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Slowly, I'm think I'm getting attached to the characters of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. The various digressions are a bit exhausting, but like lots of classic literature, I believe if you're willing to stick with it and adjust to its tone, cadence and style, it pays dividends. You know, maybe to be alive in a world like ours, one has to be "mad", and in that, perhaps Don Quixote couldn't be more human.

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For the love of God, dear master, don't oblige me to see your worship naked. That will depress me so that I shan't stop crying, and I've such a pain in the head from the weeping I did last night for the ass that I'm in no fit state for a fresh attack of tears.

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August was … not great. I liked this book, though. #12booksof2015

Finally read my #FoodAndLit #Nicaragua pick (Also a September #BookSpin).

Based on the history of Juana the Mad, this novel is full of obsession, betrayal, ambition, and inappropriate relationships. But it was a good (if infuriating) read to end the year on.

Sorry that I am continuing with my late book reviews but this a closure I must do, even if I finish it first week of January 2026. If I want to improve this task next year, I must complete it now, this one. I‘m a finisher in my races…so I will do in this task📚💪

July 2025 Book #1 second book in this first trilogy. Liked it not loved it. New family dynamics , more secrets are revealed and the story in general in so interesting⬇️

In Castillo in the very south of Spain, 'a tumbling little village built on an outcrop of rock in the midst of a pebbly delta'.
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Finishing #ReadTheWorld2025 with 6 more countries: #Spain, #India, #Brazil, #Armenia, #Nigeria and #Lebanon. I managed to read from/about 37 countries and will definitely continue reading from around the world. Thanks for hosting Myra!

This book won both a Newbery Honor and was a Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor, which is how it got on our book club‘s radar. We all learned some new-to-us history and appreciated the scope of the book. It moves through several generations of a family, taking place in four different countries and with four different protagonists. Lots to take in!

This was my April #BookSpin pick.

I almost DNFed this one because it dragged in the middle, but I persisted, and I think that was the right choice. This scratched the itch for contemplative literary fiction that I've had after immersing myself in horror for a couple of months. It deals with familial relationships and the ways that we can manipulate others to meet our own needs and distract from our sense of mortality and/or feelings of powerlessness. So, uncomfortable but good.