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... (fables such as Animal Farm), and lover's passion does not cause rooms to spontaneously combust (magical realism such as Like Water for Chocolate). But the way the apartment complex is organized and the behavior of the residents doesn't come close to sounding true. There are 40 floors of ... ... (fables such as Animal Farm), and lover's passion does not cause rooms to spontaneously combust (magical realism such as Like Water for Chocolate). But the way the apartment complex is organized and the behavior of the residents doesn't come close to sounding true. There are 40 floors of ... ... me know how you liked it. My older son has been trying to get me to read that for years--he even gave me a copy. I loved Water for Chocolate when I read it years ago. That's a book I had to leave behind when we moved and I'm tempted to buy it again because I'd love to read it again.
I ... Finished Ender's Game, liked it. Beginning Like Water for Chocolate. ... I'll do a state map for this -- there are just too many
Mexico -- Carlos Fuentes, The Orange Tree and Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
St. Lucia -- Derek Walcott, Omeros
Cuba -- Alejo Carpentier, The Harp and the Shadow
Chile -- Maria Luisa Bombal, The House of Mist and the ... Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Trick is to Keep Breathing
The History of the Siege of Lisbon
Like Water for Chocolate
A Prayer for Owen Meany
London Fields
The Book of Evidence
Cat’s Eye
Foucault’s Pendulum
The Beautiful Room is Empty
Wittgenstein’s Mistress
The Satanic Verses
The Swimm ... I just finished Like Water for Chocolate last night...absolutely loved it, finished in one day. So now I'm working on Quickie by James Patterson and The Infidelity Pact by Karasyov. Yes, I read Like Water for Chocolate.
How about...
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris?
-- M1001 Finally! One I've read. Yes to Fugitive Pieces. Now, how about Like Water for Chocolate? ... completed.
So, it's official...my 50 Book challenge begins today.
1. Maia by Richard Adams (8/20/08)
2. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (8/24/08
... also Los de Abajo Mariano Azuelo.
Distant Neighbors Alan Riding - history of relations between US & Mexico 1984
Like water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
Bernal Diaz memoirs on the conquest of the Aztec's is a classic. Translations vary, better in Spanish.
Elena Poniatowska La Noch ... Try Fabrizio's Return, by Mark Frutkin and Like Water For Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel. I loved both of these novels, and they have a wonderful magical feel to them. ... Lover (Barbara Bray, 1985)
28. Isabel Allende – The House of the Spirits (Magda Bodin, 1986)
36. Laura Esquivel – Like Water for Chocolate (Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen, 1993)
39. Beowulf (Seamus Heaney, 1999)
So what's next?? maybe
22. Mario Vargas Llosa – Aunt Ju ... I just finished Chocolat. I loved the movie, so I decided to get the book. The book was wonderful too. If you enjoyed Like Water For Chocolate, I think you'll like this too. Does The Edible Woman count? Or Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man?
Also Like Water for Chocolate
Lemons Never Lie
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe A River Runs Through It Norman Maclean
Like Water for Chocolate Laura Esquivel
The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler
Water Wars Vandana Shiva
Walden (Pond) Henry David Thoreau Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Finished Like Water For Chocolate and Quicksand. In the middle of Rabbit, Run. I like John Updike's style of writing quite a bit, though the protagonist is a bit unlikable.
Finished Swann's Way, or, rather, a very small chunk of Remembrance Of Things Past. Tough book to read. It ... 38. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel Funny story, teelgee, I just mooched Like Water For Chocolate because I was mooching a different, pretty fat book and the person I was mooching from was new, so I wanted to give them a better $/mooch ratio and more points. I figured hey, I've heard great things about this! Today I go to put it ... Like Water for Chocolate is another good one in your list, Devour. Just make sure you have plenty of food in the house when you read it! ... waiting for me at work after being gone for a week.
