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| Topics | | messages | Last message | | | Historical Fiction : When Are You Now? (continued further still) | | 257 | dkhiggin, Yesterday 2:52pm |  |
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| Reading Globally : Avaland's 2009 Global Safari | | 27 | avaland, December 2009 | |
| Historical Fiction : New , first books | | 50 | cnposner, November 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : 2009 - Your Best Five Reads of Q3 (July -Sept) | | 79 | bibleeohfile, November 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : Your Best Reads of the Second Quarter (April - June 2009) | | 54 | dchaikin, October 2009 | |
| What Are You Reading Now? : What are you reading the week of July 25, 2009? | | 226 | Arten60, August 2009 | |
| Historical Fiction : When Are You Now? (continued further) | | 360 | DWWilkin, July 2009 | |
| Reading Globally : Where in the World Are you Now? - April 2009 | | 149 | ddelmoni, May 2009 | |
| Girlybooks : What Books by Women are you Reading Now? April 2009 | | 94 | avaland, April 2009 | |
| Historical Fiction : Historical novels about Latin America | | 9 | geocharlie, April 2009 | |
... Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon (Spain)
3. Lime Tree Can’t Bear Orange by Amanda Smyth (Trinidad)
4. The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles (Brazil)
5. Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith (USSR)
6. Vienna Blood by Frank Tallis (Austria)
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77. The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles (23/09/09)
The parallel stories of two orphaned sisters, brought up by their aunt in the Brazilian countryside in the 1920s, and trained as seamstresses. Emilia dreams of falling in love and escaping to the glamorous city, while Luzia – left ... >42 I enjoyed The Seamstress also, although not this quarter (it had a slow start, I thought, and was perhaps a little long. But still...)
>54 I liked The Draining Lake and chased down the next one Arctic Chill from the UK. I hear Hypothermia has been published recently also. ... make the cut with 40+ other books read this quarter. In no order, expect perhaps the order in which I read them:
1. The Seamstress by Frances De Pontes Peebles
2. The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon
3. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
4. City of R ... Brazil, 1928. I'm reading The Seamstress by Frances DePontes Peebles. ... now, which doesn't bode well for finishing much with a month-old baby in the house. However, both American Lion and The Seamstress are both holding my attention quite well at the moment. ... to see the tradition continues whether I remember or not:-)
Here are some of my great reads from April through June:
The Seamstress by Frances de Pontes Peebles. Starts out a little slow but becomes a splendid historical fiction about two sisters in 1930s Brazil.
The Year of the Flood ... Lois - Thanks for the great review of The Seamstress - it's on my ever-growing wishlist. I would recommend The Seamstress by Brazilian author Frances De Pontes Peebles which I just finished. I think it's coming out in paperback here in the states this summer. It is excellent.
... Rufin (Rufin, btw, is one of the founders of Doctors without Borders) set in 16th century Brazil.
and most recently, The Seamstress by Frances De Ponte Peebles which is set in the early 20th century. ... read any historical fiction while I was doing research. But, I have come out of my long, historical fiction drought with The Seamstress, a magnificent tale of two sisters set in early 20th century Brazil. I'm sure it must have been mentioned before on these threads. It's richly detailed, with ...
The Seamstress by Frances De Ponte Peebles (historical fiction, Brazil, Brazilian author)
The Seamstress tells the story of two sisters, Luzia and Emília, brought up by their aunt ...
The Seamstress by Frances De Ponte Peebles
As I mentioned elsewhere, I picked this book up first because of the title, second for the cover art (I have always loved to sew), and ... Looking forward to your review of The Seamstress - it's one of the books on the List o' Mt. TBR. I am still in 1920s and 30s Brazil in the very detailed, excellent historical fiction, The Seamstress.
>88 ah, but now you can have a discussion with yourself regarding fate and free will! ... with Assia Djebar's "Nadia" (a.k.a. La Soif or "The Mischief"), I am returning to 1930s Brazil in Frances De Ponte Pebbles' The Seamstress. ... have interrupted one for the other):
"Nadia" by Assia Djebar (her first novel, written when she was just 20 years old) and The Seamstress by Frances De Pontes Peebles. The Djebar is about 140 pages, the Peebles is over 600...)
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