Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende: Cuentos de Eva Luna (The Stories of Eva Luna)
24 Festive Tasks: Door 13 – International Day for Tolerance, Task 2: Name a redeeming trait of a book that you DNF’d this year. This is an easy one for me this year: One of the relatively few books I DNF’d in 2020 was Isabel Allende’s Stories of Eva Luna. And there’s nothing […]
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Isabel Allende: The Stories of Eva Luna
DNF @ just over 40%. Meh. There’s nothing inherently wrong with these stories, but I’m interminably bored — I just may be over Allende at this point. So, I’m just going to cash in on the 40% I’ve listened to and roll for BookLikes-opoly again. Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/2609139/dnf-just-over-40
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BL-opoly, Pandemic Edition – First Roll
Another pandemic month, another game, thanks to Moonlight Reader! I’m glad we’re making this a low-key version, and I don’t know how often I’ll want to roll, but anyway … here we go. Like last year, I’ll have my two little helpers by my side helping me pick my books — and in keeping with […]
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Black Cat Productions Presents: Bingos No. 12 & 13 and BINGO BLACK OUT!
This has been enormously great fun; thanks to Moonlight Reader and Obsidian Blue for putting this together and hosting it! I’ve loved following everybody’s reads – still sorry RL duties made me bow out for 2+ weeks smack in the middle of it all. Most of my selections turned out to be enjoyable, […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2016: Eleventh Update and BINGO No. 11
Home stretch – 24 books down, 1 to go! Bingo No. 11 – the Books: Magical Realism – Isabel Allende: La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits) Isabel Allende’s breakout success and still one of my favorite novels by her (surpassed only by Of Love and Shadows): A multigenerational allegory […]
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Halloween Book Bingo 2016: Ninth Update – Catch-Up Post and BINGOS No. 6-9
So, after having spent the past weekend and the better part of last night and today tying up half a dozen half-finished bingo reads that, naturally, hadn’t shown any progress whatsoever while I was exiled on planet work overload, for the time being I’m back on track. And thus I am happy to finally be […]
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Isabel Allende: La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits)
Isabel Allende’s breakout success and still one of my favorite novels by her (surpassed only by Of Love and Shadows): A multigenerational allegory on the story of her native Chile – seen through the eyes of the novel’s female protagonists, the women of the Trueba clan; particularly the paranormally gifted Clara, as well as […]
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