Welcome to Litsy!

my #5JoysFriday:
1. A day off work for the eclipse
2. Baseball season
3. My son running track
4. My tulips blooming
5. A long-awaited sequel that I finally pick up!

What a fun, positive idea @debinhawaii Thanks!

This was not as good as Life is a dream, but still a fun and interesting play. The theme of women being taken advantage of and the law allowing men to not suffer consequences while they are socially ostracized is repeated. Makes me interested in learning more about the author's life that in the XVII century he was so interested in representing women's problems on stage

#LuckyInLove Day 5 #Wine There are tiny wine 🍷 glasses on the table😂

Second book in the #HernándezDetectives trilogy

I don‘t know how to translate this, maybe “Delicate Family matter”? A family affair? Something like that🤷🏽‍♀️

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Segismundo has been a prisoner in a tower all his life, he doesn't know the reason. When he was born his father, the king, predicted that he would be a tyrant, so he locked him up. Now that the king is old he decides to free him to see his true nature and should he fulfill the prophecy he intends to lock him up again and make him believe everything was a dream.
I read this play more times that I can count. This Oedipus type of story has some⬇️

#NewYearNewBooks Day 31 #CloudsCover

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Trace

2nd book in Miren Triggs duology (The Snow Girl is the first book). Not much to say without spoil events from the first book🤷🏽‍♀️Let‘s say that Miren will investigate another case. I think Miren can be an unlikely character sometimes, some events are maybe not too realistic and some are predictable, but in general I liked this thriller. A fast reading. 3.7/3.8⭐️

¡Me encantó!

A free translation will be “Pretty Face”? 🤷🏽‍♀️The blurb in this book sounds so interesting. A woman is murdered and she, as a “ghost”, will help to resolve the mystery of her death, why she was murdered. It started so well but then the author gives so many irrelevant details that seemed he wanted to show much he knows about literature/psychodynamic model. Poor integrated to the story. Then will have an unnecessary pedophilia scene⬇️

Maria Dueñas has done it again, the second book in the Sira Quiroga series is another hit. While I‘ll be the first to admit that the beginning is very dry and factual, once you get past a certain event, WOW! Hold onto your seats!!! It was non-stop action for the rest of the book. I‘m hoping there will someday be a Book 3, Sira is a new favorite character I‘d love to read more about. Also, meet Millie, my parents new cat!! She‘s such a sweetie!!