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Favorite Reviews:
I have reviewed many books over the years, and some reviews have been more interesting or fun to write than others. The below list were my favorites to write.
• Ada, or Ardor
• Choose Your Own Autobiography
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• If Not, Winter
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
• The Kid Table
• Like Water for Chocolate
• Lolita
• The Monk
• The Night Circus
• Oathbringer
• Return of the Native
• Rhythm of War
• S
• Things Fall Apart
• The Unit
• The Woods Are Always WatchingCategories:
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Tag Archives: Latin America
The Hacienda, by Isabel Cañas
When Rodolfo Solórzano proposes to Beatriz, she jumps at the opportunity to help her family out of their current poverty and dependance on hateful relatives. She travels with her new husband to his country estate with plans to make it … Continue reading
Posted in 2022, Adult, Prose
Tagged atmospheric, dream-invader, historical, Latin America, place-character, revisiting, RIP-worthy, speculative
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In Search of Elsewhere, by Steve McCurry
Subtitled: Unseen Images The cover of this photography book is so striking that I had to check it out from my library on the very first day I was let back inside to browse. The book is mostly made up … Continue reading
Posted in 2021, Adult, Visual
Tagged Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East, mini-review, nonfiction, photography, POC
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Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexico, 1950s. Noemí travels out to check up on her newly-married cousin after some strange letters arrived from her at home. She’s “welcomed” into a decrepit old house by a family who believes they are superior to the “local” population … Continue reading
Posted in 2020, Adult, Prose
Tagged atmospheric, circus horror, gender studies, Latin America, memorable, POC, RIP-worthy
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Do Not Become Alarmed, by Maile Meloy
Cousins Liv and Nora decide to take their families on a joint cruise vacation. Everything is lovely until a misadventure occurs while they’re on shore in Central America. Suddenly the kids are missing. I’m not going to say more than … Continue reading
All the Crooked Saints, by Maggie Stiefvater (audio)
From GoodReads: Here is a thing everyone wants: a miracle. Here is a thing everyone fears: what it takes to get one. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Prose, Young Adult
Tagged atmospheric, audio, divinity, dream-invader, historical, Latin America, memorable, place-character, POC, portentous, RIP-worthy, speculative
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Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Subtitled: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide This book explores gender inequality around the world, focused primarily on sex trafficking, violence against women, and maternal mortality. It also discusses potential solutions and gives accounts of some successes and failures … Continue reading
Posted in 2017, Adult, Prose
Tagged Africa, Asia, gender studies, Latin America, Middle East, nonfiction, POC
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Protected: To Have and Have Not, by Ernest Hemingway (audio)
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Kid Cyclone Fights the Devil, by Xavier Garza
This is a collection of folktales and creepy children’s stories out of Mexico (and out of Mexican-American communities in southern Texas). There are 14 stories in the collection, which is a bilingual collection – Spanish one direction for half the … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Children's, Prose
Tagged collection, Latin America, POC, RIP-worthy, speculative
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The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway (audio)
I have no idea what to say about this book. On the one hand, it is about an old fisherman from Havana who has spent many months unable to hook a fish, and then when he finally does, the fish … Continue reading
Complete Stories, by William Somerset Maugham
I love Maugham and wanted to read his short stories as part of my short story project this year. I’ve since decided to give up the project and just finished reading the stories. There are quite a bit of them … Continue reading