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BarbaraBB
The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories | Carlos Fuentes, Julio Ortega
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Pickpick

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! 21h
Hooked_on_books Another great picture! I‘m not surprised—yours are always great. 20h
GatheringBooks I don‘t think i have any books or authors yet from peru! Thank you so much for sharing! 16h
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BarbaraBB @Hooked_on_books Thank you Holly 😘 13h
BarbaraBB @GatheringBooks All those authors pleasantly surprised me! 13h
Cathythoughts I‘m stacking 👍🏻❤️ 10h
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BarbaraBB
The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories | Carlos Fuentes, Julio Ortega
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#WeeklyForecast 31/25

I am reading both Deep Cuts and Small Pleasures and both are very entertaining. The tagged book I want to read for #FoodAndLit #Peru so I should read fast! We‘ll see, this will be another busy week working.

LeahBergen I enjoyed Small Pleasures! 3d
BarbaraBB @LeahBergen It could have been a Persephone! 3d
LeeRHarry Small Pleasures is one of my very favourite books. 😊 3d
Cathythoughts Small Pleasures is lovely. 2d
BarbaraBB @Cathythoughts @LeeRHarry I am almost finished and enjoying it a lot. 2d
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Bookworm54
The Storyteller | Mario Vargas Llosa
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Mehso-so

This was my #FoodAndLit pick for #Peru

Overall I did like the story, however it was very slow and the chapters were soooooo long it made it hard to fit in reading it, and easy to forget where I was 🤣

Texreader I have the same problem with the Llosa book I‘m reading right now. Long paragraphs and long chapters. 1w
Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇵🇪 1w
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Kristy_K
By Night in Chile | Roberto Bolao
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I‘ve had this for years on my Kindle, bought during a sale, but don‘t remember why as it‘s not the type of book I‘d typically go for (novella, stream of conscious, literary fiction). However, I was swept away into the musings and confession of Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix and found this to be a fevered yet calculated novella that while I in no way fully understood, did fully enjoy.

#ReadtheWorld2025 #Chile

GatheringBooks Oooh! A Bolaño novel! And set in Chile. Awesome. ? 3mo
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lil1inblue
Selected Odes of Pablo Neruda | Margaret Sayers Peden, Pablo Neruda
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Protested with my mama today.

#resist #stopthecuts

kspenmoll Love this! 3mo
DebinHawaii This is so great! 3mo
Suet624 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3mo
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dabbe ✊🏻♥️✊🏻 3mo
Leftcoastzen 👏❤️ 3mo
MemoirsForMe 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 3mo
Jari-chan ✊✊✊ 3mo
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Texreader
The Storyteller | Mario Vargas Llosa
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A sad passing.

ChaoticMissAdventures Legend. I have not read any of his books, if you have a recommendation 4mo
Ruthiella @ChaoticMissAdventures I‘ve only read one, but it was good (edited) 4mo
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wanderinglynn
The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987 | Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger
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Wind, Water, Stone by Octavio Paz
translated by Eliot Weinberger

#aprilpoetrychallenge for #nationalpoetrymonth

14 April - hollow

dabbe 💙💚💙 4mo
TheSpineView 💜💜💜 4mo
kspenmoll 💕💕 4mo
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GatheringBooks
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#FeelinTheLove Day 6: Set in Lima, Peru, the author introduces us to young Marito who fell in love with an older woman, a 30-something divorceé, who found Marito‘s teenybopper infatuation amusing until she herself became enamoured by the innocent and untoward and forbidden romance of it all. #SteamyLove with the Mrs Robinson vibe. More here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-dt9

Eggs Perfect ❤️‍🔥 6mo
mhillis Nice! This book is good! 6mo
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Creme_de_la_them
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Book #17 of 2024: “Plotting Women” by Jean Franco

This was a challenge. I lack a lot of the background needed to understand many of the references made to other texts and authors, but the topic (women who, in their own ways, subverted gender norms/expectations in Mexican culture) was engrossing. I wouldn‘t recommend this book unless this has been a field of study for you already. It‘s dense.