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Happy Friday everyone! We made it through the week! 🙌🏽I am soo sleepy all I want to do I stay in bed and read 🤓Is this what adulting does to you? The good news it that my weekend is cleared for reading which is great because all my library book due dates are coming up! 😅Right now I am working on wrapping up The Wicked and The Wallflower by Sarah Maclean which I am reading with the wonderful @ultrabookgeek ❤️ • Sarah Maclean was my gate way author into romance and she remains one of my auto-read authors today! I read The Rogue Not Taken when it was recommended by @bookriot and never looked back. Now romance, mystery and fantasy have become my go-to comfort genres. The Wicked and the Wallflower has all the trademark Sarah Maclean elements: a roguish hero, a smart and sassy heroine and of course plenty of witty banter. I cannot wait to find out how it ends, the only downside is that I'll have to wait until July for book 2! • Are there any books or authors that were your "gateway" reads into a new genre you hadn't previously read? . . . #Book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #romance #bookporn #booksandplants #vscobooks #booknerd #bookish #booklove #instabooks #booknerdigans #booksandcoffee #unitedbookstagram #coffee #bookblogger #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #plants #igreads #igbooks #bookgasm #bookstagramer
Hi everyone! It’s almost Friday! 🙌🏼 what are you reading this weekend? 📚I just finished The Club by Takis Würger. This book takes one of my favorite literary settings, a secret society within an elite academic institution, and adds a dash of Megan Abbott-like intrigue, frames it with an examination of the structures created and maintained masculinity and privilege and adds one bang of an ending 😱 • Hans, an orphaned German boy with a talent for boxing is recruited from his isolated life at boarding school by his troubled and brilliant aunt for a secretive mission: to infiltrate a small group within a club of elite Cambridge boxers to investigate a crime. Slowly Hans befriends and is eventually invited to join the Pitt Club, a fraternity of wealthy and privileged Cambridge men, while wavering between working to uncover their secrets and loosing himself in the process. The reader, just like Hans feels like an infiltrator into the world of Britain’s young elites. We peels back the glamorous curtain to uncover a violent and misogynist world that is simultaneously mesmerizing and horrifying. • Würger’s examination of masculinity, power, violence and privilege feels particularly salient in today’s news cycles. This book dissects the resilience of predominantly masculine and toxic enclaves of power in the upper echelons of the socio-economic ladder. Würger does an excellent job of examining these structures and the way they affect different people through a multiple POV narrative and beautifully sparse, tense prose (shout out to the translator Charlotte Collins). • The Club will appeal to anyone who enjoyed The Secret History by Donna Tartt, or The Likeness by Tana French or anyone who is interested in reading suspense in translation. TW for sexual violence, violence and homophobia. Thank you to Grove Atlantic for sending me a free review copy! . . . . #Book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #theclub #bookporn #takiswurgner #vscobooks #booknerd #partner #booklove #instabooks #booknerdigans #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #groveatlantic #bookblogger #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #bookgasm #bookstagramer
Hi everyone! I hope you’re having a great Monday/ April Fools Day! I can’t believe it’s April already! 😱 • I am so ready to jump into Spring, there are so many great bookish things coming up this month like the Dewey’s 24 Hour Readathon, Independent Bookstore Day, and so many awesome book events and releases! 🙌🏼 • This past weekend my NYC book girl gang had an amazing time catching up, eating amazing treats and of course talking books. I feel so grateful to have such an awesome bookish group of women in my life to nerd out with ❤️ and of course we ended up having a book swap. I can’t wait to dive into these books! Have you read any of these? . . . . #Book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #thecruelprince #severance #booklover #vscobooks #booknerd #bookish #booksandplants #instabooks #awomanisnoman #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #bookaddict #plants #bookhaul #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #bookgasm #bookstagramer
