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Alternando tra il tragico presente (1992) della malattia della figlia Paula e il suo magico passato, Isabel Allende permette ai lettori di questa autobiografia romanzata di conoscere le persone, i luoghi e gli eventi che hanno ispirato la sua opera letteraria.
Grazie mamma per avermi consigliato questo libro ❤️

#AAM just started #NF #Hoopla

This was a heartbreaking memoir. When Isabel‘s daughter Paula fell ill and became comatose, Isabel began writing a memoir/sociopolitical commentary/So. American history dedicated to her. Achingly sad, but important 💔
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thank you to everyone for participating in July‘s challenge!! We look forward to seeing your posts in August !! 🎊🎉📚🙌🏻❤️

Thank you @EadieB for this book!! 🎁🎉🎊 and thank you @ElizaMarie @Mitch and @Librarybelle for these beautiful Christmas cards 💛🙏🏻🎅

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Read Allende‘s 1994 heartbreaking memoir of her daughters sudden illness and death when this book was published. Raw and beautiful.

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I‘ve read 6 books by Allende: Eva Luna, The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia, Daughter of Fortune, Of Love and Shadows but Paula was my favorite. It‘s a biography of Allende‘s life and a tribute to her daughter who was in a coma and eventually died.

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In this memoir Allende writes through the pain and grief of losing her daughter.

This book has been a long time on the bookshelf, I decided to read it only a few months ago. It's the autobiography of the chilean writer Isabel Allende, nephew of Salvador Allende, the chilean president killed in the coup d'etat of 1973. Her life has been full of travels, joy, love, and of great pain due to the illness that has affected her daughter Paula. This book, which made me think a lot, speaks precisely of this fact.

Anyone else catching up on tv shows? I‘ve been watching Jane The Virgin. The premise is far-fetched but beyond that, it‘s a heartfelt woman-driven show that pays homage to telenovelas.

In the ep I just saw, Jane has a party for her debut novel and Isabel Allende shows up! I love when characters are readers. 🤓

By telling het daughter Paula's story Allende changed my life. I was only 25 years old at the time I was reading it. It was a difficult time in my life and I had been pitying myself (too much). Reading along I realized life was a gift. And that it was up to me: to be or not to be? I went for "to be". I took up my studies and moved on. And today I still feel Allende's power. The power of her storytelling, which feels like the power of life itself.

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"Listen Paula I want to tell you a story so when you'll wake up you won't feel so lost" These are the first words of her mother, author of the book near her daughter's bed in the hospital. Paula won't wake up, she'll die soon and the book is the auhor's effort to distract death and gather memories of each family members as a chain to keep her alive. Another book about the incredible power of writing to overcome the Everest of human soul "death".

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Isabel Allende and her daughter Paula are my #californiagurls Although Chilean they moved to California. This memoir evolved from the letter that Isabel started to her daughter when she went into a coma. I loved this back in the 90s, now that I have a daughter myself I imagine it would be hard to read some parts.

One of my favorite Isabel Allende books which is both autobiographical and a memoir to her daughter, Paula, who was in a coma while she wrote this book. She wrote about her family and childhood memories along with whispered secrets to her daughter. Beautifully written book! Should not be missed!
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Haunting and heartbreaking

These bright, cheery Chilean doors belie the serious nature of this memoir. While it includes plenty of what must be magical realism, it's a letter written by Allende to her gravely ill daughter. Part Chilean history lesson, part family and personal memoir, part exploration of motherhood, life and death. The heavy alternates with the fanciful, for sure. I loved many moments, but only liked the book overall.

Full review at www.TheBibliophage.com

Finished my lunch and my book. Now off to my next appointment, although I'll be thinking about my book review for the rest of the day. #nonfictionchallenge17 #bookblogger #lunchandbook

New library book that I started a few days ago. I've enjoyed her writing in the past, and thought this would fit the "Central or South American author" prompt for #readharder2017. I'm finding it a little hard to get into, though.

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When you go back to your childhood home for a short vacation to visit the parents and find books to bring back with you #latinxauthors #bookstoreread #alwaysareader

Some of my college reads. I particularly liked Paula, the memoir by Isabel Allende dedicated to her daughter Paula who died very young from a rare disease. It was powerful and heartbreaking. #readinschool #photoadaynov16

Read this memoir when it came out- heart-wrenching but beautiful read. Non-fiction, written to her daughter as she was dying in a coma. She calls on the spirits of her ancestors to help her tell her daughter her life story. The reality of the present- loss, grief, and the dying process, is intermingled with Allende's evoking the spirit world. #booktober#bookssetinSAmerica
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"Listen, Paula." #firstlines