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Nov 15, 2020 06:31AM
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Sandra wrote: "Crónica de una muerte anunciada -> December 2020"When I was gophering for books for my museum challenge and shuffling books around in my book case, I found a copy of Chronicle of a Death Foretold. I had forgotten that I had bought it and never added it to my book list that I keep. I will read it in February. I have decided to read my "short" books in the shortest month of the year. I need to start a list.
Unfortunately it is too short for any challenge, but it is really good. I read it twice and I think it is excellent.
I have a copy of Tess on my Nook. Oh, I should not have looked at the Barnes & Noble book store. I have several more new books to read now. 🙄
Lol. The unexpected consequences of a buddy read...
Yes, I got carried away. I bought 8 books and went to the Kindle site and bought 2 more.
I bought Fifty Words for Rain
The Iron Raven
The Good Hawk - was only 99 cents
The Broken Raven (Shadow Skye, Book Two) - to go with The Good Hawk
classics - the Barnes & Noble classics are all $3.99 in erbook format and these two looked interesting.
The Portrait of a Lady
I say no
Nicholas and the Krampus - this is a short story from a series I read several years ago. It was 99 cents too
From Kindle, I bought the two remaining books in the series that started with One Word Kill, Limited Wish and Dispel Illusion. I really liked the first book and these were $9.00 together.
The Portrait of a Lady is the only one in my TBR. I read The Turn of the Screw recently and I really want to read more by Henry James
The Good Hawk and The Broken Raven are so good.
Sandra - I saw your comment on my DNF for Tar Baby. I edited my review to say why and also added a comment.
Janice wrote: "The Good Hawk and The Broken Raven are so good."I am really looking forward to reading them.
Cherie wrote: "re: Pony on the Twelfth Floor. "
It is a very fun book! The characters are also great. I took a whole star from my rating due to something I really didn't like, but we will discuss it when you are done.
Sandra wrote: "re: Pony on the Twelfth Floor. It is a very fun book! The characters are also great. I took a whole star from my rating due to something I really didn't like, but we will discus when you are done..."
There was probably more than one something you did not like. (view spoiler)
Cherie, I agree, the whole thing is pretty unbelievable. (view spoiler)I think the best thing in this story is the premise, and there is humor in it, but there are too many issues in it.
I definitely agree with your spoiler comments from your review. I was thinking of the publisher responsibility too. I guess it would be a book that a teacher or parent could read to a class/child to discuss all of these wrong things. In that case it could be a win, win.
The story of No One Writes to the Colonel is so sad! I am listening to No One Writes to the Colonel and Other Stories. It was the only one available from my library.
I really liked "No one writes to the Colonel"! It seems it was Gabriel Garcia Marquez's favorite novel, and it was inspired in his grandfather. All the stories set in Macondo are sad, really. It is a sad and tragic place.
From the What are you reading thread.Sandra wrote: "I saw earlier today that you were reading this one! I took a look to see which stories were included but the blurb doesn't say. This book I was reading (just finished) had 7 short stories, one of t..."
The audiobook I am listening to shows 10 chapters but all of them say No One Writes to the Colonel. I am on the second "chapter", which is still the Colonel story. I am re-listening because I missed when this story ends and others had started. There are multiple narrators.
The Overview lists the stories as:
No One Writes to the Colonel
Tuesday Siesta
One of These Days
There Are No Thieves in this Town
Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon
Montiel's Widow
One Day after Saturday
Artificial Roses
Big Mama's Funeral
I see. Those are all the stories included in the "Big Mama's Funeral collection, plus "No one writes to the Colonel" which was originally published by itself as a novella, or a long short story. I think "Tuesday siesta" and "One of these days" were probably the best ones, but I liked all of them.
No One Writes to the Colonel, and Other Stories This is the audiobook that I am listening to from my library. I am considering using it for my museum 33, Location task for "Originally published in Spanish and translated to English" but I own Blindness and really need to read it too. Have you read it?I finished the first one and will listen to Tuesday Siesta before I go to bed tonight.
Cherie, Blindness was first published in Portuguese. I didn't check but it has to be because Saramago was from Portugal.I read it many, many years ago. I never read anything else by the author but I should.
Oh, thanks for telling me about Blindness. You are correct too. It is right on the title page "Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero". Amy gave me the book and I have never cracked the cover. 0.0I guess I better use the one I am currently listening to then. :o)
Sandra, pretty soon your TBR list will look just like mine. 😊. I just saw some titles that you posted as “want to read” and they are on my TBR list too. I bought Idaho last year.
I know! I still remember when I joined GR and had that silly idea that I had to keep my TBR under 100 books so it didn't get out of control... So naif...I got Idaho in a Christmas book exchange we do in my RL book club. This was around 3 or 4 years ago. I just noticed I never added it to my TBR.
I noticed that you were reading Idaho. It reminded me that I had it on one of my Interactive tasks for my museum challenge and I needed a book to read on my tablet while I was waiting for my granddaughter to get done at the grocery store. Strange opening, huh? I am just at 9% with 40 pages left in the first chapter, 2004.
I'm enjoying the writing very much, Cherie. It is mesmerizing. It is a sad story, though.
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