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Delightful from beginning to end ✨️

Revisado: 04-08-23

A story beautifully crafted in order to remind us readers of the power of empowering others, most of all those whose rights and voices are actively being disregarded or dismissed. Best read of 2023 so far 📚✨️

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Loved it!

Revisado: 09-09-21

These stories are soooo good! Each one of them riveting and imaginative beyond limits. I will be getting this in print as well.

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Packed for discussions.

Revisado: 11-08-20

I got a hold of this story due to Amazon's "Welcome to the Blumhouse" project, "Evil Eye" was -alongside "Black Box"- one of my favorites of the first four released so I knew I had to go to the source which was, voilá, this short story.

I believe there's so much to take on and unpack in "Evil Eye", so much to discuss, which makes it perfect for book clubs or similar gatherings. From the relationship of Usha and Pallavi -which we can both admired and dread, that can seem both toxic and special-, the cultural believes in curses and reincarnation, gender violence, marital relationships in time, arranged marriages, parental expectations & subsequent repercussions, aging & displacement, the significance of a certain type of men being a threat to women, and the knowledge we gather as females as we go on through our lives accumulating experiences that might just be the light to help guide someone else's way.

I think the voice actors did a good job and was excited to see Bernard White on the list of readers since he also acts in the movie. This is definitely a story I'll recommend to friends, would love to hear their thoughts on this one.

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Clever and Funny!

Revisado: 05-10-19

If you love Kate McKinnon, enjoy smart humor and want to get surprised by the beautiful voice of Emily Lynne, this one is for you 😋

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Funny!

Revisado: 05-06-19

This is a very entertaining compilation. Can be considered a bit grim for some but just the right amount of amusing for some others. I loved it!

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Ignited.

Revisado: 04-30-19

This book touches an array of subjects such as feminism, the ME TOO movement, politics, 2016 US presidential elections, personal experiences of the author such as being a mom and a woman in this reality, our present.

I was glad to experience how Tamblyn did not just jam some facts together about stuff other people said or told her, she invited those voices that need to be heard to speak for themselves. It is very educational to hear Airea D. Matthews and Meredith Talusan on being a black feminist and trans feminist, respectively. Both these ladies are very talented and while writing this I found myself at Talusan's website reading most of her articles, the branching tendencies of this brain of mine cannot be helped.

A trip down memory lane, reliving some events of 2016 is certainly hard but it is equally important not to forget what happened and how things have changed since more and more people realize the importance of their rights and voices.

This is a short but valuable read.

#fourwordbookreview Sincere, Jarring, Educational, Female.

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One Good Decision.

Revisado: 04-20-19

One good decision I made last week: To adquire Daisy Jones and The Six on audio. After this experience, I honestly can't imagine any other way to go about this book, it was a thrill to be told this story by the characters themselves. This format made it all very visual.

"Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now."

This is the interview of a lifetime, a most expected and incredible gathering of all of these people, voices, heroes to some, and one person made it possible for all of us. Now we will finally be able to understand what happened to this glorious band and why they just vanished when they were at the cuspid of their careers. We get a glimpse of their lives before they were this huge band, we get to meet and appreciate the members and the crew because of who they are and were.

I loved every one of them, their unique tones and non-verbal expressions, every sigh, every breath was with intention. My personal favorite, without a doubt, was Camila. What an amazing, exemplary woman, she truly knew how to handle herself.

The story touches and teaches so much. How our upbringing can influence our whole lives, it can both make us or destroy us, the world of Rock n' Roll, the friends and the foes, the drugs, the 70s, the many personalities, the self absorbing truths of addiction and heartbreak, and many more.

I enjoyed how in-between the chaos, there also was balance. How some of them were able to realize that the important things should always come first, family and love over fleeting feelings and efimerous passion. How things don't need to be perfect to be strong, the beauty within imperfection.

Also loved the dynamic between women that this book portrayed, it was beatiful to witness. Real friendship, strong support, sisterly love but most of all RESPECT. It is amazing to witness women treating each other with respect. Karen and Camila, Simone and Daisy, Camila and Daisy, etc.

"You're all sorts of things you don't even know yet" - Camila to Daisy.

Taylor Jenkins Reid makes you wish you were a part of this world, that you were a Daisy Jones & The Six fan because if you weren't you'd be missing out.

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<3

Revisado: 02-11-18

"...because we all overcometh the world."

For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
1 John 5:4

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Surprising

Revisado: 02-07-18

Intriguing story,
plays with your perception and emotions about both the characters and the plot line.

Narrator did a great job with different voices and accents.

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What happens when we end up alone with ourselves?

Revisado: 08-03-16

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Getting old provokes a mixture of feelings, some look forward to a long life while some others fear what might happen to them as time progresses. The truth is time never stops, at least not objectively; and times are always changing, leaving behind everything and everyone which or who refuses to cope — oh, hello Darwin’s natural selection. Could this be the real reason why we develop relationships? why we come together as groups, couples or friends? To have someone to grow old with, to have witnesses, a thread to the world, connections to reality, to avoid being left behind, feeling left out of the race?…

What happens when we lose all of that and end up alone with ourselves? We would say that we still have ourselves and our skills, but what about when this happens at an age where we are also being displaced from a productive working life, when society finds us obsolete, where ways narrow and doors close? This is where we find Ove.

Ove is a tough old man that has been brought up with strong values, believing in fairness, in the clearness and weight of actions over words. To him things should be done in a certain way and as this allows little space to flexibility, ends up putting to the test the patience of others that surround him.

To have your life resumed on paper could be difficult, all of your struggles and hard moments, surfacing to those shallow waters of memory’s deep sea. Sounds smart to be avoided and yet memoirs are so popular nowadays. Let’s say that Ove didn’t sign up for this but we have been given a ticket to sit through glimpses of his life, those that defined his character, to better understands how a person becomes what a person presently is.

As it is common in life, plans change course most of the time, as ships thrown into stormy waters. So, as non-oficial guardian of his neighbourhood, Ove sets himself to keep busy with his customary tasks and making sure everyone follows the rules. Nonetheless some days these little things become minimally fulfilling and Ove, as a practical man, has his mind set on his next logical step.

If we think about it, the relationships that are most meaningful for us today surely started in a peculiar way, by chance, creating havoc inside our little closed worlds, marking us forever. To Ove was a turmoil indeed to have new neighbours moving in the house in front of his, mostly in moments he most wanted to be left alone with his business.

From that moment on we will meet a display of characters that soon invade Ove’s reduced bubble, allowing us to meet him not all over again, but then again not as a loner and inside himself, and more as the caring and sweet being we knew was in there all along protecting itself from a cruel environment.

Fredrik Backman delivers a well elaborated story that gives us lots to think about, mostly on regards of the ways of our current society. A Man Called Ove was published in 2012, originally in Sweden, was -to our delight- translated to English around 2014 by Henning Koch and published by Atria Books with an approximate of 337 pages on his paperback presentation.

I personally listened to this story on Audible, narrated by George Newbern, with a duration of 9 hours and 9 minutes. This is one of those books that I have listed “have to own”, so I will be buying it soon and giving it a home on my bookshelf.

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