Warriors of Amazon

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20240719817102022922011-12-03T18:20:45.110-05:00Warriors of AmazonA book club for bloggersNot so little Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094563703496530049noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-37699711577665927732008-02-26T22:03:00.005-05:002008-02-26T22:26:35.020-05:00Liked it, now what?

I finished it. More lines I liked:"dicen que se llevarán los restos a la Morgue y allá podremos mirarlos de cerca, ¿y eso cuánto cuesta? No lo sé, algo tendremos que pagar, ¿cobran por reconocer a sus propios muertos? No, hombre eso debe ser gratis..." (p. 223)"A donde el corazón se inclina, el pie camina." (p. 228)"ausencias causan olvidos" (p. 229)"nada agota tanto la fortaleza interior como lo

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00931920553076580949noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-91529934726627895972008-02-23T23:32:00.004-05:002008-02-23T23:46:31.570-05:00Almost there

I finally managed to start reading De Amor y de Sombras by Isabel Allende, and I am loving it. I have to confess though I have been having nightmares of being followed, surveillanced, and even taken hostage. I knew this book was set during a dictatorship and I think that was my primary concern about reading it. I seem to be quite impressionable, hence the nightmares, and being from a Latin

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00931920553076580949noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-31884434313444730532008-01-15T21:27:00.000-05:002008-01-15T22:35:21.956-05:00Of love, shadows and why I still love the book so much

Sorry this has taken a while. Truth be told, I cheated on Love and Shadows and was reading Geraldine Brooks' People of the Book, which I now think everyone should read - but that's another story.So, after about 8 years of not reading Of Love and Shadows, I have to say I was initially bored. I thought.. Hmmm... Maybe it's not as good as I remembered it, maybe I read it at a time when my literary

Not so little Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094563703496530049noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-16568819875892983682008-01-01T20:20:00.001-05:002008-01-01T20:21:31.599-05:00THE END

I just finished "Of love and Shadows" on the car ride back from South Carolina.Any others done?It was pretty good- but I didn't LOVE it.

GEWELShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667187693235282985noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-54786198645301315342007-12-24T10:34:00.000-05:002007-12-24T10:35:42.746-05:00Merry Christmas

Hey fellow readers,I wish you all a wonderful Christmas and peace and love for the new year!!San

sannoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-70488776621781633292007-12-10T00:34:00.000-05:002007-12-10T00:35:42.582-05:00Are we reading yet?

Just touching base... to see if we all are reading.

Not so little Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094563703496530049noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-21388087998695978652007-12-02T16:48:00.000-05:002007-12-02T17:06:52.990-05:00Of Love and Shadows

Gewels! You beat me to announcing that our chosen book is Of Love and Shadows. Not to worry, you don't have to read anything with raunchy romance and lots of bare-chested men.In terms of the book itself, my personal suggestion is that, if possible, you guys buy the regular size-version, as opposed to this one (mass market print), which is the paper back version. I have seen the bigger one at

Not so little Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094563703496530049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-1523862782221586652007-12-02T11:49:00.000-05:002008-12-08T17:03:39.889-05:00The Winner Is

And the book we have chosen is.........................................................................????????????If we don't choose soon I may be forced to begin reading something with a cover like this.And we do not want that now, do we?

GEWELShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15667187693235282985noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-90034389422032623392007-12-01T08:10:00.000-05:002007-12-01T08:12:40.556-05:00For later readings

Not to confuse things even further, but I came across this list and thought maybe we would want to consider it in the future.Best Books of 2007 by the New York Times

Jenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00931920553076580949noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-21843116021812482732007-11-28T17:18:00.001-05:002007-11-28T21:49:09.375-05:00Time to choose

All right kids,With the Thanksgiving Holiday and all, we never chose. We have quite a long list, here.So far, Of Love and Shadows, The Almost Moon, The Tea Rose and Water for Elephants have gotten one vote each. I'd like to read Of Love and Shadows (and like San says, I feel like I'm cheating, since I suggested it, but that's really where my vote is....), so that would put it with two votes.It

Not so little Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094563703496530049noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-31040817114989488382007-11-20T18:50:00.000-05:002007-11-20T19:00:15.775-05:00A few questions

Hey everybody,since I don't have everybody's email, I want to take the opportunity here to let you know how excited I am about this bookclub and that I hope we'll all have fun together reading and discussing interesting literature :)I am not sure if I missed any information on Not So Little Woman's blog about how we're going to go about running this book club, so I am going to ask a few questions

sannoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-54604184700301274102007-11-15T18:02:00.001-05:002007-11-15T18:18:33.144-05:00Books suggested so far

So far, these have been the suggestions for the first reading (I'll include mine in the list, though I hadn't posted them before).I'm linking them to their Amazon.com description so you guys can have a look.- Inés of my soul - by Isabel Allende- Of love and shadows - also by Isabel Allende- The Tea Rose - by Jennifer Donnelly- Water for Elephants - by Sara Gruen- The Almost Moon - by Alice

Not so little Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094563703496530049noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2024071981710202292.post-71466763567275386732007-11-14T17:56:00.000-05:002007-11-14T17:57:16.260-05:00Full speed ahead

It's done, darlings! Now all we have to do is start reading.

Not so little Womanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07094563703496530049noreply@blogger.com2