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Emma Deplores Goodreads Censorship
I rather enjoyed this book, as a fun way to practice my Spanish. But I have no idea why anybody thinks it’s capital-L-Literature.

Like Water for Chocolate is a total soap opera, complete with several love triangles, fights over babies, embarrassing diseases and people having sex on horseback while galloping across a field. (Really!) I won’t come down too hard on it for this, because Esquivel is in control of it; the resemblance to a telenovela is clearly intentional. It’s also a novel about cooki
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Είχα διαβάσει το βιβλίο Σαν νερό για ζεστή σοκολάτα της Λάουρα Εσκιβέλ (Εκδόσεις Ωκεανίδα, 1994) και εδώ και αρκετό διάστημα ήθελα να μιλήσω γι΄ αυτό αλλά δεν μου είχε δοθεί η ευκαιρία… Είναι ένα βιβλίο που έρχεται συχνά στο μυαλό μου, οπότε θα έπρεπε και να παρουσιαστεί. Βέβαια, για να πω την αλήθεια, πρώτα ήρθα σε επαφή με τη ταινία που βασίστηκε το ομώνυμο βιβλίο, η οποία μου είχε αρέσει πολύ.

Είχα αναφερθεί πρώτη φορά σε αυτό, όταν σας είχα παρουσιάσει
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Girl between books
Feb 22, 2013 rated it it was amazing  ·  review of another edition
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Con este libro me declaro fan del realismo mágico, me encanta como mezcla la realidad con hechos sobrenaturales y los hace parecer comunes.

Con las recetas tradicionales de cocina, la sobrina nieta de Tita va contando la historia de amor entre Pedro y su tía abuela, los impedimentos que debieron sufrir y como a pesar de todo su amor siguió intacto.

Me gusta mucho como Tita logra "comunicarse" a través de lo que cocina y la importancia que le da la autora a la comida.
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Tatiana
Translated beautifully to English (even though I haven't read it in Spanish,) you can tell by the way certain phrases are built. Portrays the Latin American magic-realism charm very accurately. ...more
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Rita
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