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My tbr list for #hauntedshelf #letsgopoints. Ambitious but I still have my other challenges ongoing, Octavia Butler books for #authoramonth and #Samoa books for #foodandlit. I‘m very excited about these books even though I know I won‘t get to them all. Must also include my #whattheDickens books!!

Rereads: Frankenstein, Dracula, books 1-2 of All Souls. I‘d love to finish all these books beyond the trilogy!

Soubhiville, Cuilin, BookwormAHN, Catsandbooks, PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🧡🖤🧡 4h

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The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War | Gioconda Belli

I imagine the ocean, with its swirling, watery fingers knitting together the two lives I have lived.

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Dilara

Prosas profanas y otros poemas | Ruben Dario

There are so many references to European literature and culture (mostly French, but also British, German, and of course Spanish, though not as much as I thought he would) in this poetry collection. The quoted poem is about Marguerite Gautier (or here, Margarita), the Lady of the Camellias (La Dame aux camélias) from the novel/play of the same name by Alexandre Dumas fils.

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Dilara translation found here: https://www.artvilla.com/plt/marguerite-by-ruben-dario-translated-by-william-rul...
Poster for the play by Mucha, via Wikimedia

La Dame Aux Cam�lias

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The Bad Girl: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa

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Mario Vargas Llosa is an excellent author. The fact that it took 3 months for me to finish it should have no bearing on what a well-written book it is. The issue is with the lengthy paragraphs in extremely long chapters. It‘s not the type of book to sneak in a few pages when you can. You actually have to devote time to it. Peruvian Ricardo believes true peace will be his if he can just live his life in Paris. Spoiler: he does. As a child in ⬇️

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Texreader Peru, Ricardo falls for a Chilean girl named Lilly in his school. Despite showing some interest in him, she remains an enigma and then just disappears. When he moves to Paris to become a translator for UNESCO, he encounters her as a recruit with a new name for the predecessor to the Shining Path. He realizes he‘s madly in love with his childhood crush. But he sends her on to Cuba for training. And over the years he encounters her repeatedly. ⬇️ (edited) 7d

Texreader Each time he meets her again, almost always by chance, she has a brand new name with a new husband who will make her richer than the previous husband. But that doesn‘t stop their affair and she remains a mystery throughout and he remains obsessed with her. She refuses to commit to him, because he cannot bring her riches; his happiness is just to live in Paris. Of course, things go terribly wrong for her. Ricardo‘s love is put to the ⬇️ (edited) 7d

Texreader test, and here we find just how far each will go to be true to themselves. Definitely worth the read, but be prepared to be dedicated to this book. Though a short 260-something pages, for a reader like me, it takes perseverance. No doubt I‘ll read more by this author. #foodandlit #Peru (edited) 7d

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Dilara

The Inhabited Woman | Gioconda Belli

So I pretty much inhaled this cult 80s novel about an upper-class female architect enrolled in the Sandinista revolutionary guerilla in 70s #Nicaragua. It's both nuanced and terrifying. Also very feminist, with men in the movement trying their best to deprogram their own machismo, with varying degrees of success. ⬇

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Dilara Belli was stripped of her Nicaraguan citizenship in 2023 b/c she was too critical of what the movement had become.

As an aside, I hate the male-gazy Gauguin-inspired cover, with a woman who probably only looks vaguely like the women in the book.

The orange in the pic is for a Nicaraguan dish I plan on making later in the week. (And an orange-tree is central in the novel.) (edited) 1w

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Dilara

The Inhabited Woman | Gioconda Belli

Halfway through tagged book and enjoying it.
I made Nicaraguan fresco de cacao ( using this recipe : https://www.jonathanmelendez.com/nicaraguan-fresco-de-cacao/ )
Veeeery nice: it's a cold chocolate drink made with cacao beans, cinnamon, rice, sugar and vanilla. It's more involved and time-consuming than I first thought (whole process shown in pic), but I will make it again.
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TheBookHippie Oh yum! Thanks for the recipe!! 1w

Dilara @TheBookHippie You're welcome 😁 1w

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Dilara

Prosas profanas y otros poemas | Ruben Dario

First poem in this collection by Rubén Darío, and the parallels between it and Nerval's Fantaisie jump out to me (but then, I'm French and I had to learn it by heart at school).

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