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Peel My Love Like an Onion
Peel My Love Like an Onion: A Novel | Ana Castillo
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Carmen Santos, a flamenco dancer, whose affair with her married director has begun to sour, begins seeing his grandson, and a furious love triangle takes shape. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.
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Bookzombie
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#12DaysofChristmas #May

I fell asleep so this one is a day late.

This is around the time my resolve to review books consistently fell apart as usual.

I love this one. Ana Castillo‘s writing is beautiful and poetic. Carmen, despite having polio as a child, is a renowned flamenco dancer in Chicago. I love reading about Carmen, her passionate love affairs, her relationship with her family, and her strength.

Bookzombie These two books, tagged, were strong contenders for May also. 3mo
Andrew65 Yes, the same month my records fell apart, have a had to spend a couple of intense days getting them back on track this week. 3mo
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Reggie This is one of my all time favorite books ever! ❤️ 3mo
Bookzombie @Reggie 🙂 You recommended it to me. 3mo
Bookzombie @Andrew65 That sounds like no fun. Sometimes I don‘t track all month and catching up for one month alone is a pain. 3mo
Andrew65 @Bookzombie Had 6 1/2 months to catch up on 🫣😱 But now back on track! I must not let it happen again 😂 3mo
Bookzombie @Andrew65 That is a lot, lol. 3mo
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Suet624
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This writer puts you squarely in the midst of a character‘s experience. The story dances & you can get dizzy at times. This is a story of a flamenco dancer who despite having polio as a child is admired and respected for her skills. She is involved in 2 relationships that create issues for all involved. We see her as she ages & explores new avenues & develops a newfound respect for herself. This is the 2nd book Reggie has sent me by this author.

Suet624 #bookspin for May. @TheAromaofBooks Thank you so much, @Reggie for bringing this author to me. (edited) 9mo
Ruthiella Another successful #Reggimendation 👍😃 9mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 9mo
Reggie @Suet624 ❤️ I‘m so glad you liked it. It‘s a top 10 book of my life for me. I just read it at the right time. She‘s a poet and you can tell from her writing. That writing‘s my jam. 9mo
Reggie @Ruthiella Lol ❤️I get so tickled when I see that. 9mo
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CarolynM
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Thank you @Reggie for the beautiful card and your kind words. We are, indeed, #romantsy kindred spirits😀 💖 I'm sure Peel My Love Like an Onion came from you. Thank you it looks so good, I can't wait to start it. Am I right to think I have you to thank for Friend Zone too?

Reggie Did they just all arrive today? Lol, I need to better coordinate my mailing of things. Yes, they came from me and I hope you enjoy them! 😊 3y
Cathythoughts How lovely 😊💕 3y
CarolynM @Reggie They were all in my post box today as separate items, but it's been a week or so since I checked the box, so they didn't necessarily arrive on the same day🙂 I'm thrilled to have them now, though, so thank you once again😘 3y
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Rissreads I bought Peel my love like an onion after reading @Reggie review of it. Let me know when you are going to read it and I will join you! 3y
CarolynM @Rissreads Lovely idea! I'm not feeling very motivated for anything too demanding at the moment, but maybe sometime next month, if that works for you. How are things with you? It's nice to see you posting here again🙂 3y
Rissreads Whenever you want to give it a go I‘ll join you. I‘m not fussed. I‘ve had lots of family stuff to deal with so I‘ve been very quiet on Litsy. I hope to have more time now 🤞🏼 3y
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kspenmoll
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#Movember #Music #Dance
Madonna wants to “...dance with my baby/And when the music starts/I never wanna stop”
Carman, a famous flamingo dancer, ends the tagged book by stating: “I dance and dance and dance.”
@Reggie if memory serves This book was included in a very generous book exchange from you! ❤️📚💃
Music and Dance. 🎼💃

