Libros para leer en inglés #2

Hola a todos! Ya pasó tiempo desde la última vez que les traje una entrada de este tipo, y como varios me la pidieron, decidí traerla hoy. Les traigo la parte dos de las recomendaciones de libros para empezar a leer en inglés. 
Parte uno aquí. ¿Están listos? ¡Empecemos!

Como es costumbre, la sinopsis va a estar en inglés para que les ayude a practicar.

Títle: "Eleanor & Park" Author: Rainbow Rowel
Dificultad: inglés básico-intermedio. No hay palabras inventadas

Summary

Two misfits.
One extraordinary love.

Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.

Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.


Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. 

Title: "It Ends With Us" Author: Colleen Hoover
Dificultad: nivel de inglés básico-intermedio

Summary

Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up
— she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.


As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan — her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.

Title: "Whisper to Me" Author: Nick Lake
Dificultad: nivel de inglés básico-intermedio

Summary

Cassie is writing a letter to the boy whose heart she broke. She’s trying to explain why. Why she pushed him away. Why her father got so angry when he saw them together. Why she disappears some nights. Why she won’t let herself remember what happened that long-ago night on the boardwalk. Why she fell apart so completely.


Desperate for his forgiveness, she’s telling the whole story of the summer she nearly lost herself. She’s hoping he’ll understand as well as she now does how love—love for your family, love for that person who makes your heart beat faster, and love for yourself—can save you after all.

Title : "Confess" Author: Colleen Hoover
Dificultad: nivel de inglés básico-intermedio

Summary

Auburn Reed is determined to rebuild her shattered life and she has no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to become deeply attracted to the studio’s enigmatic artist, Owen Gentry.


For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is hiding a huge secret. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything Auburn loves most, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it—but can she do it? 

Title: "The Scorpio Races" Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Dificultad: nivel básico-intermedio, lenguaje relacionado a los caballos

Summary

It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.

At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.

Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.

Esas son todas las recomendaciones por hoy. Díganme en los comentarios si les gustaría que traiga otra entrada como esta pero de libros más avanzados en inglés. 

Gracias por leer!

Recomendaciones : Libros para leer en inglés

Hola a todos! El día de hoy se me ocurrió traerles una entrada con recomendaciones de libros que pueden leer en inglés. Y no sólo eso, les voy a dar algunos tips para que tengan en cuenta a la hora de leer en inglés ,si es que todavía no se animaron a dar el paso.

¡Empecemos!

Primero que todo. Si nunca antes habías leído un libro en inglés (aunque también puede aplicar para cualquier otro idioma), hay ciertas cosas que tenés que evitar cuando recién estás comenzando.

EVITAR:

Clásicos

Si recién estás comenzando a leer en otro idioma que no sea el tuyo, yo recomiendo que el primer libro que leas NO sea un clásico. 
¿Por qué? Porque tienen un lenguaje muy antiguo , y muchas veces son difíciles de entender , incluso en español. Recordá que hay expresiones que antes se usaban y ahora no tanto. Además de las metáforas que éstos puedan contener.

Ejemplos: Shakespeare, Jane Austen, las hermanas Brontë, Antoine  de Saint-Exupery, etcétera.

Distopías
Okay, este es un género bastante actual. Pero al igual que antes, si estás apenas comenzando a leer en otro idioma, te recomiendo que no leas distopías.
¿Por qué? Porque los autores tienden a inventar palabras  -y hasta a veces tomar palabras que ya existen y darle un significado completamente distinto- para el caso particular de su libro, y esto puede retrasarnos a la hora de leer, porque por más que busquemos en diccionarios o en google, el significado a esa palabra que busques no va a aparecer.

Un ejemplo, podría ser con "The Maze Runner" ("El Corredor del Laberinto") de James Dashner. El autor inventó muchísimas palabras. Una de ellas es "Shrank" , que incluso en su traducción en español quedó igual, ya que es intraducible. Cuando la busqué no encontré por ningún lugar el significado a la palabra, hasta que me topé con una entrevista que le hicieron a Dashner y él aclaraba algunas dudas sobre las palabras que había inventado.

