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I thought this was pretty good. My #doublespin for April @TheAromaofBooks
#roll100 @PuddleJumper

My picks for April! I've already started tagged so good picking @TheAromaofBooks

“When we are young, we give ourselves completely. We allow our first friends or first lovers or first songs inside us, to become a part of our unformed being, without ever thinking of the consequences, or of their permanence within us.”

This quote…

#HumbleHarvest
#Friendship

A story of friendship, jealousy and creativity against backdrop of political repression in Brasil 1930s/40s. Dores and Gracas are unlikely friends drawn together by circumstances & their love of music. Peebles shows us the slums of Rio and 1940s Hollywood as we see the girls fortunes rise and fall. https://cannonballread.com/2023/09/the-air-you-breathe-a-novel-elcicco/

This was good HF! 1930‘s-40s Brazil to Hollywood with two unlikely bffs. It‘s always interesting to me the success someone, even a kitchen maid, can find when allowed education, even if that education is only to supplement the success of someone born to more privilege. Also, trying to find success with Brazilian music in a Hollywood rampant with racism was an interesting read.

#14books14weeks2023 Book 13!
@TheHeartlandBookFairy

A joke is a way of dominating a language. You must have timing and fluidity, like a fine musician...This is what happens when you move to a foreign place: either you recoil into yourself, becoming a quiet, tense listener, or you make a show of your errors, flaunting them for all to see. Both are attempts to make people comfortable with your otherness. Forgettable, or entertaining.

Sit beside me now, at the riverbank
hear my voice, loud and strong.
Wade into these sweet waters with me,
let me open your heart with a song.

Now we're both pulled under, friend,
singing the same refrain:
Dive back, again, to the lace you once loved
and you'll find it's never the same.
. . .
Now, I wish for the early, chaotic part of my life to return to me, even with its cruelty, its sacrifice, its missteps, its misdeeds. My misdeeds.

#two4tuesdays @TheSpineView
1. Philosophy or miscellaneous non-fiction? Even for fiction, what I go for is probably too vague to fit one genre.
I'd probably be driven insane like The Joker if I had this restriction. I constantly crave and live off of novelty and variety.
2. Most of the books I pick up and read are half-started and unfinished. No other way to be.

#12Booksof2021 #2ndBookof2021 #February @Andrew65
I actually read this as an audiobook. And the narrator was excellent. The book was complex, and very moving

5/5 ⭐️ It took me forever to finish this book, but not because it was bad or slow, but rather cause I've been having a stressful few months. Beautiful story of Dores and Graça, two women whose friendship and love of music changes their lives forever. Sort of gave me Evelyn Hugo vibes, which I loved. I think this would make a wonderful movie or TV show! If you love music, travel, or historical fiction- it's a must read!
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