#hispanic books

[alondrathegiraffe]

when you bagged a baddie by being your weird little self (you cannot tell me this wouldn’t have happened-Francis talking abt weird fungi nonsense during one of their strolls- and Noemi finding herself giggling at this odd pale man)

[arcadialedger]

For Hispanic Heritage Month— A Guide to Hispanic Fantasy Books!

Nocturna by Maya Motayne

Gods of Jade and Shadow by Silvia Moreno Garcia

We Set the Dark on Fire by Taylor Kay Mejia

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova

Her Body And Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado

Charlie Hernandez & The League of Shadows by Ryan Calejo

The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina by Zoraida Cordova

Blanca & Roja by Anna- Marie McLemore

Woven in Moonlight by Isabel Ibañez

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia

(Admittedly more a mystery- horror but it s so good I just had to throw it in here)

[thebellekeys]

11.08.21 : Mexican Gothic

"The serpent does not devour its tail, it devours everything around it, voracious, its appetite never quenched."

Este libro (¡mi sexagésimo sexto libro del año, lmfao!) evoca las obras de Quiroga, Allende, Machado, y por supuesto, las hermanas Bronte. Es una novela sencilla y una lectura fácil. Mexican Gothic es una mezcla de tropos clásicos y con la prosa típica por las obras góticas. Me arrepiento que no la leí en español de hecho, porque imagino que me habría gustado más en español de hecho, dado que tiene lugar en México.

[missbookthiefindia]

10 Books to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

Hello, dear readers! How is October treating you? What are you reading? Do you know about Hispanic Heritage Month? It is the annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month that honors the many cultures, customs, and contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the history and culture of the United States. It is celebrated from September 15 to October 15, each year. This is a chance to…

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[matthewarnoldstern]

400 books

My publisher asked me to search for 400 comparable books. What I found are insights into the publishing and writing worlds.

My publisher gave me an interesting assignment as part of a marketing campaign: find 400 comparable books and 400 comparable authors. I spent several days searching through Amazon, Goodreads, and BookBub, as well as checking my social media for new books. I found more than just a list of titles, names, and ASINs. I gained some insights into the publishing business. These might help you as an…

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[nypl]

It’s Hispanic Heritage Month! Celebrate Hispanic history and culture with these books and resources.

[sergiotroncoso]

Review from The El Paso Times

Out of Ysleta: Troncoso novel follows family growing up and apart

by Rigoberto González / Special to the El Paso Times Posted: 11/13/2011 Sergio Troncoso's admirable second novel From This Wicked Patch of Dust (University of Arizona Press) tells the story of the Martínez clan and how it copes when its individual members make decisions that threaten the harmony and unity of the entire family. Spanning four decades and two continents, the book opens on a more humble note, in Ysleta, the "misnamed, misplaced swath of earth in what had been a prehistoric sea." But for Cuauhtémoc and Pilar Martínez, the border was a place of fresh beginnings and new opportunities. For the couple's brood of four, however, growing up in the '60s and '70s where the values of Mexico and the United States converged also meant attaining different freedoms and having the privilege of picking and choosing what each wanted from both worlds. Though the novel attempts to showcase the disparate lives of the four Martínez children, the focus is on the maturing of Julieta, the oldest, and Ismael, the youngest. As the only daughter, Julieta enjoys space to thrive that her mother never had. She hops from college to college, eventually finding direction with a group of liberation theologians who take her to Central America. Ismael, "pudgy and painfully shy," is also "the smartest kid at Ysleta" and quickly outgrows the "I-don't-care attitude" that he witnesses in many around him. He becomes politicized and aware of his duty to those less fortunate than he, even as he struggles with being a scholarship kid in an Ivy League school. But the more important part of the journey toward adulthood is in the siblings' changing attitudes toward religion: Julieta, who considered her parents' version of Catholicism "ignorant and oppressive and materialistic," becomes a Muslim convert; Ismael, removed from the culture of Catholicism ("God existed in Ysleta, but not in Harvard") builds a life with literary pursuits in New York City, partnered with a Jewish woman. Cuauhtémoc and Pilar can only watch, question and advise from a distance as an estranged Julieta (now Aliyah, who wears a chador) moves to Tehran. And though outsiders might think the Martínezes are "recreating the wonders of Al-Andalus, Muslims and Christians and Jews together," the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the deployment of middle brother Marcos to Iraq finally ruptures the precarious family ties. Troncoso resists a comfortable ending and challenges readers to envision the Chicano family within a global context because, as this novel illustrates, the safety of home is no longer true in the post-9/11 Americas. That pessimistic sentiment is balanced, however, by Pilar's unwavering belief that the family is always worth fighting for. From This Wicked Patch of Dust presents difficult lessons about growing up and growing apart, but there's also genuine heart and pride in the depiction of the "four children, four worlds" that spiral out of a single immigrant dream.