Review: La Dama Boba, by Lope de Vega

    This one, much like the famous author who wrote it, drove me mad with despair for the human race.  In other words, no, I’m sorry, I am with Julian and Alonso, as I did not like the author, and I did not like this book, Amelia.  I really did try, and I even read it in various places, skipping around the book, but the voice of this idiotic lady, very stupid, and the verses just drove me insane.  /   Lo siento muchisimo, cerebro de patrulla Amelia, pero estoy de acuerdo con Julian y Alonso. Intente’ escucharlo, y hasta lo lei’ en varias lugares, pero la voz de esa dama, bien boba, y las lineas aun cuando pude saltar paginas enteras, me volvian loca.

Una Ministerica.  / A Minstry Fan,

Shira

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Review: El Mozarabe, by Jesús Sánchez Adalid

    This book was really a doozy.  I’m posting it on a Monday because in the spirit of Ministry Mondays and El Ministerio Del Tiempo, the book shows the ideals of a by-gone time in what is now Spain, but once was a kingdom full of tolerance and appreciation for The Other.  At least for the Other who created poetry, knowledge, and beauty, as all three of the Peoples of The Book did.  I didn’t finish this book, back when I first began it in a few years ago, due to time commitments, but I thought that I could see that more pilgrimages are on the way for our arrogant young protagonist, possibly in the company of our long-suffering older protag. I was wrong, and am I very glad that this is so. This book was a real slog, taking perseverance to finish it, as parts of it did drag a bit, but the effort was worth it. Parts of the middle become pretty predictable, regarding our second protagonist, but the main protagonist is never predictable, and always wise enough to teach us something. Never preachy, never pushing his Christianity, the Mozarab (a Christian of Arab origin from Al Andalus before the time of the reconquest of Granada) is almost always both patient and hopeful, and encouraging. This surprised me. Although the author very much gets Jewish forms of expletives wrong, the depictions of both Christian and Muslim life in Al Andalus are rich and (from my study of the time, which is not as in depth as his, obviously) correctly depicted. There is just a tiny bit of worrisome portrayal of North African culture as pretty uncouth, but, then, the rather accurate depictions of the Christian mercenaries perfectly happy to help in the sacking of a Christian sanctuary were actually surprising, while the author also gets it right in showing how horrifyingly uncouth the Christian nobility could be (as I think I mentioned having seen during the episode regarding El Cid of El Ministerio del Tiempo…). And I think there was even a mention of Persian contact with China via the Silk Road somewhere in the book! So, it is very long, but also very much worth reading the entire book. And maybe even also worth owning a copy both for reference, as his end notes are also very interesting, and to read again in a few years.

Sorry for writing this review in English, but I am so tired that I will have to wait until I get a bit more sleep to correctly translate it into Spanish. Spanish-speakers have already undoubtedly heard of this book, but I have not yet seen an English copy in the library, so I am prioritizing the English review in order to get the word out about this excellent book that more Anglophones need to read, about a time period (The Convivencia) which more English-only speakers really need to know about.  My reading updates follow:

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page 14

2.11%”Y a vezes, ser hermos@ si, tiene sus peligros, como yo ya había dicho…”

September 13, 2021 –

page 15

2.27% “”…estipendios para pagar los trabajos.”
Así es como los monjes copistas se manteniaron.

Esta no es la misma edición del libro, ya que lo que estoy leyendo tiene 765 páginas, y un imagen de libro más sencillo.”

September 13, 2021 – Finished Reading

April 24, 2023 – Started Reading

page 15

2.23%”“¡Bah! Tal vez pueda resultar útil para tomar anotaciones o enviar misivas, pero… para los libros … nada hay como la buena vitela. Ese dichoso papel terminará deshaciéndose o en Boca de las polillas.””

April 27, 2023 –

page 38

5.65% “P. 38, El Mozarabe

True, living in other lands, especially after learning the languages, changes one, but it is also true that those who stayed behind, stay the same.”

April 29, 2023 –

page 53

7.89% “incienso…

But, wouldn’t burning incense damage the books in that beautiful library??”

April 30, 2023 –

page 54

8.04% “The world does not end at Bizantium!!
Es verdad, pero para los Europeos, el mundo si termine con Constaninople.