Reggie Yes it was me. It‘s one of my most favorite books ever! I love this book and author. 4y
kspenmoll @Reggie I love it too. I had never heard of the author before. That‘s what I live love about Litsy. Thanks!!!💕💕💕💕 4y
Cinfhen I see I‘ve already stacked this book- thanks for putting it back on my #ReadersRadar 4y
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Reggie
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1. No, sadly. Everyone just shortens my name and calls me Redge.
2. The tagged book which is one of my all time favorites.
3. No, and it makes me want to scratch my eyes out when I see someone say “hype ruined this for me.” Do yourself a favor, go in blind and don‘t read reviews. Lol
4. It helps but isn‘t a deal breaker.
5. Anyone else who wants to participate.

Reggie @Bookzombie Thanks for the tag. Happy Belated Birthday? I think you turned the big 40 during your Litsy sabbatical. Did you ever go to the SA book festival? If so how was it? And do you call your husband Papa Bear? 5y
SW-T Love the responses to 3 & 4. I try to ignore reviews until after I‘ve read something because a lot of times it feels like the review isn‘t even about the same book. 😂🤔😂 5y
Reggie @SW-T lol, thanks.Or I just wait for the hype to blow over and give it a while. 5y
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Crazeedi I really never read reviews, I'll decide myself thank you. Now I have taken recommendations from littens who have similar tastes as I do 5y
Reggie @Crazeedi exactly, you kinda have to have a circle of friends here whose reading tastes you trust. 5y
Bookzombie @Reggie 💗 Your memory is excellent! My 40th birthday was at the end of March. I did go to the festival. It was a lot of fun. I saw a number of interesting authors and added to my TBR. I don‘t really have nickname for my husband. What‘s been going on with you? 5y
Tex2Flo Agree with foregoing reviews. I tend to only read them AFTER I've read the book to find out if my view is similar to the book jacket or reviewer (not).
Also, hate to spoil any surprise i. Tend to rely on a ranking system by people who like the same kinds of books that I do to tell whether or not I want to read it.
If I do happen to read a review, I wait for YEARS after to read the book itself so I've forgotten altogether.
5y
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Centique
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Sometimes a book will put you in someone else‘s body, in someone else‘s love affair...and then make a profound comment that feels so personal to you, the reader, in your real life. It‘s some kind of magic.
Here you‘ll find beautiful writing about passion and jealousy, illness, ageing, family...(so much to highlight!) as you step into the shoes of Carmen, a beautiful flamenco dancer no longer able to dance, as she recounts her loves and losses.

Centique Thank you so much @Reggie for recommending this book. I have some quotes that I‘m going to think about over and over for a few days. It really put new thoughts in my head like no book has done for a while! And I liked the ending. 18yo me wouldn‘t have 😂😂 but these days I‘m more realistic, and I like what it says about Carmen 👍 6y
batsy Wow, your review! That first paragraph especially... When books do that 💕 6y
Reggie I can‘t tell you how over the moon I am that you liked it. This book was very important to me in my late 20‘s. It had and still has a lot to say to me. So happy you liked it. 6y
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readordierachel Fabulous review! 6y
RohitSawant So wonderfully said! 6y
Centique @batsy that‘s my favourite thing about reading💕💕 It was so wonderful to be Carmen for a short while. 6y
Centique @Reggie I‘m so glad too! 6y
Centique @ReadOrDieRachel @rohit-sawant thank you both so much 6y
Cathythoughts This one sounds good. Great review! Stacking 6y
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Centique
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Look what I‘m reading @Reggie 😁 Loving it so far!

Tanisha_A The title is so cool! 😶 6y
Reggie Yayyyy, I‘m glad you‘re loving it. I‘m saving yours for my 4 day weekend next week. I hope my book holds up for you all the way to the end. 6y
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Reggie
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#HeatofJuly Carmen‘s #onedance has always been flamenco. When she was younger and had polio in one leg, a teacher influenced her life forever with a lesson in flamenco. Years after having been a world famous flamenco dancer, after a disastrous decline in health, after a tumultuous love triangle that left her out in the cold, she will finally get her groove back. I love this book. Castillo is a poet first and this book is in my top 10 of all time.

