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Bookish Mumbles

Here you can have a look at my daily posts in Instagram
where I mumble about everything bookish,
Bujo spreads and digital illustration. Hope you like it.
🤓📚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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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
🤓📚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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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
🎉📣New product Alert!📣🎉 . An all new di 🎉📣New product Alert!📣🎉
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An all new digital sticker pack is now available at the Etsy Digital Planners Laboratory shop. 
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The pack contains more than 600 digital stickers with the Sunset Palette (with six different colours).
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They come in individual PNGs and precropped GoodNotes sheets. 
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These stickers will help you boost your productivity.
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You can find icons (weather, payday, weight), Text banners, Social Media widgets, Finance Tracker, Workout Tracker, Daily Spending Tracker, Hydration Tracker, Mood Tracker, Shopping lists, and many, many more! 
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Link in bio.
🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Oslo, Maine” 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Oslo, Maine” by Marcia Butler
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Thanks to the publisher, HighBridge Audio, the author Marcia Butler and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of “Oslo, Maine” for review purposes.
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I am afraid this is going to be a short review. 
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I chose this book in NetGalley because it sounded interesting as I love stories in small, rural areas as well as family stories. The blurb of this book talked about not one but three families which change forever after some traumatic event. 
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However, the book did not meet my expectations… 
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THE STORY
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There is a really small town called Oslo. However, this “Oslo” is not in Norway but in Maine, USA.
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There we find Pierre Roy, a twelve years old boy who lost his memory after a traumatic accident. 
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His father, Claude, does not seem to realize the scope of his son’s situation, nor its implications. 
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Furthermore, Claude seems to believe there is something else wrong with his son, apart from his mental problems: Pierre likes music and reading, nothing to do with what Claude considers to be masculine. 
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Pierre’s mother, Celine, has her own way of coping with Pierre’s illness, namely, pills. She feels responsible in part for the state her son is in, because she has no done what any mother would do, to protect their offspring. 
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Then we find another family, the Kimbrough who are musicians. They established in Oslo like 20 years ago, but are still seen as the “outsiders”. 
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And finally we have Edna Sibley, a wealthy widow. She lives with her grandson Luc, a 29 years old man who is…let’s say, different. His mother died giving birth to him. 
However this is perhaps the family’s story I like the least, as I think it is another case of the typical “we are rich but we also know what it is to suffer” that we repeatedly see in books, movies, etc…
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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “And Now She’s 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“And Now She’s Gone” by Rachel Howzell
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Thanks to the publisher, Forge Books, the author Rachel Howzell and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of “And Now She’s Gone” for review purposes.
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I love a good mystery book. It is probably one of my favourite genres, together with horror and classics (what a mixture, right?).
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And this book is a solid mystery book. The story is hard because of the topics it talks about (abuse against women, domestic violence, etc.) but it is well built and the characters are relatable. Let’s talk about it.
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THE STORY
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We find Grayson Sykes in Los Angeles working already for two years for a company called Rader Consulting. Work is ok, but she is a bit tired of looking for chihuahuas for rich people. What Grayson really wants to do is to be a private investigator. 
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Her boss is Dominick Rader, an old friend of hers. Already at this point, we sense something going on between the two of them, but the author is only giving us bits of info, so we have to wait to know what is happening with these two. 
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Furthermore, something else is going on with Grayson, as she is from the beginning of the book suffering from severe pain as a side effect from a recent laparoscopy. However, she repeats to herself she shouldn’t go to the hospital because there would be “too many questions”. 
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So one of the two central plots starts when a woman called Isabel Lincoln is missing and Gray starts working in the case. 
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She tries to investigate Isabel’s last movements and the people around her, the usual. Meanwhile, she has to deal with her own demons.
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TWO DIFFERENT PLOTS WHICH COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER
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While she investigates Isabel’s disappearance, we also know Gray’s own story, about which I cannot talk about at all, as it is the main turn of the book.
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What I can say, is that I like the way the author, Rachel Howzell, blends the two stories and how it all makes sense at the end…
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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Rue de L’Odé 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Rue de L’Odéon” by Adrienne Monnier
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“I was born on the 26th of April 1892 in Paris, where I have always lived”.
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I don’t exactly know how I found this book or when I bought it. But I know for sure it had been sitting on my shelves for way too long.
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I bought it in Spain (it is in Spanish, translated from the original French by Julia Osuna), stayed there for a long time and then travelled to Hamburg, and still I was not finding the right time to read it.
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However, last year on May the time came! And I was very glad to have read it. So let’s dive into it!
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THE STORY
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“Shakespeare & Co.” is probably one of the most famous English bookshops in the entire world. Sylvia Beach was its founder. The shop was situated in Rue de L’Odéon.
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However, what a lot of people do not know is that Adrienne Monnier was also the founder of a bookshop situated in Rue de L’Odéon. It opened its doors in 1915 in Paris under the name of La maison des Amis des Livres. Adrienne was also Sylvia’s friend and lover. But everyone knows Sylvia, and no one has ever heard about Adrienne. And what a pity that is.
