What is the last book you read, and your rating?
-
- Posts: 46
- Joined: 11 Nov 2021, 21:41
- Currently Reading: The Freedom Building
- Bookshelf Size: 13
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-tung-le-1.html
- Latest Review: Demon Freaks by J.R.R.R. (Jim) Hardison
Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
- Pietro Aliquo
- Posts: 29
- Joined: 16 Sep 2021, 19:38
- Currently Reading: Master the Law of Attraction
- Bookshelf Size: 13
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-pietro-aliquo.html
- Latest Review: Timewise by Robert Leet
- Karlabchu
- Posts: 133
- Joined: 28 Aug 2021, 20:50
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 129
- Reading Device: B00JG8GOWU
This little book full of lyricism and mystique manages to be a long and complex work of interpretation for the unsuspecting reader. Each legend evokes a different world that intermingles the ancient Mayan culture with the contrasting interception of Central American colonialism in a lyrical prose that exalts the language until it becomes a dreamlike passage told by "Cuco de los Sueños" himself that initiates the reverie.
There are many elements to analyze in this work, from the different types of narration that go from descriptive prose to interpretative prose and even the theatricality of the final story. As well as there is a leisure time to find each cultural reference and legendary Central American characters present, but these are tasks for a future reading.
This book impressed me in a good way and it seems to me that it managed to integrate in a brilliant way the legendary cosmogonic theme of the Central American culture together with the experimentation of a purely lyrical prose open to the interpretations of future generations, for which I consider it to be one of the those classic books that will pass the different stages of time surprising like the first time.
Of course, it is not an easy book to interpret, so I do not recommend it for all audiences, hence my rating. 4/5
- Owuamanam Eberechukwu
- Posts: 466
- Joined: 09 Nov 2021, 03:39
- Currently Reading: All will be revealed
- Bookshelf Size: 108
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-owuamanam-eberechukwu.html
- Latest Review: Musings of an Autistic Mind by Darryl Jefferson
For Fun, I just finished In Gods Name by Robert Sarah. I rate it 3/4. It’s a good bookDaily Alice wrote: ↑19 Dec 2009, 07:16 I just finished Jack of Kinrowan by Charles De Lint. I give it 4/5 stars.
Fun, fast-paced reading for those who love urban fantasy.
Tracee Ellis Ross
- georgehill
- Posts: 1
- Joined: 12 Jan 2022, 12:21
- Bookshelf Size: 0
- Karlabchu
- Posts: 133
- Joined: 28 Aug 2021, 20:50
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 129
- Reading Device: B00JG8GOWU
- Limpho Mojakisane
- In It Together VIP
- Posts: 426
- Joined: 07 Sep 2021, 10:41
- Currently Reading: Operationalizing AI Governance: Ethical Strategies for Real-World Impact
- Bookshelf Size: 111
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-limpho-mojakisane.html
- Latest Review: The Village Blacksmith By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by John W Babin
- 2025 Reading Goal: 40
- 2025 Goal Completion: 20%
- Karlabchu
- Posts: 133
- Joined: 28 Aug 2021, 20:50
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 129
- Reading Device: B00JG8GOWU
- Hussein21
- Posts: 358
- Joined: 24 Dec 2021, 17:24
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 24
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-hussein21.html
- Latest Review: Bama Boy by Bobby Morrison
-
- Posts: 332
- Joined: 12 Jan 2022, 05:58
- Currently Reading: Bugs, Weeds, and Water
- Bookshelf Size: 68
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-janelydia-mwangi.html
- Latest Review: Surviving Life As An Actor by Jerry a. Greenberg
- Reading Device: Android
- Karlabchu
- Posts: 133
- Joined: 28 Aug 2021, 20:50
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 129
- Reading Device: B00JG8GOWU
- Karlabchu
- Posts: 133
- Joined: 28 Aug 2021, 20:50
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 129
- Reading Device: B00JG8GOWU
- Cátia Rato
- Posts: 113
- Joined: 23 Aug 2017, 11:32
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 451
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-catiarato.html
- Latest Review: The Inmate by Alan P. Woodruff
- Wee Bee
- Posts: 22
- Joined: 16 Jan 2022, 11:00
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 13
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-wee-bee.html
- Latest Review: Zona: The Forbidden Land by Fred G. Baker
I liked a lot the writers ability to take you back to your own childhood and back to the senses of the childhood again, I am not from that time or place, but she managed to describe child s emotions and child s world.
- Tiffany Hertel
- Posts: 11
- Joined: 11 Jan 2022, 20:19
- Favorite Book: The Brightest Night
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 108
The Backup Boyfriend by Ashlee Mallory. I rated it a 3. Good story, and there is more books to it with the characters in the background I'm about to start reading.