This has been harder than I thought. When I decided not to be so serious and brooding, and just be myself, I began having fun! Here's my list:
1. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. This is how I love, with a fiery passion that lasts and lasts and lasts. I've actually watched the movie before I was able to read the book, and when I finally got the book and was ready to read it, I hesitated. I wondered how I would react if the book would come across as very different from the movie. Indeed it was different, and I loved the book more than I loved the movie! Funny thing is, I don't know how to cook at all. This is one of the books that made me realize that the best cooks of all are the ones who cook with love.
2. The History Of The Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago. Because I'm working on a book of history at the moment, and I am also plagued by the issues that the main character was worried about. I'm hoping to triumph in the end, like he did! Women writers are said to view history differently, and ask different questions, no matter if they were trained the same way as the men. Right now I'm deep in the work, and although I am currently on a much-needed break, everyday I stop and wonder about all the books of history out there, and how our lives would have been different had they been written differently.
3. How To Walk In High Heels by Camilla Morton. Because I'm a single girl living alone in the big city. I also have a thing for shoes. This is really a how-to book, which I found so endearing, because it provides instructions for eveerything, including how to unwrap a cd, how to hire a plumber, and how to burp in public!
4. The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. Because when I was young I used to believe in vampires and ghosts. There was a period in my young life when, during summer, I'd pretend to fall asleep and then when everybody else was asleep, I'd get out of bed and peer out the window towards the lot of our next-door neighbor, about 300 kilometers away on the farm, and try to see those strange lights that old wives used to talk about. In the farm, where I grew up, everybody believed in ghosts and spirits and superstitions.
5. Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Roald Dahl. Simply because I looove chocolate!
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Great list!!
All these lists, and I think the Historian is the first book shared between participants. i loved it, too!
"Like Water for Chocolate" is wonderful. And it makes you so hungry for Mexican food. Good choice.
I am getting sooooooo lucky today. I have Like Water for Chocolate on my nightstand. I have been looking at it for about 2 weeks wishing someone would pick it! I guess I need to keep staring hard at my books. But there is no way I am going to be able to finish the books I want to read for this challenge by the time it is over!!
Guess that makes this one of the most genius challenge ideas!
Don't you just love this challenge? :)
Like Water for Chocolate is awesome! Sadly I cannot relate with the character as to cooking, but I sure can relate to her as to loving. :)
I really enjoyed The Historian. It's one of those feel-good books about vampires, if there's such a thing! Haha! Maybe because it reminded me so much about my childhood. And it's got all those old European cities and all, so how can anyone resist?
Terrific list, Maryanne! I want to read "Like Water for Chocolate." I loved the movie (and not only because it had chocolate AND Johnny Depp!).
Hi, Lizza. Actually the one with Johnny Depp was "Chocolat," a different movie. :) I wonder if there's a book of that, though. If there is, I'd definitely buy it and read it! :)
I really hope you could join us here.
I just recently reread the Dahl (love everything of his). I think I already said elsewhere that I enjoyed The Historia. I liked Like Water for Chocolate, too. I got all excited when I saw Johnny Depp was in the movie (since I haven't seen it yet) but yeah, he's in Chocolat. Which is also a great book!
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