Welcome to Litsy!

Looking forward to my #readyourebooks choice this month as I‘ve shockingly not tried a Jodi Foster bk yet tho they seem right up my alley.
Tagged is #bookspin and #doublespin is Wide Sargasso Sea (which I‘m happy to finally be reading with the #hashtagbrigade)
#aam is giving me the excuse to pick up Station Eleven
So it looks like a game of catch up all round, and not least in #roll100
Hope y‘all having just as much fun this May!

I listened to one of the 1st Zoom talks in 2020 with Isabel about this powerful book. It‘s part memoir but mostly a tribute to the resilience of women. What feeds a woman‘s soul? “To be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and their lives, and above all, to be loved.”
I wish I could hand this book to any women young or old who still believes voting isn‘t important.

Like all Allende‘s books I‘ve read, Eva Luna is a winding tale starting with her mother, as a baby with blazing red hair, crawling out of a Latin American jungle knowing nothing of her parents. Eva‘s own story is full of unique characters and loves, including her mother‘s unusual father figure, multiple mother-like guardians, a revolutionary, a colorful transsexual, a child survivor of WWII, and more in a world coming undone in a dictatorship. ⬇️

My next book for #Venezuela #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Weekly Report

I've finished 2666. What an experience.

I'm nearly done with Zama and waiting to see which books BookSpinBingo will tell me to prioritize.

Tanti assaggi di grandi piccole storie straordinarie, ognuna con i suoi sapori, odori, emozioni e sensazioni. Storie spontanee d'amore e di dolore, senza filtri. Mi ha preso la mano e mi ha mostrato la diversità di ciò che è stato, è, e sarà.

@birdie_gw have you read this one? If not, put it on your list. C and I are going to Chile in October bc Isabelle Allende inspired me - specifically this book - and I‘m going to reread it in Sept before we go. We can read it at the same time if you‘re game!

#LuckyInLove Day 23 #LovePoem

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

I found this gem on the #ToBLonglist and it‘s right up my alley. I‘m quoting a blurb from the GR description because it‘s perfect:
“Fernandez braids astronomy and astrology, neuroscience and memory, family history and national history into this brief but intensely imagined autobiographical essay.”

"In its caves the salt moans, mountain of buried light, translucent cathedral, crystal of the sea, oblivion of the waves." - from Ode to Salt by Pablo Neruda

He certainly was very passionate about salt. ?

Day 6 #Translucent #PoetryMatters @TheSpineView