A review by nbcknwlf
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait by Carlos Fuentes, Frida Kahlo

4.0

This is a facsimile of Frida Kahlo's diary, so of course it is awesome. 4 instead of 5 stars for bad layout decisions. I can kind of understand why, for example, all of the translation is at the end of the book, so as not to interrupt the flow of the diary itself, but it could have been done more elegantly so that it's not so hard to find the translation of the page you're looking at. A better option might have been to have all the commentary and translation in a separate volume, and/or make some kind of online component to go with the diary now that we live in the future. Color coded page edges? Really, anything would be better than how it's laid out now. But, when you get down to it, complaining about having to flip pages back and forth is what I think some might call a "first world problem." It doesn't ruin the experience, just makes it clunky.