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My Favorite Book: Fray Perico y su Borrico

As a disclaimer, I'm a horrible reader. I never felt attracted by reading big books, as well as watching movies or series, I'm very bad at it. I prefer writing things, in fact, I'm a very good writer. But I will write about a book I read years ago, when I was like 8 or 9 years old. That book is called Fray Perico y su Borrico. This book, written in 1980, is the first of the 9 that make this very long saga. The last one was published in 2005, written by a child book publisher called Juan Muñoz Martín. The story talks about Fray Perico, who is a very silly and clumsy friar. One day he went to a convent in Salamanca to fulfill his dream of beign the best friar in the world. Then he mets another 20 friars, everyone with funny attributes. One of them is deaf, another is limp, other one snarling, and so on. At first these 20 friars don't approve the clumsyness of Perico, who tends to do all things wrong. But later they realize the infinite goodness of this silly friar,

My favorite movie: Cloverfield

I'm not the most cinemagoer kind of person. I usually go to the cinema if there's a Marvel movie or an Oscar-worhty film. In fact, the last time I went to a cinema was the last month, to watch the most recent Spider-Man movie, but otherwise, I don't spend my money in watching movies. But one day, eleven years ago, my uncle insisted me in watching a science fiction movie called Cloverfield, and I instantly fell in love with it. The film is about a giant monster that invades New York City. All the film is recorded with a hand camera, which give Cloverfield a strong feeling of realism, who makes us feel very small against that giant monster. The movie, directed by J.J. Abrams, have two spiritual secuels, but they don't reach the level of gratness of the original one. In fact, the last one, which is a Netflix exclusive, was poorly received. I really hope one day they make a sequel worthy of the greatness of the original one, introducing more monsters and a good origin o