The Revolutionaries Try Again | 
My sudden (very 'flimsy little') gritty realist mood reading taste for end-of-year hard-hitting reflection, as based off my last thrifting haul. Opaque cover belongs to Paolo Bacigalupi's The Water Knife. Who else feels dystopia is just right for end-of-the-year reflection or new-year conceptual possibilities? Is it just me and my current mood? What would add to this thematic?
Left me coffee mug unlatched in my backpack and destroyed three library books. #StableGenius
"Sir, to tell you the truth, sir, this job would be temporary: I'm going to become the liberator of the Americas so I can only stay twenty to forty years tops."
What's the new black-and-white-and-red/read-all-over? These books!
So I wasn't going to spend any $$ at #wordstockpdx but there were vouchers!
pickI wrote this book. I spent 12 years writing it. It has received rave reviews from Harper's, San Francisco Chronicle, The Millions, Music & Literature, The Scofield, Booklist, Edmundo Paz Soldan even wrote about it in a major newspaper in Chile. Give it a shot? 🤓
pickI wrote this book. I spent 12 years writing it. It has received rave reviews from Harper's, San Francisco Chronicle, The Millions, Music & Literature, The Scofield, Booklist, Edmundo Paz Soldan even wrote about it in a major newspaper in Chile. Give it a shot? 🤓
I haven't started this novel yet, but it's near the top of my TBR list—an experimental novel about a group of young men during a period of upheaval in Ecuadorian politics, set in the beautiful city of Guayaquil, Ecuador (my husband @Santiago 's hometown!). #booktober #setinSAmerica #bookssetinSAmerica
panIncredible cover...huge disappointment. This book is all tricks, all form, and style--but no interesting narrative.
Cardenas seems like a very smart guy, but his artistry feels too much like an imitation. His imitation of dangerous writing!
I always finish a book I start, but this was a true test in stamina.
I love CoffeeHouse Press! Can't wait to read this recent release.
♦️One week away from THE REVOLUTIONARIES TRY AGAIN by Mauro Javier Cardenas!♦️
I live in Florida, so we are kind of in our own little bubble, in the twilight zone, a state out of character for the U.S., as another referred to it as. 3y
Although it did seem as if Maryland was kind of invisible, out of the picture of national conversation when I lived there recently for two years....
The political climate seems to be unsettling and neurotic everywhere now---Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico, at the European border... (edited) 3y