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“Rue de L’Odéon” is part memories, part homage to this fantastic woman who, in the middle of a World War and a military occupation, being only 23 years old, opens a small bookshop at the heart of the Quartier Latin.
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Very well educated and with a passion for books, she had been working before opening her bookshop in an academic magazine. Her father helped her a bit economically so that she could make her dream come true.
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With time and much learning (she opened the shop without any experience in running a business), La maison des Amis des Livres changes forever the literary scene of the city. She was what we would call now an entrepreneur. 
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Among its shelves strolled famous authors like James Joyce, Beckett, Proust or Hemingway…
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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Burning Girls a 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Burning Girls and Other Stories” by Veronica Schanoes
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Thanks to the publisher, Tantor media, Inc., the author Veronica Schanoes and NetGalley for providing me with a free audiobook of “Burning Girls and Other Stories” for review purposes.
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“They made him dance in thorns and then they hanged him.”
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This has been my first book by author Veronica Schanoes. And I was greatly surprised by it.
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I am always quite reticent about reading short stories because I normally end up with a mixture of very good and very bad stories. Totally normal, by the way.
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However, this collection has been quite entertaining…
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THE STORIES
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In almost every single story there is a quite superb mixture of magical realism and folklore, with an added touch of Judaism, of which, I have to confess, I am a complete ignorant.
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Some of them were quite truculent and obscure, but that is my kind of jam. 
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Among my favourites are “The Revenants” as it slightly touches a topic about which I recently read in “The Resurrectionist” (by A.R. Meyering) last year that I deeply enjoyed. I was as well captivated by the story called “Rats”.
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“The Revenants” tells the story of a girl who has been used by an older man. Once he is tired of her, he abandones her. However, as she grows older, she unravels a “Revenant” (and this is the connection with Meyering’s story), the ghost of her older, more naive self. And this Revenant is thirsty for revenge. 
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Secondly, “Rats” retells the story of Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious, figures of the punk rock scene of the 70s. This fact, by the way, I learnt after reading the book. Their relationship was, let’s say, quite complicated, and the story rebels against the idealisation that society does of those kinds of relationships.
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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
Best Book of the Year 2021 🏅🏆🥇 . Well cho Best Book of the Year 2021 🏅🏆🥇
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Well choosing the best book of the year has been very hard!!😅
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I don’t know if you have ever tried to choose your favourite book of the year among your most beloved ones but, believe me, it took a while…🙄
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As you can see, the best book I read last year was Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. And this is funny, because I obviously knew before reading the book both the story and the characters from my University studies but even so, I enjoyed every single page in it. And I will for sure re-read it. It is a classic for a reason, right?
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I am not gonna bore you with its plot because I am quite sure you all know what it is about. And if you don’t, buy a copy right now and read it. You won’t be disappointed. 👌🏻
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Along the way I left some amazing books that I read last year, like “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss, a beautiful, sweet book about one of the most delightful characters I have ever read about, Leo Gursky; or the non-fiction book “Dancing with the Octopus”, by Debora Harding, an emotional, terrible account of an horrendous crime and its survivor which I completely recommend (please look first for its trigger warnings!).
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I have read many amazing stories and discovered new favourite authors like Alma Katsu, A.R. Meyering, Michael McDowell or the amazing Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Anyway, I’d love to know your favourite book(s) of last year. Leave them in the comment section down below. 
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If you like this reading spread, check out my Etsy Shop where you can purchase the 2022 Sunset Digital Planner where you can find this spread and hundreds more. Link in Bio.
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Take care & stay healthy 😷🤗🙏🏻
🤓📚Reseña Literaria 🤓📚 . “La cuenta 🤓📚Reseña Literaria 🤓📚
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“La cuenta atrás para el verano” de La Vecina Rubia.
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“Hay que sentir que nos pasamos la vida celebrando las cosas, ya sea una victoria o una derrota, porque en el fondo se trata de buscar los motivos para brindar”.
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Esta reseña va a levantar ampollas entre las fieles seguidoras de la autora, cosa que me da bastante igual, por cierto.
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Quería que este libro me gustara. Sin embargo, no solo no ha sido así sino que ha acabado siendo uno de los peores libros del año 2021.
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Os pongo en circunstancias: su autora es una “influencer” española, llamada “La Vecina Rubia” con miles de seguidores en Instagram. Sus historias son bastante divertidas, con mucho humor, y según me parecía a mí, escribía bastante bien, por lo que, cuando descubrí que acababa de escribir un libro, me encantó la idea de poder leerlo.
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Sin embargo, ni la historia ni los personajes me han enganchado, y el estilo de la autora no es para nada de mi agrado.
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Pero vayamos por partes.
