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The Bad Girl: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mario Vargas Llosa is an excellent author. The fact that it took 3 months for me to finish it should have no bearing on what a well-written book it is. The issue is with the lengthy paragraphs in extremely long chapters. It‘s not the type of book to sneak in a few pages when you can. You actually have to devote time to it. Peruvian Ricardo believes true peace will be his if he can just live his life in Paris. Spoiler: he does. As a child in ⬇️

Texreader Peru, Ricardo falls for a Chilean girl named Lilly in his school. Despite showing some interest in him, she remains an enigma and then just disappears. When he moves to Paris to become a translator for UNESCO, he encounters her as a recruit with a new name for the predecessor to the Shining Path. He realizes he‘s madly in love with his childhood crush. But he sends her on to Cuba for training. And over the years he encounters her repeatedly. ⬇️ (edited) 3d
Texreader Each time he meets her again, almost always by chance, she has a brand new name with a new husband who will make her richer than the previous husband. But that doesn‘t stop their affair and she remains a mystery throughout and he remains obsessed with her. She refuses to commit to him, because he cannot bring her riches; his happiness is just to live in Paris. Of course, things go terribly wrong for her. Ricardo‘s love is put to the ⬇️ (edited) 3d
Texreader test, and here we find just how far each will go to be true to themselves. Definitely worth the read, but be prepared to be dedicated to this book. Though a short 260-something pages, for a reader like me, it takes perseverance. No doubt I‘ll read more by this author. #foodandlit #Peru (edited) 3d
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey | Thornton Wilder
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Wilder‘s works always seem quite melancholy. The characters are well drawn. Thoughtful and quiet. If I could have dinner with an author, this wouldn‘t be the one. He is quite grim.

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Meet Me under the Ceiba | Silvio Sirias
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It‘s another book coincidence #bookcoincidence! I read several books at a time. Tonight I started a chapter out of Mario Vargas Llosa‘s Bad Girl about a man named Arquímedes. Lo and behold, the next chapter I read in the tagged book was—surprise—about Arquímedes!

Perhaps that‘s a common name in South and Central America ? Even if so, to be the subject of both chapters I read tonight is bizarre. #foodandlit #Peru #Nicaragua

TheBookHippie I love it when that happens! 2w
AnnCrystal Reading Magic 🪄📚💝. 2w
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Read the World | Pushpinder Khaneka
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Adding some new countries to #ReadTheWorld2025 in July and August: #NewZealand, #Finland, #Peru, #Pakistan, #SriLanka, #Hungary and #Sweden.

I now have covered 26 countries!

GatheringBooks Oh wow! Way to go! Awesome! 2w
Ruthiella Nice work! 👏👏👏 2w
Suet624 Amazing! 2w
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More about Paddington | Michael Bond
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August wrapped. Not the best books this month when Paddington is the only 5-star read!

August Books Wrapped:
I read 4 books for #Bolivia #foodandlit
1 book for #authoramonth
1 book for #campLitsy
1 book for #klbr
And 1 book for #serieslove

I‘m still reading a Llosa book, Bad Girl, that I started in July for #Peru #foodandlit and Dickens‘s Little Dorrit that I started in June for #whattheDickens

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Eight books read in July while still making my way through chunksters Kristin Lavransdatter (#KLBR) and Little Dorrit (#whattheDickens). Stats:

1 book finished for last month‘s #foodandlit #Greenland
3 books for #foodandlit #Peru
1 book for #authoramonth (Virginia Wolff)
2 books for #campLitsy, including the tagged book, best book of the year so far

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Paddington: Paddington's World | Annie Auerbach, Mandy Archer
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Plans for tonight #FoodAndLit #Peru

CSeydel Love Paddington! 😍 2mo
TheBookHippie We loved it. 2mo
Bookwormjillk @CSeydel @TheBookHippie our ancient DVD player broke 🥲 2mo
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TheBookHippie NOOOOOO 2mo
Catsandbooks @Bookwormjillk oh no! Hope you can enjoy it another time! 2mo
Bookwormjillk @Catsandbooks @TheBookHippie I was trying to save the $5 and watch the library‘s copy, but went to plan b and streamed it. It was cute! (edited) 2mo
TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk it was so cute! 1mo
Bookwormjillk @TheBookHippie I just love Paddington and I think all of the new movies are really well done. One of the few movies even my teens want to watch with me! 1mo
TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk we have watched it five times with EVERYONE in the family 😂 while eating marmalade on homemade bread with tea. It‘s just zen. 1mo
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AnnCrystal 🤩🐻💝. 2mo
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The Recovery Agent: A Novel | Janet Evanovich
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I was hoping to like this more since it's a treasure hunting book but I found myself constantly getting lost with the storyline. So much was happening at once that I did not have enough time to process it. I found myself going back to relisten. I felt like the fast pace would work better as a movie.

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Setting: Peru

#foodandlit2025 @Texreader @Catsandbooks

Texreader This looks like the kind of book I‘d enjoy but your review and the Litsy ranking, nope. Thanks for sharing your honest review. But at least it took care of #Peru! 2mo
Catsandbooks Bummer 2mo
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The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories | Carlos Fuentes, Julio Ortega
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A great collection of Latin American short stories. Very good ones among them, and little magical realism ?

Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Luis Loayza, Alfredo Bryce Echenique, Rodolfo Hinostroza, and Fernando Ampuero are Peruvian writers so I count them for
#FoodAndLit!

#ReadTheWorld2025 Book 22 #Peru

squirrelbrain Great -I might try this some time! 2mo
Hooked_on_books Another great picture! I‘m not surprised—yours are always great. 2mo
GatheringBooks I don‘t think i have any books or authors yet from peru! Thank you so much for sharing! 2mo
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BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books Thank you Holly 😘 2mo
BarbaraBB @GatheringBooks All those authors pleasantly surprised me! 2mo
Cathythoughts I‘m stacking 👍🏻❤️ 2mo
Catsandbooks Wonderful! 👏🏼 2mo
Gissy @GatheringBooks Mario Vargas Llosa 2mo
GatheringBooks @Gissy oh yes! I do have him on my shelves - thank you for the reminder! 2mo
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