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The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende

3/28/2021

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I went into my local bookstore looking for another book, which they didn't have but didn't want to leave empty-handed, so I picked this one up. If I read her most famous book, House of Spirits, it was long ago and I don't remember it. But a friend had recommended Paula, and it was one of those books that draws you in, so I knew she was a god writer, This book is brand new, even written during isolation in the current pandemic. I hadn't heard anything about it. As I started to read it, I didn't get the same sense of emotion and desperation as in Paula. Of course, she was writing about her dying daughter in Paula. That must be the worst experience for a parent. This book is more like a need to communicate in this time of isolation. Mainly, it is about being unashamedly and powerfully a feminist, and being an elder feminist at that. Reading this book was like listening to a friend go on and on about what she feels strongly about and why. To tell you the truth, the part of the book that lingered the longest is in her relationship with her third husband. Though I go back and forth with needing, wanting, and then not, a companion, reading her story planted yet another seed that it was not a bad idea, and possible to find someone to share life with at an advanced age. 
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