Through this tales the parents can learn how to pass on these tools to our kids because what we want is that they are happy, yes, but we also want them not to suffer and that they know how to defend themselves in front of difficulties, without fear, face the situations with judgement and resilience. Many adults still do not know how to do it depending on the situations, because when they were children, nobody taught them how to do it.

I believe that between the three books, this one has an especial power because we know that there will be problems in life, but having the tranquility to have the weapons to fix problems has an incalculable value, and I am sure, that pass on this legacy to our children is something that all parents, grandparents, uncles, and godparents want for the little ones, and by the way, reflect on it as adults.

This book is a useful gift for this life, that after the pandemic it looks like everything is starting to go back to normality, not the normality that we had and that maybe will never come back, so we will have to adapt to this new reality, and we need tools like courage to do so.

LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA

Author: Sandra Bruna Thursday 9 December 2021

Another year has passed, the month of December, Christmas, and our solidarity campaign LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA is back for the eight consecutive year. There have been years where I have been tempted to throw in the towel, not because of a lack of interest, but because it is not easy to ask people to solidary. Also, we must understand that it is not anyone’s duty to be solidary, and chase after people to collaborate is an arduous work that needs its time, a very valuable thing, at least in my life, and which every time I manage it worse, because I would need my day to be not only 48 hours, but 72. Life does not stop, work either, and this solidary challenge is greater every time.

It is true that every year we put bar higher to be able to help more kids, this year we want to achieve 1,500 meals, that for a lot of kids will be the only hot meal of the day, but to accomplish this, we must earn 4,500 euros. Last year it was difficult to reach 3,000 euros, but we made it, with a lot of tenacity, but it was not easy, since like what I said, solidarity must not be and obligation, it must be a feeling. Because of this, one of the reasons of this campaign was to demonstrate that the editorial world not only receives, but it also gives. It looks like we are known to just ask, to always complain, and my idea was to show the world that it is not true, because culture has always been solidary in one way or another. LA LITERATURA ALIMENTA intends to be another way to show the solidary face of the cultural world and to firmly believe that life is giving and receiving, which I have always believed and have tried to apply in all the aspects in my life.  Never have I thought of giving only for the porpoise of receiving something in return, but I do believe that the universe takes care of making the path bidirectional for those who deserve it.

I am not ashamed to share with us that I am one of those who believe in the universe, in the stars and the magic of Christmas, and it is because of this that I ask you to look inside you and if you also feel it, you help us achieve this solidary challenge another year, and that any children is left without a hot meal a day, since it is already sad that there are kids that can only count on this. The link for helping us is this: https://www.migranodearena.org/reto/la-literatura-alimenta-1-500-comidas-para-el-programa-becas-comedor-de-educo#.Yayban_BO_E.link . The deadline is the 30th of January of 2022, so do not think too hard, click o the link, enter and contribute the amount that you want. The important thing is being able to do something for others. We all spend money in things that we do not need, do not avoid this and let’s do an investment in helping families that can not give their children what should be the minimum.

I want to thank the authors of the agency that have3 helped us make a little gift for those who collaborate in this year’s campaign. 12 videos with 12 advices to have a great 2022. From the non-fiction authors, who with their books can help us be better, Anna, Solyom, Álex Rovira, Cristina Benito, Dr. Eduard Estivill, Ferran Cases, Francesc Miralles, Gabriel García de Oro, Gaspar Hernández, Meritxell García, Nacho Mülhenberg, Sara Teller, Sonia Rico y Tony Estruch, you will have 12 very simple advice that will for sure give you the guideline to live better, happier, and fuller. THANK YOU, THANK YOU and THANK YOU for your solidarity.



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