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“I Am Not your Negro” by James Baldwin BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: February, 1st 2017 Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 9780525434696 Genre: Nonfiction Strong Point: To get to know a bit better the thoughts and views of Baldwin.  Weak Point: The compilation…

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February 2, 2023
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“Ring Shout” by P. Djèlí Clark BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: October, 13th 2020 Publisher: Tordotcom ISBN: 9781250767028 Genre: Horror Strong Point: The explanation of what it originally was a “Ring Shout” and different episodes of the story of…

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January 28, 2023
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“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: September, 26th 2006 Publisher: Debolsillo ISBN: 9788483468685 Genre: Science Fiction Strong Point: How the author builds the world around the two main characters and how well he manages…

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January 13, 2023
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“Skyward Inn” by Aliya Whiteley BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 16th March 2021 Publisher: Solaris ISBN: 9781781088821 Genre: Science Fiction Strong Point: The story is intriguing.  Weak Point: It is a very confusing book and there are too…

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June 16, 2022
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“Later” by Stephen King BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: March, 2nd 2021 Publisher: Hard Case Crime ISBN: 9781789096491 Genre: Horror Strong Point: I love the main character. Jamie is both adorable and impressive. Weak Point: The book…

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June 11, 2022
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“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: April, 5th 2005 Publisher: Faber and Faber ISBN: 9780571224135 Genre: Science Fiction Strong Point: The atmosphere of surrealism and creepiness during the whole book. Weak Point: The story…

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May 25, 2022
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“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: January, 1st 1962 Publisher: Vintage Classics ISBN: 9780099285694 Genre: Drama Strong Point: The interaction between the four characters. Some of the dialogues are quite brilliant.   Weak Point:…

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April 15, 2022
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“Becoming” by Michelle Obama BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: November 13th 2018 Publisher: Crown Publishing ISBN: 9781524763138 Genre: Nonfiction, Memoir Strong Point: The possibility of getting to know more about such a charismatic, strong woman. Weak Point:…

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March 20, 2022
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Publication Date: 2nd March 2021 Publisher: HighBridge Audio ISBN: 9781696602969 Narrator: Charlie Thurston Genre: Contemporary Fiction Strong Point: Characters are ok, especially the main one, Pierre. Weak Point: The story…

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March 6, 2022
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Publication Date: 22nd September 2020 Publisher: Mcmillan - Tor/Forge Books ISBN: 9781250753175 Genre: Mystery Strong Point: How we learn about the protagonist’s own story at the same time she is…

