¡atención, mamás!

DO NOT leave your children without guide to Facebook, among all others social networks. 

Besides harassments and pedophilia, itself, there are unacceptable and offensive behaviors which must be avoid - from kids, I mean. Parents must be both watchful and attentive about what their descendants post.

Guns, drugs, violence, promiscuous language, lies... There are many bad influences (from anywhere!); unfortunately, some, they simply don't catch. After all, there are still innocents - even if measuring more than us! However, I strongly believe that if they want to use it, they must distinguish good from bad by themselves - at least, a little (try to... Be wise!).

Love, dialogue, explanations, books, reading, newspapers, (good) movies, less videogame and internet - that's what they need to understand in a better way this world and for a responsible usage of medias and technology. Further: this inducement provided by their progenitors, then, with school's orientation - mainly nowadays, with all this bullying stuff.

o melhor presente

“Wouldn’t be awesome the world if libraries were more important than banks?”

In this spirit, inspired, I combine "business with pleasure"... Without consumption, in favour of knowledge!

Thus, today, on the National Readers Day in Brazil, I give a tip for my ideal birthday gifts: BOOKS. The secondhand ones, cheaper.

in French:


Anaïs Nin

Henry et June
Vénus érotica 
 

Biz (Loco Locass)

La chute de Sparte


Gérald Godin 

Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler 


Jean de La Fontaine

Fables
 

Jules Verne

Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
 

in English:


Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion

in Portuguese:


José Saramago

Ensaio sobre a Cegueira
 

no matter the idiom:


Eduardo Galeano

As veias abertas da América Latina 

Les veines ouvertes de l'Amérique latine 

Open Veins of Latin America


Gabriel García Marquéz

Cem anos de solidão 

Cent ans de solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Do amor e outros demônios 

De l'amour et autres démons 

Of Love and Other Demons

Memória de minhas putas tristes

Mémoire de mes putains tristes

Memories of My Melancholy Whores  


Isabel Allende

Afrodite 

Aphrodite, Contes recettes et autres aphrodisiaques 

Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses

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Where to buy it in Montreal:

Bouquinerie du Plateau - 799 Mont Royal Avenue East;

Boutique Volume, 277 Sainte-Catherine Street East;
L'Echange - 713  Mont Royal Avenue East;
The Renaissance Bookstore - 1310 Mont Royal Avenue East; *(a bargain!)

or in a place behind Quebec National Library, on Savoie Avenue. Unfortunately, I don't know its name...

that's true!

Imagination is something. Who is not able to imagine the characters, the main or  secondary ones, from the books? 

Even with some suggested illustrations, eveyone has his own way to bild all personages in his mind. Furthermore, the environement, clothes, objects, furniture and other accessories. Nothing is let aside by our creativity. Even about the future of each story, (fairy)tale or novels don't end, sometimes, as author propose...

Often, we go forward. Writing better, is just one of the advantages of reading.

In a time of babysitter television, short ciphered sentences online or in texts traffic sent by youngs, parents should think about and take it as a tomorrow investment. Beyond doubt: very prosperous. Not only for kids, though...

Knowledge is priceless! It makes all difference. 

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I simply loved this add from Toronto Public Library!

de la culture, n'importe où

18h30 d'un jour de semaine... Il fait tout temps chaud dans le métro.

Il n'y avait pas du monde dans le vagon, seulement 18 personnes.

Une lisait le journal (pas les gratuits), une autre était à feuilleter une revue, et une troisième regardait attentivement un prospectus.

Deux autres écoutaient de la musique sur ses ipods, pendant deux autres jouaient sur ses mobiles (ou checkaient des messages...).

Cependant, ce qui a retenu mon attention, c'était le fait que huit passagers lisaiet des livres... parmi lesquels, plusieus appartenaient à la Grande Biliothèque! (son tampon est tellement apparent qu'il est impossible de ne pas remarquer!)

Les trois dernières ne regardait rien - peut-être les fenêtres, en attendant qui le temps passait vite... C'est pas fou, ça arrive.

La majorité des gens, donc, avait le savoir sur les mains durant le voyage! C'est bien.

J'aime ça d'ici, cette culture. 

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Des livres, ils nous apportent où bon nous semble. N'importe où.

a gift

It is fairly certain this!

I would like to be one... a model.

On the top of thank all them who transform me (at different levels) in the person I am, not a ordinary one. I became a better me because of them, their lessons I followed.

