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I finished A Heart so White on Friday. It wasn't bad by any stretch, but it didn't speak to me. A shame because the main character is an interpreter & I love reading about linguists 😑
Today, I made fideuà, a Catalan dish similar to paella, but with pasta instead of rice. I first ate it on holiday in Sitges, and have been making it from time to time ever since: it's a good Sunday lunch option for us!

#FoodandLit #Spain
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This is a book with very little plot and lots of stream of consciousness. A woman is intrigued by a couple she doesn‘t know but meets every day in a breakfast place in Madrid. One day the husband is killed and she can‘t stop herself from talking to the woman.
Not much more happens yet it is an engaging read with some interesting thoughts.

#FoodAndLit 🇪🇸

I flew through this book (hehe pun!) while travelling to Malmö for Eurovision. It‘s for this month‘s #foodandlit Spain. Written by a spanish author, it tells the story of an archeologist who moves from Barcelona to London to find her luck and ends up in a bookstore. It has a very cozy atmosphere in this rainy London but I guess not much of the story will stick with me.

A lovely vinho verde to go with my book.

The 2024 CWA Dagger awards shortlists come out late this week, I think. Considering how many Dagger awards categories there are and the likelihood that 50% aren‘t available in the US yet, the odds of me reading them before the awards are announced in July are slim. So, I opted to try to read all of the 2023 winners I could get my hands on. Today‘s #libraryhaul are the ones my library system has, plus the 1st in Bishop‘s series. Better get reading!

1. City. I have the added perk that I live on an island (Dominican Republic), and I have the ocean across the street!

2. Madrid!

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

my #5JoysFriday:
1. A day off work for the eclipse
2. Baseball season
3. My son running track
4. My tulips blooming
5. A long-awaited sequel that I finally pick up!

What a fun, positive idea @debinhawaii Thanks!

The irony.. ?

I've been slowly reading this graphic along with the book. It's a nice way to recap via illustrations. It is wild to me that the most memorable part of Don Quixote (based on comments and discussions I've seen so far) are the windmill "giants" in the first 10% of the book.That just tells me most people never read the whole thing, because it's completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of this tome.

#casuallyqueer quips in #classics

And was a bugbear in men‘s eyes;
But had the fortune in his age
To live a fool and die a sage.
#DonQuixote #MiguelDeCervantesSaavedra #lastline #closingline #book #books #bookcase #bookcases #bookcover #bookcovers #bookcoverdesign #bookcoverdesigner #bookclub #bookclubs #bookvibe #bookvibes #bookvsfilm #bookvsmovie #bookbag #bookbags #bookbinding #Classics #Fiction #Literature #SpanishLiterature #Adventure #HistoricalFiction #Novels #Spain 💜💜💜

This was not as good as Life is a dream, but still a fun and interesting play. The theme of women being taken advantage of and the law allowing men to not suffer consequences while they are socially ostracized is repeated. Makes me interested in learning more about the author's life that in the XVII century he was so interested in representing women's problems on stage