Make Your Home Among Strangers | 
Still working on finishing the books I‘ve started 📖 instead of starting any new ones. Enjoying a caramel high rise with an extra shot of espresso and an Asiago bagel 🥯 with garden veggie cream cheese.
“Only when the ghost of my mother‘s image - her metallic outline - faded away into the now-dead screen did I let go of the remote, its thud against the carpet the last sound I heard as I ran out the front door.”
#Adventathon Day 10
“Canals zigzag across the city I used to call home.”
Hold came in at the public library, so I immediately had to read the first two chapters tonight for #Adventathon Day 9
April needed to check the book out as well
#catsoflitsy #firstline
panUgh. Painful. Painful to say it was painful but it was about as bad as it could get. I‘m hoping the author‘s book of essays is better. The writing is trying really hard but just doesn‘t work (for me). I found some sentences taking 2-3 reads before figuring out what each was trying to say (editing issues?). Lackluster characters ugh just a bore fest. Sorry, hard hard pass. So here‘s a pic of a turtle crossing my yard a few days ago. Ugh.
Ahhhhhhhh if you have to be up before dawn, this is how you do it 🔥🐈☕️📖
Y'all: I have discovered Half-Price Books
pickThis book bathed my soul in violetas.
Wow! So disappointing. Burning a Latina authors book because you don‘t think white privilege isn‘t real is not cool.
http://www.thegeorgeanne.com/news/article_27bf3288-eb78-11e9-b386-47de5677b8c7.h...
pickWhen you are one of the only Latina students at a prestigious liberal arts university, heading to college can be an incredible cultural shift. But it can be just as difficult to return home. Lizet tries to move between the worlds of her Cuban-American family in Florida and Rawlings University. It's 1999, Cuban refugees are in the news, her parents have recently split up, and she is pulled in multiple directions. ⤵️
pickFor some reason, it took me weeks to get through this book. However, this is not a reflection on it's merit. As an academic, I related with Lizet's feelings of living two lives, of losing her family in pursuit of her dreams. This book is not fast-paced, it's more like a slow burn. Heart-breaking and heartfelt.
pickThis was spectacular! Touched me on so many levels...Miami, going away to college, now thinking about the author teaching at UNL. Just loved it and couldn‘t wait to share it with friends.
When you get random texts suggesting IKEA furniture your book stacks may be out of control 😂
Just put a line through whatever you did incorrectly and keep going. - Jennine Capó Crucet
My niece is headed off to college this fall and #uncasheville chose this book as their incoming student summer read. Figured I'd read it with her!
so-soThe premise of the story is great, and the character is compelling, but the development of the story was a bit slow for me. Still worth the read, though!
pickMy book club read this book, one I would never have chosen on my own, but I'm glad to have read it. It's a well-written story of a bright young woman torn between her family's insular immigrant community and the opportunity to break away and take her place in mainstream America. You root for her all the way to make the right choice.
I'm going to plow through this stack of library books first. Then if I have time, I'll read one (or two) of the many I have waiting on my Kindle! #seasonsreadings2016 #wanttoreadindec #libraylove #tbr
@RealLifeReading
And then I remembered BookOutlets black Friday sale and traded all my money for magical glorious books. 🎉📚🎉📚🎉📚🎉
It's Hispanic Heritage month! Have you read any of these books by amazing Hispanic authors? What other titles do you recommend? 📚❤️🎉
