Sum of Our Days
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Journal Entry 1 by bloedengel from Vosselaar, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Thursday, February 5, 2015
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Journal Entry 2 by bloedengel at Turnhout, Antwerpen / Anvers Belgium on Saturday, February 14, 2015
Travelling for the first sentences vbb :)
Thank you for sending this book, I am pleased with my 1st sentence choice!
Still on TBR but it is on my short list to read. I will be listing it in the non-fic VBB.
I liked House of Spirits very much. This? Well this is a memoir, written some years after the death of her daughter Paula. It is sometimes written in the form of a dialogue with Paula. It has the feel of confession, apology and regret; not uncommon in memoirs written in later life. But Isabel Allende is such a firebrand, such a fighter, a real spitfire that she doesn't sink into it. She basically calls up her tough attitude and gathers her family and imposes both her will and her intense love to do her best to keep everyone together.
As an author she can be very funny, but she is also a bereaved parent and that unbearable sorrow runs through the book like an underground river, occasionally surfacing but mostly just below the surface of Isabel's personality and writing.
I can't say I enjoyed reading it as much as her fiction. Everyone's life is somewhat boring to other people unless it is written in the form of entertainment. Isabel is entertaining, but she is also explaining, confessing and purging. The best part of this book is Willie, her husband. Their love story is beautiful, a real story of love and hope, not a youthful fairy tale, but a real love of life, pain and age. At the end I felt it was a memoir of the beauty, fragility and durability of love.
As an author she can be very funny, but she is also a bereaved parent and that unbearable sorrow runs through the book like an underground river, occasionally surfacing but mostly just below the surface of Isabel's personality and writing.
I can't say I enjoyed reading it as much as her fiction. Everyone's life is somewhat boring to other people unless it is written in the form of entertainment. Isabel is entertaining, but she is also explaining, confessing and purging. The best part of this book is Willie, her husband. Their love story is beautiful, a real story of love and hope, not a youthful fairy tale, but a real love of life, pain and age. At the end I felt it was a memoir of the beauty, fragility and durability of love.
Going into the U.S. 'A' author bookring.
Sent off in the 'A' authors bookring. Bye bye!
Caught in the US version of Author's who begin with A. Never read Isabel Allende, but have heard about her. Looking forward to trying this author. Thanks for sending this along