Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Mirabals- Mariposas de la libertad
So I really really liked this book. Probably for a combination of the reasons written about by me in the previous 3 posts about this book, but also something else- it just drew me in, for some reason. I don't know that I can really say what about it did that, or why I liked it so much, but I really did. I should also mention that normally me liking a book wouldn't mean much (I have both a voracious appetite for them and some degree of abibliophobia), but ones in this genre- historical fiction, that is- don't generally appeal to me. For some reason I just don't find them as interesting or engaging, or even helping me learn history that I wouldn't want to learn from a boring dry old history book... but I would definitely recommend this book to you all, and I can only hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
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Wow. It sounds like quite a book. I've never read it (though your comments make me want to), but just in reading your posts I'm thinking this reminds me of other women-as-sisterhood type novels. Like Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Siterhood, Fried Green Tomatoes, etc. Have you read either of those? Does this observation have any truth to it?
ReplyDeleteIn response to your comments on historical fiction... oy. You break my heart. And as to your reference to the "dry old history book"... well, now you're just trying to rile me up.
Maybe you'd like Evita--another book about a revolution.
And just for the record: What the heck is abibliophobia?
Reeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaad it! Oh yeah, I read the Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood- c'est tres magnifique!
ReplyDeleteAbibliophobia- the fear of running out of reading material
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