house of spirits
i’m very fond of this book so far, and it has many interesting events that occur. My favorite character is Blanca, but the book mainly deals with clara. I find it hard to relate to clara as im sure the characters in the novels do also. Like when she realizes Estaban rapes girls she just feel sbad for the girls but doesn’t really care much for her own husband, or when her kids are just all over the place, of course she worries about them, put she has horrible and poor parenting skills, but i do like her. She has all these psychic premonitions, and it seems like the characters depend on them because they always come true. Towards the end of chapter 8 Blanca breaks into Jean’s secret room and finds all these pictures on the walls, but i don’t understand because i think that jean might be a homosexual even though when they were only aquaintences he seemed to be infatuated with her, but once their married he gives her freedom and they don’t really have “sexual relations” and him having a special assistant and not spending time with women seem pretty suspicious to me. Anyways, im not in favor of Esteban, Nicholas(?) is not too great either, their both pretty self-absorbed & selfish, & if pedro didn’t rebel i think it wouldn’t be so difficult to be with blanca & i feel bad for jaime because he keeps getting shafted by his brother and seems to be like vapor to everyone else.