RECOMENDACIONES

Para todos los libros que voy a nombrar , es necesario tener un nivel básico-intermedio de inglés. 

Las sinopsis a ellos van a estar en inglés , un pequeño reto para ustedes. El ya entender lo que dice la sinopsis es un primer paso para entender de qué va a tratar la historia, aún cuando no conozcamos todo lo que dice el autor.

Title: "The DUFF" Author: Kody Keplinger

Dificultad: media, no hay palabras inventadas

Summary

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws her Coke in his face. 

But things aren’t so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends up kissing Wesley. Worse, she likes it. Eager for escape, Bianca throws herself into a closeted enemies-with-benefits relationship with him.

Until it all goes horribly awry. It turns out Wesley isn’t such a bad listener, and his life is pretty screwed up, too. Suddenly Bianca realizes with absolute horror that she’s falling for the guy she thought she hated more than anyone.

Title: "Beautiful Disaster" Author: Jamie McGuire
Dificultad: media, no hay palabras inventadas.

Summary
The new Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University's Walking One-Night Stand. 

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby needs—and wants—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.

Title: "Love Letters to the Dead" Author: Ava Dellaira
Dificultad: media, no hay palabras inventadas

Summary

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person.

Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead—to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But how do you mourn for someone you haven't forgiven?

It's not until Laurel has written the truth about what happened to herself that she can finally accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she truly start to discover her own path.

In a voice that's as lyrical and as true as a favorite song, Ava Dellaira writes about one girl's journey through life's challenges with a haunting and often heartbreaking beauty.

Title: "If I Stay" Author: Gayle Forman
Dificultad: media, algunos términos médicos

Summary
Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.

I open my eyes wide now.
I sit up as much as I can.
And I listen.

Stay, he says.

Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.

If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.

Title:"Me Before You" Author: Jojo Moyes
Dificultad: media, algunos términos médicos

Summary
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.

What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.

Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop to that.


What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time

Title:"The Mysterious affair at Styles" Author: Agatha Christie
Dificultad: media, algunos términos policíacos 
Summary

Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery.

Title: "Shiver" Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Dificultad: media, no hay palabras inventadas

Summary

For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without.

Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.

Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.

CONSEJOS

Diccionario 

Puede sonar bastante obvio, pero la verdad que sirve bastante. Obviamente no vamos a conocer el significado de todas las palabras que aparezcan , pero si en algún momento aparece alguna que no conozcamos y ni siquiera por contexto alcanzamos a saber qué quiere decir, buscarla es una buena ayuda.
Plus: buscalo en un diccionario que esté en inglés (o en el idioma que quieras). Interpretar el significado en otro idioma ayuda mucho.

Agenda

Algo que yo hacía cuando recién empezaba a leer en inglés (ahora lo hago , pero no con tanta frecuencia) , era escribir todas las palabras que no conocía en un cuaderno aparte junto con su significado. A veces, anoto el significado también en la página del libro en la que la encontré. 
Así, si la palabra vuelve a aparecer , pero te olvidaste qué quiere decir, la podés buscar en tu agenda.

Ir de a poco

Si recién comenzás, no te mandes de una a leer un libro que tenga 800 páginas. Andá agarrando libros con pocas páginas (50,70,100,150) y de a poquito , vas aumentando la cantidad de páginas. No es obligatorio que lo hagas, es completamente opcional, pero te va a servir a que el libro no te resulte pesado. Si el libro tiene muchísimas páginas y encima está en otro idioma, vas a sentir que te aburrís o que nunca lo vas a terminar y vas a acabar dejándolo. 

PDF en español 
Algo que solía hacer, era en el celular descargarme el PDF en español del libro que estaba leyendo. Esto me servía para saber si lo que yo entendía de lo que leía estaba bien. O también si algo no me había quedado claro , lo chequeaba ahí.
Bueno, eso fue todo por hoy. La lista de recomendaciones es corta, pero elegí libros que yo leí y pienso que son buenos para comenzar a leer.
Dejen en comentarios qué les pareció, y sobre qué les gustaría que hablara en una próxima entrada.
Nos leemos!