THE BEST BOOK I HAVE EVER READ.

I didn’t like read books about stories when I was in the high school and later in the College, I just read scientific books, related to my career, but when I finished the studies I had a lot of free time and I decided to read some books that my sister had.

During this new hobby I could read some excellent books but the best to me was “The Alchemist” from Paulo Coelho. The book tells us the story about a young man called Santiago. With this symbolic masterpiece Coelho tells us that we should not avoid our destinies, and urges people to follow their dreams, because to find our "Personal Myth" and our mission on Earth is the way to find "God", meaning happiness, fulfillment, and the ultimate purpose of creation.
"The Alchemist" is the kind of novel that tells you that everything is possible as long as you really want it to happen. Coelho tells us "simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them”.

Next, I’m going to show you a little biography of Coelho that I could find in Internet:

Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the son of Pedro Queima de Souza an engineer, and his wife, Lygia a homemaker. His middle-class parents didn't share his dream of an artistic career. When he was 17 his father had him committed to a mental institution where he endured electroshock therapy, even when he got involved with a theatre group and started work as a journalist, they had him recommitted once more.

He sought spiritual experiences travelling throughout Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile, as well as Europe and North Africa. Later he launched an alternative magazine called 2001. After joining the Alternative Society and publishing a series of comic strips about freedom, he was imprisoned and later experienced kidnap and torture by paramilitaries.

After this, Coelho turned away from progressive politics, working as an executive in the music industry. After a prophetic dream he met a stranger who urged him to study the benign side of magic and to walk the pilgrim's Road to Santiago.

After completing the pilgrimage in 1987, Coelho wrote The Pilgrimage, describing his experiences of the extraordinary in ordinary lives. A year later he wrote The Alchemist which was not well received. When he wrote Brida, he gained much attention in the press and both the former books made best seller lists.

Well how we can read the Coelho’s life was very hard because he didn’t have the support from his parents, but he always was looking for his dream and finally it became truly. If we try to compare his life with the book, we notice that the main idea is the same in both cases: Santiago and Paulo try to follow his dream, looking for some clues in their lives, trying to understand the meaning of the existence.

Coelho studied Alchemist for 11 years and understood the essence of its meaning, later was easy to make a book about this because he related his knowledge with his own life, in my opinion.
Well this is all that I can tell you about this excellent book, I recommended it to read it, you can find it in any book store and the cost is very cheap.

BRAZIL

BRAZIL compared with CUENCA - ECUADOR

Geography:

Brazil is a country in South America, its the fifth largest country by geographical area while Cuenca is the third city of Ecuador located in South America too.
Brazil is bounded by the Atlantic ocean on the east, its coastline is over 7,367 kilometers. On the north by Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana and french Guyana.
On the South by Uruguay, on the southeast by Argentina and Paraguay and with Bolivia, Perú and Colombia to the east.
Cuenca is located between the 2,350 and 2,550 meters above sea level, in the Southern sector of the Ecuadorian Andean Mountain range. Also it is bathed by four rivers : Tomebamba, Yanuncay, Machangara and Tarqui. The Tomebamba river divided the city in two: the colonial city and the new city.

This is Cuenca´s center

History:

Brazil was colonized by Portugal from 1500 until its independence in 1822 while Cuenca was founded by 1557 by the Spanish Gil Ramirez Dávalos and achived its independece in November 3 of 1820.
Brazil has been a Republic since 1889 and its president is Lula Da Silva. Cuenca doesn´t have a president because is a city but its maximun authority is Marcelo Cabrera.
Cuenca is well preserved, that is why it earns the honor of being listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Trust.

This is a colonial street of Cuenca

Economy:

Brazil is the world's ninth largest economy in terms of pushing power and at tenth largest economy at market exchange rates.
It has good technology, agriculture and exportation.
The pushing power is that the things have one price and this is eficcient in the market and made it more competitive.

On the other hand Cuenca´s economy isn´t as developed as Brazil but it has many things such as gold and silver, also the agriculture is growing and many people is studying and have their career. This make Cuenca a city more cultural and interesting.

