THE LATINA BOOK CLUB

It's Halloween Week and the Latina Book Club is proud to bring you books that will scare you and make your heart race.   So Be Brave and Happy Reading. Feiwel & Friends / Macmillan "As a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, I'd inherited a legacy -- more like a psychotic sense of noblesse oblige -- which meant I had a responsibility to protect people from the undead."--Micheline  If you love hunting vampires, vanquishing ghosts and killing zombies, Micheline Helsing is your girl! This book is not for the faint of heart.  It has enough gore, blood and other gross icky substances to fill a pool.  Micheline is no Buffy either.  She's a sassy, dedicated, tattooed hunter determined to kill monsters, save her crew and uphold the family name. But being on a deadline sucks!  Readers will love this young crew of monster hunters.  We hope there is a sequel! SUMMARY:   Micheline Helsing is a tetrachromat -- a girl wh...

     The Latina Book Club's mission is to promote Latina / Latino authors. We do this through book reviews, author interviews, publicity announcements, book of the month selections, etc. A new popular feature we added this year is " Writers Wednesdays ." The first Wednesday of each month, we will feature a writer talking about ...writing.        Note:   Joao’s translator Karen Bennett will present A TRAGÉDIA DE FIDEL CASTRO AND ITS AMERICAN AVATAR at the international conference – Version, Subversion: translation, the canon and its discontents--An International Conference on Literary Translation – at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto on December 12-14 in Portugal.   Click here to see the conference’s program.   Happy Reading!         I admit it; I want to punch my readers, but before I do, I try to make them laugh." – Joao Throwing a literary punch by João Cer...

The Latina Book Club congratulates Nilsa Rodriguez on her debut novel, THE RISING MOON, a YA paranormal romance that is thrilling, scary, complicated and exciting all at once.    Join us today as we "speak" with Nilsa and find out about her new series and her favorite things. How many lives do you have to live to realize that love is stronger than time and death? You and I both know my life is far from normal. I'm a werewolf, madly and desperately in love with a vampire. I could never live a normal life even if I tried." ~Angelia Lafosse Q&A....with Nilsa Rodriguez In your novel, THE RISING MOON, you introduce us to Angelia Lafosse. Tell us about her and her world. Angelia (Lia to her friends) is an eighteen year old girl who has grown up being shuffled between foster home and foster home. She lost her parents when she was only four years old and because everyone she has ever loved died, including her foster mother, Lia believes she is cursed...

Today is the day!  In case you have not heard, the movie "Eclipse" debuts today.  It is the third installment of the TWILIGHT series.  And so with a nod to Edward Cullen, the new Prince of Darkness, I would like to play tribute to two vampyres -- two Latin Lovers!! -- who came before him and still reign. They are none other than Frank Langella and Antonio Banderas. Frank Langella's Dracula on the big screen and on Broadway seduced millions of women around the world.  It's those eyes.  They say, be mine, and so you are.  Lucy, Mina and I could not say no.  Could you? Antonio Banderas as Armand in Anne Rice's "Interview with a Vampire" was sexy as hell.  The man, the vampyre, is seduction personified.  Definitely a Latin Lover worth sticking your neck out for -- pun intended. For a complete list of my favorite Hollywood vampyres, please check out my blog post on The Four Horsewomen of the Metropolis. Who is your favor...