“…hoje’o libros de todo el mundo: del norte, de Bagdad, de Damasco, de Alejandría, de Roma y Bbizancio.”

P. 54/748 story pages (765 w/Epilogue and notes…)
El Mozarabe, 2017 HarperCollins edition…”

April 30, 2023 –

page 59

8.78% “Sus héroes de su viejo libro de crónicas…

Even the ambitious need role models, often given to us by what we read or hear.

P. 59/745”

May 1, 2023 –

page 60

8.93% ““-Sí, eso es verdad. Pero fue a costa de mucha sangre y de muchas vidas inocentes.

– Es el precio que hay que pagar -sentenció Abua’mir.”

Ya. A ver que dice cuando la vida inocente es la suya, la vida que tiene que ser sacrificado.
/
“Yes, that is true. But it was at the cost of much blood and many innocent lives.
-That is the price that must be paid -concluded Abuamir.”

Right. What if that life was his?”

May 1, 2023 –

page 61

9.08%”P. 61: nice foreboding. Now we imagine that something terrible has to happen because of this spoiled upper middle class brat.”

May 1, 2023 –

page 65

9.67%”P. 65, Vaya, que impresionante reino, Córdoba. Aún así el mundo no termine con Persia.”

page 97

“Córdoba ya era una metrópoli musulmana, rival de Qay-rawan y de las grandes ciudades de Oriente, que sobrepasaba con mucho a las otras capitales de Europa occidental y que cruzaba en el mundo Mediterráneo de una reputación y de un prestigio solo comparable a los de Constantinopla.”

Vaya, no lo sabía.

/

“Cordoba was already a Muslim metropolis, rival of the great Eastern cities, larger by far than the other capitals of Western Europe and … only comparable to Constantinople.””

May 4, 2023 –

page 100

14.88% “P. 100-101 of 765 (including end notes…) version

This fanatical preacher by the name of Niceto, shows exactly why segregation is a real problem.

It actually encourages the development of fanatical hatred toward the groups that you never see because you all live together in one silo, which then encourages violence. Like this preacher did/is doing. Dogmas are easier to manipulate.”

May 4, 2023 –

page 143

21.28% ““Las guerras son destrucción y saqueo.
Siempre pierden los mismos.. Los más pobres.”
/
“War is destruction and sacking.
The same people always lose… The poorest people.””

May 4, 2023 –

page 163

24.26% “Aha, así que Simón du Montfort no fue ni el único ni el primero en decir eso. Qué desalmado crueldad.

/

So, the “Kill them all, God will know his own” guy from the siege of Carcassonne appears to have gotten it from earlier sources, but with the same heartless cruelty.”

page 181

26.93%”Nice connection of the two protagonists, via a book and a very cool library!!”

May 4, 2023 –

page 196

29.17% ““Y cómo en esta época nadie sabía el griego en la península ibérica, el emperador enviaba a un buen conocedor de este lengua, con el cargo de formar en Córdoba un equipo de traductores.”

¡Así es como se pasó!
/
“And since at that time no one knew Greek … the emperor sent a fluent speaker to train translators in Cordoba.”

So that’s how it happened!”

May 5, 2023 –

page 200

29.76% ““Tú, Samuel, eres judío… aporta tú algo a nuestro charla. Así será más completo.”

Éso es La Convivencia…
/
“You, Sam, are Jewish…add something to our conversation. That way it will be more complete.”

That is The Convivencia…”

May 5, 2023 –

page 218

32.44% “Qué pena que hoy en día no recitamos las poemas. Que no adoramos como los árabes de al andaluz o el tiempo de oro en Córdoba a la poesía y qué lástima que no escuchamos la poesía mientras bebamos en desde lo vergonzoso que estamos hoy en día. De la página 218 del libro El mozárate donde cuenta de la poesía en las fiestas.
/
Too bad Westerners sing stupid drinking songs to beer/whiskey rather than poetry to wine.”

May 6, 2023 –

page 219

32.59% “Wow, just like the young sultan Suleiman, going out in disguise to see how his people were being treated in Constantinople.

(At least according to the show Muhteşem Yüzyıl…)”

May 6, 2023 –

page 220

32.74% “Nicely done, Asbag!
He pulled a Nathan on the Calif!!

