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Hammock reading with the pets is one of my favorite things.

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Nine books for May! It was very hard to pick a favorite book for May but if forced to, I‘d pick the tagged book. Followed by a tie between Queen of the South and Sea of Tranquility. Four books this month for #Spain #foodandlit. Two books for #authoramonth. Two for #readingOceania #Palau and #NewZealand and of course all of them for #litsyatoz but mostly for #letterQ and #letterY

Last night, my husband and I celebrated our first date anniversary at this awesome Spanish restaurant called Cafe Sevilla. We did their Journey through Spain menu. We tried different tapas, had sangria, had paella, and dessert. It was all yummy!

I am still reading my book for Spain. Fingers cross that I finish it this weekend.
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Teresa, the “Queen,” is just the girlfriend of a drug runner pilot in Mexico until he gets himself killed. Given an escape to #Spain, and a stint in prison, she and her prison-mate Patty enter the big business of running drugs themselves especially between Spain and Morocco. Oddly Teresa comes off a hero and the audience cheers for her. The novel is complex and exquisitely told. The level of detail of running drugs and the enemies it creates ⬇️

I didn‘t know much about the Spanish Civil War before I read. Know I‘ve learned who fought on each side:
The Republicans, fighting for the elected government, the socialists, the communists, the anarchist with support from Soviet
The Nationalists with leader Franco, the monarchists, the fascists, the church with support from Germany and Italy

As I was reading about the fighting one line from the Norwegian poet‘s Nordahl Grieg poem

I volunteered for a All Night Grad Party and took most of today off to recover. This was the perfect book to read about a vacation gone wrong at a villa in Spain while I recovered. Honestly I don‘t know how kids stay up late so easily. #FoodAndLit #Spain

I loved this one! Cute and different with a small cast of very quirky characters! A middle aged man who is stuck in his ways changes his life by accident, the accident being a little initial small act of love: giving a stray cat a bit of milk. And after that it gets curiouser and curiouser 😄🐱

Also, here is my veggie Paella with veggie Chorizo 🥘 🇪🇦

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I read The Mapmaker‘s Daughter by Laurel Corona in 2020. Now, I just finished reading The Mapmaker‘s Daughter by Clare Merchant this weekend. While there are similarities in both books, there are also many differences.In the first (LC),Spain (Iberia) is persecuting the Jews & has expelled them from the country.Amalia Cresques keeps her grandfather‘s atlas in her trunk that follows her wherever she travels.🔽