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#poetrymatters #umber

Fortunately, yes. Many in fact. The ones that really stand out to me were: Anne Rice, Diana Gabaldon, Sylvia Day, Lisa See, Victor Villaseñor, Gary Soto, and Sandra Cisneros.

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My #booktree from a few years ago.

#decemberdreams
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#7books7days

Book seven, my final pick for books that I've read that have either changed me or left a lasting impression.

My MIL sent some pics of her crocuses the other day. I have a black 👍🏻 so I enjoy everyone else‘s 🌸🌹

#BloomingLitsy

"For this is God‘s great plan, that people rise up beyond their personal hatreds, here, right now, in this new land where so many different people with so many different bloods have come to join together and that we recognize we are all the children of God! Every one of us!" #hispanicheritagemonth #rainofgold #latinxliterature

#hour42challenge #swissarmybook

I've posted this book many times. It's my go to recommendation. The story has many of my favorite elements, family, history and magic realism. I'm definitely not going to make 24 hours but I am on track to completing my goal of breaking the 20 hour mark!

This review is for Urrea‘s short story “Christmas Eve, 1944”. The narrator‘s mother is a “clubmobile lady” taking coffee and donuts to the troops traveling from Paris to Belgium. On Christmas Eve 1944 she finds herself bombarded and hiding out in the basement of a ruined church with GI‘s. She is their mother- comforting them with fire, food and “O Holy Night”. A lovely story of Christmas in wartime and perseverance.

#readingresolutions #fivestarredbooks

Five of my personal favorite five starred reads.

One of these days I‘ll read this book that will take me on a journey from #Mexico to California, experiencing the history of Villasenor‘s parents in this sprawling chunkster of a family saga. I read his book Macho! for a Chicano literature class in college, and I meant to read this one after hearing him at a reading when I was in grad school. But it‘s still on the TBR. Story of my reading life. 😏 #Augustisatrip