( ok, close, no wrongdoing on the Calif’s part, but opening the topic in exactly the same way that the prophet does with king David…)”

May 6, 2023 –

page 266

39.58% “Como a Franco la religión le conviene a las autoridades dictaduras y controladores porque eso dice la fe como en la página 266/754:

“…quién se opone a la autoridad, se rebela contra el orden divino…”
/
For Franco and other dictators, religion is convenient:

“…whoever opposes the authorities rebels against the divine order…””

May 8, 2023 –

page 466

69.35%”That is not something that any Jewish person would ever say.”

May 9, 2023 –

page 467

69.49% “Nunca pensé en el hecho de que si robaron, les hacía falta compradores, los Vikingos…
/
I never thought of the fact that if they robbed stuff, then they needed buyers for it.”

May 9, 2023 –

page 503

74.85%”Germanic. preju. contr. Constantinopl.”

May 9, 2023 –

page 655

97.47% “Palermo, musluman…

interesante…”

May 10, 2023 –

page 656

97.62% “Rip van Winkle, Sicilian style…

(9. 675/745…)”

May 11, 2023 –

page 657

97.77% “With that logic you can do whatever you want and claim that because it happened it was the will of God but actually everyone acknowledges that:

והארץ נותן לי בני אדם”
“
/
“And earth is given to people…” (from the psalms sung during Hallel, will look up which specific Psalm later…)

May 11, 2023 –

page 657

97.77% “P. 726/765
El Mozarabe, version with excellent end notes”

May 11, 2023 –

page 658

97.92% “P. 730/765: El Mozarabe, end notes version…

Excellent description of the consequences of War.”

Peace
Shira Destinie Jones

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Shira

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Review: The History of Black Slavery in Pueto Rico/ Revista: Historia de La Esclavitud Negra En Puerto Rico

Historia de La Esclavitud Negra En Puerto Rico by Luis M. Soler

   This book, in my opinion, is worth keeping handy, and with a good library, and after having learned to read both Spanish and French, as well.  It was available freely online as a pdf document, via a university library system if I recall correctly, back when I first read it in 2015 or so, but I have not searched for it since then.

     This extensive and not easy to read, but well worthwhile history of slavery in Puerto Rico, shows the importance not only of where we have been, but also what tools we have now and how to evaluate them in the light of past and present situations. The author comments that a Cooperative could have saved the small coffee producers of Puerto Rico, though not on whether that would have enabled the liberation of their enslaved workers. Yet this is a step forward in the analysis of both labour relations and the history of People of Color in the Americas.

I now also know that the family of my initially enslaved 5xGreat Grandfather Miles Manzilla, Sr.  (the father of the nun featured in the upper right hand corner of the Project Do Better book cover at the bottom of this post…) could even have originated in Spain itself, potentially. Our shared origins are important to know, both for understanding why enslaved workers would have defended their masters during Indian attacks, and also in deciding how to relate to our history of enslavement today. What feelings remain to be resolved on all sides?

P. 15 del pdf = P. 21 del libro
La Corona y los esclavagistas se creaban liberales y generosos, evidentemente, pero sus

esclavos no compartieron ese sentimiento!
The Crown and owners thought themselves generous, but their slaves disagreed!

P. 25=32: Ya sabîa Bartolomé de Las Casas pero no de Fray Antonio de Montesinos a favor de los

indigenes.
Dominicans vs Franciscans ??

P.33 Las Ordenanzas No Fueron Cumplidas… (The Orders of the King to protect the

Indigenous/Indian/Native Population Not Obeyed…)

but “Como si los indios fuesen africanos!” -Nice, Thanks. Now I know which part of my blood

sits higher…

P.33=P.40: At least he admitted his error before he died; Al menos se admetîa su error antes

de su muerte.

Updates online… (Courtney, Richard H., Ruth A., Michelle, Thomas and Mel will certainly like

this book, and Akshat Liked an early update…)

P.77pdf=P.86 del documento: The author thinks that a Cooperative would have saved small

producers in PR from the falling coffee prices (due to Cuban overproduction)…

P.109pdf=P.119 book: Pardos must be like me: morenos claros ?

P. 111pdf=P.119 book: Alot of English testimony from ship captains: 14 British citizens sold

into slavery by contrabandists, apparently never freed (though 7 were identified!!).