Happy Hump day everyone! What are you reading today? 📚Earlier in the year my town had a “one town one book” initiative in conjunction with our public library and Jacqueline Woodson’s new middle school book ‘Harbor Me’ was selected! • Jacqueline Woodson is one of those authors who never fails to leave me feeling breathless after reading one of her books. This book touches upload many contemporary US political issues like immigration, the prison system and xenophobia as seen through the eyes of a small class of New York middle schoolers. Like much of Woodson’s work it is thoughtful and left me with a bittersweet feeling. I think my favorite book of hers is still Another Brooklyn but Harbor Me is still very much worth checking out for both younger and older readers alike. • Have you participated in an initiative like ‘one town one book’ before? What was your experience like? . . #Book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #bookporn #booklover #vscobooks #booknerd #bookish #booksandplant #instabooks #plants #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #bookaddict #bookblogger #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #read #FPLOBOT #vscobook #weneeddiversebooks #igreads #igbooks #bookgasm #bookstagramer
Hi everyone! We did it! We got over hump day! 🙌🏼 To celebrate I treated myself to a latte at this gorgeous plant/coffee shop in SoHo which might just be my new favorite place just to chill. The coffee was delicious and the shop is adorable and full of plants!🌱 check out my instastories for a better view! • On the reading front I’ve been continuing on this non-fiction kick with Gastrophysics: the New science of Eating by Charles Spence which is a must for any foodies out there who are interested in the science behind food and eating 🍽 I kept eyeing this one in bookstores until I finally caved and picked it up and I’m so glad I did! • The book dives into the growing body of research around eating and answers curious questions like why did green ketchup not take off? Does the sound of a meal affect its taste? And what makes or breaks a food commercial? It also explores current food trends like the rise of Instagram food porn and strange/interesting developments in cutting-edge cuisine🍴 • If you are looking for a fun, informative, and thought provoking read for yourself or a foodie friend I definitely recommend picking this one up! . . . . #Book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #soho #plants #booklover #vscobooks #latte #coffee #booklove #instabooks #booknerdigans #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #bookaddict #bookblogger #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #read #booksandcoffre #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #bookgasm #bookstagramer
Hi everyone! Happy Tuesday! I hope you all had a great weekend! I have to admit that I didn't get a lot of reading done this weekend 🙈I've been hooked on "Big Dreams Small Spaces" 🌱which is the most soothing tv show I've seen and fits a Great British Baking Show hole in my heart. • I did continue on my L M Montgomery re-readalong and am now diving into Anne of Green Gables! Anne of Green Gables is such a nostalgia read for me. As an adult I am having a great time revisiting the story and noticing things I'm pretty sure went right over my ten-year-old head. Like how Mr. Philips was super creepy or how Anne would have totally been diagnosed with ADHD today. Have you every gone back and noticed new things in childhood books that you totally missed the first time?🤔 . . . . #Book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #booksandcoffee #booklover #vscobooks #anneofgreengables #bookish #booklove #instabooks #booksandplants #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #bookaddict #bookblogger #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #lmmontgomery #plants #bookgasm #bookstagramer
Happy Tuesday everyone! It's been so cold for so long here in NYC that when it hit 50F yesterday I immediately went out and grabbed some iced coffee! 🤗As much as I enjoy some snow I am so ready for Spring! • On the bookish side, I've been on a non-fiction kick lately, which is a little unusual for me but which I am enjoying immensely. Most recently, I picked up 'Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner by Katrine Marçal translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel which has been on my TBR for over a year and it is delightful. • It is a short half feminist perspective on economic history half manifesto that packs quite a punch in less than 200 pages. If you have ever sat in an Econ class and felt frustrated at the assumption of rational homo economicus, this is the book for you! . Also I am feeling the intersection of feminism and economics, if you know of any similar books, I’d love to hear about them! . . . #Book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #bookporn #booklover #vscobooks #booknerd #bookish #booklove #instabooks #booksandcoffee #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #bookaddict #whocookedadamsmithsdinner #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #bookgasm #bookstagramer
Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! What are your weekend reading plans? 📚 • I have been on a non-fiction kick lately but there are a ton of new releases I want to read too 🤩 I’ve tried to creat a “sub” TBR of the next couple of books I want to read next on this shelf but I keep moving things around! • Do you plan ahead what you want to read or are you more of a mood reader? 🤔I’m a bit of both! I try to plan ahead but usually end up picking up what I feel like in that moment. . . . #book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #bookshelf #booklover #vscobooks #booknerd #bookish #tbr #instabooks #shelfie #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #bookaddict #bookblogger #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #bookgasm #bookstagramer
Happy Pre-Friday everyone! ✨I’m already thinking about what I want to read this weekend! ☺️What are YOUR reading plans? • I recently finished buddy reading The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald which was all sorts of delightful and cozy and was book is the reading equivalent of curling up with a warm blanket and a cup of coffee ☕️ TRoBWR will appeal to fans of Chocolat and the “stranger comes to a small town and shakes things up trope” and of course it is a love letter to anyone who enjoys a good book 📚 • What other “books about books” have you read and would recommend? . . . #Book #books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #bookporn #booklover #vscobooks #booksandcoffee #bookish #booklove #instabooks #coffee #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #bookaddict #bookblogger #thereadersofbrokenwheelrecommend #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #bookgasm #bookstagramer
 
 

Latinas Leyendo

Happy Tuesday everyone! Yesterday I got the chance to see Melissa Rivero in conversation with Laura Pegram about her debut novel The Affairs of the Falcóns at the New York Public Library and it was amazing! ✨ • It is still earlyish in the year but this book has blown me away and I have no doubt will be among my favorite books of the year. It is just SO good 🙌🏼. The book follows Ana, an undocumented immigrant from Peru fighting to make a life for her family in New York City in the 1990’s. Being undocumented however limits the families opportunities and when Lucho, her husband, looses his job, Ana finds herself deeply in debt with Mamá, a terrifying loan shark and is driven to desperate lengths to keep her family together even as her husband dreams of returning to Peru. • This is a beautifully written and timely novel about the immigrant experience in NYC. It explores the psychological, financial and emotional burdens that undocumented immigrants experience in a vivid and heart wrenching narrative that made me cheer and cry as I followed Ana’s story. Rivero also does an excellent job of exploring Peruvian history, class, race and colorism through her characters. If you read and enjoyed Lisa Ko’s The Leavers or Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers, be sure to pick this one up! • Over all this novel has it all: evocative writing, an urgent story to tell and a set of complicated characters that you alternatively want to shake or hug. I fell completely in love with this novel and definitely believes it had earned a place on your shelf. . . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #melissarivero #leyendo #booksandcoffee #vscobooks #booksandplants #theaffairsofthefalcons #weneeddiversebooks #latinx #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #bookblogger #ownvoices #booksofinstagram #read #plants #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #latinasleyendo #bookstagramer #latina #libros #leer
Happy Monday everyone! I hope you’re having a great start to April! (How is it April already??) • A ton of my library hold have come in at once so I’m trying to read them all as fast as possible 😅 this weekend I finished We Set the Dark on Fire which is part I of a new YA fantasy duology that deals with issues like family, privilege and resistance and includes a F/F relationship. Also can we just 😍 this papel picado cover? • I loved several aspects on this book including the exploration of how education and religion can prop up systems of power and how even people who are oppressed by a system can have a vested interested in propping it up. I also really enjoyed reading about a Hispanic-based fantasy world rather than a Anglo-based one. • If you enjoyed Divergent and/or The Handmaid’s Tale this might be for you! . . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #leyendo #booklover #vscobooks #bookish #weneeddiversbooks #instabooks #latinx #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #bookblogger #coffee #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #latinasleyendo #booksandcoffee #latina #libros #leer
Happy Fri-yay! 🙌🏼 I hope you had a great week! I am so excited to get some reading done this weekend! I found the cutest cafe/plant shop 🌱in SoHo this week with the chillest vibes and plants that perfectly matched the cover of my library book 😍 can’t wait to go back! • I am always on the look out for genre fiction, especially fantasy and spec-fic by WoC and when I heard about Tentacle from @bookriot I immediately requested it from the library. It is Caribbean queer climate fiction in translation, yes please! I can’t wait to dive into this one this weekend. What are your weekend reading plans? . . . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #leyendo #booksandcoffee #vscobooks #bookish #weneeddiversebooks #instabooks #latinx #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #cafe #plants #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #booksandplants #igreads #igbooks #latinasleyendo #bookstagramer #latina #libros #leer
