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Eva Luna | Isabel Allende

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Like all Allende‘s books I‘ve read, Eva Luna is a winding tale starting with her mother, as a baby with blazing red hair, crawling out of a Latin American jungle knowing nothing of her parents. Eva‘s own story is full of unique characters and loves, including her mother‘s unusual father figure, multiple mother-like guardians, a revolutionary, a colorful transsexual, a child survivor of WWII, and more in a world coming undone in a dictatorship. ⬇️

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Texreader While Eva‘s country is not identified, it fits the description of #Venezuela, and the book‘s listing in LibraryThing has multiple tags for Venezuela. So I‘m going with it. #foodandlit 4d

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Texreader

Eva Luna | Isabel Allende

My next book for #Venezuela #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

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AmyG

Bel Canto | Ann Patchett

While not my favorite of Ann Patchett‘s books, it was still a good read, at times quite beautiful.

#TBRTarot @CBee

Ruthiella What‘s your favorite? This is mine, though it‘s also the first one I read, which probably plays into it. 😀 2w

AmyG @Ruthiella Tom Lake followed by The Dutch House. 2w

Ruthiella Awesome, I‘ve not read either of those yet. 2w

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Lesliereadsalot Me too…Tom Lake and then The Dutch House. 2w

wanderinglynn How far are you from Denver? I‘m coming to Denver May 4-8. 2w

AmyG @wanderinglynn I am about 2 hours away but I am out of town the first half of May. 😞 2w

wanderinglynn @AmyG bummer! 2w

AmyG @wanderinglynn I‘m sorry. My end of April half of May schedule is bananas. 2w

wanderinglynn No worries! I interviewed for a job there & have a second interview on Monday. So I thought I‘d fly out & check out some potential places to live just in case. 2w

AmyG Oh Wow! Lynn, my daughter lives there. If you‘d like…I can ask her if it‘s ok for you to contact her if you have any questions (she always says yes but I like to ask first). She has lived in Denver for about 10 + years. @wanderinglynn (edited) 2w

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AmyG

Bel Canto | Ann Patchett

My weekend read. I once bailed on this but I am goving it another try thanks to @CBee in whom I trust. 🤞🏻

TheBookHippie 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 4w

Suet624 I think it's definitely worth trying it again. Good luck! 4w

AmyG Thanks @Suet624 …I had started this, my first Patchett, and bailed. But I have read a few of her books and loved them so it was time to try it again. 4w

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JillR I have this and also tried starting it and didn‘t get far, and have also loved her other books. Watching out for your review with interest! Something about this one makes me nervous whenever I look at it 😬 4w

Lesliereadsalot Frankly I don‘t remember this book although I read all of her books. Had to look up the plot and still don‘t remember it! 4w

TheLudicReader It‘s worth the effort…once you settle in, it‘s just a beautiful story. 4w

AmyG @TheLudicReader That‘s what so many people say and why I am giving it another try. @JillR I will let you know! 4w

CBee Hope you like! ☺️ 4w

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TheIntrovertedDodoBird

Love in the Time of Cholera | Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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*trigger warning* There is no doubt that Márquez is a gifted wordsmith, penning an eloquent, albeit dense & tedious prose, but my troubles with this novel are the deplorable themes of romantized sexual assault, statutory rape & the contemptible message that unwilling women "just need a bit of convincing." Florentino made my skin crawl throughout, perpetuating toxicity that was apparently in the name of unrequited love; stalking Fermina (1/?)

TheIntrovertedDodoBird Disillusioned and arrogant enough to believe that only her husband stands in the way of their eternal bliss; not the fact that she may or may not be in love with him. He transcends promiscuity by using women as sexual objects, then romantises even that by claiming eternal fidelity to Fermina, despite the 622 women, some of whom were underage and whom he assaulted, he had relations with in the name of forgetting the woman who rejected him (2/?) 1mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird Then, he belittles them by constantly referring to them with inferior and misogynistic pet names, like "little birds," and fetishizes an underage girl in nauseating detail. I rarely regret finishing a book, but Love in the Time of Cholera is an isolated exception. A true anomality that I need to purge from my brain. "Obsessive Love Disorder" isn't something that should be romantized, yet Márquez composed an entire novel in its "honour" (3/?) 1mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird This novel is bound for a one-way trip to the charity shop, and I will be opting for a light read to decompress. I've never been more relieved to slap a book down and call it a day on an author. Truly horrendous. 1mo

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Leniverse Agree 100% This novel put me off reading anything else by the author. I can forgive a lot in exchange for great prose, but this book just enraged me. I really wanted the male protagonist to get struck by lightning and then die slowly from cholera. 1mo

