SJCPL Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
If you have ever read one of Isabel Allende’s books you may understand what I mean. I recently finished her memoir Sum of Our Days. She writes this memoir to her daughter, Paula, who died in the 1990s. It is a thought provoking book filled with hilarious and yet intimate stories from [...]
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 13/08/2008
1. Fiction: I've already covered Roberto Bolaño plenty on MR; The Savage Detectives is his masterpiece but it's all worth reading. The massive 2666 is due out later this year. José Donoso's The Obscene Bird of Night, while hardly read...
grimmerupnorth (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
It's not often these days that I pick up a book and can't put it down. However, at 3.30am have just finished reading an astonishing memoir by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende. Like most books on my bedside table, it's not exactly current as due to the speed with which I read Oxfam is my library of choice. But Paula , published some years ago, is nevertheless worth seeking out. A consummate storyteller,...
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
Though I have no statistics on hand, recently Publisher’s Weekly had an article that referred to men’s reading preferences versus women’s. More or less, adult males often seem to prefer nonfiction to women’s preference for fiction. I admit that for years I have fit more or less into this demographic as I voraciously down one [...]
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
“In the second week of December, 1992, almost as soon as the rain let up, we went as a family to scatter your ashes, Paula, following the instructions you had left in a letter written long before you fell ill.” Perhaps the most interesting part of The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende is actually [...]
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 16/07/2008
Photo: Getty Images Harvey Weinstein , to wife Georgina Chapman, in front of Spice Market: "I want Asian food. Didn't hear me? Asian." "Page Six" accuses Paris Hilton of being a liar. Novelist Isabel Allende says she was a terrible journalist because she lied all the time. Andres Serrano , whose latest controversial exhibit contains a lot of real fecal matter, claims he's "got the best shit in town."...
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 12/07/2008
On my post of Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, Katrina commented that the book could have been a bit shorter and in retrospect I do agree. When reading the collection of critical essays on the short story someone – maybe Chekov maybe Hart – said something along the lines that it was more or [...]
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008
Last week, TEDTalks celebrated our 50 millionth view by counting down the Top 10 TEDTalks of all time (so far) -- and inviting people to share their own favorites. Here are a few: My favorite is still Susan Savage-Rumbaugh...
VivirLatino (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
Salvador Allende -- the democratically elected president of Chile ultimately overthrown by dictator Augusto Pinochet and his compinches -- would have been 100 years old today. In Chile, his birthday was celebrated and the validity of his message still resonates...
Soulfull Vibes (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Isabel Allende writes novels about self-reliant women who thrive in the midst of political turmoil. In her passionate TEDTalk, Allende praises women whose grit and selflessness transform the meaning... Visit Soulfull Vibes for more information
TED Blog (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008
Isabel Allende writes novels about self-reliant women who thrive in the midst of political turmoil. In her passionate TEDTalk, Allende praises women whose grit and selflessness transform the meaning of modern feminism -- mentioning, in particular, three women of rare...
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008
So I’ve done it again: I have a growing stack of books I keep intended to write up but forget so the stack keeps getting larger. Even with the amount of studying and preparation I’ve been doing for my classes, I have still been reading fairly steadily. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende is my second [...]
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
“A boy with a parrot on his shoulder was walking along the railway tracks.” Michael Chabon has always been one of those authors and I think: “I’m going to love him. He will be one of my favorites. Now I just need to get around to actually reading him.” I’ve always categorized him, without reading him, [...]
Book Chronicle (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
I had heard a lot of good things about Allende and particularly about Inés of My Soul, and the book certainly did not live up to its reputation. It’s a work of historical fiction representing Inés Suarez who helped the Spanish conquistadors colonize Chile. Allende offers an interesting perspective trying not to over romanticize the [...]
travelingtreefrog.com (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Rowers in Henley Originally uploaded by treefrog girl. I’m currently on one of the best courses I have ever been on in my entire life. I don’t want to talk too much about because I want to go for a walk but I will share this quote from the first page of the Participant Guide: You are [...]
