This month's recommended books

Hi everyone I'm back with the monthly recommended books:

«Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli» 
  
Simon is a 16 years old guy, who has a secret that hasn't confessed to anyone. He's gay. No one knows, not even his friends because he's not ready to do his coming out yet. But then he starts to exchange emails with someone calling himself Blue, who seems to be attracted by him. These emails though falls into the wrong hands and Simon starts to be blackmailed by Martin, the class clown. If he doesn't help him win the attention of Simon's friend, his sexual identity will become everyone's business, and the privacy of Blue will be compromised. 

The book is really short and light and part, of course, of the LGBTQ+ community, as am I. A film was also based on it, called Love, Simon. It's not the typical teenage drama, because it shows you the point of view of Simon's family as well, making you see how hard it is to be stereotyped in this world.

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«Emma by Jane Austen» 

Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's heroine, not as popular as Elizabeth Bennet or the Dashwood's sisters, but is also considered as the most captivating and vivid character of them all. She's beautiful, spoiled, vain and witty. She organises the lives of the inhabitants of the invented village of Highbury and plays to be a matchmaker, but with, of course, devastating effect. 

I must admit, I liked it, but I still prefer Pride&Prejudice and Sense&Sensibilty. In my opinion, nothing can still beat them. Anyway, this novel is enjoyable, because it's more comic and full of lovely characters as Emma, Harriet and Mrs. Weston.

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«The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger»

The narrator of this book is a born old 16 years old guy, Holden Caulfield, whose native of New York. He leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in NYC for 3 days. There are many feelings going on in him, but as most of the people, he keeps almost all of them inside himself. The book talks about his experience alone in NY. 

I must admit, I loved this book when I was in middle school. I know it's not probably so not easy to understand, because it's a bit confusing sometimes, but I think that's actually the point of it. That's a totally recommended book that will help you understand what is going on inside a teenager's mind. 

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«1984 by George Orwell» 
  
Nineteen Eighty-Four or simply called 1984, is a dystopian novel by the English novelist George Orwell. Thematically it centres on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of people and behaviours within society. Especially the role of truth and facts in politics and how they manipulate people. 
The story is set in an imagined future, when the world has fallen victim of a perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and of course propaganda, with the posters representing the big eye of the Big Brother. The ruling Party, the Big Brother, employed the Thought Police to persecute people who have independent thinking. 
The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He then will start a secrete and forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.
The novel is considered as a classic of literature.

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«Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen»

Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen, published anonymously. It tells the story of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor (19 years old) and Marianne (16 years old) as they come of age. They have an older half-brother, John, and a younger sister, Margaret (13 years old).
The novel follows the three Dashwood sisters as they must move with their widowed mother from the estate on which they grew up, Norland Park. Because it passed to John, the product of Mr. Dashwood's first marriage, and his son, the four Dashwood women need to look for a new place to stay. They have the chance to rent a modest home, called Barton Cottage, on the property of a distant relative, Sir John Middleton. Here they will experience love, romance, and also heartbreak. 
 

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«Canne al Vento by Grazia Deledda»

Canne al Vento (Reeds in the Wind) is a novel by the Italian author and Nobel prize winner Grazia Deledda. The title of the book is an allusion to human frailty and sorrow, found in the novel Elias Portolu: "We are human, Elias, as frail as reeds: think carefully. There's a force we can't defeat above us."
The novel tells the story of a noble family, Pintor, that lives in a small village of Sardinia. The head of the family, Don Zame, is a proud and arrogant man. His wife and four daughters are devoted to housework and never allowed to go out. The only rebel one is Lia who flees to the Italian peninsula reaching a town in Lazio. There, she will get married and have a son, but unfortunately she will die too. Don Zame will go mad for the scandal and is then found dad on a bridge at the entrance of the village. These events are the background to the story, revealed from the point in which Giacinto, Lia's son, will come to their house. 
The narration starts years after when the house is almost crumbling, barely managing to survive. Their servant, Efix (from Ephysius, the patron saint of Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia) is attached to them by guilt (that will be explained in the course of the book). He dreams to make the house flourish again and his hope is increased by the arrival of Giacinto, who will bring different emotions among the people of the village.

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This month's recommended books are:

«Little Women by Louisa May Alcott»

This is one of those books that everyone should read at least once in their lives.
The novel is considered as a classic and it's based on the real story of the writer and her three sisters.
It details the passage from childhood to womanhood of the four March's sisters: Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth.
The book also has a sequel where the four sisters grew up and became women.

«Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen»

Yes, the most known book from this amazing writer is obviously recommended.
If you like romantic and classical novels than this book is the right one for you.
It's one of the "most-loved books" for literally everyone, because thanks to the point of view of the main character, Elizabeth Bennet, you learn that having prejudices is wrong. It's basically the rule of: "never judge a book from the cover". And that's true.
In the novel, she learns the error of making hasty judgements and comes to appreciate the difference between the superficial and the essential.

«A Midsummer night's dream by William Shakespeare»

I know what you're thinking. Shouldn't the recommended one be "Romeo&Juliet"? Yeah that one is certainly the most known from Shakespeare, but let's admit it, it's obviously not his masterpiece.
If you like comedies and classics than this one is the right one for you.
The play talks about six amateur actors who are controlled and manipulated by faires who lives in the forest.
A lot of jokes are done by a little sprite with magical powers called "Puck".