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LA HISTORIA
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“La Cuenta atrás” cuenta la historia (aún no sé bien si son historias reales o inventadas) de una chica, algunas de sus relaciones sentimentales, y su grupo de amigas desde la adolescencia hasta la treintena.
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Si están basadas en historias reales, sinceramente, no me las creo. Si son inventadas, genial, pero no dejan de ser un grupo de anécdotas sin importancias, la mayoría de las cuales son bastante superficiales y carecen de todo interés para el lector.
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El libro está lleno de repeticiones innecesarias y de personajes superfluos que nada tienen que aportar a una historia por otra parta anodina. 
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EL LENGUAJE
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Yo soy fan del realismo en literatura. He leído a Pérez Galdós, Clarins, Dickens, Tolstoi, etc. pero lo de La Vecina Rubia ralla la tontería.
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La mayoría de los diálogos parecen copias exactas de chats de whatsapp que yo pueda tener con mis amigas. 
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Todos tenemos un límite de cuántas veces se puede leer la palabra “tía” o “j*der” en una página. Tales repeticiones de vulgarismos simplemente no son aceptables en un libro de un nivel cultural mínimo…
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Lee la reseña completa y muchas más en www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
Do you know what a vision board is? . I am a visua Do you know what a vision board is?
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I am a visual kind of person, so I get inspired by looking at a painting, a photo, or in this case, a board with images.
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So every month, I look for inspiration (mostly in Pinterest) and try to match my monthly goals with photos that motivate me to reach those goals, or at least try.
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This January, among my goals is to finish the 30 days of Yoga by @adrienelouise and enjoy every single minute of it, seek for some kind of balance in my life, take care of myself, try to keep an open mind in order to learn quick at my new job and be grateful, this year more than ever. 
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Have you ever tried using a vision board o similar? Did it help you stay focused? Let me know down in the comments.
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In the second photo you can see the empty vision board that comes with every month of my 2022 Sunset Digital Planner (Etsy shop link in my bio).
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Stay focus. Take care🙏🏻
2021 Reading Stats – Second part 📚📊📈📉 2021 Reading Stats - Second part 📚📊📈📉
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So, here we go! 🙏🏻🤪
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Slide 6: How I got my books: Well, nothing surprising. As I said yesterday, whether I buy my books, or I get them from NetGalley. I don’t use public libraries as I don’t live in an English or Spanish speaking country, and my German is…🙄
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Slide 7: Author’s gender: Also not a surprise as I always tend to pick up female authors, for whatever reason. Not complaining, though. 
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Slide 8: Author’s Racial Identity: 🙄This must change. Very disappointing to see I read such a big amount of books written by white authors. 
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Slide 9: Author’s Nationality: The same as with the previous slide. Too little variety. I must widen the number of books I read from authors from the rest of the world, and not only base my readings in American and British authors. 🤔
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Slide 10: Language: Another disappointment. My 2021 goal of reading more Spanish books has completely failed. 🥵 Must change too. 
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And that is all!
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I always find very interesting to see my yearly stats because my goal as a reader, apart from obviously being entertained by books and learning from them, is to widen my views about other people’s realities and situations, and this obviously means reading books by authors which are not only white and Americans. 😫
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So I will try to improve this during this year 2022. And this is my personal goal, of course. You may agree or disagree. 
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Anyway, I wish you a good reading year 2022.
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Soon I will prepare my post after deciding which one is my favourite book for 2021. It is gonna be quite hard, I am afraid 😅, because I have nine “5 stars” books to choose from…
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Hope you enjoyed these stats. It doesn’t seems so. But I do. 
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Take care & stay healthy 😷🤗🙏🏻
2021 Reading Stats 📚📊📈📉 . Well, it is 2021 Reading Stats 📚📊📈📉
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Well, it is that time of the year where I share my reading stats and I can hopefully learn something from them. If I remember it right, I had various reading goals in 2021, like reading more Nonfiction books, more classics, and more books in Spanish. 
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I’m afraid I didn’t reach all my goals 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️
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If you are a nerd for numbers and data, I hope you enjoy these slides. This time I got a bit carried away (again, I’m afraid) and I made too many for one post, so I will hopefully share the second part tomorrow.
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Slide 1: summary of my year. I am very happy with the number of books and pages I read, taking into consideration my shitty year. I only abandoned 2 books which I don’t think it is a lot.
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Slide 2: Genre: first problem…I only read 1 Classic so…🙄. However, I read 9 nonfiction books, of which I am glad. The majority of the books I read were horror books, because of the challenge of #50states50horrorbooks .
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Slide 3: Format: nothing shocking. I buy most of my books, and the rest of them, as well as the audiobooks, I get through NetGalley.
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Slide 4: Rating: Only one “1 star” book ( @patrisshh16 and @miceice know which book it is, right?🤪) and 9 “5 stars” books, so I am quite satisfied with these numbers.
