false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg 5978522 1 <b><i>Eat, Pray, Love</i> meets <i>The Orchid Thief </i>in this rollicking debut novel about plant magic, spiritual discovery, and romantic fever in the jungles of Mexico.</b><br> <br>Shortly after her divorce, advertising executive Lila Nova purchases her first plant. It’s a bird-of-paradise, and the seller is David Exley, a rugged “country-sexual” who seems to promise a paradise of his own making. Lila is immediately obsessed—with plants and with the man who sells them—but when David introduces her to the myth of the nine plants of desire, and when she meets a man named Armand who claims to own the nine plants, her obsession reaches unexpected heights: if she can possess all nine plants, the legend goes, her wildest dreams will be fulfilled. <br>But Lila is too trusting, and as a result she is soon off on an adventure she never meant to take: in the Yucatán, alone, hefting a backpack full of travel guides and expensive shampoo, and learning more than she ever wanted to know about the rain forest—and about herself. <br><br>Plant mythology, shamans and charlatans, mysterious spirit animals, orchid obsessives, scorpions, <br>poisonous snakes, and handsome Huichols . . . they’re all here in this tale of mystery, adventure, and <br>heat—in every sense of the word. 6151831 16 6 2009 Hothouse Flower and the Nine Plants of Desire: A Novel total:195|5:27|4:53|3:72|2:31|1:12| 195 637 363 92 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 3 0 false Tue Aug 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 13:07:38 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 13:07:59 -0700 2009
It seems like I could describe the formula for every mediocre book I’ve read recently, this way. I had all but crossed Hothouse Flower and the Nin...more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 3 1 false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 08:38:32 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 08:39:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Jul 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 09:05:04 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 09:37:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 2 0 false Sun Jul 12 19:51:26 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 12 19:52:11 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 3 0 false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 10:55:56 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 11:25:51 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 3 0 false Sun Aug 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 07:20:32 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 16 08:47:58 -0700 2009 into plants, not made of them), or that she'll go to Mexico to track down rare plants with supernatural powers. Of course, her trip teaches her ju...more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 07:38:23 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 08:01:34 -0700 2009
"Hothouse Flower" is a story of Lila, an ad girl, newly single in NYC. On a whim, she buys a tropical plant from a man and unwittingly begins the journey that will change her life. ...more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 4 0 false Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 09:37:39 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 30 19:17:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 2 1 false Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 10:51:18 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 20:00:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 5 0 false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 09 15:37:09 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 10:42:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 5 0 false Sun Jun 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 18:02:38 -0700 2009 Sun Jun 21 18:09:12 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 17:06:26 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 17:15:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 4 1 false Sat Jul 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 09:31:48 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 09:36:09 -0700 2009
This was a very good book. It has love, romance, lust, greed, passion, death, s...more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 3 0 false Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 12:36:59 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 09 12:39:35 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 4 1 false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 08:39:19 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 18:00:31 -0700 2009 Lila, a depressed divorcee, living in New York, ...more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 3 0 false Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 08 09:25:09 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 13 18:57:12 -0700 2009 Finished. Thoughts: Fun read, changed from the beginning when I first posted my thoughts...more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 4 1 false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 17:13:56 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 18:05:52 -0700 2009
I love the use of plants- wit...more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 4 0 false Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 11:31:26 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 07:46:41 -0700 2009
While nurturing the bird-of-paradise, she meets Armand, the owner of a laundromat full of plants. Through Armand, she learns ...more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 2 0 false Sun Aug 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 16:13:07 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 14:31:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5978522 0307377849 9780307377845 195 92 3.27 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1243270443m/5978522.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5978522.Hothouse_Flower_and_the_Nine_Plants_of_Desire_A_Novel 3 0 false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 10:59:37 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 16:37:01 -0700 2009 Like Water for Chocolate A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies meets Sex in the City. Very odd but interesting. Made me take better care of my plants (at least for one week).more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=5978522