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Second month in a row bookspin hit my author of the year - Jose Saramago, going to try to get to him this month with the shortest of his I own Cain.
Double spin is from the Women's Prize Nonfiction Long List, it looks interesting about geography and more... already have it on hold at the library.

Each year I chose one author to read all year long, this year I am trying to read 12 Jose Saramago books.
Stone Raft is about a group of peoples adventures when they are stuck on the Iberian peninsula when it breaks from Europe and starts floating around the ocean. I love that the car and a dog become characters with real personalities. The rag tag group is interesting and creative, and Spain and Portugal come alive as we travel through them.

#weeklyforecast I can't believe January is ending this week! It was the longest quick month ever.

I am reading 1 Saramago book a month And am not quite finished with the tagged, will finish this week. Am super excited to read the ARC I have "Jacquotte Delahaye" about a Caribbean pirate lady! I am also half into Bright Young Women so hopefully will wrap that up, I have Hunt the Flame on audio to help move this stack along.

While the main story is about the Iberian peninsula breaking off and floating away, it is also about different adventures our characters have. While on a road trip Saramago gives the Deux Chevaux used during a road trip almost an animated quality, he speaks of it occasionally as an autonomous character which is very interesting.
I had never heard of this car so had to Google it, it is so cute!

"It was a clear night, the vast expanse of the sky dotted with stars, so close, it seemed, that they might have been magically suspended motes of glass dust, or a snow-white veil, and the great constellations shone dramatically, the morning star, the two Bears, the Pleiades, a fine shower of tiny crystals of light fell on the two men's upturned faces, got caught in their hair, it was not the first time this phenomenon occurred........"

Saramago is not for the literary faint of heart. His sentences often run for paragraphs and his paragraphs can run for pages. His chapters are long and unnumbered, he doesn't use quotations when the characters speak. Most of the writing is done in a stream of consciousness.
And yet I adore it. He writes like I speak and I find it only takes me a page or 2 to fall into his rhythm.
Saramago is my author of 2024 I will be reading him all year.

#OnThisDay #Nov16

This book is one of the most special gifts I ever received and I plan to read it annually not only for the pleasure of reading it, but also because the purple prose influenced the way I have written all my college papers the past few weeks, and even more importantly was that I fell in love with the friend who sent me this book who has reciprocated my feelings during the time it has taken me to read the book. I Love You, Meine Frau.

November #bookspinbingo

My November #bookspin @TheAromaofBooks
#bookspin All the Names by Jose Saramago
#doublebookspin Being Heumann by Judith Heumann