*Juan Clemene Gomez
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Bruna the witch and the secret of the Enchanted.-Pasqual Alpont.-Editorial Algar
The lake of La Encantada, where the water woman from the same place lives, is drying up due to the works of a group of speculators. In addition, they have invented a scary story about the apparition to scare the neighborhood and thus continue with the project. That makes Bruna the witch and the real Enchanted very angry: How dare they appropriate magical beings to be scary? With the help of a boy, Miguel, and a goblin, False, they will unmask the speculators and save the environment.
(From 7 years old)
The miniselves.-Eva Manzano.-Illustrated by Maite Gurrutxaga.-Nordic Books
Have you never seen the miniseries? That’s what you think, because they have seen you! Look around you, they are tiny and are found everywhere: rubbish bins, mattresses, bubble balls, mini-ghosts, lifelong fairies… Haven’t you noticed their presence? Well, you live in his house or, what is the same, your house. Now, the minions are disappearing and they must team up with humans to solve the problem…(From 9 years)
On my way home.-Ana Tortosa / Esperanza León.-Thule Editions
The harrowing story of exile, how a girl feels when she has to
Leave the place that was your home. The destruction has taken
benches, mailboxes, parks, schools, trees, fountains,
the houses… The war has finished with everything, incomprehensibly. Esperanza León’s pictorial illustrations move any reader. Ana Tortosa is above all a poet. She has a passion for the illustrated album,
and he likes to watch the children because he believes that inside them they hide
all the stories in the world (From 7 years old)
Mayra Broccoli and the bug tamer.-David Lozano Garbala.-Illustrator: David Guirao.-Edebé Editorial
Mayra Broccoli and the Panceta Commando have a new mission! This time it is about helping Braulio to tame the animals that are in an area of the hospital, and they must achieve it before an inspection arrives and they close it. To do this, they will go to the dressing room of the absent ones and, on this occasion, Mayra will become a brave animal tamer. (From 8 years)
ADULTS
The exercises of Ignacio de Loyola.-Validity and limits of his spirituality.-Juan Antonio Estrada.-Publisher Desclée de Brouwer
The Exercises of Ignatius of Loyola are a classic book of spirituality that is still highly topical today, as shown by the many studies on it and its massive use in exercises and retreats. The author of it belongs to the 16th century, is marked by the society and the Church of his time, and tries to respond to the crisis of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation with the method of his Exercises.
The question is whether your contribution is still valid today and, if so, what are the limits and the complements that it would need to respond to the current problems. A mere analysis of Ignatian spirituality, and of the Jesuit spirituality that has continued it, focused on studying its sources, influences and theological components, would lead to an archeology of the text and would run the risk of answering questions that are not raised today and going from long before the current ones. Hence the need for an aggiornamento, which will necessarily be critical and sometimes provocative and corrective of her work.
It is necessary to receive the spirituality of Ignatius and go beyond it, completing it and allowing oneself to be inspired by the letter and the spirit of his Exercises. Renewing himself so as not to be a museum piece is the dilemma of his book, to which this commentary wants to contribute.