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Slide 5: Year published: not a surprise that the majority of the books I have read in 2021 were published that year, as I have also read 17 arcs…
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And that is all for now. Tomorrow I will try to post the second part of the stats.
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Hope you like them. And I’d love to also know about your reading stats. So let me know down in the comments how your reading year was.
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Take care & stay healthy 😷🤗🙏🏻
So, this year 2021 is finally ending. 🙄🥺👏 So, this year 2021 is finally ending. 🙄🥺👏🏻👏🏻
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I think we can all agree that it hasn’t been a kind year. 
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We were all complaining that 2020 was awful but in comparison to this year we are leaving, 2020 was a bed of roses.
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On my part, I spent the majority of 2021 unemployed. The second year in a row.
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And when I finally found a job, it was the craziest, saddest experience ever. It lasted only one month and a half.
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I was quite ill before the summer, experiencing the most piercing pain I could have ever imagined. I endured two operations, a lot of discomfort and I have been experiencing the post-op side effects ever since.
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And much, much more.
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So as a whole, this has been a very shitty year.
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However, and as I am writing this reflection in bed, suffering the mild effects of my third vaccine, I cannot more than think that, in the end, it is what it is. 🤔😳
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Being unemployed gave me the possibility of keep exploring my creative side. I have learnt sooo much about creativity, graphic design, etc., that I cannot wait to see the things I will be creating in 2022.
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I have also found another big passion, Digital Planning, which has led to the opening of my Etsy shop (link in bio) and my newest project Digital Planners Laboratory @digitalplannerslaboratory of which I am immensely proud.
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I am happy I am healthier now. I still suffer discomfort and my “illness” will accompany me for the rest of my life, but I want to believe I won’t have to visit an operating room any time in the near future.
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And finally, I found a job in the most surrealistic way, in the middle of my lowest moment. 
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So yeah, that was 2021,a bad year, but one that has taught me a lot: how strong I am, how much I can endure and fulfil even in the middle of the craziest of pains, how amazing it is to have a partner at my side as well as how gorgeous my friends are. 
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So let’s enter this new year 2022 in full power, looking to the future with hope and excitement, and only looking back to remember what 2021 has taught us, for good or for bad.
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Take care.🙏🏻😘
🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Something Wicke 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury.
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State of Illinois for the challenge of #50states50horrorbooks hosted by @jobis89
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“Evil has only the power that we give it”.
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I must say this book has left me quite confused.
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I knew, before start reading it, that it is considered a classic of the fantasy genre. Furthermore, some years ago I read one of the most beloved books by Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” and it became one of my favourite books ever.
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So, my expectations were quite high. 
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However, although I enjoyed the book, I was somehow disappointed by it. 
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In addition, it has taken me forever to finish this review, as I felt somehow sad I didn’t enjoy the story so much as I expected…
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THE STORY
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“Something Wicked this Way Comes” tells the story of James Nightshade and William Halloway, two teenager friends who live next to each other in Green Town, Illinois. 
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The whole town is excited because a carnival is coming. However, there is something strange about it because it is quite late in the year for that, as it is already October.
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Will has a bad feeling and thinks something quite awful is going to happen. He is scared when he sees the Carnival being assembled, while his friend Jim feels attracted by it. 
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A CAROUSEL AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
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Perhaps the most creepy part of all is the Carousel that comes with the Carnival.
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The way it works and what it does to people (I don’t want to spoil anything by saying too much!) was quite shocking and just the thought of it made my hair stand on end. 
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In fact, all the members of the carnival are going to live in my mind from now on, as well as Mr. Halloway, Jill’s father, whose appearances are memorable. 
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The feeling I had while reading about the carousel is that it represents life. You live in the present, but in the carousel you can go ahead to the future or go back to the past. However, any of the two ways ends up well…
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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Dancing with th 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Dancing with the Octopus” by Debora Harding
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I think I have said this before but, I find that reviewing a True Crime book is quite complicated. One must take into consideration that what you are reading (and therefore, reviewing or criticising!) is the story of someone else’s suffering and journey towards having some kind of healing or closure. 
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For this reason alone, I tend to be very careful with my words in order not to offend anyone.
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However, this book has made my review very easy, as I don’t have anything at all bad to say about it.
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I am deeply amazed, scared, and angry by the story Debora narrates here but in a good way, of course. 
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Let me explain myself…
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THE STORY
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In 1978, Debora Harding was a 14 years old teenager living in Omaha, Nebraska.
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She lived there with her father, her mother, and her two sisters. All normal, right? Well, it wasn’t so. I will come back to her family life later on.
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Unfortunately, one day in that year 1978, Debora was kidnapped, sexually abused and left to die in the cold winter night.
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What follows is Debora trying to explain her journey and struggle as a survivor (not a victim) of this horrible experience. 
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Debora also explains a bit of the story of her family before the incident as well as the background of her attacker, whom she calls Mr. K (for Kidnapper!) although we know the name of the criminal, Charles Goodwin, from the first line of the book.
