"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Ni No Kuni – L’ira della strega bianca

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Confermata, mi dicono, l’uscita inglese di questo piccolo gioiello avverrà nel 2013. Sto parlando di Ni No Kuni, l’acclamato videogioco dello studio Ghibli. Sul sito, al momento decisamente scarno, è possibile guardare l’orripilante trailer che francamente fa scappare la voglia di giocare a forza di storie strappalacrime inutili e marmocchi fastidiosi, ma la grafica di gioco sembra deliziosa e mi dicono sia davvero come muoversi all’interno di un cartone di Miyazaki, oltre ad aver sentito bene del sistema di combattimento, basato sul ibro magico e la composizione dei glifi.

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Omeros in the Caribbeans

Derek Walcott was a Saint Lucian poet, playwright, and painter, and one of the major voices of Caribbean literature. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, and his work often explores Caribbean history, identity, colonial inheritance, and the meeting of European and African

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Ioanna Papadopoulou’s The Castaway and the Witch

I had a genuine “oh shit” moment when I read the author’s preface saying this was darker than “Winter Harvest” because – and I absolutely ADORED “Winter Harvest” – that was pitch-black dark. I thought “we’re all going to die”. This maybe has something to

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The Path You Have to Sing

Alexis Wright‘s Carpentaria, an epic work set in a fictional town called Desperance, opens before there are any people in it at all: an ancestral serpent, “a creature larger than storm clouds,” descends from the stars and drags itself across the wet clay of the

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4 Comments
  • Elderion
    Posted at 23:49h, 16 June Reply

    Fortuna che ho appena preso un 3ds! Ciao Shel!

  • shelidon
    Posted at 09:47h, 17 June Reply

    Un… cosa?

  • Elderion
    Posted at 10:10h, 17 June Reply

    E’ un gioco per nintendo ds o playstation3…da possessore di xbox360 non potrò giocarlo su console casalinga, quindi mi rallegro dell’acquisto recente di un nintendo 3ds!

  • shelidon
    Posted at 17:54h, 17 June Reply

    Aaah, capito. Io rimango fedele al pc, niente console.

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