Hi everyone! It’s almost the weekend! 🙌🏼 there are so many great releases this year including the Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli who hails from my hometown of Mexico City 🇲🇽❤️ • Luiselli is known for her arresting experimental works like The Story of My Teeth; and, most recently, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. When I heard she was releasing a longer novel in 2019 I immediately hit that library hold button and was overjoyed when it came in. Now that I’ve finished it I am still thinking about it a week out. I generally judge how much I like a book on if and how strongly it draws an emotional reaction for me and this one certainly did although I’m not sure I am still done processing it. • There is so much to explore and think about with this book from its mixed media content to its non-linear rotating POVs, this is a book that looks to unsettle and it definitely achieved that with me. It loosely is a family road trip novel following two professional audio recorders who are pursuing their own passion projects: the Dad is looking for the echoes of Geronimo and the last Apaches and the Mom becomes obsessed over the two lost children of her acquaintance who disappeared from ICE custody. Meanwhile as the family drives from New York to Arizona the eldest child hatched a plan that will throw the already crumbling family into disarray. • Have you read it? Let me know so we can process this together! 😂What was the last book you read that left you thinking a long time after you finished? 🤔 . . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #leyendo #booklover #vscobooks #bookish #weneeddiversebooks #instabooks #latinx #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #bookblogger #lostchildrenarchive #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #valerialuiselli #igreads #igbooks #latinasleyendo #bookstagramer #latina #libros #leer
🔥Giveaway🔥 • Every year @wordbookstores hosts an annual Galentine's Day Party/Romance Extravaganza with romance readers and authors and it is absolutely one of my favorite bookish events of the year❤️ • This year I was super excited to see that the Latinx rep was especially strong with Alexis Daria, Zoraida Cordova aka Zoey Castille and Adriana Herrera! ✨ • To celebrate a belated Galentine’s Day and Latinx Romance I will be giving away a signed copy of Stripped by Zoey Castille signed during the 2019 Word Bookstore Galentine’s Day celebration! • The giveaway will be open from Monday, March 4 2019 to Tuesday, March 12 2019. The winner will be selected at random and will be announced on Wednesday, March 13 2019. • This giveaway is not affiliated with Instagram, the publishers, nor the author. • You must be 18+ to enter. US residents only. • To enter: • 📚You must be subscribed to @nycbookowl and @latinasleyendo on Instagram 📚Like this giveaway post 📚leave a comment on this post! • For an extra entry leave a comment on the giveaway blog post (link in bio) and let me know what kind of content you would like to see on the Latinas Leyendo blog! • Buena Suerte! . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #leyendo #booklover #vscobooks #bookish #booklove #instabooks #latinx #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #bookblogger #weneeddiversebooks #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #igreads #latinxrom #latinasleyendo #latinxromance #latina #libros #leer
Happy 2019 everyone! It's been a while! Last year was a great reading year ✨I started Latinas Leyendo, met some awesome bookish friends and read some incredible books! 😊Now for this year I am setting some new reading resolutions, one of these is to read more books in Spanish. • Spanish is my mother tongue, but at this point since I now live in the US I've transitioned into reading books mostly in English. Partially this is because I prefer reading books in their original language or as close as I can get so I don't really read English written books that have been translated into Spanish, partially because obtaining Spanish language books in the US can be difficult and/or expensive, but also I haven't made it as much as a priority. • Last year I read only one book in Spanish and it took me so long to finish! When reading it I felt rusty and awkward at first although that got better the more I read, so this year I want to read more books in Spanish! I was also inspired by @khubaibliophile's campaign to promote #readingmymothertongue. Luckily I do have some books in Spanish in my TBR and a generous bookish family willing to bring me books from the motherland ❤️ • So this year I'm kicking off my Spanish reading with☀️ "El Principle del Sol" (The Sun Prince) by Claudia Ramirez (@gvanille) who is one of my favorite Mexican booktubers! So far this book is very much a comfort fantasy read which reminds me of The Dragon Prince Netflix series. • Do you have any reading resolutions for the new year? 🤔 . . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #leyendo #booklover #vscobooks #bookish #booklove #instabooks #latinx #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #bookblogger #bibliophile #weneeddiversebooks #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #latinasleyendo #latina #libros #leer
