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Freakin' Hanoi Jane. Love her or hate her, she's never dull. A disclaimer of sorts: Jane Fonda was a huge part of my upbringing. Huge. My dad hated her and cursed her name whenever "On Golden Pond" appeared on HBO (which seemed to be all the damn time), and my mother and I did her exercise videos every single day with a frenetic passion that eventually devolved into complete zombified apathy. And then I spent about a year in college watching "Coming Home" over and over again. So I approached this with a strong sense of awe and a rather misguided idea of what Jane means to us all. This lady's a hard one to pin down. One minute she's starving herself and allowing Vadim to sleep around. The next she's black powering it through her years with Hayden. Then she's a home video entrepreneur doing high kicks in a black lace leotard. Then she's Jeeping around Ted Turner's ranch. Always changing it up and causing a stir. Like I said, she's never dull. I liked her, and I liked this book. She's cuckoo, but she's got a good heart, and she knows how crazy she sounds sometimes. That's refreshing.
Sweet and cute. A little long, maybe.
Laura Restrepo es una de mis autoras favoritas desde que "Delirio" ganó el premio Alfaguara en 2004. "Leopardo al Sol" es el primer libro que leí de esta autora y me llevó a buscar más de sus libros. Es la versión colombiana de los Montesco y Capuletto. Retrato de la violencia y esquemas familiares en Colombia, que nos toca muy de cerca como latinoamericanos, no tan lejanos a esa experiencia.
Decent overview of the Russo-Finnish War but way too short.