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VARIOUS TIMELINES
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Debora unravels the story of “Dancing with the Octopus” narrating it through different timelines.
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The first one is in 2003 in Lincoln, when Goodwin is waiting for his parole hearing. The second timeline is in the year 1978, when the aggression happened. And the third one is in the year 1992, when Debora moves to London with her husband-to-be, Tom and she starts to realize something very wrong is happening to her. 
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Furthermore, as I said, Debora also tries to explain Goodwin’s situation before, during and after he committed the aggression…
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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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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Oslo, Maine” 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Oslo, Maine” by Marcia Butler
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Thanks to the publisher, HighBridge Audio, the author Marcia Butler and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of “Oslo, Maine” for review purposes.
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I am afraid this is going to be a short review. 
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I chose this book in NetGalley because it sounded interesting as I love stories in small, rural areas as well as family stories. The blurb of this book talked about not one but three families which change forever after some traumatic event. 
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However, the book did not meet my expectations… 
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THE STORY
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There is a really small town called Oslo. However, this “Oslo” is not in Norway but in Maine, USA.
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There we find Pierre Roy, a twelve years old boy who lost his memory after a traumatic accident. 
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His father, Claude, does not seem to realize the scope of his son’s situation, nor its implications. 
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Furthermore, Claude seems to believe there is something else wrong with his son, apart from his mental problems: Pierre likes music and reading, nothing to do with what Claude considers to be masculine. 
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Pierre’s mother, Celine, has her own way of coping with Pierre’s illness, namely, pills. She feels responsible in part for the state her son is in, because she has no done what any mother would do, to protect their offspring. 
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Then we find another family, the Kimbrough who are musicians. They established in Oslo like 20 years ago, but are still seen as the “outsiders”. 
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And finally we have Edna Sibley, a wealthy widow. She lives with her grandson Luc, a 29 years old man who is…let’s say, different. His mother died giving birth to him. 
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “And Now She’s 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“And Now She’s Gone” by Rachel Howzell
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Thanks to the publisher, Forge Books, the author Rachel Howzell and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of “And Now She’s Gone” for review purposes.
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I love a good mystery book. It is probably one of my favourite genres, together with horror and classics (what a mixture, right?).
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And this book is a solid mystery book. The story is hard because of the topics it talks about (abuse against women, domestic violence, etc.) but it is well built and the characters are relatable. Let’s talk about it.
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THE STORY
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We find Grayson Sykes in Los Angeles working already for two years for a company called Rader Consulting. Work is ok, but she is a bit tired of looking for chihuahuas for rich people. What Grayson really wants to do is to be a private investigator. 
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Her boss is Dominick Rader, an old friend of hers. Already at this point, we sense something going on between the two of them, but the author is only giving us bits of info, so we have to wait to know what is happening with these two. 
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Furthermore, something else is going on with Grayson, as she is from the beginning of the book suffering from severe pain as a side effect from a recent laparoscopy. However, she repeats to herself she shouldn’t go to the hospital because there would be “too many questions”. 
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So one of the two central plots starts when a woman called Isabel Lincoln is missing and Gray starts working in the case. 
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She tries to investigate Isabel’s last movements and the people around her, the usual. Meanwhile, she has to deal with her own demons.
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TWO DIFFERENT PLOTS WHICH COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER
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While she investigates Isabel’s disappearance, we also know Gray’s own story, about which I cannot talk about at all, as it is the main turn of the book.
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What I can say, is that I like the way the author, Rachel Howzell, blends the two stories and how it all makes sense at the end…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Rue de L’Odé 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Rue de L’Odéon” by Adrienne Monnier
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“I was born on the 26th of April 1892 in Paris, where I have always lived”.
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I don’t exactly know how I found this book or when I bought it. But I know for sure it had been sitting on my shelves for way too long.
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I bought it in Spain (it is in Spanish, translated from the original French by Julia Osuna), stayed there for a long time and then travelled to Hamburg, and still I was not finding the right time to read it.
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However, last year on May the time came! And I was very glad to have read it. So let’s dive into it!
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THE STORY
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“Shakespeare & Co.” is probably one of the most famous English bookshops in the entire world. Sylvia Beach was its founder. The shop was situated in Rue de L’Odéon.
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However, what a lot of people do not know is that Adrienne Monnier was also the founder of a bookshop situated in Rue de L’Odéon. It opened its doors in 1915 in Paris under the name of La maison des Amis des Livres. Adrienne was also Sylvia’s friend and lover. But everyone knows Sylvia, and no one has ever heard about Adrienne. And what a pity that is.
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“Rue de L’Odéon” is part memories, part homage to this fantastic woman who, in the middle of a World War and a military occupation, being only 23 years old, opens a small bookshop at the heart of the Quartier Latin.
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Very well educated and with a passion for books, she had been working before opening her bookshop in an academic magazine. Her father helped her a bit economically so that she could make her dream come true.
