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Tentacle | Rita Indiana

#TuesdayTunes @TieDyeDude
As you asked for recommendations for upbeat Latin music, I can only really offer Rita Indiana's "Mandinga Times", but I think it's a good one! She's a Dominican musician, author (see tagged) and advocate for LGBTQIA+ rights across the Caribbean ❤️?️‍? https://open.spotify.com/album/027cuwNhwK78Agx2K1N5EC?si=IFXmW5ACQ5SGr2-PylclTA
For a more chill bossa nova beat, I like Paul Desmond's "Take Ten" ??

TieDyeDude I like it! Thanks for the recommendation 8mo

Jari-chan Same. Thank you! 8mo

Bookwomble @TieDyeDude @Jari-chan You're welcome 😊 8mo

Billypar Great pick! After I listened to her album, I went on a Spotify algorithm tear today that led me to discover several new artists, including Ketekalles from Barcelona and Cuban singer La Dame Blanche. 8mo

Bookwomble @Billypar I'm glad you like Rita, and that you've found some other new music, too 😊 8mo

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Bookwomble

Tentacle | Rita Indiana

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#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #DominicanRepublic 🇩🇴
This had Philip K. Dick feels, with relatively ordinary people getting drawn into mind bending situations, perceptual time/reality slips, and fluidity of personality and body. It takes in politics, art theory, climate catastrophe, challenges a Eurocentric scientific worldview with Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and centres trans experience in the MC.
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Bookwomble Lots going on, and it was good, though I think I was missing a sense of heart, so I didn't feel fully invested in the characters. 3.5 ⭐
Parental Advisory: Swears, sex, drugs and violence, sometimes all at once, but not all the time
@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB 2y

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Bookwomble

Tentacle | Rita Indiana

Waiting for Mrs B to have an eye test, popped out for a coffee, tempted by the breakfast bagel! ☕🥯📖
#BooksAndCoffee #BooksAndBagels

thebackyardgnome I love bagrls! Wish you could just buy thrm in bakeries over here. 2y

thebackyardgnome Oh, and your pfp is the cover of my favourit album! 2y

Bookwomble @thebackyardgnome Where's "over here"? ? I love the Low album, too (obviously ?), and just about everything David recorded. A colleague I worked with in the 80s said he reckoned if David farted into the microphone, I'd buy the recording of it, and I don't think he was wrong! ?‍????? 2y

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Bookwomble

Tentacle | Rita Indiana

#ReadingTheAmericas2023 #DominicanRepublic ??
I got this for the challenge, noting it's sci-fi, post-apocalypse, dystopian, time-travel with a trans MC, which was all promising. What I didn't look at before buying was reviews, which flag gory horror and graphic sex, which are not in my bailiwick - the fact I thought the word "bailiwick" is probably an indicator of just how far out of mine it's likely to be!? I'll just have to gird my loins!

Bookwomble Author, Rita Indiana, is also a musician, whose music I need to explore, and a vocal LGBTQIA+ advocate within traditionally patriarchal Dominican culture. Sounds like an all-round good egg 🥚🏳️‍🌈
@Librarybelle @BarbaraBB 2y

The_Book_Ninja Did you do a Mary Whitehouse and read it to the end just to make sure it wasn‘t in your bailiwick?🧐😉 2y

BarbaraBB It sounds a bit like a book I just read:

Manhunt

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Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Ha, ha! 😂 No, I'm still at the beginning of the book and will continue. I'm not such a prude that these elements will stop me reading, unless they become cruel, prurient or gratuitous. 2y

Bookwomble @BarbaraBB Ah, I saw a few Litsy reviews for that book but haven't read it. It sounds like the idea was interesting but, again, the execution (forgive the pun) rather too bloody for me. 2y

The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble Well I‘ll be waiting for a detailed review! Have a good Sunday Mr Womble✌🏼 2y

Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja You, too, Mr Ninj 😊 2y

BarbaraBB It wasn‘t very pleasant I admit. Can‘t recommend 🤷🏻‍♀️ 2y

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Simona

Catherine of Siena | Sigrid Undset

P. Highsmith, Her Diaries and Notebooks is audiobook for #AuthorAMonth , Death Comes For the Archbishop by W. Cather is from Jenny‘s GR to-review shelf #rememberingJenny , How High We Go in the Dark is my current read (and I love it) #campLitsy , and Katarina Sienska isn‘t for any challenges, but just because …. #weeklyforecast

Cinfhen

squirrelbrain Glad you‘re loving How High! I also really liked the Cather. 2y

Cinfhen Some lovely reads 🧡 2y

BarbaraBB I wanted to type the exact same message @squirrelbrain did! 2y

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Simona @Cinfhen I'm not even halfway through Highsmith's book and I'm tired already … and I don't know if I've already mentioned that I'm listening to audiobooks at normal speed 🙄 2y

Simona @squirrelbrain @BarbaraBB I didn‘t know anything about the How High We Go in the Dark, so the main theme is really surprise for me, a little bit uncomfortable to read, but I think that is also a little bit prophetic …. 2y

Cinfhen I bailed on my Highsmith and I‘m also listening to audios at a lower speed late,y!! I‘m not sure why 🤷🏼‍♀️I hope this week‘s books surprise you in a good way xx 2y

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traa

Tentacle | Rita Indiana

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Bertha_Mason

Tentacle | Rita Indiana

"This kind of coincidence ought to have a name. Whenever he heard a word for the first time, a stream of references, information, and associations would rise up out of nowhere, as though the universe were conjuring up the tools necessary for learning, or as though it were giving its approval to a specific path of knowledge."
This always happens to me too.

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Bertha_Mason

Tentacle | Rita Indiana

"Everything was drenched in the light of a late afternoon in which the limits of the flesh dissolved into white and yellow particles in the same way life itself appears to dissolve under a microscope."

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