pickI think this one should receive a „misleading title award“ 😅 I enjoyed the writing a lot but the content is really not about nerdy Oscar Wao. It‘s more about how Oscars unexpected life and death affects his sister and her ex-lover. Its a nice read though.
I found the cover of a play I read recently in the book on Black artists I've just finished 😁
Anacaona is an important historical figure: she was an indigenous Taino ruler at the time of the Spanish invasion in what is now #Haiti and the #DominicanRepublic. Hence the art ant literature about her.
pickA soft pick. The premise is good - a jaded author who, worried she will become haunted by the book ideas she hasn‘t felt able to complete, decides to build a cemetery and bury the stories - but I‘m not sure it was fully explored, it feels more like a tool to deliver multiple story arcs. But it was an enjoyable, thoughtful read nevertheless.
Book 87 #Read2025 @DieAReader
pickFinished this (as well as One Dark Window) in the last 24 hrs. Both are excellent! I listened to this one, and the narrator was great. Out of the two, I liked One Dark Window more. Both are great!
“Alma once had a friend, a writer, who for years before she died, relatively young, was always talking about this one story she had to write down.”
#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl
Started this book. A writer decides to start a literal cemetery for all of her untold stories when she inherits a plot of land near the city dump. She wants her characters to rest in peace, but they have other ideas. I haven‘t gotten to any buried characters yet, but so far, so good.
pickFinished this one tonight, & I liked this much more than Afterlife. Short stories about the same family—a large Dominican family but mostly focused on parents & their 4 girls. Different structure because it starts when they‘re older, then goes back in time. I enjoyed the stories, except there was a mean incident with a cat in one.
#bookspin list on the left and bingo to the left - let's go, June!
