THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

  The Latina Book Club is compiling a Directory of all the Latina/o book clubs across the country. We want to highlight them on our website as well, as part of our ongoing mission to promote literary. If you belong to or know of any book clubs for Latinos – in English and Spanish –, please email us at latinabookclub@aol.com .   Meanwhile, we are proud to introduce you to The Latin Baby Book Club, the best place for children’s book suggestions, many of which are bilingual. THE LATIN BABY BOOK CLUB Founder : Monica Olivera Hazelton Website: http://www.latinbabybookclub.com/ Email: admin@LatinBabyUSA.com Q: When did you form The Latin Baby Book Club? What is your mission? I formed the Latin Baby Book Club (LBBC) in the fall of 2008, after realizing that there were no online resources (of Latino children's literature) specifically for bilingual families. My goal has been to create a platform that parents, grandparents, teachers, and even librarians can visit t...

Last night was the Comadres, Compadres & Friends May Bookclub meeting in NYC.  Our book this month was Kathy Cano-Murillo's WAKING UP IN THE LAND OF GLITTER.  As I've mentioned before, it's a fun, fast read that inspires "craftiness."  And, the group spent the night chatting about Star, Offie and Chloe, AND making our own bookmarks. Check them out!  Oh, and here are our Bookclub Questions for WAKING UP IN THE LAND OF GLITTER: 1)  How does the title relate to each of the women:  Star, Offie and Chloe? 2)  Use one word to describe each woman?  Who was the most needy of the three? 3)  How do the women grow by the end of the book? 4)  Why was Star so scatterbrain? why do you think she never finished a project of her own? 5)   How and why did Offie hide behind her craft projects? 6)   How could "Crafty Chloe" deceive so many people?  how did she hide behind her crafts? 7)   Family is ver...

Author:  Reyna Grande Publisher:  Washington Square Press Website:   http://www.reynagrande.com/ Folklórico, traditional Mexican dance, bring together four women in Los Angeles. Yesenia and her husband lead Alegría, a successful Folklórico dance group, but Yesenia’s arthritic knee keeps her offstage and restless in her marriage. Sisters Elena and Adriana grew up dancing in Alegría, but bitterness over their difficult childhood has soured their relationship. And Soledad, the group’s costume designer, is determined to open a dress shop in L.A., even though she is in the U.S. illegally. Tragedy strikes each of these four women, leaving Alegría’s future in doubt. Yesenia tries to reshape her body through cut-rate plastic surgery in Tijuana. Elena’s new marriage breaks up after her baby is stillborn, and instead of dancing through her grief, she lusts after an underage dancer. Adriana, missing her abusive father, chases oblivion through a series of dangerous relat...