We are required to read a book by our English teacher.
The book is The House of the Spirits.
I think I’m going to like it. I skimmed the plot summary in wikipedia. It has somewhat same element with Like Water for Chocolate which is one of my favorite books and is required for the 3rd year students to read.
It’s R-18! haha. It has some bizarre sex scenes written in there and when I say bizarre it’s really BIZARRE. Don’t get me wrong it is not indecent; it’s cultural, profound, creative, inspiring and really hard to put down.
I fell in love with the book.
I stopped myself from reading it because I can finish it in one day and I don’t want good things to come into an end. I tried hard but I can’t control my book craving, a week has passed I finished reading it.
WARNING: Spoiler Content - Mild ▼
Mini Summary:
Young Tita de la Garza, the novel’s protagonist, is fifteen at the start of the events in the story, which take place in the era of the Mexican Revolution. She lives with her iron-fisted mother, Mama Elena, and her older sisters Gertrudis and Rosaura, on a ranch near the Mexico-US border.
Tita’s admirer, Pedro Muzquiz, comes to ask for her hand in marriage, but Mama Elena forbids it on the grounds of the De la Garza family tradition, which demands that the youngest daughter (in this case Tita) must remain unmarried and take care of her mother until death. Pedro then reluctantly marries Tita’s older sister Rosaura instead, and a distraught Tita can hardly keep from being grieved, even though Pedro maintains it is Tita he loves and not Rosaura.
source: wikipedia.org
I felt different emotions. I hated Mama Elena for being so cold hearted and manipulative. My mind was screaming “Bitch!” while I was reading her cruelty.
I pitied Tita, I cried for her, with her. I felt her sadness and longing.
I fell in love with Tita and Pedro’s love story. Kinilig talaga ako
I laughed at Gertrudis’ sudden sex scene with a soldier because of Tita’s cooking. hahaha.
The book can be a cookbook too; you can try out the recipes there.
I can go on and on why I love this book but I might bore you.
Just read it and see for yourself.
I don’t recommend the book to those who don’t appreciate Magical Realism.
June 28th, 2008