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my #5JoysFriday:
1. A day off work for the eclipse
2. Baseball season
3. My son running track
4. My tulips blooming
5. A long-awaited sequel that I finally pick up!

What a fun, positive idea @debinhawaii Thanks!

The irony.. ?

I've been slowly reading this graphic along with the book. It's a nice way to recap via illustrations. It is wild to me that the most memorable part of Don Quixote (based on comments and discussions I've seen so far) are the windmill "giants" in the first 10% of the book.That just tells me most people never read the whole thing, because it's completely irrelevant in the grand scheme of this tome.

#casuallyqueer quips in #classics

And was a bugbear in men‘s eyes;
But had the fortune in his age
To live a fool and die a sage.
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This was not as good as Life is a dream, but still a fun and interesting play. The theme of women being taken advantage of and the law allowing men to not suffer consequences while they are socially ostracized is repeated. Makes me interested in learning more about the author's life that in the XVII century he was so interested in representing women's problems on stage

#LuckyInLove Day 5 #Wine There are tiny wine 🍷 glasses on the table😂

Second book in the #HernándezDetectives trilogy

I don‘t know how to translate this, maybe “Delicate Family matter”? A family affair? Something like that🤷🏽‍♀️

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Segismundo has been a prisoner in a tower all his life, he doesn't know the reason. When he was born his father, the king, predicted that he would be a tyrant, so he locked him up. Now that the king is old he decides to free him to see his true nature and should he fulfill the prophecy he intends to lock him up again and make him believe everything was a dream.
I read this play more times that I can count. This Oedipus type of story has some⬇️

#NewYearNewBooks Day 31 #CloudsCover

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Como tal es una buena historia basada en hechos reales. Pero el libro es mayormente aburrido y pienso que necesitaba ser mucho más editado antes de publicarlo. No se niega que aprendí muchas cosas de WW2 que no conocía y en sí, la historia fue interesante. Un libro ideal para alguien interesado en historia y hechos reales. No es buena opción para un lector que prefiere romance.

#PoetryMatters @TheSpineView
#Trace

Wow…just wow. I‘m proud of myself for completing this, and thanks to @TheAromaofBooks of leading us through this #RandomClassic . I feel so sad for Don Quixote and the variety of tricks played on him in his adventures. There is also quite a lot of superfluous words in the text, making it at times a bit of a bog to wade through. Yet, I liked this. Don Quixote remained a chivalrous “knight” on his many escapades, and his kindness is his strength.