RL A’s last login was Friday, July 10 2009.
Hi Rl! Kamusta? come join my goups in shelfari...there's Words/quotes,White Elephants which are really fun and with nice people to play with and chat with..;and also Better Than Starbucks..;so at least we could chat. can't seem to catch you on MSN
Hi RL,looking at your shelf and came across a book cover with Anais Nin's photo..;doesn't Sylvia Mayuga loook like her?
Oh my dear God ! You have read " Por La Agua Chocolate " again by Senora Esquivel and I haven't. You beat me into it ..... I'll already cry if i see the " motorcycle diaries " in your book shelf. i once had a book about che guevarra but it's a compilation of his speeches. too bad, that book was borrowed by a former boss who probably ate it. that book contained pictures of che including rare pics of his first wife, hilda and their daughter plus of course, candid shots of him and a young fidel castro who is now eighty and ailing. back then the two latin american rebels looked sharp with their long hair, beards and cojiba cigars. if it were a scene from a movie, " Guantanamera would be playing in the background. how i love these two men who really made a difference in latin america - i wish ms esquivel will write a novel based on the lives of both che and fidel .... especially the former who wanted to change his native land argentina but was instead negated by his countrymen who preferred juan and evita peron.
Can you lend me the book " law of love " by senora laura esquivel ? i love that lady. i can't forget her other novel " the house of the spirits " - reading her reminds me so much of nick joaquin's short story " guardia de honor " where a ghost appeared before her great great granddaughter to chide the latter for stealing the family heirloom. In senora esquivel's " house of the spirtis " the ghost of a kindly hacendera returns to comfort her sister in law who has to put up with a rich husband who exploit their tenant farmers.
i cried a river when i watched the movie verison of " color purple. " i won't venture reading the book anymore because i might drown in my own tears. it's so heartbreaking to see someone suffer so much before having the deliverance she richly deserves. i don't know but i think it's an act of masochism to go over it again. but i will concede that it must be more than a good read, otherwise the steven spielberg wouldn't have turned it into a movie.
nice to know you have read " cowgirls sing the blues " - read it in the 80s when you were still a kid and this aunt of yours is a ripe 25 0r 26 but not ripe for the picking he he ! at that time i was still in my hippie residue stage the typical hipping kulelat and this book somehow defines the dizzying age we baby boomers grew up to. lots of sexual undertones and overtones and the truly bomehian life - theidea of an overgrown finger blew me away at that time but now when i reread the novel, i have to admit i am quite bored - perhaps middle age is already seeping into my system - nevertheless i still get a little bit high when reading tom robbins' narrative - he's a wordsmith a damn wordsmith minus the heart of a steinbeck and the sensitivity of mccullers.
HI RL,kamustaa ka na? You should try to find other Tom Robbins books...he's a laugh a minute