P. 126 So France had a Black Code, too? Of course, where did the southern colonies/states

(USA) get them from…

3 November, 1839: Pope Gregory XVI condemned the Slave Trade? and Baltimore, and Maryland…

In summary, there was not only lots of Mestisage, but a good bit of back-and-forthing of slaves between PR and the English and French-speaking colonies. Thus, entirely possible that Miles Manzilla, Sr’s family was of Spanish colony origin.

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Review: Falcó, by Arturo Pérez-Reverte

    Since I still do not have the time or energy to review episode 2 of El Ministerio del Tiempo, I thought I’d give you a review of another one of the books by the author of the famous book series which inspired one of the favorite characters (Alonso)

Alonso, por Omar R. La Rosa

 in this Spanish public television series: Capitán Alatriste.  Be warned that this book, however, is neither set in the same time period as the Alatriste books, nor does it feature an honorable hero, like the good Captain, on whom Alonso de Entrerios is modeled.  Falcó is an anti-hero, which put me on my guard, at first.  He is a spy working, mostly, for the Franco faction during the start of the Spanish Civil War, in autumn of 1936.  But, as you will see, it all worked out alright.  Or, as alright as anything could have worked out during the run-up to WWII, especially in Spain.  I really need to read this one again, as I no longer recall everything clearly.   My review and the reading updates follow, mostly in English, but if I forgot to translate something, please do let me know.

Sorprendentemente buenísimo final y me daba en el fin empatía por el protagonista.  /
This book had a surprisingly excellent ending and even more surprisingly left me with empathy for the protagonist.

me encanta el cambio de idioma /
I love the change of languages”

  parece que Hitler a tenido su practica en España /
it looks like Hitler got his practice in Spain”

 “era analfabeto” como dijeron en el quinto episodio de el Ministerio del tiempo , no es sorpresa , con seguridad así , que perdieron la guerra ; qué lástima.

/
“he didn’t know how to read.”  Untrained security guards, just as in the 5th episode of El ministerio Del Tiempo is no surprise they lost the war. What a shame

 Guerra civil: perder la mejor de toda una generación y además dejar suelto los extremos de ambos lados. Que horror.

/

losing the best of an entire generation to the Civil War, and unleashing the worst of both sides.  How horrible.

 ” Cuando acabar iban a asaltar tumbas.”
y así era desgraciadamente. /
and it’s true, unfortunately there weren’t enough tombs in Spain after the end of the war …

I’ll have to add this to my writing Shelf. First using the pool game sets up a worthy adversary for our protagonist anti-hero, and then he beautifully describes how the protagonist feels before going into an all-or-nothing battle.”

“ejecutado por fascista” y por los fascistas mismos…

/
” executed for being a fascist ” and by the very fascists themselves…

sociopath: da miedo/scary…

“la laguna Estigia.”  /  “the river Styx.”
Qué raro queue un Sociopata como ese asesino podría pensar en la mitología griega…

/
how strange that a sociopath like this murderer could think of Greek mythology

   Sorry, I’ll do better on the next reading when I update this review.

Shira

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Review: La Gitanilla, by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

    I’ve not got the energy at the moment to review the next episode (ep. 2, first season) of El Ministerio del Tiempo this Ministry Monday, so I thought I’d review a book related to a character who appears not once, but twice, in the series: Cervantes!

     I really wanted to like more of the books mentioned in the series, as Olivares, creator of El Ministerio Del Tiempo, goes to great lengths to work many iconic books and authors from Spain into the series.  Especially after the incredible episode involving the most famous Spanish writer of the Golden Age of Spanish literature, Cervantes: 

This book, however, just mostly grated on me.  Here is my review:

Lo estoy dejando por floja. Demasiado amor y rhymos para mi.
/
Giving up due to laziness. Too much love and ryhming for me.

Escuchando por librivox.org. / listening on librivox, but this one changes readers alot.  Or it did until I found a new version read by one good reader.

 Fingir milagros para cobrar dinero?!
Faking miracles to make money?!

La lealtad española. Como en Murat, por Alexandre Dumas y sus dos hermanos Españoles que negaron firmar cartas falsas al rey/Marichal.”

“Soy vieja en mis pensamientos!
Vaya, buena manera de decir que soy lista!”

 Escribió una protagonista bien lista y fuerte.