Five via Bookmooch:
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles by Margaret George
Listening to the Page by Alan Cheuse
The Testament of ... ... was okay but not of the same standard of writing as other 1001 books. On the plus side was Veronika Decides to Die and Like Water for Chocolate. I have only just started this last one on Nickelini's recommendation and I am loving it. Unleashed: Poems by Writers' Dogs by Amy Hempel
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Blessed are the Cheesemakers by Sarah-Kate Lynch
Big Girl Knits by Jillian Moreno
Run by Ann Patchett ... Goodkind slops out.
Yes, yes, slippery slope and all that. But who on LT would ever go into a bookstore and look for Like Water for Chocolate in the Sci-fi/Fantasy section?
Having said that, I will say that Gene Wolfe alone proves that the best written fantasy is better written ... ... not enough of the decent character and plot side of things.
Next books up for June are Rosshalde (another Hesse book), Like Water For Chocolate (because my wife owns it and it looks like a fairly quick read) and Under the Skin (because it was recommended on this site).
And if my ... Cloudy with a chance of meatballs by Judi Barrett
Driving over Lemons by Chris Stewart
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
Mad Cowboy: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher who Won't Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman ... both J and K were sparse, I'm going to jump us over to the copious L list, home of many excellent titles. My favourite is Like Water for Chocolate. I'll have to reread this book because I can't remember exactly why I liked it so much. All I can remember is that I sat down to read it and didn't ... ... emotional than those in her first collection, Ordinary Life, which is my favorite of the 13 books I've read by Berg.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel -- original and enjoyable, though I hadn't expected the magical realism aspect (if that's what the leaps in time and perception ... ... Carol Shields
The Sea by John Banville
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Madame Bovary
Like Water for Chocolate
The Remains of the Day
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
And more, which I can't remember at the moment. The best part - they were ... ... (an appropriate word) my way through This is Your Brain on Music (I wish it had more about music!), but finally pulled Like Water for Chocolate from my TBRs. 11 Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Yay! Two good ones in a row. I tore through this book in about an hour and a half. The recipes look yummy, the story is enchanting, and I just couldn't stop reading. The movie is good, too. ... for the first quarter:
Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
Perfume: the Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Marie Antoinette: the Journey by Antonia Fraser
(and even ... Ive read
Like water for Chocolate
Bridges of Madison County
Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - read and owned
The Client ... He's the guy who wrote A Room With A View. I got them both on Gutenberg. Gotta love them free ebooks.
I just finished Like Water For Chocolate. It's one of my favorite movies, and I think the movie did a good job of capturing the spirit and feel of the book. LizzardDance,
Welcome to the group. I took a look at your library and noticed Like Water For Chocolate. It's one of my favorite movies, so I looked on Amazon and found that it is available in a Kindle edition, so I got it. Then I saw the 'people who got this' section and noticed Chocolat and ... Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel is pretty short. I'm not sure if it's under 200 pages, but I remember reading it in a day. It's about a family in Mexico, but my explaining of it won't do the book justice.
