Categoría: Books recommended by Masticadores
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Review: The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey (@CathChidgey) by Olga Miret
Hi, all: I bring you a book by an author new to me, but one that I will follow in the future. The Book of Guilt by Catherine Chidgey England, 1979. Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a secluded New Forest home, part of the government’s…
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Book Review: The Hardest Job in the World – The American Presidency by Edward Ortiz
It’s interesting to learn how the office of the president of the United States came to be and how it has changed over time, mostly due to Congress’s neglect. I have been reading about the Founding Fathers and the important documents they produced that have guided this country. So when…
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Masticadores, its writers, and editors wish you a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2026!
Masticadores & latinosUSA & Focus & Brasil & Italia & Gobblers & Letras & FEM & Argentina & MUsa, & Chewers & Hotel & Filipinas & Taiwan & Canada / its writers, and editors wish you a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2026! Thank you for your support! Felicitas Rebaque,…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol by Robbie Cheadle
A Christmas Carol tells the story of an elderly miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who is visited by the ghost of his deceased business partner, Jacob Marley, on Christmas Eve. Jacob Marley is described as having a pigtail and a waistcoat, tights and boots and looking much the same in death as…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens – The Battle of Life, a Love Story by Robbie Cheadle
Picture credit: Link The Battle of Life is a love story by Charles Dickens that was first published in 1846. It is the fourth of Dickens’ five Christmas Books. It is the only story in the collection that does not have a supernatural element. The story is set in an English…
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Review: El miedo a ser como los demás by Javier Vidal (Available in Spanish) by j. Ré Crivello
El miedo a ser como los demás (Distrito 93), Javier Vidal’s second novel, draws its strength from emotional vulnerability: mental illness as an everyday landscape, friendship as both a lifeline and a burden. Within this terrain appears the double mirror of David Foster Wallace and Jonathan Franzen—not as a literary…
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Something Beautiful and Meaningful: Willie Torres (editor Francisco Bravo Cabrera)
From LEGENDS TO THE LIVING WORD I’ve always loved the adventures bold,Of Vikings, Pirates, tales of old.Medieval Knights, Celtic lands,Stories told by skilled hands. I remember the faire, the sights, the sounds,The costumes, the jousts, the magic that surrounds.The acting, the tales, the journeys afar,Chasing treasures beneath the stars. But…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens – The Chimes, A Goblin Story by Robbie Cheadle
The Chimes, a Dickens novella which was first published in 1844, one year after the well-known A Christmas Carol. The story involves the disillusionment of Toby “Trotty” Veck, a poor working-class man who works as a casual messenger or ‘ticket-porter’. Dickens goes to great lengths at the beginning of the…
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Christmas Novellas by Charles Dickens – The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home by Robbie Cheadle
You can read The Cricket on the Hearth here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/678/678-h/678-h.htm According to New York University: “The Cricket on the Hearth was the most popular of Dickens’s Christmas Books, which he wrote both to support his large family and to generate readers’ sympathy and charitable giving, often through characters who are poor, suffering,…
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The Red Badge of Courage / Stephen Crane by Robbie Cheadle
Background The Red Badge of Courage is a novel about the American Civil War, written by American author, Stephen Crane. Although the author was born after the war and had not ever participated in a battle when he wrote the book, The Red Badge of Courage is cited for its realism and naturalism.…
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford and the forced interment of the Japanese Americans during WW2 by Robbie Cheadle
An overview of the book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a historical novel written by Jamie Ford. The plot makes use of a dual timeline: one featuring Henry as a 12-year-old Chinese boy growing up during World War II and the other depicting Henry 44 years…
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Thoughts about All Quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque By Robbie Cheadle
Overview This book is a first-hand account of the life of Paul Bäumer, who belongs to a squad of German soldiers on the Western Front during World War I. Paul and his classmates enlisted in the army at the end of their high school career as a result of the…
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Review: Blog Served Cold: BOOK #1 of the REVENGE SERIES / Terry Tyler (@TerryTyler4) by Olga Nuñez
Hi, all: I bring you a book by a favourite author of mine, and of many of you as well. She is also a fabulous reviewer, so I recommend reading her books and following her blog as well. But, before I get on with the review of her newest book,…
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Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain by Robbie Cheadle
A fellow blogger introduced me to Vera Brittain, a feminist, writer, and poet, who lived through WW1 and lost her fiancé, brother, and two close friends. My own great aunt never married after losing her fiancé during WW1, so Vera’s feelings of loss and displacement after the war gave me a…
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The Green Mile by Stephen King by Robbie Cheadle
What Amazon says At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, killers such as «Billy the Kid» Wharton and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in «Old Sparky». Guards as decent as Paul Edgecombe and as sadistic as Percy Wetmore watch over…
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