loved it

i didnt like it but you may. too long of a story bending thriller and weak ending, i thought. :/

i LOVED this book. wow

i like her essays more than her novels, but the generational gap including the 60s movement on this collection has me with a big so-so feeling.

september reads: short essay/stories en español, on the 1985 mexico city earthquake

september reads: YA

september reads: biography

september reads: poetry

the part of feedig the dog some metal for a slow dead was a bit much 😭

found out about this specific author via afropop worlwide. looking fwd to it !!

[just started]

just started this one, looks so interesting 💀☠
found it via arte público press 📚✨

this is taking me quite sometime.. (460 pgs) also pace is flex as it reads like an encyclopedia.

[just started]

this is a short powerful book.

(just started)

gazillioners oil w nazi stalin rooted fortune beginning .. just getting started.

just started 📚☕😚

written in 2003, some of the stories from the 1960s.. yet still current

just started this, had kinda avoided it for years but think im ready.. this book is heavy. trigger warning: if u recently lost a loved one. mostly about grief.

so far so odd.. will likely bail im a few pages if it turns out no different than its new yorker article a bit ago :/

reading these words slowly and digesting them slowly. beautiful, cringing, poetry.

[now reading]

classic. in this audio book version hearing toni's author note at the end is just beautiful and so timeless, powerful, angering, current. listened to that track a few times.

[now reading] a lot of power and corruption stuff to chew on, though written in the mid-90s this is a good intro into the deeper complex root of politics in lat/am by a woman reporter i like that pov is a fresh and intuitive

[currently reading, well listening 🎧]

[currently reading] just stared :)

[currently reading] “I sighed as I wondered if nostalgia was, in the end, nothing more than a paler shade of mourning.”

great read (well, listen)

“Let us all be from somewhere.
Let us tell each other everything we can.”
— Bob Hicok (A Primer)

finished patti smith's m train before new year's, last year. kim gordon and carrie's memoir i finished in 2016, both were interesting 3.5/5 stars, i have these books (vs sfpl) because i was able to attend each of their author's talk.

from earlier this year, one of my fave nonfiction reads of 2016.

up next: YA brujitas read, fun so far 🌹💀❣

such a great read, love all his movie and baseball references. mass, such a cool dude! so glad he wrote and he has confirmed that, yes, this is indeed a planet. 🌎💕