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February 23, 2022
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“I Am Not your Negro” by James Baldwin.
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Ring Shout” b 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Ring Shout” by P. Djèlí Clark.
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “The Road” by 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“The Road” by Cormac McCarthy
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Drawing for Mimi’s Illustration Club for the Dec Drawing for Mimi’s Illustration Club for the December prompt “Holiday Traditions”. 
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This one was quite challenging for me, as my mind wants to draw things that my hand is not able to draw. But it was fun and I had to deal with different problems. The result is ok but it could be better. Shadows and textures are always very complicated for me.
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Hope you like it.
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Software: @procreate 
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Canvas info: 12 x 12 inches, 300 dpi
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Brushes: @mimimoo_illustration
Showing you some of the basic spreads of the 2023 Showing you some of the basic spreads of the 2023 Simplify Your Life Planner.
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You can purchase it at my Etsy shop, Digital Planners Lab.
Playing with @procreate for @mimimoo_illustration Playing with @procreate for @mimimoo_illustration November prompt for her Illustration Club “Favourite Foods”. 
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I had lots of fun drawing the eggs but it was quite challenging too.
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Hope you like it. 🙏🏻❤️
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Software: @procreate 
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Canvas info: 12 x 12 inches, 300 dpi
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Brushes: @mimimoo_illustration new pack.
The 2023 Simplify Your Life Digital Planner is out The 2023 Simplify Your Life Digital Planner is out! 
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NOW and until this Sunday with a 15% discount!🎉🥳🎊🎁
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More than 200 pages to start planning your year directly from December 2022.
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It includes more than 52 dated Weekly Pages, 3 different Weekly layouts for every week of the year, master to do list, finances pages, goal pages and many more!!
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Hope you enjoy planning with it as much as I enjoyed creating it! 😘🙏🏻
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It’s been a while…🙄 . Playing again with #p It’s been a while…🙄
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Playing again with #procreate 😍😍
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Drawn on the plane on my way to my homeland Sevilla.
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Canvas dimensions: 2048px - 2048px at 132 dpi (probably not good enough for printing 🙄)
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Skyward Inn” 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Skyward Inn” by Aliya Whiteley
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This is going to be a short review, as I don’t really know what is going on in this book.
Having said so, I will try to explain what it is about.
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Skyward Inn is the name of a small inn run by Isley and Jem. From the beginning, we know that Isley is not “human” but some type of alien, a Qitan, tolerated by the people of the village and the ones who visit the inn every night to drink something called Jarrowbrew.
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Then, one night, a Qitan female called Won appears at the inn with a broken suit. It seems this “suit” serves her as a vehicle. Somehow the appearance of Won makes everyone very suspicious and uncomfortable. Why? No idea. Perhaps because as it unfortunately always happens people are afraid of what they do not understand and are suspicious of everyone and everything which is different from them.
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THE WORD IS “CONFUSING”
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From then on, the author tells us about many different stories apart from this central one at the Inn.
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We learn about Dominic, Jem’s brother, who lives with Jem’s son called Fosse. Dominic is the head of the council and a school teacher.
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We also learn about some more people from the village, like Doctor Clarke, and Reverend Summer (who is their spiritual leader), and Benny Sykes, the village policeman. 
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However all these people act quite weird and very cult-like. Fosse also encounters three people, two women and a man, who are staying in a type of barn. 
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Sounds confusing? Well, that is the best way to describe “Skyward Inn”… 
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Later” by Ste 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Later” by Stephen King
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There’s always a later, I know that now. At least until we die.”
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That Stephen King is one of my favourite writers is not a secret. So as part of Johann’s challenge #50states50horrorbooks I decided to read “Later” for the state of New York. 
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Although I very much enjoyed the story and the characters, I was perhaps expecting a bit more horror than what the book contains. 
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Don’t get me wrong, there are some scenes which are extremely creepy and will stay in my mind forever. But it is not my favourite King. 
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THE STORY
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Jamie Conklin is 22 years old at the start of the book. But he tells us his own story of when he was only 13 years old. 
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He lives with his mum, Tea Conklin who is a literary agent. He is a normal child with a specialty: he has the ability of seeing dead people. 
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Tea, of course, doesn’t believe Jamie can see dead folks. But she slowly realizes it may be true after all. Furthermore, she uses his son’s ability to change their bad economic situation and it worked completely fine. They saved themselves from bankruptcy. 
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For this reason, when NYPD Detective Elizabeth Dutton meets Jamie, she perceives he could be of help to her in order to catch a serial killer. He could be her big “miracle” in a police department where she has only had problem after problem.
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IT IS A STEPHEN KING BOOK AFTER ALL
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From here on, the story gets more and more complex as well as creepy. However, I miss King’s ability to make me shiver with just one sentence. It has happened to me with many of his books but it did not happen with “Later”…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Never Let Me Go 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro