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With time and much learning (she opened the shop without any experience in running a business), La maison des Amis des Livres changes forever the literary scene of the city. She was what we would call now an entrepreneur. 
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Among its shelves strolled famous authors like James Joyce, Beckett, Proust or Hemingway…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Burning Girls a 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Burning Girls and Other Stories” by Veronica Schanoes
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Thanks to the publisher, Tantor media, Inc., the author Veronica Schanoes and NetGalley for providing me with a free audiobook of “Burning Girls and Other Stories” for review purposes.
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“They made him dance in thorns and then they hanged him.”
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This has been my first book by author Veronica Schanoes. And I was greatly surprised by it.
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I am always quite reticent about reading short stories because I normally end up with a mixture of very good and very bad stories. Totally normal, by the way.
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However, this collection has been quite entertaining…
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THE STORIES
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In almost every single story there is a quite superb mixture of magical realism and folklore, with an added touch of Judaism, of which, I have to confess, I am a complete ignorant.
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Some of them were quite truculent and obscure, but that is my kind of jam. 
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Among my favourites are “The Revenants” as it slightly touches a topic about which I recently read in “The Resurrectionist” (by A.R. Meyering) last year that I deeply enjoyed. I was as well captivated by the story called “Rats”.
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“The Revenants” tells the story of a girl who has been used by an older man. Once he is tired of her, he abandones her. However, as she grows older, she unravels a “Revenant” (and this is the connection with Meyering’s story), the ghost of her older, more naive self. And this Revenant is thirsty for revenge. 
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Secondly, “Rats” retells the story of Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious, figures of the punk rock scene of the 70s. This fact, by the way, I learnt after reading the book. Their relationship was, let’s say, quite complicated, and the story rebels against the idealisation that society does of those kinds of relationships.
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Best Book of the Year 2021 🏅🏆🥇 . Well cho Best Book of the Year 2021 🏅🏆🥇
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Well choosing the best book of the year has been very hard!!😅
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I don’t know if you have ever tried to choose your favourite book of the year among your most beloved ones but, believe me, it took a while…🙄
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As you can see, the best book I read last year was Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. And this is funny, because I obviously knew before reading the book both the story and the characters from my University studies but even so, I enjoyed every single page in it. And I will for sure re-read it. It is a classic for a reason, right?
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I am not gonna bore you with its plot because I am quite sure you all know what it is about. And if you don’t, buy a copy right now and read it. You won’t be disappointed. 👌🏻
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Along the way I left some amazing books that I read last year, like “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss, a beautiful, sweet book about one of the most delightful characters I have ever read about, Leo Gursky; or the non-fiction book “Dancing with the Octopus”, by Debora Harding, an emotional, terrible account of an horrendous crime and its survivor which I completely recommend (please look first for its trigger warnings!).
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I have read many amazing stories and discovered new favourite authors like Alma Katsu, A.R. Meyering, Michael McDowell or the amazing Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Anyway, I’d love to know your favourite book(s) of last year. Leave them in the comment section down below. 
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If you like this reading spread, check out my Etsy Shop where you can purchase the 2022 Sunset Digital Planner where you can find this spread and hundreds more. Link in Bio.
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Take care & stay healthy 😷🤗🙏🏻
🤓📚Reseña Literaria 🤓📚 . “La cuenta 🤓📚Reseña Literaria 🤓📚
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“La cuenta atrás para el verano” de La Vecina Rubia.
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“Hay que sentir que nos pasamos la vida celebrando las cosas, ya sea una victoria o una derrota, porque en el fondo se trata de buscar los motivos para brindar”.
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Esta reseña va a levantar ampollas entre las fieles seguidoras de la autora, cosa que me da bastante igual, por cierto.
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Quería que este libro me gustara. Sin embargo, no solo no ha sido así sino que ha acabado siendo uno de los peores libros del año 2021.
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Os pongo en circunstancias: su autora es una “influencer” española, llamada “La Vecina Rubia” con miles de seguidores en Instagram. Sus historias son bastante divertidas, con mucho humor, y según me parecía a mí, escribía bastante bien, por lo que, cuando descubrí que acababa de escribir un libro, me encantó la idea de poder leerlo.
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Sin embargo, ni la historia ni los personajes me han enganchado, y el estilo de la autora no es para nada de mi agrado.
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Pero vayamos por partes.
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LA HISTORIA
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“La Cuenta atrás” cuenta la historia (aún no sé bien si son historias reales o inventadas) de una chica, algunas de sus relaciones sentimentales, y su grupo de amigas desde la adolescencia hasta la treintena.
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Si están basadas en historias reales, sinceramente, no me las creo. Si son inventadas, genial, pero no dejan de ser un grupo de anécdotas sin importancias, la mayoría de las cuales son bastante superficiales y carecen de todo interés para el lector.
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El libro está lleno de repeticiones innecesarias y de personajes superfluos que nada tienen que aportar a una historia por otra parta anodina. 