Another short book is
Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky One ... read a LOT over the weekend - finished the turn of the screw, then the third man, like water for chocolate - which I loved, the color purple- beautiful, 2 books by hanif kureishi which I think I must have read before and last but not least youth by coetzee. this morning on the train I ... Book number 5 Like Water For Chocolate I can't begin to say how much I loved this book :-) ... by Michael Jecks
*The Emperor's Children' by Claire Messud
*The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
*Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel
and, from my wishlist and LT recommendations
*The Borgia Bride by Jeanne Kalogridis
*Infidel Ayaan Hirsi Ali ... happy ending love stories? Jane Eyre, if you haven't read it (though it isn't recent.) Captain Corelli's Mandolin and Like Water for Chocolate are wonderful, as is Love in the Time of Cholera. I'll second jagmuse's recommendation - I loved Possession. If your love stories don't ... ... go with Catch 22 for 2 reasons, I read the first page and realised it wasn't going to be easy, I've had a sweet run with like water for chocolate and enduring love maybe its time for me to read a not so easy book.. I asked a couple of friends at work and they love Pi so I'm going to read ... ... it, and that it stuck to the novel fairly well. Other than that, it's kinda gone from my memory. It was really the book Like Water for Chocolate that made the real impression on me. I can't even describe it what it was exactly about the book that I loved so much, other than it brought out a ... ... get into it at all. Haven't read Persuasion yet. In spite of my anecdotal argument, based on the fact that you liked Like Water for Chocolate, I'd definitely recommend Life of Pi over Catch-22. Need some advice fellow members of the group, am about to finish Like Water For Chocolate I've taken my time as it's been a real joy to read, it's def one of my fav's now. But what should I read, I'm thinking Persuasion or Life of Pi or maybe even Catch 22) I know couldn't be more different, ... Like Water for Chocolate is one of my all-time favourite books. I read it in one sitting, and stayed up until 2 AM to finish it--and I never stay up anywhere near that late. ... Enduring Love and was really impressed with it, I think I will read Atonement next for McEwan, now though I am reading Like Water for Chocolate has anyone else here read it? Seems like a lovely book so far I've read Like water for chocolate, which I really enjoyed, Bridges of Madison County, which was OK, but I had no desire to revisit it, and pieces of the Mars/Venus book. My wife certainly has read Like Water for Chocolate and Bridges of Madison County. I looked through the former.
She has also read on the non-fiction side:
Embraced by the Light - I also read
Women Who Run with the Wolves - she was part of a discussion group on this one.
Men Are from ... ... I also tried to read Women Who Run With Wolves but didn't get very far before I lost interest. I still mean to read Like Water For Chocolate someday. ... Steel 126 copies
7. Lasher, Anne Rice 1,968 copies
8. Pleading Guilty, Scott Turow 370 copies
9. Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel 2,979 copies
10. The Scorpio Illusion, Robert Ludlum 340 copies
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1. See, I Told You So, Ru ... Well, this is the topic for which I've read the most listed books:
The Heptameron
Like Water for Chocolate
Possession
The Princess of Cleves
Wuthering Heights ... India)
Indiana, George Sand (novel, France, trans from French)
Lantern Slides, Edna O'Brien (short stories, Ireland)
Like Water for Chocolate:A Novel in Monthly Installments, with Recipes, Romances and Home Remedies; Laura Equivel (novel, Mexico, trans from Spanish)
The Lone Pilgrim and ... It's a good thing I read this thread; I read Like Water for Chocolate a bit ago, and had no idea it was on the list! I might be getting a little too excited about crossing things off the list, I'll admit.
To return to topic, I finished Cat's Eye and am now reading The Red Queen by Margar ... ... movement of A Dance to the Music of Time, finishing up The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which is fantastic, and starting Like Water for Chocolate. The last two are nice and short, so I'll probably get a fourth book in before the end of the month, but I have no idea what yet. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
241 pages / 1989 / 4 stars / Fiction
A delightful little book, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate is almost a modern-day fairy tale. Told in monthly installments, the novel is simultaneously story and cookbook, filled with both ... I've finished 19, and am working on my 20th and 21st right now: Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and Poppy Adams' The Sister. ... Garcia Marquez
4. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
6. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel *
7. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
8. Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson * ... by Annie Proulx
2. Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
3. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
4. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
5. A Mighty Heart by Mariane Pearl
6. Cider House Rules by John Irving
7. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran F ... How about a Mexican love story with magical realism? Try Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel.
Have a wonderful trip!! ... of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez *
4. Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry *
5. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
6. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel *
7. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
8. Sparrow: A Novel by Giovanni Verg ... Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson
4. The View from Mount Joy by Lorna Landvik
5. The Shipping News by Annie Proulx *
6. Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel *
7. The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
8. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison #16 is Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. I've got to admit, I never really got into it. I think it's because, from the beginning on, I just felt so bad for Rosaura I could never properly root for Tita and Pedro to get together. Really, I just meant to stop by the library to pick up a movie I'd requested, but I wound up checking out Like Water For Chocolate and The Ghost Map. And library books have to go on top of the 'to be read' pile since I need to return them, so that means my already looming pile is shunted to the ... |
