Isabel Allende: Recuerdos para un cuento / Isabel Allende: Memories for a Story
Literanista (Free subscription) | yesterday
I would like to propose a new book challenge for bloggers (perhaps for 2010?), based on "the compilation of the best literature every Latina should check out put together by Latina Magazine: 25 Books Every Latina Should Read" The "25 Books Every Latina/o Should Read" Challenge: The House of Spirits Isabel Allende One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez In The Time of...
Primi Divi (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Music Theatre Wales at the Linbury Studio In some ways, Letters from a Love Betrayed reminded me of a sort of reverse whodunit. It is certainly not a whodunit in a conventional sense – although someone is murdered, there is never any doubt who did it. I won’t go into details of how I came to compare the two – I don’t want to give the story away. But my point is, when you read...
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Without rubbing a reader's face in it Isabel Allende's stories teach valuable lessons about tolerance and understanding. Sponsored Topics: Isabel Allende - Arts - Author - Literature - Little Jean
Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Opens your eyes to the fact that the world is quite a bit different from what we see every day. Sponsored Topics: Isabel Allende - Author - Literature - Arts - Little Jean
Halley's Comment (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Isabel Allende: She's the Best! She is so good at TED. Have you seen this?
Literanista (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Spain’s Cabinet announced Friday the appointment of Isabel Allende, the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, to the Council of the Cervantes Institute, whose mission is promoting the language, literature and culture of the Iberian nation. The council is responsible for guiding the Cervantes Institute’s activities, and its members are drawn from representatives of Spanish...
Into The Wallace (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
This is the first project for year 2 of BA Illustration. I have to design 6 book covers for 6 of Isabel Allende books. Here is one of them in development. The Zorro book.
Viola in Vilnius (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Picked up A S Byatt's latest book, 'The Children's Book' a week ago at the local bookstore. I was quite surprised that they had one of hers, but it's not a bad place ('Exclusive Books', in Riverwalk, Gabarone, a South African chain; has the most choice). I did not really mean to buy more books, have quite enough to last me for the moment, but could not resist. I think it may have been listed for the...
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
A hectic operatic week, three down and two (to be reviewed next week) to go, began lamentably with what I’m in danger of coming to think of as the archetypical Linbury experience. That hideous place, a kind of operatic Nibelheim under the Valhalla of the Royal Opera, has seats so cramped and uncomfortable that I can only think that their point is to ensure one stays awake, as one witnesses another...
Literanista (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
I adore and admire Chilean writer Isabel Allende - her passion and writing are just vibrant and things of beauty. Here we learn about La Isla Bajo El Mar - I can't for the English version to hit the US. I wish Isabel had narrated the book trailer:
ecomonkey (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
...What kind of world do we want? This is a fundamental question that most of us are asking. Does it make sense to participate in the existing world order? We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.. Ecomonkey is thrilled to have discovered and heard author Isabel Allende share her experiences in this TED Lecture about Passion...
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
How can something so disturbing, so dark, look so ordinary to the untrained eye? They could be young girls hanging out on a warm evening anywhere. But they're not -- they are sex slaves in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. My guide knew this better than anyone. Until a few years ago, she was one of them. Twelve years ago, Sina Vann was forced to have sex with 20 to 30 men a night. Tonight, Demi Moore and Ashton...
LAist (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Eddie Izzard is at the Echoplex tonight to benefit 826LA (and its Time Travel Mart). | Photo by Never Cool in School via LAist's flickr pool. BENEFIT The anti-slavery organization Free the Slaves is holding its Freedom Awards tonight at USC’s Bovard Auditorium at 7 pm. The nonprofit frees slaves around the world, helps them rebuild their lives, researches solutions to the root-causes of slavery,...
ringShout (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
1. Saludos While many Latinos have African roots, our literature doesn't always reflect this. In addition to the glorious writing, Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa is a notable debut novel because it represents a beautiful and substantial addition to the legacy of Afro-Latino stories and storytellers. To learn more, read this month's Q&A with Dahlma. Helping Latinos get published,...
BookLust (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Rosie 's Riveters is a weekly posting written by Booklust readers about riveting females in literature. Many readers have strong reactions to the women in the books they read- either very positive or very negative. These are the characters we find riveting, for good reasons or bad ones, and they form the population of Rosie 's Riveters. Through this weekly post, we can discuss females we love to hate,...
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