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EL LENGUAJE
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Yo soy fan del realismo en literatura. He leído a Pérez Galdós, Clarins, Dickens, Tolstoi, etc. pero lo de La Vecina Rubia ralla la tontería.
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La mayoría de los diálogos parecen copias exactas de chats de whatsapp que yo pueda tener con mis amigas. 
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Todos tenemos un límite de cuántas veces se puede leer la palabra “tía” o “j*der” en una página. Tales repeticiones de vulgarismos simplemente no son aceptables en un libro de un nivel cultural mínimo…
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Do you know what a vision board is? . I am a visua Do you know what a vision board is?
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I am a visual kind of person, so I get inspired by looking at a painting, a photo, or in this case, a board with images.
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So every month, I look for inspiration (mostly in Pinterest) and try to match my monthly goals with photos that motivate me to reach those goals, or at least try.
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This January, among my goals is to finish the 30 days of Yoga by @adrienelouise and enjoy every single minute of it, seek for some kind of balance in my life, take care of myself, try to keep an open mind in order to learn quick at my new job and be grateful, this year more than ever. 
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Have you ever tried using a vision board o similar? Did it help you stay focused? Let me know down in the comments.
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In the second photo you can see the empty vision board that comes with every month of my 2022 Sunset Digital Planner (Etsy shop link in my bio).
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Stay focus. Take care🙏🏻
2021 Reading Stats - Second part 📚📊📈📉 2021 Reading Stats - Second part 📚📊📈📉
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So, here we go! 🙏🏻🤪
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Slide 6: How I got my books: Well, nothing surprising. As I said yesterday, whether I buy my books, or I get them from NetGalley. I don’t use public libraries as I don’t live in an English or Spanish speaking country, and my German is…🙄
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Slide 7: Author’s gender: Also not a surprise as I always tend to pick up female authors, for whatever reason. Not complaining, though. 
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Slide 8: Author’s Racial Identity: 🙄This must change. Very disappointing to see I read such a big amount of books written by white authors. 
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Slide 9: Author’s Nationality: The same as with the previous slide. Too little variety. I must widen the number of books I read from authors from the rest of the world, and not only base my readings in American and British authors. 🤔
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Slide 10: Language: Another disappointment. My 2021 goal of reading more Spanish books has completely failed. 🥵 Must change too. 
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And that is all!
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I always find very interesting to see my yearly stats because my goal as a reader, apart from obviously being entertained by books and learning from them, is to widen my views about other people’s realities and situations, and this obviously means reading books by authors which are not only white and Americans. 😫
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So I will try to improve this during this year 2022. And this is my personal goal, of course. You may agree or disagree. 
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Anyway, I wish you a good reading year 2022.
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Soon I will prepare my post after deciding which one is my favourite book for 2021. It is gonna be quite hard, I am afraid 😅, because I have nine “5 stars” books to choose from…
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Hope you enjoyed these stats. It doesn’t seems so. But I do. 
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Take care & stay healthy 😷🤗🙏🏻
2021 Reading Stats 📚📊📈📉 . Well, it is 2021 Reading Stats 📚📊📈📉
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Well, it is that time of the year where I share my reading stats and I can hopefully learn something from them. If I remember it right, I had various reading goals in 2021, like reading more Nonfiction books, more classics, and more books in Spanish. 
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I’m afraid I didn’t reach all my goals 🤔🤷🏻‍♀️
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If you are a nerd for numbers and data, I hope you enjoy these slides. This time I got a bit carried away (again, I’m afraid) and I made too many for one post, so I will hopefully share the second part tomorrow.
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Slide 1: summary of my year. I am very happy with the number of books and pages I read, taking into consideration my shitty year. I only abandoned 2 books which I don’t think it is a lot.
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Slide 2: Genre: first problem…I only read 1 Classic so…🙄. However, I read 9 nonfiction books, of which I am glad. The majority of the books I read were horror books, because of the challenge of #50states50horrorbooks .
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Slide 3: Format: nothing shocking. I buy most of my books, and the rest of them, as well as the audiobooks, I get through NetGalley.
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Slide 4: Rating: Only one “1 star” book ( @patrisshh16 and @miceice know which book it is, right?🤪) and 9 “5 stars” books, so I am quite satisfied with these numbers.
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Slide 5: Year published: not a surprise that the majority of the books I have read in 2021 were published that year, as I have also read 17 arcs…
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And that is all for now. Tomorrow I will try to post the second part of the stats.
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Hope you like them. And I’d love to also know about your reading stats. So let me know down in the comments how your reading year was.
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Take care & stay healthy 😷🤗🙏🏻
So, this year 2021 is finally ending. 🙄🥺👏 So, this year 2021 is finally ending. 🙄🥺👏🏻👏🏻
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I think we can all agree that it hasn’t been a kind year. 
