Dancing with Armando eBook Jill Cox Vogt
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Born in a Tennessee commune to an activist mother and an unidentified father, Iris Lyon already feels short-changed. Now, in small-town Twicks Hill, her husband ignores her, her mother stages protests, and her musically gifted daughter grows sneakier by the day. When Iris runs into an old acquaintance, handsome mystery writer Armando Torres, she hopes for friendship to ease her frustrating world. Instead, she must overcome deceptions that crash in on the night she dances with Armando.
Dancing with Armando chronicles three generations of strong and optimistic women, each with hopes and dreams -- and closely guarded secrets. While Sophie and her daughter Iris walk a fine line between love and dejection, granddaughter Heaven shines as a musical prodigy whose curiosity about her missing grandfather sets off a chain of emotions that will change their worlds.
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Dancing with Armando eBook Jill Cox Vogt
What strikes me most about Dancing with Armando is how beautifully written it is. The author has a way of using words that draw a picture we want to step into. It's a complicated picture, given the secrets, the regrets and the desires of three generations of women. But it is a world we know, a world we have lived in ourselves, since we all have secrets and regrets and desires.But the author doesn't take us down a maudlin road. These women are too strong, too independent, too optimistic and too full of dreams to lead us there. Instead, the author does a great job of making us care deeply for Sophie, the grandmother, who lived in a commune in the 1970s and hasn't given up her save-the-world activism; Sophie's daughter Iris, who came about as the result of a relationship Sophie had with another commune dweller, though she's never told Iris who her father is; and Iris's teenage daughter, Heaven, a musical prodigy whose curiosity about her unknown grandfather sets off a chain of events that will change these women's worlds.
The characters' development and the story evolve in real time, and under realistic but labyrinthian circumstances. Dancing with Armando is a book that grabs you and doesn't let go. It's rich, it's deep, it's poignant, it's humorous--it's real life with just enough magic woven in to make us believe that everything has a time and a purpose that will be revealed to us when the stars properly align. "Twinkle to the Twinkle." I highly recommend this gem of a book.
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Dancing with Armando eBook Jill Cox Vogt Reviews
From the beginning of the story until the end, you are caught up in the lives of the main characters. Sophie the hippie grandmother who in the 60's lived on a commune and has a child named Earth (changed to Iris for modern times), and Iris has a daughter named Heaven a musical prodigy. Sophie is a charismatic matriarch who inspires devotion with all the women in her life totally gives this book a very special meaning for all of its readers, and an understanding of what "Dancing with Armando" can do for all of us. A must read!
I read this author's book, The Fizgig, and really liked it, so when I got a notice that she had written another book, I bought it. This was even better than The Fizgig. I love Jill Vogt's writing style. She took me on an delightful journey with Sophie, Iris and Heaven and all the other characters in the book.I was invested in the characters and their lives, but even more with the beautiful story that kept me turning the pages. There were some surprises, not all good, but that just made the plot and the outcome so much more meaningful. I felt many emotions throughout the book, and will read this one again.
I'm a fan of Jill Vogt and devoured her first book, The Fizgig and when I learned she had a new book out, I scooped it up....after all, who can't resist with a title like Dancing With Armando!
I'm a child of the sixties, so reading a tale of three generations of free spirited women was icing on the cake. Vogt created jewels in Sophie, the grandmother - still unyielding in her activist beliefs and quirky personality. Iris, Sophie's daughter and Heaven, Sophie's granddaughter each lend their own beauty to this poignant story.
The story has the perfect mix of ingredients - humor, emotion (plenty of it) and surprises. It's a five-star recipe that I encourage you to read.
As I read, Cat Steven's song, Wild World was playing in my head, making me smile. Oh Baby, it's a Wild World. Bravo Ms. Vogt. You've made this hippie child smile and I look forward to many more treasures from you!
I read Jill Vogts first novel and thoroughly enjoyed it. In fact, I read the first chapter twice because i loved the writing style. I waited patiently for book 2 and was not disappointed. I loved how Dancing with Armando used the POV's of the three main characters the grandmother, the mother and the daughter, 3 generations of women, all with different upbringings, yet still with similarities to tie them together in a close bond. There are plenty of surprises too! It had me turning pages quickly. I fell in love with their small town. The author never skimped on making you feel right at home. As a mother of a daughter, this book touched me even more. You will not be disappointed.
“Dancing with Armando” is a book that puts in comparison not only three different women, at different ages, but as well different types of life styles. I must admit that I was expecting so much more in the beginning, but once I was done reading it, I did understand all the concepts behind Sophie, Iris and Heaven.
A hippie grandmother, an unhappy mother and a talented daughter, all meet and for this spectacular combination of personalities. Each has tried to make the best for her family. Sophie was abandoned by her lover and father of her child when Iris was just a baby and she has never heard of him before. She has dealt with the pain ever since the best way she could forgetting and following her ideals, being an artist, in a hippie sort of way. Iris has become a mother herself and, even if her marriage is not the strongest, she is doing her best to offer a father to her daughter. Heaven, on the other hand, is trying to reunite past with present and make a career in music.
But who is actually Armando? Well, Armando is more than a character. I see him as a concept, since the expression “dancing with Armando” is used several times with a deeper meaning. Dancing with Armando is like an option to escape an imperfect life.it is that one special moment when you can let it all go and imagine yourself someone different. Is the ideal life we all want.
I did not like how the encounter between father and daughter was presented and it made Iris seem immature for a married woman with a child. Also, I would have wanted to know more about Iris’s marriage, how bad it was before the shift in their lives and how it was after that moment. But other than that, I have no complains.
This is the sort of book that makes you reflect on the good and bad in your life and nudges you towards appreciating all the good. If things are not as one would like, the only solution is to fix them, not run away. At least this is the idea that I was left with after finishing it. Hope you like it as well.
What strikes me most about Dancing with Armando is how beautifully written it is. The author has a way of using words that draw a picture we want to step into. It's a complicated picture, given the secrets, the regrets and the desires of three generations of women. But it is a world we know, a world we have lived in ourselves, since we all have secrets and regrets and desires.
But the author doesn't take us down a maudlin road. These women are too strong, too independent, too optimistic and too full of dreams to lead us there. Instead, the author does a great job of making us care deeply for Sophie, the grandmother, who lived in a commune in the 1970s and hasn't given up her save-the-world activism; Sophie's daughter Iris, who came about as the result of a relationship Sophie had with another commune dweller, though she's never told Iris who her father is; and Iris's teenage daughter, Heaven, a musical prodigy whose curiosity about her unknown grandfather sets off a chain of events that will change these women's worlds.
The characters' development and the story evolve in real time, and under realistic but labyrinthian circumstances. Dancing with Armando is a book that grabs you and doesn't let go. It's rich, it's deep, it's poignant, it's humorous--it's real life with just enough magic woven in to make us believe that everything has a time and a purpose that will be revealed to us when the stars properly align. "Twinkle to the Twinkle." I highly recommend this gem of a book.
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