The Murmur of Bees

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There are so many aspects of the stories within the main story arc I loved-the nonas, everything involving Simono Pio, and Francisco Jr. The Spanish Flu Pandemic impacts the narrative and has a great/entertaining side story. I'm not sure if it is accurate to say there are supernatural aspects to the story as in the traditional sense of the word. There are SUPER NATURAL aspects, as in a super awareness or sensitivity to NATURE.

Beatriz Cortés de Morales: Daughter of a privileged family in Linares whose father is murdered during the war. She who marries Francisco I have stopped listening, because at the halfway point nothing much has changed and it's either going to happen in the next couple of hours, or at the end, or not at all. The fact that I'm not able to connect with the storytelling halfway in is a sign that I'm most likely going to be even more annoyed if I keep investing. I may one day try the book again, but for now, it's taken me almost a month to get through 14 hours when I just listened to a 28 hour book in half the time.Vox shares 11 questions you’re too embarrassed to ask about magical realism, which provides a good launching point to discuss magical realism. Simonopio brought six-year-old Francisco Junior to school every morning, and one day, they heard an announcement for a show. A man would sing underwater on the upcoming Saturday, and Simonopio agreed to bring Francisco Junior. That Saturday was also Francisco Junior’s seventh birthday. Instead of watching the show, Beatriz and Francisco insisted that he join his father to plant orange trees on Espiricueta’s plot. Simonopio, respecting their time together, resolved to watch the show as planned. Francisco Junior, in the present, allowed himself to remember the rest of this story as the taxi driver drove him through Linares. The Murmur of Bees has some timeless characters. The story begins with Nana Reja who has been a nurse to many children in town, and now lives permanently with the Morales family. Simonopio is found in the fields as an infant and though Nana Reja does not take the role of his mother – Beatriz is his godmother – she has an important silent presence in his life.

How reliable is Francisco, Jr. as a narrator as he tells this story as an old man? How do you think is age and recollection have changed events or moments? When Sra. Morales moves the family to Monterrey, Nana Reja and Simonopio decide to stay in Linares. Simonopio is supposed to be her godson, who she raised since infancy, but, out of sight, out of mind. Nana Reja: Nurses Guillermo Morales as a baby after his mother dies in childbirth and becomes a wet nurse in Linares; an old woman by time of this story If you would are looking for other books offering the reader a family history consider Commonwealth, Everyone Knows You Go Home, Homegoing, or all we had. Each is a very different style from a multi-century view in Homegoing to a family during the 2008 housing crisis in all we had. Everyone Knows You Go Home shares some magical realism. Any would be a good choice as a follow-up and comparison to the Murmur of Bees. Characters

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As you might recall from the book blurb, Simonopio is disfigured. He does not speak much. But when Francisco is born, the two share a language. Francisco understands what Simonopio is saying and he becomes an interpreter. Mood board for The Murmur of Bees On Intuition

More than that, Segovia creates beautifully realized characters, at once perfect archetypes and perfectly relatable. Our hero, Simonopio, is loving and pure of heart, devoted to his family yet free-spirited, with an air of mystery. Yet, he’s also just a boy, becoming distracted and curious by a show in town just when his family needs him the most. We know Simonopio is special. He has premonition about certain things and I really like how easily the Morales family accepted his gifts. He is friends with bees. He is a free spirit that Beatriz does not try to domesticate. There are some things though that turn up on Simonopio’s radar too late. And this leads the reader into the commentary around regrets and guilt. Knowing that one has the insight or power has the potential to make one regret not being on time. Tai knyga apie matymą užsimerkus. Užuodimą to, kas už keliolikos ar net kelių šimtų kilometrų. Apie kojomis neįveikiamas keliones, kurias įveiki ant bičių sparnų. Apie prisiminimą to, kas nutiks rytoj. Apie kojotus žmonėse ir žmones kojotuose. Apie apgamus ant veido – kodėl jie keičia formą ir vietą kas kartą sumirksėjus? Apie istorijas, kurias gali išgirsti akimis ir papasakoti oda. Apie visus, kuriems galbūt nebuvo lemta išgyventi, bet lemta gyventi – oi, dar ir kaip gyventi. Kaip moka gal nebent Meksikoje. Prisikeliant iš numirusiųjų. Mirtį nukeliant ar ją numatant. Nuspėjant ar nujaučiant. Karstą paruošiant dvidešimt metų iki mirties. The way he saves the land happens in typical, enigmatic Simonopio style when he appears before Francisco Morales with a handful of orange blossoms and wordlessly offers them. He never speaks because he has a cleft palate — and perhaps because he simply chooses not to. Francisco understands this gift and knows immediately what to do to save his family and their way of life. During the Mexican Revolution, the Morales were fearful that “revolutionaries” would kidnap their daughters who were coming of age, so they sent them to Monterrey to a school ran by nuns. When the girls started being courted in Monterrey, Sr. Morales decides to buy a house their so Sra. Morales can visit the girls and chaperone their time with the boys.Audible. What a wonderful listening experience! The dual narration took the experience to another level, both narrators doing an amazing job, but the man's voice was so memorable (as is James Earl Jones's voice). It is a powerful tale set in Mexico. It is a story of family, of adaptability, and the quest to acquire or save your land. The farming aspect of the story made me feel very connected to my grandfather. The Murmur of Bees is a beautifully written heart-warming yet heartbreaking story set in Mexico around 1918, when the Spanish flu hit with a devastating impact and the Mexican Revolution also took many of the country's men. From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution. How do you tell your own stories? Does a story you share about your day over the dinner table or to a colleague during a break differ in style from a story you might tell on a long drive? Love of Family and Love of Land