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Some topics:
1. Mother and son relationship
2. Homosexuality in the Latino culture
3. The craziest character
Latino Book Club met this Saturday to talk about Jaime Manrique’s Latin Moon in Manhattan. Thanks to Irene and Kathy (Humphrey) for the interesting discussion beyond the book. As for the book it was a "mixed" reaction. Kathy "hated" it, and respecting her reaction Irene and I said we enjoyed it. We all agreed that the novel does not go into depth about any issue, but simply entertains with the variety of unusual crazy characters: Simón Bolívar, Hot Sauce, Mr. O’Donnell etc.
Moving on to our future plans, I would like to welcome our newest member Mary Bulluck to our Book Club.
Some of our regular members (Olga and Lizzy) notified that Pomegranate Books had difficulty getting Jaime Manrique's book, which led us to talk about the unavailability of the books on our list in any of the Public Libraries here in Wilmington, and Kathy has suggested that we send a petition to the Libraries to acquire these books. If you are interested please let me know. We would like to get as many signatures as possible.
With the upcoming holidays in November and December, Latino Book Club will be suspended during these two months. This will give you time to catch up with the books you weren’t able to read, or liked so much that you might want to gift them to someone.
We will meet in January 2008 with Oscar Hijuelos new novel Dark Dude (suggested by Kathy).
We will meet for the last time this year next month to talk about Carla Trujillo’s What Night Brings (suggested and highly recommended by Irene).
Please send ideas for other books that we can read next year, and don’t forget to blog.
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