false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255811509m/6149162.jpg 6149162 1 Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.”<br><br><I>Mirrors</I>, Galeano’s most ambitious project since <I>Memory of Fire</I>, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history’s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: “Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??”<br><br>Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men’s fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, <I>Mirrors</I> is a magic mosaic of our humanity. 6328204 25 5 2009 Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone total:66|5:40|4:17|3:5|2:2|1:2| 66 289 290 28 4 1 false false Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 11 17:02:01 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 05 17:56:04 -0700 2009
I didn't get to finish this (14 day book again) But what I read was excellent. Galeano focuses on the poor, women and all of those that history tends to forget in short, ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 18:50:43 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 19:26:58 -0700 2009
-Water and light-

Back in the year 1600-something, sculptor Luis de la Pena wanted to sculpt light. In his workshop on an alley in Granada, he spent his entire life trying and failing.

It never occurred to him to look up. There, on the crest of...more...]]> 0 1 false false Mon Jun 15 06:01:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 06:01:59 -0700 2009 Imagine Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, but penned by a poet and expanded to include the history of the entire world. Framed in inventively organized tiny vignettes — most just a paragraph or two long — Eduardo Galeano's Mirrors explodes our ideas...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 09:40:01 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 20:58:15 -0700 2009 Mirrors are filled with people.
The invisible see us.
The forgotten recall us.
When we see ourselves, we see them.
When we turn away, do they?

Eduardo Galeano, famed Uruguayan journalist and author, has said of himself, “I’m a writer obsessed with remembering...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jul 27 21:51:07 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 27 21:51:07 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 26 19:28:42 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 19:33:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Nov 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 08:35:46 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 08:44:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 03 10:31:38 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 07 17:34:24 -0700 2009 This author is brilliant -- if you have read his trilogy about Latin America, Memory of Fire, you know his unique style of using anecdotes of everyone from the humblest shoe peddl...more...]]> 0 0 false false Sat Aug 22 22:12:41 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 22 22:18:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Oct 10 12:53:16 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 12:55:20 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 16:35:38 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 26 09:08:15 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 16:28:16 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 16:32:01 -0700 2009
I read this while in London and Austria. The loot from the pillage Galeano writes about is right there in the streets. ]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 03 12:10:08 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 12:11:28 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Aug 06 08:29:04 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 08:31:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun May 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 05:35:04 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 11:07:44 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Oct 11 08:06:57 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 08:14:21 -0700 2009 darwin liked to site JAMES COLEMAN'S TRAVE NOTES.
the air inCeylon.whih is made of Cinnamon,.....]]> 5 0 false false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 16:10:36 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 21 20:30:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 15 17:46:15 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 17:46:28 -0700 2009 NPR Books podcast.]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 20 14:28:14 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 20:21:56 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 14:28:14 -0700 2009 "And then Nicaragua, little country, barefoot country, managed to commit the insolence of resisting for ten years a mad assault by the greatest military power in the world. That happened from 1979 on, thanks to those secret muscles that do not appear in any book on anatomy" P.286]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 05 06:47:07 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 06:48:40 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6149162