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The House On Carnaval Street (2014)

by Deborah Rodriguez(Favorite Author)

3.4 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Bantam Australia

review 1: I should state up front that I do not consider Deborah Rodriguez a reliable narrator. When the various and sundry ways you have screwed over the women you left behind at the Kabul Beauty School are the subject of their own WikiLeaks document, and you persist in casting yourself as the main victim in the scenario, I am going to take anything you say with a very large grain of salt. Not having a TV, I guess books like this are my stand-in for trashy reality shows.
review 2: I read this in a couple of days as it is an easy read. I did find the author somewhat irritating. As other people have commented, she seems to have made no effort to learn Spanish even after months living there. The continual down talking of her own abilities is very annoying when clearly she... more is very capable of settling herself into another environment. I often wondered about her 2 sons. She seems to have just dumped them with anybody whenever she feels like it for years at a time. I find this whole middle-aged trying to find yourself thing really old. And there was no sense of history or of the place or anything except drinking smoking partying and haircutting! It all seems very shallow. If you have nothing better to do give this a read but you really won't learn anything from this book. She seemed set on depicting herself as shallow and boy did she succeed. less

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