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This made for good beach reading. I love a cheap mass market paperback that you don‘t have to worry about getting beat up. I‘ve been reading this as a #buddyread with @hclaird and tracking our progress on Storygraph (awesome buddy read feature now!).

Allende‘s prose style is really beautiful, but the Dickensian coming of age story focuses less on an overarching plot and more on character sketches and episodic adventures in the MC‘s life.

Benefits of a sick day; currently curled up with a book and honey tea.☕️📖

Like all Allende‘s books I‘ve read, Eva Luna is a winding tale starting with her mother, as a baby with blazing red hair, crawling out of a Latin American jungle knowing nothing of her parents. Eva‘s own story is full of unique characters and loves, including her mother‘s unusual father figure, multiple mother-like guardians, a revolutionary, a colorful transsexual, a child survivor of WWII, and more in a world coming undone in a dictatorship. ⬇️

#firstlinefridays

I cannot wait for this! ❤️❤️

https://youtu.be/vG45GfgD2JU?si=ZH-wt93bL73eUynq