 Qué chica inteligente!
Librivox debe tener más lectores de este libro…

 La única cosa mala con librivox es que a veces es difícil encontrar buenos lectores seguidos sobre todo por las historias antiguas no muy populares. Solo hay dos lectores por esta historia.      Kids had to grow up quickly…

Adoro a esta abuela! /  I love this grandmother!”

Thank you again Librivox.org!!

Shira

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Ministry Mondays Review: El Capitán Alatriste, by Pérez-Reverte

    This is the famous person for whom everyone keeps mistaking Alonso, in El Ministerio del Tiempo.

Alonso, por Omar R. La Rosa

I read this book, and thought I had reviewed it, as I noted in 2018:   ”

Creî que habîa escrito una revista de este libro ya hace tiempo que tal vez se perdiô, pero bueno. Me encantô la trama y sobre todo la relacion entre Alatriste y Iñigo. / Thought I had reviewed this book some time ago, and maybe it got lost, but ok. I loved the drama and above all, the relationship between Alatriste and Inigo.”

citing especially the last line “que hubiera estado pensando/he could have been thinking” regarding the friend whose execution they watched, after feasting all night the evening before with the condemned man. So, to summarize, this book is about a 16th century Spanish soldier who forms part of the elite corps of loyal Spaniards fighting for the empire in many places, particularly Flanders. The hero, Capitan Alatriste, is a solid man, not a man of trifles, but a decent man, raising as his adopted son the friend of a fallen comrade. There are so many beautiful moments that I must go find this book again and read it, especially since it has been over a decade now since I read it, and my Spanish has also improved, so the reading experience will be far easier, and maybe I missed a few things.

Shira

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Ministry Monday Book Review: Rimas y Leyendas de Bequer, by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

   It was El Ministerio Del Tiempo that brought my attention to , and LibriVox.org, that made it easy to find and listen to (Fue EMdT que me llam’o la atenci’on a , y Librivox.org que lo hizo facil de encontrar y escuchar) :

Sorry, this is my second time listening to this work, and the poetry is beautiful, but I can’t stand his comments on Arabs and Jews, and I understand that it was a different time, but I can’t stand any more of this “like all of those of his race…”.

    When I got to the story about the architecture of Toledo however and the first verses go on about the bloodthirsty conquests of the Arabs, which was not true, as when you read the histories of the Islamic conquests, you see that they were not forcing conversions, at that time.  But then he gets to the Iberian peninsula, and it gets even worse, and he comments that the Arabs had no culture until they conquered Europe. Which is the worst falsehood.

(pls let me know if I forgot to translate any of the reading updates I paste in…)

/

Ya lo he escuchado otra vez, y aunque la poesia es bella, no soporto sus palabras en sobre los arabes y los judios, y comprendo que era un otro tiempo, pero no aguanto mas de “como todos de su raza…).

La primera vez que revis’e este libro dije:

No lo puedo dar estrellas, ya que solo leí la mitad, más o menos. No me lo pude seguir escuchando después de haber oído lo que dice sobre la falta de cultura de los árabes. No solamente era incierto, pero también era racista.

November 11, 2020 – Shelved as: el-ministerio-del-tiempo

 “De: La arquitectura árabe en Toledo :
Cómo!?
No puedo dar crédito a mis oídos: que los árabes no tenían ningún arte antes de haber conquistado la península ibérica ???!!!
(Escuchandoli LibreVox ya que se mencionó a Bequer en El Ministerio del Tiempo…)”

November 11, 2020 – Finished Reading

  “Acabo de escuchar el primer cuento de Leyendas: Creed en Dios, por Librivox (https://librivox.org/leyendas-by-gust…)

Es claramente un cuento para espantar a los que no creen en un Dios quien castiga a los malvadores, pero, y si ese dios no ayuda a los humildes??”

 “El Beso: por eso se deja en paz a los muertos…”

 “empezando El miserere…”

“Brama:

“Este mundo no puede durar mucho, porque los” atomitos jugan con los atomos.

Cierto: nosotros jugamos con el poder del atomo, y nos vamos a destruir a nosotros mismos si no prestamos atencion…

Somos los infantes cuyos manos rompen todo.
Pero,
Podemos hacer y ser mejor…
(yes, we can Do Better…)”

November 29, 2022 – Finished Reading

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     I am very happy to say that soon I will be able to start reviewing the episodes of this series, El Ministerio Del Tiempo, which I do believe is one that could really help change the world.  And it also reminded me how important reading and language learning are, as preparation for citizenship.

