bookshelves: currently-reading
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bookshelves: very-good, world-war-ii
My source for anything to do with Second World War! ]]>
bookshelves: read-long-ago, very-good, world-war-ii
If I know anything about World War II, it is thanks to this book. I loved this book because there are no tedious statistics.
A book such as this one, cannot be reviewed in my opinion ! ]]>
by Jorge Amado
Loved the honorary woman part ! ]]>
Sonia Gomes
read and liked
Cheryl's
review of Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands:
"This is a beautifully and imaginatively written story about an everyday woman who has to come to terms with different facets of her own personality and what that means about the men she falls in love with and how she loves them in return. She has tro...more "
"This is a beautifully and imaginatively written story about an everyday woman who has to come to terms with different facets of her own personality and what that means about the men she falls in love with and how she loves them in return. She has tro...more "
bookshelves: brazil, portuguese
I read this book as an English translation and found it exceedingly humorous.
The original Portuguese version is pretty much different.
I loved all those 'Brazilian Insults' how I loved Dona Rozilda and her terrible tongue. Although everyone hated her, I loved those insults.
Vadinho sums the book when he as a ghost says,
"Tambem do meu amor precisas para ser feliz, desse amor de impurezas, errado e torto, devasso ardente. que faz sofrer"
We all have two sides to our selves, and Dona Flor has the need for sex that her very nice husband Teodoro cannot give her the way Vadinho can! but Teodoro, loves her, is an excellent husband. Ironically both save her from depravity. This book makes us look into our darker side, if you feel you have one!
Jorge Amado, also shows us what it is to be a gambler, the hunger for the game, incidentally it is not pleasant to win all of the time as it takes away the edge of the game. Gamblers too have their code !
Amazing how colour of skin is not important in Brazil, in fact the colour black s beautiful.
Amazing how this book leads us into so very many unexplored avenues, forcing us to think without prejudice
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bookshelves: good-but-not-fantastic
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bookshelves: plain-ok-nothing-more
Not a very good book, the story line is banal. None of the characters stand out, except for Mrs Hunter, who remains true to her character till the last, a wimp. Oliver does stand out for his determination to do something with his life,does manage it and does show the Lockwoods how to have grit and determination.
It can be said that Thea's remorse at the end gives the book a twist, but it is a tad sad that Thea a very promising person should just be content to write some unwanted letters and correspondence for Oliver.
Not a trong book in my opinion. ]]>