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Why Do We Remember?: Svetlana Alexievich’s History of the Soul
War’s Unwomanly Face and Voices from Chernobyl
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Flickers of Light: The Goldfinch
“A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help”
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Back to blogging
The past week has proven everything can change in the blink of an eye. In less than five days I’ve had to close my coffee shop, cancel all traveling plans and postpone indefinitely a publishing workshop I’d been working on with several independent publishing houses. On the other hand, an academic article I wrote in […]
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Best Reads of 2019
Quite late for this but…
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Embracing Uncertainty: Rebecca Solnit’s Field Guide to Getting Lost
“It’s not about being lost but about trying to lose yourself”
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Rediscovering My Hometown
When I was in kindergarten, the local government of León, my hometown in Mexico, bought the land my school was on and we had to leave. Staff and students helped move everything from blackboards to chairs to the new premises which were, as it seemed to me at the time, in the middle of nowhere. […]
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First Book Tag Ever
Turns out this is really fun.
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What I Read: May
Poisonous jellyfish, dysfunctional families, unlikely friendships and mice.
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“Trouble with mice is you always kill’em”: Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
Trouble in the ranch.
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An Inbred Wanderlust: Finding North by George Michelsen Foy
“«Where» is the primal question, rather than «when», «how», or «who»”.
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“The Best is Only Bought at the Cost of Great Pain”: Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds
700 hundred pages of suffering and a very handsome priest.
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What I Read: April
April is gone! We are almost halfway through 2019 already. Even though I am way behind in my reading challenge, I had the chance to read some memorable stories. Shirley by Charlotte Brontë I just love Charlotte Brontë. I have read Jane Eyre many times and Villette twice, they’re just wonderful novels. So the next […]
flowers in the library 