Ladislara
A blog as diverse as my life has been
Tag: Latin America
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6 Degrees of Separation – From Ireland to Canada
Linking books from Ireland to Australia to Serbia to Chile to China to Canada and back to Ireland
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Books from September (Stacking the Shelves)
Some books that found their way to my bookcase in September
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Books on My Fall 2024 To-Read List (TTT)
A bookish meme about my reading aspirations for this Autumn
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Weekly Opening Lines – Sep 21st
From Doramar or the Odyssey: Stories, by Itamar Vieira Jr.: “Here is the limit’, the soldier points with the gun…”
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Book Review: Island Beneath the Sea
Magical realism meets historical fiction in this tale about the Haitian revolution
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Book Review: From Scraps to the Everest
The story of the first Black Brazilian woman to climb Mt. Everest. An the 130 tons of recyclable material she had to collect to fund her expedition.
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Book Review: Child of the Dark*- The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
One of the most venerated Brazilian authors, the autobiography of her life in the slums and my issues with it
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Favourite Books (Read the World Challenge)
I decided to set myself on a (life long) quest to read one book from each country of the world.
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