Population:

The total of the population in Brazil until 2005 was 183,888,841 while in Cuenca is around 400.000.
Brazil is the most populated country in the world.





I decided to compare Cuenca with Brazil because i like both and i wanted to make you see that althougt both are in the same continent, they are very diferent and beautiful.

LA ILIADA

LA ILIADA:

Author: Homero


La Iliada is for my one of most exciting books that I have read.

This book talks about an epic history, a war history which apparently happened between Greece and Troy, eight hundred years B.C. Greece was commanded by Agamenon and his brother Menelao. And Troy was commanded by Hector and Paris.

The history begins when the Trojan Hector and his young brother Paris went to Greece for making peace alliances, on this trip Paris meet to a beautiful woman named Elena, she was Menelao¨s wife. Paris was in love of Elena, and they love to each other, and both of them decide flee from Greece and go to Troy.

When Menelao¨s discovered the Elenas¨s treason, he decided to attack Troy and recovered his wife. So Greeks before attacks Trojans decide ask help to Aquiles who was considered the best fighter ever, but he didn’t want support them.

So they attack to the Trojans, and Aquiles¨s cousin named Patroclo who belongs to Greek army was killed and the Greeks loose the battle.

The death of Patroclo enraged to Aquiles, and he decided help Greeks in the war against Troy, On this attack Hector dies, and the Trojans army decided took revenge and they fired a terrible attack to Greeks, and supposedly they won the war.

The day after battle, Trojans army founded on the coast many Greeks soldiers killed, and all the Greek army escape to their contry, and they also found in the sand a huge wood horse sculpture, and they thought this was a God¨s present for Trojan victory, but they didn’t know this was a tramp.

So Trojans decide introduce the "present" inside the city, but in the night when all Trojans were sleeping the best Greeks soldiers commanded by Aquiles went out the big horse, and they attack and burned all Troy city, killing to everyone, fortunately Paris during the attack took an arrow and injured to Aquiles, after that Paris and some Trojan soldiers took all women and children who survived to the atrack and escape to another place to reach safety themselves.

That is all about this great epic history, which talk about how love and men feelings can cause terrible wars between brothers, families, even countries.

La Iliada was writed by Homero, About his live mankind just know a litlle. He was a Greek, who lived on Greece berween (siglo II B.C.)

That is known he was a blind writer, who belongs to middle class; he was a protected man by his sponsors, who were kings, and some high class members who paid important artist and writers for their jobs.

Homero was a patriot, for this reason we can say this history is a reflex of love and heroic patriotism what Homero felt by his country.

UNCLE TOM´S CABIN

This is a very interesting book that I read a lof of time ago, when I was at the High school ; it tells about injuries that stood the black skin people in the United States during eighteen century, where they were slaves of the white people. Tom was a good person and He was a slave too but his owners had a great fond for him, because He used to help everybody specially the children. He was married and had two children but economical problems of his owner He had to be sold to a bad person who didn´t bear him because He always used to be happy and good temper although other people weren´t on the same way. Unfortunately Tom left his family and had to stand a bad life far away from them; eventually He died because He was hurt by your new chief through whipping just at the moment when your first owner had gotten enough money to get him again. This interesting book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe who was born in 1811 and died in 1896, she got married and had seven children. When she was 22 years old the slavery at that time made to her write this story that is one of ten books that she did in all her life.

The Father of Science Fiction and his travel “From the Earth to the Moon”

Many people recommend the book “From the Earth to the Moon” written by Jules Verne for kids, because it has a lot of science fiction and kids just love it. For me, you can discover new things every time you read this book. You can be again a kid or you can make a lot of calculus to discover if all can be true.

I always have wondered what he saw, what he was studding, what he was reading to have that imagination. Some writes said when he was a kid, he used to live near to a river and all the ships he saw are part of his inspiration and curiosity. Then he started to read, study and invent a lot of things.

Some biographers thought he was seer. Others said that he was a genius, like Leonardo da Vinci. He knew a lot of mats, geology, astronomy physics and many things more. However, the person who helped him to improve books was his best publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel. He said to Jules he have to make books attractive for all ages and not only to scientific audience.

