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Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies | Laura Esquivel

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Saw this movie some 25 years ago, and finally read the book two months ago. Recommended to almost anyone. Each chapter is a recipe and begins with recipe instructions and then crazy things start to happen, but the tone never changes. Little subversive mistakes happen, and sparks fly to the tone of adding a little more salt or cutting onions. Great fun, and exceptionally well done. (#reviewbacklog)

Swe_Eva I saw the movie ages ago as well, but never tried the book. I do believe a copy is hiding somewhere on my shelves... 😏 7y

Graywacke I don‘t know why I didn‘t pick it up sooner myself. It always seemed like a something that should be fun. It‘s really well written. 7y

BarbaraBB Hi Dan, good to see you here! I am Simone2 from LT and I hope you‘ll like it here! 7y

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Graywacke @BarbaraBB hi! Nice to see you here too 7y

PaperbackPirate I made the jump from LT too. what do you think so far? 7y

Graywacke @PaperbackPirate I‘m taking to Litsy. I like that the entries are short and I can read a lot of them without putting in a lot of time. I get a lot more variety, but of course, less in depth. And I like posting quotes and blurbs. It‘s more of the moment, whereas LT has a more permanent feel. 7y

PaperbackPirate I like that it has the cataloging from LT combined with the photos from Instagram. 7y

Graywacke @PaperbackPirate I don‘t use Instagram but I really like how easy it is to use photos here. I think LT cataloging is very good. (Except that it‘s slow to add) 7y

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Graywacke

Ratner's Star | Don DeLillo

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Another random audio choice. This is 1976 DeLillo, his fourth novel, my first time trying him, but my attention wandered a lot. Tons of characters, most scientists, each with there own philosophy which they give in detail and that starts in their field and then goes off the rails somewhere. He plays a lot of games trying to undermine the concepts of science, logic and math as soulless. Finished earlier this month (#audio #reviewbacklog)

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Graywacke

Beyond Black: A Novel | Hilary Mantel

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The Backlisted podcast led me to this. It‘s both remarkable and extraordinarily difficult to push through. Mantel is writing about the soullessness of suburbia through the life of a medium who really can speak with the dead, but not really in a way anyone wants to hear. People come to her for meaning so she has to come up with it. Mantel is powerful and will drag you through this so you can feel it. Finished earlier this month (#reviewbacklog)

RaimeyGallant Sounds really interesting actually. 7y

Graywacke @RaimeyGallant it was both a really difficult book and one that left me wanting to read more Mantel. (Wolff Hall, which is really good in a different way, didn‘t do that). Just note, if you try it, she hits hard. So maybe be ready to push through a bit or start and stop and come back (which is what I did). Reviews are mixed...I think some readers find it just too negative. 7y

RaimeyGallant I like negative. I'm going to hold off for now though on adding it to my tbr. I have very specific reading goals right now, related to the book I'm finishing. 7y

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Graywacke 👍 7y

zsuzsanna_reads I have read that Mantel said we weren't meant to be sure Alison could really talk to spirits or was just imagining it, which is the impression I've been getting too before I read this comment. 6y

Graywacke @zsuzsanna_reads I was just thinking about this book, going over my year of reading. This was a highlight, a brutal one, but still. I think that Alison as a real medium is worth thinking about as much as not. But, regardless, enjoy! It‘s, I think, a bit of a masterpiece. 6y

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