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We were all complaining that 2020 was awful but in comparison to this year we are leaving, 2020 was a bed of roses.
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On my part, I spent the majority of 2021 unemployed. The second year in a row.
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And when I finally found a job, it was the craziest, saddest experience ever. It lasted only one month and a half.
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I was quite ill before the summer, experiencing the most piercing pain I could have ever imagined. I endured two operations, a lot of discomfort and I have been experiencing the post-op side effects ever since.
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And much, much more.
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So as a whole, this has been a very shitty year.
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However, and as I am writing this reflection in bed, suffering the mild effects of my third vaccine, I cannot more than think that, in the end, it is what it is. 🤔😳
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Being unemployed gave me the possibility of keep exploring my creative side. I have learnt sooo much about creativity, graphic design, etc., that I cannot wait to see the things I will be creating in 2022.
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I have also found another big passion, Digital Planning, which has led to the opening of my Etsy shop (link in bio) and my newest project Digital Planners Laboratory @digitalplannerslaboratory of which I am immensely proud.
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I am happy I am healthier now. I still suffer discomfort and my “illness” will accompany me for the rest of my life, but I want to believe I won’t have to visit an operating room any time in the near future.
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And finally, I found a job in the most surrealistic way, in the middle of my lowest moment. 
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So yeah, that was 2021,a bad year, but one that has taught me a lot: how strong I am, how much I can endure and fulfil even in the middle of the craziest of pains, how amazing it is to have a partner at my side as well as how gorgeous my friends are. 
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So let’s enter this new year 2022 in full power, looking to the future with hope and excitement, and only looking back to remember what 2021 has taught us, for good or for bad.
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Take care.🙏🏻😘
🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Something Wicke 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury.
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State of Illinois for the challenge of #50states50horrorbooks hosted by @jobis89
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“Evil has only the power that we give it”.
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I must say this book has left me quite confused.
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I knew, before start reading it, that it is considered a classic of the fantasy genre. Furthermore, some years ago I read one of the most beloved books by Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” and it became one of my favourite books ever.
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So, my expectations were quite high. 
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However, although I enjoyed the book, I was somehow disappointed by it. 
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In addition, it has taken me forever to finish this review, as I felt somehow sad I didn’t enjoy the story so much as I expected…
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THE STORY
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“Something Wicked this Way Comes” tells the story of James Nightshade and William Halloway, two teenager friends who live next to each other in Green Town, Illinois. 
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The whole town is excited because a carnival is coming. However, there is something strange about it because it is quite late in the year for that, as it is already October.
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Will has a bad feeling and thinks something quite awful is going to happen. He is scared when he sees the Carnival being assembled, while his friend Jim feels attracted by it. 
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A CAROUSEL AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
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Perhaps the most creepy part of all is the Carousel that comes with the Carnival.
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The way it works and what it does to people (I don’t want to spoil anything by saying too much!) was quite shocking and just the thought of it made my hair stand on end. 
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In fact, all the members of the carnival are going to live in my mind from now on, as well as Mr. Halloway, Jill’s father, whose appearances are memorable. 
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The feeling I had while reading about the carousel is that it represents life. You live in the present, but in the carousel you can go ahead to the future or go back to the past. However, any of the two ways ends up well…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Dancing with th 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Dancing with the Octopus” by Debora Harding
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I think I have said this before but, I find that reviewing a True Crime book is quite complicated. One must take into consideration that what you are reading (and therefore, reviewing or criticising!) is the story of someone else’s suffering and journey towards having some kind of healing or closure. 
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For this reason alone, I tend to be very careful with my words in order not to offend anyone.
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However, this book has made my review very easy, as I don’t have anything at all bad to say about it.
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I am deeply amazed, scared, and angry by the story Debora narrates here but in a good way, of course. 
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Let me explain myself…
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THE STORY
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In 1978, Debora Harding was a 14 years old teenager living in Omaha, Nebraska.
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She lived there with her father, her mother, and her two sisters. All normal, right? Well, it wasn’t so. I will come back to her family life later on.
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Unfortunately, one day in that year 1978, Debora was kidnapped, sexually abused and left to die in the cold winter night.
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What follows is Debora trying to explain her journey and struggle as a survivor (not a victim) of this horrible experience. 
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Debora also explains a bit of the story of her family before the incident as well as the background of her attacker, whom she calls Mr. K (for Kidnapper!) although we know the name of the criminal, Charles Goodwin, from the first line of the book.
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VARIOUS TIMELINES
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Debora unravels the story of “Dancing with the Octopus” narrating it through different timelines.
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The first one is in 2003 in Lincoln, when Goodwin is waiting for his parole hearing. The second timeline is in the year 1978, when the aggression happened. And the third one is in the year 1992, when Debora moves to London with her husband-to-be, Tom and she starts to realize something very wrong is happening to her. 
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Furthermore, as I said, Debora also tries to explain Goodwin’s situation before, during and after he committed the aggression…
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