This is another reason that #ProjectDoBetter focuses on those aspects of education so often.

Shira

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Click here to read, if you like:

B5, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem, Lupin, or La Casa De Papel/Money Heist Reviews,

Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing about #ProjectDoBetter.

Shira

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Ministry Monday Book Review: Libro de Poemas, by Federico García Lorca

   It was El Ministerio Del Tiempo that brought my attention to García Lorca, and LibriVox.org, that made it easy to find and listen to (Fue EMdT que me llam’o la atenci’on a García Lorca, y Librivox.org que lo hizo facil de encontrar y escuchar) :

What sadness, beautiful words, but so much sadness. These were written between 1919 and 1921, in Granada. A century ago, but still with many of the same problems. Hoping we do not have to confront another Franco… (listened to via librivox.org read by an excellent male reader…)

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Que tristeza, hermosas palabras, pero tanta tristeza. Estaban escritos entre 1919 y 1921, en la Granada. Un siglo atras, pero todavia con mucho de los mismos problemas. Espero que no tendremos que enfrentar otro Franco… (escuchado por librivox.org leido por un excelente lector…)

October 26, 2022 – Shelved as: el-ministerio-del-tiempo

October 26, 2022 –

page 20

7.38% “Los encuentros de un caracol aventurero:

el pobre, rodeado por hipocritas…”

October 26, 2022 –

page 22

8.12% “buena pregnunta: ?acaso dios no escucha los gritos de nuestros corazones?”

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     I am very happy to say that soon I will be able to start reviewing the episodes of this series, El Ministerio Del Tiempo, which I do believe is one that could really help change the world.  And it also reminded me how important reading and language learning are, as preparation for citizenship.

This is another reason that #ProjectDoBetter focuses on those aspects of education so often.

Shira

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Click on the main menu for the ShiraDest website above to read more, if you like:

B5, Hakan:Muhafiz/The Protector, Sihirli Annem, Lupin, or La Casa De Papel/Money Heist Reviews,

Holistic College Algebra & GED/HiSET Night School Lesson Plans,

           or My Nonfiction  & Historical Fiction Serial Writing

Thoughtful Readers, please consider reading and sharing about #ProjectDoBetter.

Shira

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El Sepulcro del Cuervo, por/by Núria Masot, & La Empatia/Empathy

El sepulcro del cuervo:  Núria Masot

(the English review is here…)

Leer la revista en castellano aqui…

Shira “Era Holocena/Humana” Destinie
orig.  28 Augosto del año 12 015 EH

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Click here to read, if you like:

B5, La Casa De Papel/Money Heist, & Lupin & Hakan: Muhafiz/The Protector Reviews

Holistic High School Lessons,

           or My Long Range Nonfiction, & Historical Fiction Writing

Pensadores/Thinkers, ayudanos, por favor/help us, please:   #ProjectDoBetter.

Shira

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Revista: Las Puertas del Mal

Las Puertas del Mal by Núria Masot
(English review here…)

Mujeres inteligentes (tal vez codependientes) capaces de enfrentar el peligro, políglotas vestidos poco normales quienes inspiran el miedo pero protegan a los demas, Trastorno por estrés postraumático mostrado, veteranos heridos sosteniendoles tras los tiempos, las semillas del odio y el poder de la lealtad aun tanto entre la gente como entre las comunidades diferentes. Eso son las cosas buenas que ofrece este libro, cuatro de cinco en el serie, Lo que me fastidio era el cambio ver el mysticismo, mientras el logico era el base de los primeros dos libros. Sin embargo, este libro queda exclente como trabajo multi-generacional que, como a Harry Potter, inspira la esperanza en la comunidad.

originally posted: 17 del agosto, 12 015 EH (Era Holoceno), updated in 12022…
Shira Destinie,

Founder of #ProjectDoBetter.

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Click here to read, if you like:

B5, La Casa De Papel/Money Heist, & Lupin & Hakan: Muhafiz/The Protector Reviews

Holistic High School Lessons,

           or My Long Range Nonfiction, & Historical Fiction Writing

Shira

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