In the same way, I would like to show people another window of life. Apart from helping them to identify the landscape they see, of course.

Happy Teacher's Day for all!

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my contribution

 

I haven't had kid or adopted one yet, or even planted a tree. Nevertheless, nowadays, in my current situation, in my limited universe (but, at the same time wide due to the knowledge), I can help children by reading.

Thus, I finish this post with a Mário Quintana (my favorite poet) quote, which resumes the issue:

“Books don’t change the world. People change the world. Books only change people.”  
  
The secret for a better world, and future.

children's day!

(today, in Brazil*. For me, as well, independently of the current commercial approach)

I take the opportunity to put in debate this vast matter: kids. Let's see...

To think list:

- if we are giving suitable attention to them;
- which education they are receiving?;
- are them reading enough?;
- which kind of model we are for them?;
- should we give them more gifts or affection?
- what kind of world they are inheriting;
- are them playing enough outside, socializing with other children?
- TV isn't babysitter: doesn't replace parents, besides not being a substitute of school. The content their receive from it may influence their lives;
- internet may be very dangerous, a no limit field, if with no supervision;
- typing makes children write worse, in the same way chat acronyms and text message shorthands;
- which are their worries, goals, priorities, fears, values nowadays;
- definition of school and parents roles in their education;
- are we raising them for what, for which kind of future?

- if we are obligating them to mature earlier;

- freedom bring them maturity;

- sex issues must be discussed;

- violence beget disrespect/ gentleness generates gentleness;
- a natural childbirth is always better then a cesarean section procedure;
- breastfeed is the best nourishment a mother can give to her children until six months, minimum;
- have them not to be involved... it would be better have thought about that before!

- all they need is love (actually, everyone...) 

Many points! Not evident answers, though...

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priceless

While enumerating, I was wondering myself about be a mommy... Oh, God, it is a HUGE responsibility! 

What both difficult and complex it might be! Nevertheless, I'm pretty convinced that it is a challenge which worths!

It's an experience like no other.

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*In Canada, they celebrate on 20th November. Check other countries dates and costums out here.
 

book-people

Assim, em inglês mesmo, é definido um conceito diferente de cultura na adaptação de François Truffaut para o cinema do romance mundialmente famoso de Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451.

Fiquei boquiaberta ao assistir a esse clássico. Já havia lido alguma coisa interessante a respeito, tanto que resolvi comprar o DVD para ter em casa e poder ver com calma quando quisesse, mas REALMENTE não sabia o que me aguardava. E me arrependi de não tê-lo visto antes.

Lançado em 1966, foi a primeira e única produção em língua inglesa do conceituado diretor francês. Aclamado pela crítica como um dos roteiros mais inteligentes da história, Fahrenheit 451 é uma fábula extraordinária em que a própria raça humana se transforma no terror mais assustador à liberdade intelectual. Com uma estética ousada e linguagem seca, faz uma critica à sociedade.

Num futuro hipotético ler é proibido por um governo totalitário. Livros são então queimados sob o argumento de que tornam a humanidade infeliz e improdutiva. E, semelhante ao que acontece na vida real numa ditadura, pessoas denunciam e entregam quem descumpre a lei. Esses cidadãos são então caçados por bombeiros, que ateiam fogo, ao invés de apaga-lo.

O título do filme é inclusive uma referência à temperatura que os livros são queimados (convertido para Celsius, esta temperatura equivale a 233 graus). Montag é um desses profissionais que perseguem e punem leitores. Ele leva uma vida banal ao lado de sua esposa Linda, uma alienada dona de casa da época, até conhecer Clarisse, que mostra a ele uma outra realidade.

Essa jovem professora consegue faze-lo enxergar de uma nova forma o material que incendiava. Aos poucos, ele se encanta pelo novo universo literário e cultural a ele apresentado e começa a ler cada vez mais e a tentar salvar alguns exemplares para leitura. Dessa forma, fica dividido e passa a se questionar sobre sua conduta moral e sobre aquela condição em que vivia até então.

A parte mais interessante da narrativa, para mim, é a questão dos 'homens-livros' exposta por Clarisse. Fugitivos do sistema, pessoas incorporaram obras literárias inteiras para que suas histórias não se perdessem com tamanha ignorância e perseguição. Genial. Vida, cultura e sociedade num conceito inovador e surpreendente de conhecimento. Fiquei instigada a ler o livro agora. E vou.

Aliás, o que seria de sua vida se você não tivesse o direito de ler? Imagine.