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Like Water for Chocolate just popped back up on my radar because the Royal Ballet just premiered a new full-length ballet based on this novel, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon but with Laura Esquivel advising on the adaptation. (I've had it on my TBR for a while.)
I did really enjoy the imagery and the ideas that our emotions color the food we make or consume. The descriptions were so fascinating as were the recipes. I did get tripped up in how Esquivel moved the novel through time, because ...more
I did really enjoy the imagery and the ideas that our emotions color the food we make or consume. The descriptions were so fascinating as were the recipes. I did get tripped up in how Esquivel moved the novel through time, because ...more
I am trying to pick books for my book group that might appeal to a large group of people and that are fairly easy reads. This probably isn’t a book that I would have read on my own, but thought the group might like it. I was wrong. Wrong. Wrong. The book was flat, dull and uninspired. I thought the best part was the weaving in of the food…the recipes and food metaphors were fun and different. But the love story was lame and the mystical realism seemed distracting. More background on the Mexican
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I adored this book and it is still one of my faves.
