When she was young, she was raped by pirates, also losing her first love, so she became bitter and hating to all men. She is a landlady, powerful, rich and ruthless. And her first name "Barbara", is a real name used by many women but in Spanish also means "wild" and this is crutial in the story, since she lives in the deep of the jungle around the Arauca River. But that title here denotes also the respect and fear that everybody, specially the men, have for her. This novel tells the story of a woman, a "man-eater" woman, whose name is Barbara and everybody calls her "Doña Barbara", "doña" means like "mrs". To denote how important are really these books to me.įrom all the books that I had to read in school and high school, definitely this one is my favorite of those. However, to choose a single book for my "Favorites" virtual shelf, when it's down to pick just one book in Spanish, I have to choose this book Doña Barbara.Īlso, it's the only book that I had to read in high school as homework that appears in the "Favorites" virtual shelf that as I commented in other review of books in that shelf, I decided to limit that shelf to only 10 books. And indeed I like a lot of books written by authors from my country. This book is by an author from Venezuela. Maybe since I am from Costa Rica, I should pick as my favorite Latin American book, something from my own country. This is my favorite Latin American book!!! First you can find the English version and at the end of that one, you will find the Spanish version. However, to choose a single book for my "Favorites" virtual shelf, when it's down to pick just one bo This review is bilingual. This is my favorite Latin American book!!! Maybe since I am from Costa Rica, I should pick as my favorite Latin American book, something from my own country. Brilliantly honest and hilariously funny, Rosy’s story shows us all that the key to a successful love life could just be a swipe away.This review is bilingual. She falls for the wrong guys, ditches the nice ones, but can she finally find her happy ending. From a sky-high dinner date to a borderline drug bust in Chelsea, Rosy has experienced it all, swinging through her love life on the trapeze of Tinder. And she soon learns the unspoken rules the hard way: always reject a guy with black and white profile pics (he is ginger and/or ugly) is wearing a hat (bald) has a shot of his torso (moron) or is not standing beside anything scaleable (5”8 and under). So after a few unsuccessful dates with friends of friends (read: being forced to date their shortest/dullest/oddest acquaintance), she put herself on Tinder, the app that has transformed the world of online dating. And although she’s happy being single, a part of her kind of wants a boyfriend. She’s career minded, she just doesn’t know which career to have in mind right now. She’s frugal when it comes to food shopping, but is willing to splash out on shampoo. The laugh-out-loud true story of one girl's experience of life on Tinder.Rosy Edwards is the epitome of a contradictory twenty-something year old.