tashanator9.bsky.social
Traveler, artist, reader, animal lover, Lego builder, unrepentant rabblerouser, Feminist, activist, Boliviana. No PMs please.
“When I was a child, when I was an adolescent, books saved me from despair[...].”
― Simone de Beauvoir
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"I don't want to die now!" he yelled. "I've still got a headache! I don't want to go to heaven with a headache, I'd be all cross and wouldn't enjoy it!"
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I remember feeling like a chore when I read it in school, but when I listened to the audio book, I finally "got" it! I'm glad i gave it a second chance.
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Definitely want to read. Thanks
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This was not just entertainment. It was performance, it was free speech, it was history, it was holding a mirror to the USA. It was ART.
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Connie Willis
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When i first came the way I heard English was rude rather than succinct and efficient. Yeah, a lot prejudices, but now I am hybrid of the two cultures. Forgive the wordiness.
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100 Years of Solitude is pure south American poetry. English is, like north Americans, so efficient and abrupt that many English speakers find the whole magical realism and the "wordiness" a bit much. I guess it's a cultural affectation that speaks to me better than someone like Hemingway.
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Yes, I had to read Anna Karenina in high school. Being 16 & only three years into learning English (my first language is español) , I understood the book at a very superficial level. Ten years later, I understood the complexity of Anna's life as a woman of a particular time and place.
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You are talented! Your characters are well done & have a lot of personality - funny and original, too. Thanks for sharing your work. 🤩
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I've read all of these!
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There are nearly eight BILLION people on this planet! I fear this beautiful planet can't support more. What they really want is more light-skinned people like themselves -- the very ones who use more of the earth's resources than those of us from "less developed" countries. Shees!
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Anna Karenina, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Giovanni's Room - read in high school but better appreciated a few years later.
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Sorry... new to this. I misinterpreted the "following" header. I don't know how to edit my post. I still love Binti & honored to interact with you. Cheers.
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I love Octavia Butler! My first introduction to sci-fi.
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Yes!!! ✊️
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Groan... 🙃
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The GRAND POOBA does whatever he wants, consequences be dammed. He understands nothing - no brain, just tumble weeds floating in his head. Everyone will suffer, especially his MAGA supporters. If he could play a violin, that's what he would be doing...
He is taking time for some golf, though.
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Whether it's sanctioned or not, it will be acknowledged and celebrated!
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Always!
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Here is a $20 - no change needed 🥰
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I'm a naturalized citizen, adopted as a 12 year-old child from SA (i.e., a reluctant immigrant). I am paranoid, so I've carried my passport with me since 2018. I had 4 incidents during drumps 1st term that justify my paranoia. Despite my American husband's reasurances I feel even less safe now.
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If it weren't for these kinds of posts, that remind me that there is still beauty in this world I'd be crying all the time. Thanks.
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I just can't "like this. I agree, but at this points nothing he blurts out surprises or shocks me. 🤡
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Good for you! It's never too late.