Like Water for Chocolate: A Novel in Monthly Installments with Recipes, Romances, and Home Remedies

by Laura Esquivel | Literature & Fiction |
ISBN: 038542017X Global Overview for this book
Registered by bookpatch of Lakewood, California USA on 5/3/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by bookpatch from Lakewood, California USA on Thursday, May 3, 2012

This is an entertaining and imaginative story about a family of Mexican women in the early 1900's, their loves, tragedies, and ways of coping with everything.
I don't think I can describe this book any better than the San Francisco Chronicle did: "A tall tale, fairy tale, soap-opera romance, Mexican cookbook, and home-remedy handbook all rolled into one".

I'm not sure I understood the symbolism of the title--heating a square of chocolate in water is offered as the basis of an excellent cup of hot chocolate and a way to avoid problems with taste and texture. What is the "water" that the sisters in the story use to make their lives excellent and avoid problems? Tita's cooking? Gertrudis' sexuality? I'm not sure. Perhaps the next reader can tell me!

Purchased at a library book sale.

Journal Entry 2 by bookpatch at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA on Sunday, May 27, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (5/27/2012 UTC) at -- Bookbox, -- By post or by hand/ in person -- USA

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing into the dancing-dog/bookpatch trade-sized paperback bookbox.

Journal Entry 3 by wingbookstogivewing at Springville, Tennessee USA on Thursday, September 6, 2012
I am removing this book from the Trade size paperback bookbox so that the host's do not get their original books back, thanks for including it! I am adding it to MTR for now.

Journal Entry 4 by wingbookstogivewing at Road Trip! in Road trip, -- Wild Released somewhere in USA -- USA on Sunday, October 21, 2012

Released 11 yrs ago (11/27/2012 UTC) at Road Trip! in Road trip, -- Wild Released somewhere in USA -- USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Releasing wild in the USA while I am on Vacation, somewhere between Tennessee and Florida, happy travels!

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