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 1mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird @Leniverse Thank goodness! I thought I was the only one who thought this about Márquez! I really needed to vent after finishing the book, hence my long review, because I found myself so angry at the author and the story and myself for even sticking with it until the end. Yes! I've never wanted a fictional character to succumb to death more than Florentino Ariza! Not to mention, I would have revelled in the irony of him dying of cholera. 1mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird @dabbe I concur #hailthebail 😂. 1mo

dabbe @TheIntrovertedDodoBird And I'm enraged just reading your review. I will stay away from this one! 🤩 1mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird @dabbe Honestly, the only consolation I have for finishing it is being able to warn others away from it! You will save yourself one helluva of a headache by skipping this one, trust me, not to mention a crazy amount of contempt for the author, the character, and the story! I was infuriated! I have no idea how this book is so revered by many! 1mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird @dabbe I almost tossed it in the bin 😂. 1mo

dabbe @TheIntrovertedDodoBird Sounds like a book where FAHRENHEIT 451 applies! 🤩😂😍 1mo

TheIntrovertedDodoBird @dabbe Call me a fireman and hand me the matches! 😂 I've never felt this way about a book before... it's a new feeling 😂. 1mo

CarolynM I hated this book too. It really annoys me that it gets so much praise. 4w

TheIntrovertedDodoBird @CarolynM Right?! I just don't understand how the people who praise it don't understand how problematic it is. 4w

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masticocarta

Cuentos de Eva Luna | Isabel Allende

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Tanti assaggi di grandi piccole storie straordinarie, ognuna con i suoi sapori, odori, emozioni e sensazioni. Storie spontanee d'amore e di dolore, senza filtri. Mi ha preso la mano e mi ha mostrato la diversità di ciò che è stato, è, e sarà.

Bookzombie

Alive | Piers Paul Read

“I just like cannabilism.” - me
“There‘s a Facebook status” - my husband

I don‘t do FB so I‘m sharing with all of you. 😂

**He secretly thinks I will eat him if necessary.

Bookzombie Context: I was explaining that I want to see the latest movie about the rugby players who crashed in the Andes in 1972, Society of Snow. I digressed into talking about reading Alive in HS and then made that statement. 2mo

Ruthiella Totally understand! I like reading what a YouTuber coined as “disaster woman narrative” about women on the edge, making bad decisions. My own life is much more sedate. 2mo

vivastory 😂 😂 2mo

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Bookzombie @Ruthiella Thanks! My life is also much more sedate. 😄 1mo

Reggie Lololol. When the lists for major book awards come out, I‘ve never read any of them. BUT when you put up the cannibal post, I‘ve only not read 3 of these. 1mo

Bookzombie @Reggie lol! I‘m the same about all the major book awards. 1mo

FlowerFairy I‘ve read five of these. So I guess I‘ll join you in the dinner party. 🤣 1mo

Bookzombie @FlowerFairy Yay! 😁 3w

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Creadnorthey

Bel Canto | Ann Patchett

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This is really good; hypnotizing me with a laconic anticipation that inevitable tragedy seems less believable but more imminent with every turned page. I‘d read more by Patchett, and recommend this without reservation.

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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World | Greg Grandin

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Another Grandin W 🤑 My interest in Herman Melville & admiration for Grandin dovetail in “The Empire of Necessity”, in which Grandin takes the real slave uprising that inspired Melville‘s “Benito Cereno” as a jumping off point for a grand history of slavery in the Americas, and especially Spanish America. Magisterial.

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Maggie4483

Bel Canto | Ann Patchett

Thank you @Chelsea.Poole for this awesome template! This will be so helpful for keeping my #Bookspin and #Doublespin picks organized!

Bookspin-Bel Canto (also one of my February #Roll100 picks)
Double spin-Homegoing (last months #FoodandLit pick that I didn‘t get to)

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CBee Homegoing is AMAZING ♥️♥️ 3mo

Maggie4483 @CBee I‘m struggling with it right now, but I‘m definitely going to keep going, because I‘m quickly realizing my own ignorance about this terrible chapter in history. 3mo

Mary_Reads Any time a song was mentioned in Bel Canto, I would pull up Spotify and play it while I read the section. It really made the novel come alive. It was a beautiful experience. 3mo

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CBee @Maggie4483 it‘s definitely worth it. Not an easy book to read but so important. 3mo

Maggie4483 @Mary_Reads What a great idea! I‘ll try that! 3mo

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Looking great!! 3mo

Chelsea.Poole 👏 glad you can use it! 3mo

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