The first time I read this book was when I was 12 years old and since that time I see me studding technology. Just think how a man, the writer, could write travels and adventures one hundred years before it could be real… This inspire every one.

Angels & Demons (Dan Brown)

I read "Angels & Demons" 1 year ago approximately. Before I read the Da Vinci Code, was brilliant I compare both of them and I prefere the first one.

The book was published in 2000. The principal character is Robert Langdonwho is also the principal character of the novel "The Da Vinci Code". The thriller es about science vs. religion.

The story begin with an assassination. Robert Langdon, tries to stop what seems to be a legendary secret society, that want to destroy the Vatican City with a new discover the power of antimatter. In the Vatican there are a hidden bomb and a serial killer.

The novel is entertaining from beginning to the end. Reality, fiction and an interesting way to write. He has the ability to want to read more and more. Data and information placed in the novel are real and product research of the author and his wife, in fact, it inspired him to write this kind of story.

For me the debate which is to be trusted : science or religion is an important point of the story, you should be read!

The little womans.

I remember when I read this book.I was teenager, I was in the high school. This history is very beautiful based on the life of the writer ,the Misses now died .louisa Mary Alcott. She had three sisters called Meg,Jo,Beth, Amy,is a semiautobiographical account of her childhood years with her sistersin Concord,Masachuset.Louisa Mary Alcottin her life never married, she was part of a group of funde authors during the US Gilded Age to adress women's issnes in a modern an candid manner. She work in a newspaperrrr. She wrote througth the rest of her life , finally succumbing to the affter--effects of mercury poisoning contracted during her American Civil War Service.She had received callmed treatments for the effects of typhoid. She died in Boston on March 6 1888, at age 55, two days after visiting her father on his deathbead. HER LAST WORDS WERE,IS IT NOT MENINGITIS. When I read this history, I REMEMBER MY PAST LIFE, 23 YEARS AGO MY FATHER ARRIVED FAR AWAY OF HERE TO THE USA. All my family were very sad for this reason. My mom stayed very alone for a long time . My three young sisters were crying ,and one of them sicked, she was in the hospital many days. I remember that everytime. This history to influed inb my life so much.Now my fatherwas get older, he has 62 years old. My three youngers sisters. Marysol, Fanny,Edd,remember thath and crying. We never forget to my dear faher, and lovely him all life.
want to tell this history bosely maybe in my past life.There are in Masachussets three litlle sisters, they life with you r father and your mother, they are very happy,Their names were. Meg,Jo, Beth,Amy in 1868. Sidenly the army called to their father for the war,and he gone very sad, becose he lovely very much to his daugthers and your wife, they were your treasure. This succes was before the Cristhmas, Joshep the older sister want to bougth a present for your mom,she don't have money.She was felling very sad,and thing, I had a loing hair and blond,Icut it ans then sold it for have money,and so that. After came to your houses withouth loing hair and she had new sandals for your fairly mother,your mom saw her and both of us were crying togheter the others sisters. Jo to played the piano very beautiful, she learn in her high school. And them trhee months ago your father came to the home, and they received with many love and all your soul. And then everybody was very happy. This is the beautiful history based inb the life of writter,and it's seems to my past life. Now I called to my father all the time, and I feel very happy when I listen to him.

VADUZ

This is the capital from Liechtenstein that is placed between Austria and Switzertland whose area is 160 km2 and it has 24.715 inhabitants ; its language is the german and it was born in 1342 when the Count Hartmann I, proclamed himself as a owner of the Vaduz Valley little to little this Valley grew more and finally in 1434 it reached the bounds known nowadays. Vaduz is smaller than Cuenca but the economy is similar to, because there work more in the agriculture, cattle raising and wood work.

It´s a quiet city like Cuenca.

El Alchemist

By: Paulo Coelho

For me the best book that I had read is The Alchemist, this book was written by Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian writer that born in Rio de Janiero, son of Pedro Queima de Souza an engineer that didn't support his artistic career, inclosed when he was 17 his father had him incame to a mental institution where he endured electroshock therapy, even when he got involucred with a theatre group and started work as a journalist. But he continued with his dream, when he worked by a magazzine when publishing a series of comic strips about freedom, he was imprisoned and later was kidnapper and tortured by paramilitaries. He away from progressive politics and began working as an executive in the music industry.

