Lois Pereiro

By Helena López Fortuny

Lois Pereiro was born in Monforte de Lemos on the 16th February 1958. He was a Galician writer.

Lois started to write when he was 15 years old. He started to study his career in Madrid, where later he learned English, French, and German, and where he founded his first magazine "Loia" with other Galician writers ( Antón Patiño, Manuel Rivas, and his brother Xosé Manuel Pereiro).

In 1981 he returned to Galicia and he joined the magazine "La Naval".

In 1983 and 1987 he worked as a dubbing translator of German, English, and French.

The most outstanding works of Pereiro are: Poemas 1981/1991 (1992), Poesía última de amor e enfermidade (1995) and, Poemas para unha Loia (1997).

Lois died in 1996, in La Coruña, when he was 38 years old, because he had a lot of diseases, including the VIH.

This year "La Real Academia Galega" devoted "O dia das letras galegas" to him. In the "Centro Galego de Barcelona" there are a lot of events, and art exhibitions, about Lois Pereiro.

Scusa ma ti voglio sposare (Pardon, I want to marry you)

By Joana Roig

This book is the sequel to the novel "Scusa ma ti chiamo amore" ("Sorry If I Call You Love"), written by Federico Moccia, a famous writer of novels for teenagers. He writes love stories and this is one of them. Alex and Niki, who have a seventeen-year age gap, have a long relationship, and they want to take a step forward. Alex gives a beautiful present to Niki: a journey to New York. Alex asks her if she wants to marry him, in an helicopter, while the Empire State is illuminated. Niki accepts the proposal but she's scared. These uncertainties will change their relationship ... In the end they get married. I read this love story and I liked it very much. I have also read his previous book ("Scusa ma ti chiamo amore"). I think that girls like this story more than boys. This book is very surprising because when everything seems to be all right, suddenly, everything changes. It is a very well written book.

Robinson Crusoe

By Nicolás Ordax

Robinson Crusoe is a classic adventure story written by Daniel Defoe, which we read in the first term of this school year.

Robinson Crusoe is a half-German British man, born in Cork, where his father is a well settled man. Ever since he was a boy, he had wanted to go to sea and lead an adventurous life, but his father wants him to be merchant like him. So, disobeying his orders, Robinson goes to London by sea with a friend. After a stormy day, he feels bad and wants to go ashore, but once in London he boards a ship to Africa. There, some Turkish pirates make him prisoner, but he escapes and gets rescued by a Portuguese ship, which takes him to Brazil. In Brazil, he uses his money to buy a sugar plantation, but one day he decides to go back home, so he embarks on a ship and goes to sea. Unfortunately, the ship sinks and he finds himself alone on dry land. He is on an island. The first days are bad, but he manages to get some food and tools from the ship. Once he has these, he builds a fortress with a big fence. After that, he decides to have a look around the island and explore it. He finds some goats, among other things. He makes tools, sows corn and even makes bread; he also makes a canoe. One day, while on the beach, he sees a man’s footprint. He soon discovers who it belongs to. A group of cannibals comes to the island to eat their prisoners. When Robinson sees this he decides to attack them and saves a young man, whom he calls Friday. They also help a Spaniard at one point. Robinson and Friday live together on the island for a few years. One day they see a big ship anchored on the shore and a boat coming to the beach...

I think Robinson Crusoe is an interesting book; it has lots of adventure and is very impressive too. In my opinion, the best part, or at least the one I liked the most, is where he makes tools and other things. It is a book which I recommend to any reader, as I am sure he or she will like it. The only problem is that the beginning is a little bit boring.