BarbaraBB I don‘t know it but love its title 😍 6y
overtheedge Love the page you shared. It's on my list now! 6y
rockpools This sounds amazing. 6y
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Cinfhen Same @overtheedge sounds wonderful!! Totally agree with @BarbaraBB @RachelO 6y
emilyhaldi Awesome! #stacked 6y
DivineDiana That‘s a strong recommendation! Stacked! 6y
Reggie @overtheedge @RachelO @emilyhaldi @DivineDiana if ya‘ll ever read it, I hope you like it. Try not to let my hype set it it up for failure, lol. I found this book in a used bookstore when I lived in Las Cruces and it was the right book for me at the right time. I don‘t know if you‘ve ever had those books. Where the book you start reading is an answer to the question life is asking of you at that exact moment. Anyways, happy readings. 6y
emilyhaldi Yes 🙌🏻 the best when that happens. Will keep that in mind when reading this 😉 6y
Lindy Thanks for reminding me about this wonderful book. It‘s years since I read it but I remember loving it. ❤️ 6y
Reggie @Lindy you might be the only other person I know who‘s read it. Glad to see love for it. 6y
Lindy @Reggie I‘ve also read Castillo‘s Loverboys & the delightful 6y
Reggie @Lindy I loved Loverboys, Sapagonia, and her essay memoir, Black Dove: Mama, Mijo, and Me. 6y
ValerieAndBooks One of the books you sent me 💖! I really need to get to it soon. Have to become a faster reader!! 6y
Lindy @Reggie 👍👍 6y
Suet624 I adore your review so much that I‘m stacking the book and searching bookstores/libraries for it. (edited) 6y
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kspenmoll
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#Halloweengoespostal #fallbookexchange
Wonderful pile of books,bookish coasters, Artemis tote, cat calendar/bookmarks. But most of all touching of all, Reggie wrote me a beautiful card, revealing an amazing, thoughtful& perceptive, insightful person. Just so thankful we have so much fun, generosity & a feeling of connection on Litsy❤️👻🎃🕷☠️
Thanks Reggie for sharing one of your top 5 books! 📚

TrishB Awesome 👍 as is @Reggie 6y
kspenmoll @TrishB So agree!! 6y
Reggie @kspenmoll I‘m glad you liked the box and the card. You had me scared with the couple of library hauls you kept posting. It was a pleasure to get your name, Katherine. I hope you enjoy the books. 6y
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DeborahSmall
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#maybookflowers 🌸💐#Mexicanamericanauthors. I have a lot of southern American authors in my library but no one born in Mexico, Ana Castillo is as close as I have ❤️📚

Nute That's a great title, Peel My Love like an Onion. 7y
DeborahSmall @Nute it's a a great title, one of my favourites 💕 7y
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Reggie
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#recommendsday I put this book out there cause the book I'm reading now, Other People's Weddings by Noah Hawley, makes me realize how much i love reading books by people who are poets in their souls. Ana Castillo writes this awesome Chicana Feminist (its so much more) book about a woman who has polio at a young age but through flamenco finds who she is and becomes this woman with an appetite for life.

Reggie @Michael_Gee @Bookzombie @psalva Hi ya‘ll. Suvata is doing her last round of LPMBC. Was wondering if ya‘ll wanted to do the last round with me. Queer, horror, queer horror, queer romance, queer non fiction, queer at least because the round will end in Pride month. If you‘re interested go to Suvata‘s page and scroll down like 4 posts. It‘s ok if you say no, no pressure. 4w
Reggie Also, I‘m under letter Q if you want to do it. 4w
psalva @Reggie I‘m in! I‘ve added my info to the signup and I will start brainstorming titles. 4w
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Bookzombie @Reggie I'm in, my friend! ☺️ (edited) 4w
Michael_Gee @Reggie I was too late this time! 4w
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