Like Water for Chocolate

"I don create art, I create chaos لا أخلق الفن، بل أحدث الفوضي" الفن؟ الفن يحدث الفوضي، الفن يبعثرك و يجمعك و يشكلك من جديد، الفن لا يشبه شيئًا ولا يشبهه شئ بطلتنا صاحبة موهبة، و الموهبة لا تُقتل جراء محنة، بل، تستيقظ، تشتعل لكل مكان عادات من صناعة قاطنيه، قوانين غير مكتوبة (بدأت في التصديق أن جميعا غ......more

Llevo media vida pensando (y prejuzgando) que este libro no me iba a gustar. Dando por hecho que, a causa de la información que me había llegado de él, iba a ser un libro tan romántico y tan "cursi" que no iba a poder disfrutarlo. Benditos sean los cambios de opinión y atraverse con todo, porque si......more

This book was disappointing. It felt overwrought and melodramatic. Tita, the youngest daughter of overbearing Mama Elena, has to give up the hope of ever marrying. It will be her duty to take care of her mother in old age. This becomes a big problem when she meets Pedro. When Pedro learns of Tita's d......more

I couldn't help but fall for this short novel that encapsulates vividly yet simply the lives of these women in Mexico during the Pancho Villa Years. The family unit is both necessary AND a culminating curse-- it's hardly fair that our heroine must not live out the life she desires but the one that i......more

first things first: let's get rid of that ugly movie cover, and switch to the one i actually read.... okay, better. this was my final selection for the readventurer challenge. i read them alphabetically, based on the suggester's first name, for arbitrary fairness. it is strange that i have never read t......more