Joseph Wambaugh offers this advice, “When you despair of what passes for storytelling in today’s dumbed-down video ‘culture’… Turn on some Gershwin, Ellington, Cole Porter, curl up, and open to the first page of a John D. MacDonald novel. You shall be restored!” Most of us older folks living here in Mexico are familiar with […]
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“A story filled with sex, violence, and drugs, even love, a story of treachery, where only power and money ultimately are valued.” Author Belden Butterfield was born in Argentina, educated in the United States, sent to Mexico by Time Inc. and now lives in San Miguel de Allende and Mexico City. In his new novel, The […]
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AuthorHouse (Bloomington, Indiana), 2009 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback Temples of the Mist is for teenagers and about teenagers. Seventeen-year-old Caleana and her thirteen-year-old brother Marsh were part of a happy family, a California beach-town family that had a “deep longing to make a difference in the world,” a family where the mother practiced yoga and wrote […]
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HarperCollins Publisher, 2009 Available from Amazon Books: in Hardcover, Softcover, and Kindle “Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall and a waiter hustles through a curtain of jasmine to bring a bowl of tortilla soup, steaming with cilantro and lime.” […]
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Adoro Books, 2009 Available from Amazon Books: Paperback The back cover of Sweet Spot tells us that author “Linton Robinson was a journalist in Mazatlán and other Mexico cities for years. And played a little ball in his time.” His protagonist and narrator — Raymundo Carrasco — likewise was a journalist in Mexico for years. And played a […]
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iUniverse, 2009 Available from amazon.com (In Hardcover and Paperback) For years, I have been curious about “the isthmus,” or more formally “The Isthmus of Tehuantepec,” perhaps in part because Frida Kahlo loved so much the traditional clothing of this rarely visited section of southern Mexico, or perhaps because I love the Zapotec rugs that come […]
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Available from Amazon Books: Paperback A while ago, I reviewed for MexConnect another useful book by Mike & Terri Church: Traveler’s Guide to Mexican Camping, 3rd Edition. LINK That book — in 512 packed pages — covers all of Mexico, and even Belize. Eighty pages are devoted to the Baja. A few months before that, I reviewed another book […]
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Available from Amazon Books: Hardcover How about a romance novel set in Mexico? Yes! And complete with a beautiful young girl, Abigail Carnegie Christensen, twenty-four, who is of course headstrong and independent; and a bad man who is handsome and powerful, who is in fact a legendary drug lord named Esai Molinero; and his equally handsome […]
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Gods, Gachupines and Gringos: A People’s History of Mexico First Edition, 472 pages Editorial Mazatlán (Mazatlán, Sinaloa, México), 2008 Available from Amazon here I have about fifteen feet of shelf space devoted to books about Mexico and novels set (at least in part) in Mexico. I have one foot of space for favorites, which include […]
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The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire by C. M. Mayo Unbridled Press, May 5 (Cinco de Mayo) 2009 430 Pages Available from Amazon here Wow! What a story! In 1864 the Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg, accompanied by his ambitious and beautiful wife Charlotte, arrives in Mexico City. Louis Napoleon had previously sent thousands of French […]
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