october read

[Stephen]

I know am getting slighty ahead here with october but the group can have some time to think about this months theme which is latin american writers ( this can include central and south american) so all put your thinking caps on lol...

[JackieB]

I really like this idea. If other easy peasy members are also willing could we do some more themes based on writers from different countries? I tend to get stuck in a rut of just reading English and American writers so this would really interest me.
One author we could consider for this theme is Isabelle Allende. She was born in Chile and raised in Peru (or maybe it's the other way round). She does live in the USA now though - would that matter? If it does, how about Patrícia Melo? She was born and still lives in Brazil. She has about 4 or 5 books available in English. There is one available in my local library which is fairly small, so members who rely on their libraries for books will hopefully have a fighting chance of getting one of her books

[Stephen]

was thinking more of authors who come from latin america like your coehlo etc and not north america ( ie usa or canada)

[Stephen]

hope everyone got their thinking caps on for this one :)

[Lindsey]

Please lets not read Coehlo though, I read one of his books liked it, started another hated it, don't wish to read anymore!!!

[Stephen]

well all get your thinking caps and come up with some different authors and maybe new experiences for some of the group :)

[Chris]

oooops, need to get my mojo on. Totally without inspiration just now. What's the deadline?

[Stephen]

as its for october got until around 10th sept so plenty of time

[JackieB]

Stephen wrote: "was thinking more of authors who come from latin america like your coehlo etc and not north america ( ie usa or canada)"


Isabelle Allende is regarded as a Latin American writer. I think it's because she was born and brought up there. She's also got plenty of books available in English which I thought might make things easier for us. If you'd rather put Patricia Melo into the poll though, that's fine by me.

[Stephen]

any latin american authors will be fine make it interesting i think

[Lindsey]

'The Red Umbrella' Christina Diaz Gonzalez perhaps?

[Stephen]

thinking of The Feast Of The Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

[Stephen]

try and come up with some nominations as will aim to put up poll over next few days

[Chris]

I never got around to reading One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez?!

[JackieB]

If we are struggling to think of particular Latin American writers how about The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories? I am not a great fan of short stories in general, but I read them if I want to explore a new genre or "try out" new authors. You can usually identify if you like an author's writing style from a short story.

[Lindsey]

I quite like short stories if I want a quick fix and like JackieB says its a good way to check out a new genre

[JackieB]

So the book for October is Love in the Time of Cholera. I'll give it a go, but I didn't do too well the last time I tried one of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mind you, I'd never heard of magical realism then so I didn't have a clue what he was up to! Maybe that will amke a difference

[Chris]

I'll have to give this one a miss. I read LITTOC a little over a year ago and it's too soon for a re-read. Got lots to catch up on though.

[JackieB]

I had to give up on Love in the Time of Cholera. I did enjoy what I read, but I can't handle books where everything is told to you by the narrator and my attention kept wandering. Eventually I decided to call it a day.