So, I kinda like reading people’s Top Ten Tuesday [a book blogging prompt hosted by The Broke and the Bookish] posts every once in a while, even though I’ve never participated myself. I don’t think I’ll make it a regular thing, but I noted a few that I thought were fun topics so every once in a… Continue reading Top Ten Books I Read Before Blogging
Tag: poetry
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle to Freedom by Margarita Engle
The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle to Freedom by Margarita Engle Published: April 1st 2008 by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Source: local library Synopsis (Goodreads): It is 1896. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much… Continue reading The Surrender Tree: Poems of Cuba’s Struggle to Freedom by Margarita Engle
Lorca, My Love
I’m in love. He’s been dead for decades and would have never returned my affection anyway, since his taste tended towards his own gender, but I love him. It’s an intellectual love, but a passionate one nonetheless. His name is Federico García Lorca.
wrapped up in books 