Santa Evita

Aww...shoot--another weekend has come and gone. This weekend was pretty action-packed with lots of activities and sunbathing. However, I still feel unfulfilled because it was Cinco De Mayo weekend and I couldn't get my butt out at night to celebrate! Friday night I didn't get out because I had to wake up early to run the Fiesta 5k Ole (which I did, came in 12th in my division! yay. My pace was 8min41seconds a mile). Saturday, Dustin and I laid down after dinner to talk and relax before heading out to Fremont but we both fell asleep. I woke up in a panic at 11pm, but the night was a bust. Blah. Oh well, besides that minor disappointment I ran my first 5k race since I was a kid, ate some killer street tacos, saw Avengers 3D (it was entertaining), and today I made pita bread and attended book club. More on my pita bread later, I just wanted to share my thoughts on this book that I just finished. 

This is going to be a pretty quick review as I am super tired and need to head to bed. Essentially, this book was about Eva Peron and primarily, what happened to her corpse after she died. First, if you are not familiar with Eva Peron and her rise from rags to riches, you should probably do some background research on her before pursuing this book. You could get by with just watching the Madonna musical, but maybe some quick reading would do you good as well. Anyways, Eva's corpse holds some mysterious power, but in a ghostly sense but also in the sense that she was a really powerful women when she was alive; who holds her corpse ultimately yields more power. The book follows both of these power struggles as her corpse engages with many different characters. Sound Confusing? It was.

I found this book to be interesting at times, but mostly so disjointed that I couldn't really connect with any of the characters. The author inserts himself in and out of the book sporadically, so I had a hard time whether I should be reading it as a non-fiction book, where the author knows all truths, or as a mystery fiction book allowing me to come up with my own hypotheses. He also inserted different documents, such as transcripts and written notes. I felt like I could follow each individual chapters, but not the story as a whole. I would tell people about the book because the subject matter is very interesting, but I did not find this to be a favorite of mine.

Tomas Eloy Martinez actually wrote another book about Eva Peron's life. I want to read more about her, so I might give his other book a try. He clearly is skilled in researching-I just wish that I could have followed his musings better.


Super late for work because I couldn't find my bus pass. (It was in my coat pocket from Friday...duh)

Rachel.