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Virginia recommends Love Poems on this week Manuscript Monday. 🥰

https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-love-poems

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My favourite, and I love the ambiguity over the interpretation (I rarely agree with historians when it comes to most topics on literature and poetry, and this time is no different) 🤍🤎.

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@birdie_gw have you read this one? If not, put it on your list. C and I are going to Chile in October bc Isabelle Allende inspired me - specifically this book - and I‘m going to reread it in Sept before we go. We can read it at the same time if you‘re game!

#lovepoem #luckyinlove @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

#weirdwordwednesday #valentinesday
#yiddish #wednesdayyiddish
Happy Heart Day 💕

The best person you can love is yourself 💕
Never forget that 💕

1. My menu at the top I cook a big fancy dinner 💕
2. Tagged 📕 Love Poems https://a.co/d/gqbH0eL

#TWO4Tuesday

🍓 https://simplytodaylife.com/valentines-day-berry-punch-for-kids/
🥣https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/italian-wedding-soup.html
🍝 https://www.recipesfromitaly.com/lasagna-bolognese/
🍞 https://kristineskitchenblog.com/honey-yeast-rolls/
🍫 https://marshasbakingaddiction.com/easy-chocolate-pots-de-creme/
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"In its caves the salt moans, mountain of buried light, translucent cathedral, crystal of the sea, oblivion of the waves." - from Ode to Salt by Pablo Neruda

He certainly was very passionate about salt. ?

Day 6 #Translucent #PoetryMatters @TheSpineView

This was my favourite book read in #November for #12Booksof2023. This was an excellent read set initially during the Spanish Civil War, but most of the book takes in the lives of two people following their lives in Chile as a refugee. This book really will stay with me for a long time and is a strong candidate for my favourite book of the year.

Notable mentions also for Family for Beginners by Sarah Morgan (always love her books) and 👇

#spanishbook #8- 2024 will be my 4th consecutive year of immersing myself on the way to fluency, and I've built up a nice little collection of libros en español. One of my reading goals for the new year is to read more of them!
"Ríete de este torpe
muchacho que te quiere,
pero cuando yo abro
los ojos y los cierro,
cuando mis pasos van,
cuando vuelven mis pasos,
niégame el pan, el aire,
la luz, la primavera,
pero tu risa nunca
porque me moriría"

This is the life story of Victor Dalmau, having served as a medic in the Spanish Civil War, fleeing to France when all is lost, and then immigrating to #Chile with his brother‘s pregnant girlfriend. This should be quite exciting, but it‘s told like a recitation of facts and the news (about the war and politics) in past tense. In a word, I found it dull. And hard to get through for that reason. Barely a pick for me. ⬇️