117 Armando was given up for my sake, but not by my lips, as though that made any difference.
120 The greater terror, perhaps, is of the arbitrary, the unexpected.
123 I feared the absence of fear and the feeling of the infinite.
126 The rules of the game in prison were to not die and not give in.
127 There is no punishment without blame and I had been punished.
145 Maybe no one has ever considered me a traitor except myself.
128 There was a kind of mass schizophrenia in the air, we were all being watched, friends were disappearing, militant and non-militant built networks of information to know who was still alive, nothing written or spoken still carried its conventional meaning and the new meanings required deciphering codes that were unstable and for that reason inefficient,
pickQuiet but killer short novel investigating political resistance. Retiring professor Gustavo looks over his papers & recalls his minor part in fighting the Brazilian military dictatorship of the 1970s and 80s. Gustavo insists that he didn‘t talk under torture, yet he survives while brother-in-law Armando is killed. Guilt, sacrifice, trauma, memory, emotional torture, “pariah‘s-eye view.” Wandering, dream-of-consciousness, unreliable. Trans. 2018.
pickWhile still good, the 3rd book in The Lost Queen Series, I didn't find as good as the first two. The Shadowed Land took us on a journey with Angharad, as she continues to develop as a Wisdom Keeper, and Artur, who follows in his father's footsteps. Languoreth and Lailoken still are prominent in the book. This one wasn't as long as the other two, either. I reread the first two books, since it had been a few years since I read them, before I ⬇️
pick"..where one burns books, one will soon burn people."
Historical Fiction set during the 1930s and 1940's in France, Germany and the USA. Told from 3 different perspectives and timeliness.
Vivian is trying to get a bill stopped that Sen.Taft has filed in Congress for censorship. Althea is a young American writer asked to come to Germany in 1933 by Joesph Goebbels. She accepts not really knowing what she is about to get in. ⬇️
pick💙📚BOOK REVIEW 📚💙
⭐️WOMEN OF A PROMISCUOUS NATURE BY DONNA EVERHART⭐️
⭐️QUICK THOUGHTS ⭐️
⭐️This book will infuriate you and break your heart but you need to read it!
⭐️This book had me researching!
https://reecaspieces.com/2025/12/04/women-of-a-promiscuous-nature-by-donna-everh...
pick3.5⭐️/5⭐️
Well written... I just didn't think a whole lot happened throughout the book.
pickTwo beautiful souls found each other and survived many a danger and toils. This was an interesting tale told slowly and surely and with much description. The pacing lagged at times. This isn‘t my typical fare but it was enjoyable.
