Why oh why do people keep coming up with challenges I just have to join? I keep promising myself that I’m going to severely restrict my challenges for next year (and I still plan to), BUT… I just have to join this one. I went to Argentina last April and loved it, and my interest in Latin American literature was piqued at that time. I’ve read the first two stories in Ficciones and really enjoyed them, but because of other commitments I haven’t got back to it. This is the perfect opportunity to finish Ficciones and also read another book by Coelho, one of my favorite authors. I’ve been meaning to read something by Allende as well.
January 1 – April 30, 2008
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I’ll choose from the following:
- Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda (Chile)
- A Tale of Two Gardens by Octavio Paz (Mexican author; Indian setting)
- The Devil and Miss Prym (Brazilian author; European setting)
- The House of Paper by Carlos Maria Dominguez
- Ficciones by Borges (Argentina)
- ? by Coelho (Brazil)
- ? by Allende (Chile)
- ? by Llosa (Peru)
Oh, I’d love to do this. Great badge too.
Thanks for joining, love the button. I haven’t read anything bad by Allende yet.
You must really enjoy reading challenges! It’s great that you keep finding them, if you have a good time participating. I felt too scheduled when I balanced challenges, so I’m happy with just one. Have fun reading!
I know, it’s that time of the year when all the new challenges are being announced. I keep telling myself to hold back but it’s hard
Have fun with this one!
It’s hard to resist some of these, huh? I’d recommend The House of the Spirits by Allende. I have a few others by her on my shelf but that’s the only one I’ve read.
Hi! I live in Brazil. You’d read “11 Minutes” or “Brida”. I thnik that Paulo Coelho isn’t the better brazilian writer. Search by Luis Fernando Verissimo, is a writter very good, but his books is just in Portuguese a few in English.
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Jorge Moisés
Hiya 3M, thanks for that lovely icon .. and i m on to this challenge too
And I would like to tell u one more thing- i spend a lot of time on yur blog, going through the 1001 list
just never got around commenting
Thanks!
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