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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

#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.

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 🤣

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

Protested with my mama today.

#resist #stopthecuts

A sad passing.

Wind, Water, Stone by Octavio Paz
translated by Eliot Weinberger

#aprilpoetrychallenge for #nationalpoetrymonth

14 April - hollow

#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

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.