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Trading freedom for peace & well-being. Echoes of Huxley & Zamyatin. Politely overprotective society organized to prevent anxiety, conflict & exclusion. Impulse=taboo, selfhood repressed. Breaking conformism. Beautiful graphic play with text as The Sensor picks up dangerous words & colorizes them in The Graph. Guitarist Agustín Barrios. “The tuning fork is in your heart.” 2017

P9 “Push it away, Mira A. This moment. This feeling. The frustration.”

Living in Paris among the elite, Ella Lynch meets a handsome stranger and ends up going to his home country, #Paraguay, with him. Never marrying, she is effectively his wife, as they have multiple children together, he secedes his father as president, and the country devolves into war. I quite liked this—the perspective is unique and the extreme violence is balanced by a thread of wry humor.

#ReadingAmericas2023

Final book for #readingtheamericas23!

I borrowed the book from my Mum, which includes Zoo Quests in Indonesia and #guyana too, but #paraguay is also available in a stand-alone book, tagged.

I loved this book, which is David mostly looking for armadillos in 1958.

In fact I‘ve loved this whole challenge - thank you Barbara and Jess for hosting! I cheated a little bit this year, and two books did a lot of the heavy lifting, covering a number ⬇️

So I'm a total lover of historical fiction so for me this was a great read. Romance and conflict (Paraguayan war) I knew very little about and engaging characters really kept me entertained. And may have led to many Google searches for things that I found interesting. #ReadingTheAmericas #bookspin @thearomaofbooks @librarybelle @BarbaraBB

FINALLY finished this #FoodAndLit #Paraguay read!

Should I have bailed? Absolutely 😂 but I was so far through I persevered, especially since there aren‘t many Paraguay books in English.

Anyway it was okay. I learnt a bit, but I struggled with the narrative and never knew what period I was reading about, who that person was, and so on 😂

I‘m making good progress with #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

I see I need to add Menno Moto, which I also read for #Paraguay.

#BookReport #DaiseysReadingWeek
🎧 The News from Paraguay #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #FoodAndLit #Paraguay
🎧 You Can‘t Say That
🎧 A Small Place #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Antigua
📖 No Place Like Home

#CurrentlyReading
📖 & 🎧 #DraculaDaily
📖 #Clarissa
🎧 Oscar & Lucinda #FoodAndLit #Australia

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