Happy Book Birthday to 'Their Perfect Melody' by Priscilla Oliveras! 🎂The third book in the Matched to Perfection follows the youngest Fernández sister Lilíand CPD Officer Diego Reyes in an opposites attract romance❤️ • I absolutely cannot wait to read Lili's story especially after the teases and glimpses we saw in the other two novels. Oliveras doesn't shy away from difficult topics in her romances like (minor spoilers) the death of a parent, single parenting and surprise pregnancies but in this installment things get significantly darker as Lilí finds a purpose in work as a domestic violence victim's advocate. Oliveras' balance of serious topics with fun and flirty romance as well as her Chicago setting (gotta show some Windy City love!) always make her romances a must read for me. • While each book can be read as a stand alone I recommend starting at the beginning with Yaz and Tomas' story 'His Perfect Partner' as the three sisters frequently make appearances in each other stories and especially Lilí's character develops significantly over the course of the first two books. • Also can we just take a moment to adviser this cover? (😍it's kind of small since I am reading it on the Kindle App) but go look it up! They nailed the hero and heroine and that Chicago skyline? yes please! . . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #leyendo #priscillaoliveras #vscobooks #latinxrom #booklove #instabooks #latinx #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #bookblogger #romance #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #latinasleyendo #bookstagramer #latina #libros #leer
Hi everybody! I hope you're having a great start to your week! ✨I can't wait for the long Thanksgiving weekend! I have plans, mostly involving eating my body weight in food and reading all the books, maybe watching all the Hallmark/Netflix Christmas movies too😄 • I have to say I've been feeling like I'm in a bit of a reading slump which hasn't happened in a while. The book I am readying didn't catch my attention. I tried mixing it up with a cute romance to see if switching it up would help and I didn't do the trick😔 • I've found that not trying to force slumps and just riding them out is the way to go for me and this weekend I felt like I was finally coming out of my slump! I feel ready to tackle the books I put on 'hold' 💪🏽 • Have you every had a reading slump? . . . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #leyendo #booklover #vscobooks #bookish #booklove #instabooks #latinx #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #bookblogger #booksandcoffee #booksofinstagram #read #pumpkin #vscobook #bookshelf #igreads #fall #latinasleyendo #bookstagramer #latina #libros #shelfie
Good morning! It is a cold and rainy voting day here in NYC ☁️This will be my second time voting since becoming a US citizen last year! ✨I am very excited to cast my ballot today! • On a bookish note I am starting off with my #nonfictionnovember Latinas Leyendo reading with: Latinx: The New Force in American Politics by Ed Morales and...I feel conflicted about it 😔I love the social sciences and was super excited for this title but after reading the intro I'm not thrilled. Both the writing style and some of the author's premises have rubbed me the wrong way. At the same time I acknowledge the the importance of reading things from a perspective different from your own and the learning value that can have 🤔 • I've decided to stick with it for now. I hope to learn some things even if I don't necessarily agree with them. I was also felt conflicted about sharing my doubts on the book. On this account I look to highlight works that I enjoy and think deserve more attention, it is never my intention to put a work or an author down especially because what can lead me to dislike something can be very subjective and can be the same reason that someone else loves that book. At the same time I wanted to let you know that I do sometimes feel torn about books that I read and review. I haven't quite made my mind up about this one yet🤔 • What about you? Do you DNF books you are not enjoying? Do you review books you . . . #Books #bookstagram #vscocam #vsco #bookworm #leyendo #booklover #vscobooks #bookish #booklove #instabooks #latinx #bookphotography #unitedbookstagram #latinxreads #booksandcoffee #bibliophile #booksofinstagram #read #reading #vscobook #reader #igreads #igbooks #latinasleyendo #bookstagramer #latina #libros #weneeddiversebooks