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“What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three “Never Let Me Go”.”
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I like Ishiguro. “The Remains of the Days” is an excellent book so I wanted to read another of his works. 
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I found “Never Let Me Go” in my local bookshop and I decided to give it a try. 
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At the beginning of the book I was startled by how different the style this book felt in comparison with “The Remains” but, of course, between the two books there is a gap of 17 years so the difference in style is normal.
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I liked the book as a whole but it is not a five stars book for me. Let’s get to it, shall we?
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THE STORY
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We find the protagonist in England in the late 1990s. Her name is Kathy H. and she is 31 years old. 
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We are told that Kathy has been a “carer” for almost 12 years now. And we think, ok, she is like a nurse, or works at an old folks’ home or something similar. But no…that is not the case.
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Furthermore, we learn that apart from the “carers” there are also “guardians” and “donors”; of what, we do not know. We also learn that after the third or fourth “donation” people are “completed”. Weird, right? That is why “Never Let Me Go” is considered a dystopia. 
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We go back in time and Ishiguro tells us about Kathy’s past in a kind of boarding school called Hailsham, and about her life there with her friends, especially with Tommy and Ruth.
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We start to sense that something weird and creepy is happening at the place: there are peculiar people like “Madame”, Miss Lucy, etc.
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In addition, the children grow up thinking they are special. They do not have parents, nor they can have children in the future. And yet, they spend their days at that enclosed school because they are different from the rest of the people…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Who’s Afraid 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee
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“I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?”
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I always find very difficult to review a play. Plays are written for theatre, for a live audience, and not to be read alone in a room.
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For this reason, I think that I have never fully enjoyed reading a play while I have almost always loved seeing plays in a theatre.
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“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is no exception. The story is powerful (and quite disturbing, to be honest) and Edward Albee writes masterfully. And yet it let me a bit cold.
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THE STORY
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We find George and Martha at two o’clock at night coming back home from a party hosted by Martha’s father.
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George is 46 years old and works in the History department of the University from which Martha’s father is the President. They have been married for 23 years. 
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At the party, they have met another couple and they have invited them to their flat for a last drink. And from then on, things escalate and become weirder and weirder.
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A HAPPY MARRIAGE?
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So George and Martha’s marriage is everything but happy. In fact, it is a very toxic marriage. 
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When the other couple arrive, they start having very intense discussions and arguments and we realize that there are a lot of unspoken issues between them.
Furthermore, the other couple, Honey and Nick, seem to be “dragged” by the bad vibe happening between their hosts. 
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They also uncover some dark secrets and make us feel that in a not so far away future, they will become a similar version of George and Martha. 
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The two couples do not know how to deal with their “significant other”. They do not understand each other and they pour their frustration on his/her partner. They are cruel and cannot be civil, even in the presence of strangers. 
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Their lack of communication and understanding is astonishing. And yet, it is quite mundane. We must not forget that marriage is in a way a type of play in which every person involved plays a role, as it happens in any theatrical drama. 
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Becoming” by 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Becoming” by Michelle Obama
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“Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done”.
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Just to be clear from the beginning: I have a small crush on Michelle Obama. I have always liked her. I admire her elegance and I like her looks. And the most important thing, I love the way she expresses herself and the power and strength of her words.
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For this reason, it was clear to me that I wanted to read “Becoming”. It was a far more interesting reading that any of her husband’s books, to be honest. 
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And what I can say after reading “Becoming”, is that my crush got bigger…So let’s talk about this brilliant, inspiring woman and her book.
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BECOMING ME
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In this first part of the book, Michelle tells us about her family and the people who surrounded and influenced her while being a child and a teenager. 
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As a child, she lived in the South Shore neighbourhood of Chicago in a bungalow belonging to her great aunt Robbie (her mother’s aunt) and her husband Terry. Robbie would teach Michelle to play the piano.
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Her father worked at the city’s water treatment plant. Michelle shows the reader her profound love for him and how he showed her and her older brother Craig to love jazz and art. He had taken classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and had painted and sculpted. He was also the precinct captain for the city’s Democratic Party. 
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Her mother had taught Michelle to read early taking her to the public library. She worked as a secretary and executive assistant at a bank. 
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Her brother Craig, two years older than Michelle, was considered one of the best basketball players in the city…
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