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1️⃣ Subgenre of crime fiction with dark gritty themes, sex & violence & flawed anti-heroes with lots of moral ambiguity. 🔪🔪🔪

2️⃣ I don‘t read a lot of it, but I have the tagged/pictured book & a couple of other city noirs in my physical #TBR along with a couple of recent novels Velvet Was the Night & Razoorblade Tears that are also listed as noir.🤷🏻‍♀️

After my seven-hour layover in Heathrow on the way to Copenhagen, I'm an even bigger fan of direct flights to places such as Puerto Rico. I barely scratched the surface on a brief visit several years ago, so I need to go back! #wanderingjune #laislabonita

#HeatIfJuly #Despacito

I don't think I paid attention to the lyrics in this catchy song or their translation. It's pretty spicy !?? I went with "We're gonna do it on a beach in Puerto Rico..." line. I spent time in Old San Juan about 15 years ago as we opened the Starbucks market there & I walked around Fort San Felipe Del Morro (shown on the cover of these noir stories) to exercise. I mostly remember all the feral cats ???prowling around.

#FierceFeb #NightInTheCity 🌃This book series explores the dark & seedy sides of different cities through stories set in them & makes me think of nights in the city. I have the tagged book, although I haven't read it yet and I want to find the Seattle & Portland Noir books too. Maybe some day there will even be a Honolulu Noir. 🌴📚👍😆 Here's a link to the cities available: http://www.akashicbooks.com/subject/noir-series/

Day8 #feistyfeb #latinxauthors A selection of books from Latinx authors from my stacks. The House of the Spirits I read for a Women's Lit class I took YEARS ago in college, Like Water For Chocolate is an all-time fave, Burn Baby Burn and Aristotle & Dante are recent reads I loved, & The House on Mango Street & San Juan Noir (multiple authors of Puerto Rican heritage) were recent thrift shop buys for my TBR stack that I hope to get to in 2017.📚👍

I got no argument.

This beautiful short story collection is gut wrenching. Puerto Rico is known as the pearl of the Caribbean, but here you see the reality of a lot of people living in the island suffocating by the economy, gender expectations and violence. The reader sees the horrible circumstances that drive people to take drastic decisions to find happiness, feed themselves or find love. Here, Puerto Rico drowns in politics, poverty and class issues. (TW Below).

"The beatings my mother got nightly began to take their toll...there was no shadow left of the woman I had loved so much..." This collection of stories set in PR is so powerful. Often times in Hollywood movies, Latina women are depicted as spitfires. They control their husband with their passion, food and dancing. That is far from the reality for a lot of women. As a PR woman I can say that domestic abuse is very real among Puerto Rican families.

...because sometimes I have a dream that I am looking for home...and I know for sure that I miss the island...I know that my ancestors are making noise...they are telling me that pain is only a season...that the palms will sway in the morning...
I do not buy books often, but when I do I like to show my support. 😍😃🤓.

Reading this until Rocky Horror time!!

When you read so much that people "think of you" when they see a tablet/ereader holder and buy it for you. The Halloween decor will be happy I won't be using it to hold my Kindle anymore ??