Review: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquirel

5 Stars

SYNOPSIS:

Have an appetite for a great read?

Laura Esquivel’s Like Water for Chocolate would definitely fill that craving for something delicious. It’s not only a novel, but it’s also a Mexican cookbook and remedy book all in one!

With each Mexican dish lies the romance and drama between each character. One can almost taste the savory goodness of each platter and experience the passion in each chapter. And as if the banquets were not enough, the tales and fantasies make it all the more interesting.

This book entices the reader’s senses to smell the flavors of each recipe and taste the passion of Like Water for Chocolate’s drama.

Esquivel’s masterpiece left me hungry for more!

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j2’s Review: 

 

Like Waters For Chocolate is in a form of cook book, romance novel, and a fairytale wrapped into one. While reading,I tasted the different dishes prepared in this story, including the love, anguish, and the suffering of two people helplessly in love with each other.

Yes, “helplessly”, for their love was imprisoned by some circumstances neither of them can sprang free.

We tend to question one’s love especially if the morality is concerned. But while flipping through the pages and had a glimpsed on how love was performed in this novel I came to realized no one has the right to question nor judge how great a person’s love could be.

Pedro and Tita’s love story seemed so wrong and yet seemed so right!

Love is not an excuse for us to hurt other’s feelings but then isn’t it all fair when it comes to love and war?

What’s so amusing in this story is– what Tita feels every time she cooks the food it affects those who tasted it!

The ending feels like a joke but I like the story and how everything goes.

Review: Daddy Long Legs by Jean Webster

5 Stars

SYNOPSIS:

This is the much-loved tale of Judy Abbott, a lively, endearing young girl growing up in an orphanage. Her dreams of college seem in vain until the unknown benefactor offers to pay for her tuition. The only requirements are that she must write to him every month, and that she can never know who he is. Judy’s letters to him about life at college are full of her hopes and dreams, troubles, and a growing friendship with the handsome Jervis Pendleton. With so much going on in her life, Judy can scarcely stop writing, and when she discovers who daddy long-legs is, there is a happily-ever-after surprise.

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j2’s Review: July 26, 2014

My addiction to this story started in a cartoon series. I guess I was in grade school then, or was it in high school? And it’s always on summer that was why I never failed to watch its every episode.

Now here comes the book! Reading it is as addicting as watching it.

It’s a very light story but full of wisdom. You can see yourself smiling at every turn of events. It’s not a tear-inviting story but you will sure cry laughing your ass off at the hilarity of Judy. She could really be so funny. This is one of those classic novels that you will surely find time to read over and over again.

I love how Judy make fun of her words. Very playful and smart. I so can relate 

And when you start reading you just can’t stop.

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Favorite Lines:

“I’m alone, really–with my back to the wall fighting the world.”

“My childhood was just a long sullen stretch of revolt, and now I am so happy every moment of the day that I cant’t believe it’s true. I feel like a made up heroine in a story book.”

“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination.”