The book talks about the life of Santiago, a pastor who fought for their dreams, their parents wanted that him became a priest, but he traveled to Egypt in search of a treasure, even when he had a lot of problems and difficulties, He continued with search, Finally he found his treasure also found his love.

This book teaches that you never have to stop of fight for your dreams.

A large America

well when I read this book, I Know that the book was part of biography the story of his granfathers and "Gabo". Gabriel Garcìa Marquèz was called so since his childhead. Really I read the biography of the Gabo and after I can read Cien años de soledad, This book treat the migration of her grandfather when he kill to a friend of her natal village. The died of his friend was for a bad understood with the mother of the friends.

And of this form all the event with her grandfather are transmitted to Gabo when he was a youn and he life in the grandparent house becouse your parent traveled onother cyti for your work.

It possible to say that this estage in the life of Gabo nevermore was retiring up to remaining printed in one of her big you write novels.

The life in the novel is the same life that he had when he was a child. After read the books, Cien años de soledad and her biography, I think. When spoke of like know the ice, the first move that see with your grandfather .

The wished time for Gabriel Garcia Marquez became reality as a result of months of hard work, when he wrote “Cien Años de Soledad” which was a successful work.Already he was a famous writer and decided only write his owns works, obviously he had money to do this.Being a name known he traveled for some countries exalting the respect of the human rights.In 1982 he won the Nobel Prize of literature and obtained money which let him found the School of Movie of San Antonio de Baños in Cuba, place destined to stimulate and help to youth in the art of the movies.In 1994 published his last novel “ Del Amor y Otros Demonios”Last March 6 was the 80th birthday of Gabo and it is celebrated by the minister of culture of Colombia. He ordered the reconstruction of his natal house in Aracataca.Actually it is known that he works in memories where his principal personage dies when he writes the last phrase of his work.
No doubt it is one of the most important this times.

I Know they are coming to kill me , From Alicia Yanez Cossio

I Know they are coming to kill me

This novel is about the born, life and died of Gabriel Garcia Moreno. He was the president of Ecuador for two periods (1859-1865 and 1869-1875).

This novel present an interrogant about who was the intellectual author of one of the most controversial crimes in Ecuador " The Murder of Gabriel Garcia Moreno, one of the biggest Ecuadorian presidents" . He is the symbol of the Republican Epoque in our nation.

Alicia Yanez Cossio who is the author of this novel analizes if his murder was ¿Conspiracion or revenge? García Moreno was famous for its strenght of character and authoritarianism but at the same time he was a man tyrant and indolent.

He was considered a genius thats why many people love him but many people used to hate him either because he used to send to the wall for kill to everybody who were agains him.

The ecuadorian Alicia Yanez Cossio is undoubthedly one of the leading figures of the first Chamber International Book and The Word, that`s why she was a candidate to the Cervantez prize.

She bore in Quito in 1929, she got married with a cuban man and had five children. She is the author of many books that are very popular in the literature such as Bruna, Soroche y los Tìos, Yo vendo unos ojos negros, etc.

She has writed many historic novels, trying topics such as religion, prostitution, politics, murders and others, actually she is 75 years old and she is one of the most famous authors in Ecuador.

She doesn`t have anything in common with this novel "Se que vienen a matarme", her life seems to be very happy , normal and succesful.

This book has an english translation made by De Rogers, and in one comment that i found in the internet Alicia Yanez Cossio said that she was wonderfully of how this author had intrepretated the book in the same way as she done.

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/y/yanez_alicia.htm

CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD

by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ BIOGRAPHY

He was born on march 6, 1927 in Aracataca, Magdalena, is a Colombian novelist, journalist, editor, publisher, political activist, and recipient of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature.

García Márquez has lived mostly in Mexico and Europe and currently spends much of his time in Mexico City.

