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Portrait in Sepia
Portrait in Sepia: A Novel | Isabel Allende
In nineteenth-century Chile, Aurora del Valle suffers a brutal trauma that erases all recollections of the first five years of her life. Raised by her regal and ambitious grandmother Paulina del Valle, Aurora grows up in a privileged environment but is tormented by horrible nightmares. When she is forced to recognize her betrayal at the hands of the man she loves, and to cope with the resulting solitude, she explores the mystery of her past.
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Adventures-of-a-French-Reader
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Panpan

Very disappointing in comparison to Daughter of Fortune. It contains far more romance in it (which for me is a put-off). The only nice element was to see what became of the characters from Daughter of Fortune.

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TheSpineView
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OriginalCyn620 📚👍🏻📚 4y
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Kathrin
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Pickpick

It took me forever to finish the book, but not because of the book, because of life.

#stayhealthy my friends

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Bknrdadventures
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Pickpick

I liked the story of memory in this tale, especially after listening to the two memory episodes on Gladwell‘s Revisionist History podcast. All of the stories of Aurora‘s life read like a photo—detailed, exposing hidden truths. I did not realize this book was a sequel, so now I have to read the first one (not that I‘m complaining). Also, it had characters from The House of Spirits, which I‘ve never read but seems to be Allende‘s most popular work.

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Bknrdadventures
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“I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.”

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redfeatherreader
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❤ Starting another Isabel Allende ❤

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angela_fi13
Retrato en sepia | Isabel Allende
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I‘m almost finished reading this book. Isabel Allende is one of my favorites writers for sure. Each book it‘s a treasure! I want to read every book written by her, and I don‘t do this since I was a child.

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angela_fi13
Retrato en sepia | Isabel Allende
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pitou215
Mehso-so

I love Isabel allende though found this book to be too violent and war related. Though I enjoyed reading about Eliza sommers once more!

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bookworm.krizia
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bookworm.krizia
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Panpan

Not Allende's best

MayHallak Well, I really enjoyed reading this book, which was my first read for Isabelle Allende. Looking forward for my second one: the japnese lover :) 6y
bookworm.krizia @MayHallak I really enjoyed "House of the Spirits" 6y
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smilingshelves
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#fallintobooks Day 7 #southamericanwriters

I have yet to read anything by Isabel Allende. I really need to remedy that soon!

@RealLifeReading

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booksandsympathy
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I loved these books! The more of these posts I do, the more I think I need to spend a year re-reading all my books. #womenintranslation #aprilbookshowers

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BiblioNyan
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Received this #OwnVoices book as a gift from the love of my life. It's about a girl who erases 5 years of her life, her memories, after a brutal trauma. Raised by her grandmother in luxury, the girl's plagued with terrible nightmares that brings her face to face with her trauma and the mystery of her past. Takes place during 1800s in Chile. I'm so excited for this!!

#diversebooks #isabelallende #portraitinsepia #diversereads

JazzFeathers Sounds pretty awesome :) 7y
MayHallak Yeah this is a pretty good book. Go ahead ! 6y
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Bindrosbookshelf
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Someone's exhausted by mums book cataloging... at last count I have 1001 books and I need to go through and update the metadata on nearly all of them 😐

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scagliadistella
Ritratto in seppia | Isabel Allende
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"Nessuno potrebbe amarla come me, signore."
#love #amore #italy #italian #isabelallende

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Kathrin
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#booktober #bookssetinsamerica

Full disclosure: I haven't read any of them yet. They are on the never ending TBR pile!

bookishnerd I didn't enjoy Portrait in Sepia quite as much as the other two, but I strongly recommend the Allende overall! 7y
Kathrin @Bookishnerd I don't think that I have ever read anything by her. 😱😱😱😱 I thought I need to remedy that! 😆 7y
bookishnerd I personally think her older stuff, like these books, is better than what I have read of her newer stuff. 😊 7y
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Miriana
Ritratto in seppia | Isabel Allende
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"L'essenziale è spesso invisibile."

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Miriana
Ritratto in seppia | Isabel Allende

"L'essenziale è spesso invisibile."

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BookishFeminist
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Here's a stack of #UsedBooks for today's #AugustPhotoChallenge. I mostly own used books from library sales, bookstores, and other places. 📚

I loooove running across nice paperback editions of classics. I swoon over Penguin Deluxe Classics, Penguin Ink, and basically anything with French flaps, deckled edges, and a pretty cover. 📖

#BookStack #Classics #ModernClassics

LeahBergen Nice!! 8y
BekahB Yep, I pretty much throw my money at Penguin books too. Do I really need a 3rd copy of Illustrated Man, five Pride and Prejudices, all the Frankensteins?! Yes...yes I do. Because of the pretty covers 😀 8y
BookishFeminist @BekahB Yep! Considering emailing penguin and just being like can I just direct deposit my paychecks in your account so I can have all the classics? 💸💸💸 8y
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[DELETED] 2232195534 Love this - classics and Bridget Jones! Perfect!! 😉 8y
BookishFeminist @kaysreadinglife Hahaha you bet 😉 8y
Blueberry My thrift store lets you take 5 books for free ! 8y
BookishFeminist @Blueberry that's awesome! One of our local libraries gives away their mass market donations for free but that's the closest I get to free books. 😊 8y
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