Caribbean Books

I wanted to buy this book in last year but Amazon could not send it to me. After weeks they said 'they are not able to send it'. Anyway, last week I bought it. If I could see the recipes before, I would not wait for so long; all recipes are wonderful, easy to prepare. If you like fruits in your cakes, you should buy it immediately...

The recipes and serving suggestions in this book are delicious and gorgeous, and consequently sometimes very difficult to make. Some ingridients that are listed are either not available in the US or substitutes are not adequately displayed. The recipes can sometimes lack vital explanation for a beginner, and a recipe may reference a basic recipe (the appendix contains recipes for basic components of desserts), without listing the additional ingridients needed for the recipe. The difficulty ratings can be deceiving. Nonetheless, I give this book 5 stars because the end product after hours of trying, restarting and wasting lots of egg yolks, is always fantastic.

It is a classic. It does give you a good look at Arachaeological work in the 20's. Tell's you what was found before development destroyed most of it.

This is the most extraordinary book of poems I have read in the past decade... Aridjis is the most visionary poet in Latin America, no doubt about it... since I read his first poems in Exaltation of Light I embarked on a search for more translations into English. And now, this incredible anthology has finally been published, including translations from many important American and British poets...

Poststructural readings such as these have a lot to offer academia. The play of words, irony, and humor is a welcome addition to the literature of international relations scholarship, a much better influence than the sterility offered by empirical, positivist social science.

All of Franqui's books are very goog. It is history from the "horses mouth".

This is one of the best collections of short stories i've ever read. It contains all kinds of stories. Funny, sad, historical, etc. One thing applies to them all. They are all very good. I've been to Bolivia, talked to a lot of people there, but nobody told me about their terrific writers. Strange! Buy this book. Especialy if you like South American litrature. Thank you Rosario Santos for collecting!

Jessica Jones is back and her latest adventure reaches new heights. Be warned though A Fearful Thing gives away key plots of previous books in the series especially The Voyage and The Pursuit where key parts of the plot are referred to on numerous occasions. Read this series in order if you can but even if you haven't read any of the other Jessica Jones series and just want to read this as a stand alone novel you won't be disappointed.

In A Fearful Thing rich kid Jeremy Lenghurst follows in the footsteps of his father and sleeps with a fifteen year old girl and makes her his fiancé. She also happens to be the daughter of a powerful Columbian drug barron who immediately sends a letter to Jeremy's mother Rowena telling her to hand back the girl and give her son to him so Jeremy can be castrated. Being a rich socialite and the wife of a convicted paedophile Rowena can see no reason to go along with this and has her powerful father put pressure on the British police to protect her son. Jessica Jones is given the job along with a new partner named Felicity Hewitt. Rowena and Jeremy don't really take Jessica seriously until they narrowly escape death in their London high-rise. Jessica convinces them to move back to their Winter home, an island in the Bahamas where she where she has to not only protect them from human villains but a Hurricane named Brigett as well.

Four Plays receives translation by Lynne Alvarez and presents the modern Mexican playwright's strongest works. These are theatrical productions, choosing situations and people uniquely Mexican, but easily understood by all cultures.

I loved this book, the pictures, and the recipes. The text and pictures really helped me to understand how Christmas is celebrated in a culture which is different from mine, and presented a wonderful alternative to the "white christmas" prototype which is so prevalent in the United States today. The Christmas holiday time is a time that can be filled with wonder, and reading Sra. Presilla's soothing description of the holiday's of her childhood allowed me to travel to that world and to get in touch with a holiday time filled with warmth, good food, and family. I made the Seville Oranges marinade for out turkey, and everyone loved the way my kitchen smelled and the taste of the turkey. My children, ages 11 and 14, are learning Spanish in school so this was a very nice book for us to read as a family over the holiday and promoted some good discussion about the history of Cuba. We also learned some spanish vocabulary. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in exploring new traditions for celebrating winter holidays.