Novels:

• In Evil Hour 1962
• One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967
• The Autumn of the Patriarch 1975
• Chronicle of a Death Foretold 1981
• Love in the Time of Cholera 1985
• The General in His Labyrinth 1989
• Of Love and Other Demons 1994
• Memories of My Melancholy Whores 2004

Journalism:

García Márquez started his career as a reporter and editor for regional newspapers — El Heraldo in Barranquilla and El Universal in Cartagena. It was during this time that he became an active member of the informal group of writers and journalists known as the Barranquilla Group, an association that provided great motivation and inspiration for his literary career. García Márquez then worked as a foreign correspondent in Caracas, Rome, Paris, Barcelona, India, and New York City.

my opinion about the book "cien años de soledad":

Well, when I rode this book was when I was a child and it was the first book of Gabriel Garcia Marquez that I rode... when I rode it, it was very difficult for me because I had a very extensive vocabulary. Well, now I have read many of Gabriel Garcia's novels and I had to read again this book, I finished to read 2 weeks ago and discusses the history of the "buendia" and I love this book because it is very different from the others and create events least expected.
I love the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and above all "cien años de soledad" for his fluency and fertile imagination that the author is describing exactly each character mainly to overall aureliano buendia ... Since we last told all his life to understand the context of the novel

"CUORE" (Heart)

This is a novel that I rode when I was twelve, honestly, I guess it's has been the unique book I've ever read, so I don't remember it so well but I'm gonna try:

This is a novel wroten by the italian Edmundo de Amicis, and this is about a little boy who tell us a short story of his life, in others words it's a kind of diary.

The novel has some sections, in each one, this kid named Henry, show us how his life is. Tell us the days in school, how he has to defend to his friends from another bad guys, how rudes the teachers where in those days, but at the same time how happy they were sharing with his friends all kind of things like toys, bikes, playing in the streets without any danger around them, etc. The way henry endeavors to be a good son, a good student, a good friend.

He also tell us about his family, how they taught him good customs, and study very hard to be someone important in the life. He relate us a lot of experiences of his childhood, some of them are sad but another are happy, like everybody else.

I liked so much this novel, because it feels so real, and you get interested about it, this is not a fiction or imaginary novel, it's is a novel based on true life, here you can find stories that could happen to you when you were a child. Anyway I'd like to recommending you this book because when you start to read it you're gonna like it a lot. The book try to teach us the nobility that every single person must have.

Edmundo de Amicis's Biography

I didn't find a lot of information about the relationship of Edmundo de Amicis's life and his novel "Cuore", but I know this novel is about patriotism, loyalty, fidelity, friendship, I supossed all of this great values he learned from his childhood until he was on Militar School of Modena, a place where you learn to share with your partners.

Another events that marked his life was that he enrolled in Socialist Party, and where he got a lot of moral and didactic ideas. Amicis lived in a time when Italian unit was rebuilding and used to see so many kids who came from all the corners of Italy.

Paula, from Isabel Allende.

One the books I love more, was "Paula" from Isabel Allende.

This story is about her daughter Paula. She got ill, when she was 28 years old, she was in come and she had to stay many months in the hospital (from december 1991 until january 1992) and Isabel was with her every single day.
While Paula was ill, Isabel tell her every step she made in all her life, the time when she was a child, and she had to live in countries like Bolivia and Beirut, because her stepfather used to work there. The time when she was young, the first time she felt in love and she got married, she told Paula about the time she got her, and they went to live in Belgic and Zwitzerland, also she told the time that her uncle Salvador Allende was president of Chile, and then because of that they have to moved to Venezuela, etc. She made a book, just of stories that happend in her live, until she was trying to fight with the ill of Paula. After Paula dies she wrote letters for her, poems and memories.

