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Prompt: DESERT

California, Mexico, a lemon orchard, an estate owner, and a special Mexican worker in the lemon orchard.

A beautiful story about the cruelty as well as the beauty our lives hold for us. 

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I made more progress in this book last night. I‘m not enjoying it that much. It seems to be focusing a lot on the war and I don‘t like that even though I know it‘s set during a war. The man and woman in this story just met on the battlefield. I don‘t see any chemistry between them but that could change. I‘m glad this isn‘t a WWII book though because I get tired of reading those. I want to read about different time periods besides WWII.

Here‘s how I did on the #awesomeapril readathon:

📚Met my goal of finishing Arrogant Playboy and finished reading the Arrogant trilogy

📚Read 1 book from my #bookspinbingo list from last month when the numbers were drawn

📚Started another book from my #bookspinbingo list. I knew I wasn‘t going to finish it on the last day of the readathon but I‘ve at least started it.

This was my first time participating.

The first half or so of this memoir is very good, detailing the author‘s childhood as an American with undocumented parents from Mexico, trying to live under the radar but still provide for their kids. When they decide to return to Mexico to try to reestablish their visas, they are rejected and stuck there, leaving Elizabeth with impossible choices. The second half falls apart, as she leaves so many aspects of her college years and adulthood ⬇️

I started this book during my walk at the dog park today. I‘m not invested in the story yet but then again, I only listened to the first 2 chapters. I‘m not sure if I‘m going to like it because some Goodreads reviews have said that it reads like a history textbook, has a lot of battle scenes and it doesn‘t focus on the romance as much but I‘m going to read this and see if I agree with the reviews.

Oops, forgot to post my review! 😬 I really enjoyed this fantastical journey through 1920s Mexico that begins with a young woman freeing a mysterious god only to discover that in doing so, she‘s attached herself to him in a way that puts her life at risk. (Things aren‘t necessarily great for the god either.) Moreno-Garcia does a great job, as always, in establishing a sense of place & writing fun, interesting characters. A fun, entertaining book.

“Words are seeds…With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there‘s power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”