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MsLeah8417
Family Lore: A Novel | Elizabeth Acevedo
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Pickpick

⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Nessavamusic
Family Lore: A Novel | Elizabeth Acevedo
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Bailedbailed

Bailing at 27% The writing is very pretty and I love generational family stories, however there are too many POV‘s and the non-linear timeline is very hard to follow. It may just my current reading tastes, so I may attempt at a future time.

This month is so the month of DNF‘s but chipping away at that #roll100 backlist! #hailthebail

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 2w
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Bookwomble
Tentacle | Rita Indiana
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#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude
As you asked for recommendations for upbeat Latin music, I can only really offer Rita Indiana's "Mandinga Times", but I think it's a good one! She's a Dominican musician, author (see tagged) and advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights across the Caribbean ❤️?️‍? https://open.spotify.com/album/027cuwNhwK78Agx2K1N5EC?si=IFXmW5ACQ5SGr2-PylclTA
For a more chill bossa nova beat, I like Paul Desmond's "Take Ten" ??

TieDyeDude I like it! Thanks for the recommendation 2w
Jari-chan Same. Thank you! 2w
Bookwomble @TieDyeDude @Jari-chan You're welcome 😊 2w
Billypar Great pick! After I listened to her album, I went on a Spotify algorithm tear today that led me to discover several new artists, including Ketekalles from Barcelona and Cuban singer La Dame Blanche. 2w
Bookwomble @Billypar I'm glad you like Rita, and that you've found some other new music, too 😊 2w
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OneCent76
Family Lore: A Novel | Elizabeth Acevedo
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Panpan

This book just wasn't for me. I read it for a book club I'm in.

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azulaco
The Feast of the Goat: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa
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Your cup of coffee or glass of rum must taste better, the smoke of your cigar, a swim in the ocean on a hot day, the movie you see on Saturday, the merengue on the radio, everything must leave a more pleasurable sensation in your body and spirit when you had what Trujillo had taken away from Dominicans thirty-one years ago: free will. #readingtheamericas2023 #dominicanrepublic

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azulaco
The Feast of the Goat: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa
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It had been this malaise of so many years‘ duration - thinking one thing and doing something that contradicted it every day - that led him, in the secret recesses of his mind, to condemn Trujillo to death, to convince himself that as long as Trujillo lived, he and many other Dominicans would be condemned to this awful queasy sickness of constantly having to lie to themselves and deceive everyone else…#readingtheamericas2023 #dominicanrepublic

azulaco …of having to be two people in one, a public lie and a private truth that could not be expressed. 2mo
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azulaco
The Feast of the Goat: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa
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I didn‘t get close to finishing #readingtheamericas2023, but I want to continue it, so I‘ll be #readingtheamericas in 2024 as well. I‘ll be using the books in the Around the World in 80 Books challenge on Goodreads as well. Anyone else still #readingtheamericas in 2024? @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle thanks for hosting and have a good time #readingoceania2024!

Librarybelle Sounds like a great plan! 2mo
BarbaraBB I am sure you‘re not the only one! 2mo
Susanita We watched the movie at my old office. It was…awkward. 2mo
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BookishTrish
Family Lore: A Novel | Elizabeth Acevedo
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Pickpick

Acevedo is an excellent storyteller and very good at creating memorable characters. Despite the predictable ending, I enjoyed this one.

thewallflower0707 I really liked all her YA novels, haven‘t read her first adult novel yet! 3mo
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Susanita
Clap When You Land | Elizabeth Acevedo
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For April I picked two books. #12booksof2023

Andrew65 Still yet to read The Song of Achilles. 3mo
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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick
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Pickpick

February's best book is a fictionalized account of the Mirabal sisters, who were kicking ass & taking names, so to speak, during the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic. I listened to the audiobook, and it did a great job of giving each sister her own voice.

#12BooksOf2023 @Andrew65

IndoorDame I read this so many times in my teenage years! It was my favorite book for a long time! 3mo
Andrew65 Looks excellent. 3mo
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