Isabel Allende, she born in Lima-Perù, on August 2nd of 1942. At the age of 3 years old she went to live in Chile with her mother and brothers, after her parents get divorced. When she was child and young she lived in many different places. Isabel was married 2 times.
She published articles in newspapers and magazines in America and Europe, also she made lectures tours and speech tours in universities and colleges of America and Europe. She also participated in theater in her country such as "El Embajador" (1971), "La Balada del Medio Pelo" (1973), and "Los Siete Espejos" (1974). The books she wrote are many, the famous ones are:
“The House of the Spirits”, (1982)
“Eva Luna'”, (1985)
“Paula”, (1994)
“Aphrodite” (recipes, stories and other aphrodisiacs), (1997)
“My Invented Country”, (2003)
“Zorro”, (2005)
“Inés of My Soul”, (2006)
Isabel Allende thinks that her most significant achievement is not her writing, it's the love she shares with her family.

Comparing the book with her life I just can say the things I felt while I read the book; Isabel loves her family and she used to love very very much her daughter Paula, so the time when Paula was sick is normal she suffer very much; and Isabel start to remember all her live and tell Paula, that also she couln`t hear her, because she felt lonely. Specially the book is about Isabel's life, so it depends the point of view you read it to interpret it.

The seven secrets of success

I have read this book and I liked it very much, this is a very interesting, it has been wrote by Richard Webster, it is about 7 easy steps to have the success in the life. This 7 steps are explained like a story, a story about a guy called Kevin, he is 28 years old, he lose his own business and his wife and because of this he tried to suicide, but Todd an old man who had a lot of problems too but he reached the success, he helped to Kevin to solve his problems giving him some advices. Like i am going to say now:

The first step is:
*Live the present

The second step is:
* Hug the trees and the life

The third step is:
* Make goals that you became true.

The forth step is:

*You can find opportunities wherever you are

The fifth step is:
*Perseverance

The sixth step is:

*Trust on yourself

The seventh and the last step is:

*Help the others, forgive them and forgive to yourself

As you can see the book is very good for that people who don´t fill so fine in their lifes and it is good for those who wants an advice too.

Oh well i have been looking for the story of this book, and i found that Richard (the book´s author) has wrote it for a friend 15 years ago to help him, Webster says that his friend used to have a lot of hard problems, he did´n´t want to talk to anybody, even with his family. So Richard wrote this book for him because he liked reading too much. But this book was just for his friend, so when his friend started a new life after reading the book, he said to Webster if he could make copies of it to help a lof of people that have the same problems as him and he made it. So a few years later Richard have found people that said they have changed their lifes after reading the book and nowadays i know people including me that when you read the book you can fill in you that change you need. So I recommend to read THE SEVEN SECRETS OF SUCCESS it is really amazing.

Best Regards

Jhois

"La Fuerza de Sheccid"

La Fuerza de Sheccid is a novel that was writing by Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez,who wrote about the first love of one teenager. In this novel he tell us how is developing the aproximation of this teenager to his first love and the problems that he happens for that. I thing that is a very fast read because is a book, which always you want to Know what follow and it has an inesperade end.

The teenager is a shy guy and she was impacted for Sheccid (a new student of the college) when he saw her recited in public. All novel treat about the conquist of the girl and the intern fight of the guy for lost his shyness and find the sense of his life.

This novel is a motivations for youngs and teenager that are living your first love because helps their to don´t illusion much in their love because they can have love deceptions. One of your principal objectives is give to Know that the teenager have to stand up when they have downfalls, process that serve their to mature and in the case of the protagonist to discover that your truth vocation is to be writer.

Then of this novel there is other called "los Ojos de mi Princesa" which is a continued of "la Fuerza de Shecid" where the autor continue with the history of Sheccid.

Men are from mars, women are from venus

Hello, how are you?

What do you think about the title?

Well, to beginning, we know that men and women are very differents in particular how we are feeling in love, but the problem is that we don't acept this.

Our differences:

Discovering whow men and women, provede the kind of love they need and don`t what need the other person.

Men and women have differents ways to hide their feelings when major will be share their feelings.

Women have different values: love, care, communication, relationships, sharing time with people that they love, live together in harmony.

Men are doing things to prove themselves that their power and their abilities are better, for their autonomy is a symbol of efficiency. They dislike talk about your problems.
Men say "Women are so complicated that we don't understand", but women say the same. !Terrible!

Until next time, good bye.