Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
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South American Literature Beyond the Classics: Discovering Overlooked Voices
Beyond Borges and García Márquez: exploring South America’s hidden literary gems from Bolivia to Paraguay
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The Death of the Aral Sea and an Abandoned Book
Not my best read, but the background story is too insane to pass READ MORE
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Read More Latin Authors in 2025
A new literary challenge to help you conquer your Read the World lists READ MORE
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Weekly Opening Lines – Jan 4th
From The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood: “We slept in what had once been the gymnasium” READ MORE
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Book Review: The Testaments, a sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
15 years after the events set in her best seller, Margaret Atwood takes us to the heart of Gilead and shows us the dirty powers at work READ MORE
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Weekly Opening Lines – Dec 28th
From Dominicana, by Angie Cruz: “The first time Juan Ruiz proposes, I’m 11 years old..” READ MORE
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles – Agatha Christie’s First Book
The inception of the famous detective Hercule Poirot – and how an editor created one of the Belgian’s most famous scenes READ MORE
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My Year Reading Asia
Japan’s imperialism and other discoveries after 15 books and 10 countries in the Asian continent READ MORE
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Weekly Opening Lines – Dec 21st
From Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel: “Henry’s second novel, written, like his first, under a pen name, had done well…” READ MORE
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