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mcctrish

How to Stand Up to a Dictator | Maria Ressa

Snow White bag #7 Bashful has arrived 4/7 dwarves are accounted for

wanderinglynn Love it! #legosrule 1d

mcctrish @wanderinglynn it‘s a highlight everyday 1d

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mcctrish

How to Stand Up to a Dictator | Maria Ressa

Snow White bag #6 and a new audio book with a lot to process

TheBookHippie Love. 3d

mcctrish @TheBookHippie Grumpy gets his own place setting 😆 3d

TheBookHippie @mcctrish 🤭 3d

hannah-leeloo My sister @CymbaX13 just finished this 😍 3d

mcctrish @hannah-leeloo @CymbaX13 ❤️❤️ 3d

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azulaco

The Feast of the Goat: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa

Your cup of coffee or glass of rum must taste better, the smoke of your cigar, a swim in the ocean on a hot day, the movie you see on Saturday, the merengue on the radio, everything must leave a more pleasurable sensation in your body and spirit when you had what Trujillo had taken away from Dominicans thirty-one years ago: free will. #readingtheamericas2023 #dominicanrepublic

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AmyK1

The Fountains of Silence | Ruta Sepetys

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This was a re-read for book club and I loved it just as much the 2nd time as the first. Looking forward to our discussion tomorrow.

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Roxanareads

The Fountains of Silence | Ruta Sepetys

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Incredible historical fiction novel that I enjoyed on audio bringing light to the thousands of babies stolen from families in Spain during Franco's rule.

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GatheringBooks

How to Stand Up to a Dictator | Maria Ressa

#VolumesAndVocals Day 4: My husband and I definitely got #ShiversEdSheeran when we witnessed just outside our hotel in Sibiu Romania, this World Press Photo exhibition, featuring Duterte‘s war on drugs and truth. Such fearless and unflappable claim of truth being a public good. Unless of course it brings such painful discomfort and makes one complicit in voting for a mass murderer. There will always be a reckoning.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs ❤️😢💚 11mo

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Dilara

I the Supreme | Augusto Roa Bastos

Done! I've just finished this novel. Time for something that's more to my taste 😁

#FoodandLit
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Picture of the Fine Arts museum of Paraguay from Wikipedia

Liz_M Uh oh this does not bode well for my reading plans.... 11mo

Catsandbooks Glad you got through it! 🙌🏼 11mo

Dilara @Liz_M You never know! You might feel completely differently than me about this novel 😁 I found it hard to engage with, both on an intellectual and emotional level, but YMMV. It would have been easier if I'd had a better grasp of the “national narrative“. I suspect there were a lot of inside jokes etc. that I didn't get but would give Paraguayan readers a good chuckle. And if you enjoyed the 1st 20 pages, you should be fine with the other 400 👍 11mo

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Liz_M

I the Supreme | Augusto Roa Bastos

I've finished Three Lives and Baba Yaga. And then started I the Supreme. Doctor Thorne and Clarissa continue....

Dilara I'm curious to know what you think of I the Supreme! 11mo

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Dilara

I the Supreme | Augusto Roa Bastos

This is a bit of a slog and I had to extend my library loan. The ideal reader would be someone with a deep and wide knowledge of #Paraguayan culture and history, who knows Spanish, Guarani and Portuguese, enjoys puns and erudite jokes, and is reasonably well-versed in Enlightenment philosophy and 18-century history.

#FoodandLit
@Catsandbooks @Texreader

Picture of the Supreme - a grumpy-looking José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia - from Wikipedia

Bookwomble It sounds like that person is most likely to be Augusto Roa Bastos! 11mo

Catsandbooks Sounds like a tough read. Good luck! 11mo

Dilara @Catsandbooks Thanks! It's rewarding enough that I don't want to abandon it, but it is testing my willpower... 11mo

Dilara @Bookwomble Yes 😆 😁. The fact that Latin America was almost completely absent from my school curriculum growing up (in France, but it probably was pretty much the same in the rest of Europe - I hope it was different in North America) doesn't help. Thank heaven for Wikipedia! 11mo

Bookwomble @Dilara I grew up (to a degree!) in Britain, and was taught nothing about South America. Thank goodness we have books to fill in these blanks in our cultural maps 🌎😊 11mo

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Dilara

I the Supreme | Helen R. Lane, Augusto Antonio Roa Bastos

I was able to borrow this #Paraguayan classic hidden in the stacks. There was a pristine library bookmark hidden in it. The number of digits in the phone number provided on the verso dates it to the nineties 😲
I'm about a third of the way through: the writing's a bit over the top, which gets tiring after a while, so I'm reading it in small installments.

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Dilara It is written in the voice of José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, a 19th-century dictator of Paraguay. Wikipedia tells me he was inspired by the Enlightenment and Rousseau. That is very intriguing. Also, he forbade white Paraguayans from intermarrying - they had to marry black, mulatto, native American or mestizo people. This happened in the early 19th century and must have horrified the majority of white people further North! 11mo

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