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[memoandradee]

Hello pretty people, how are you? I hope very well, today is Wednesday and I bring yet another review. I read this book a few months ago and I was very surprised.

In “A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow” by Laura Taylor Namey we follow Lila Reyes, a girl from Miami with her whole life planned. But when three things happen, her best friend and her boyfriend leave her and the worst, her abuelita passes away, everything changes and she has to face her new reality.

Her parents are worried about her so they send her for a few months with her aunt to London, Winchester. Depressed and without her family panadería "La Paloma", Lila has to find a new home outside her home. And that's when she meets Orion, a boy with a passion for tea. He decides to be her tour guide and help her feel better.

This book really surprised me, I read it in the middle of a pandemic and to be able to see Winchester through Lila and the passion of Orion for his hometown was beautiful.

Equally I loved the exploration of loss and grief. The figure of the abuelita in the Latinx culture is extremely important and seeing how much it hurried Lila was so real.

Also seeing Lila's passion for Cuban reposteria was extremely admirable, seeing how she always struggled to improve and how food brings people together (also something very Latinx).

If you want something light, with a lot of heart, many feelings, Cuban pastelitos and tea, this is your book.

Title: A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow

Author: Laura Taylor Namey @laura_namey

English Publisher: Atheneum Books for Young Readers / Simon Teen @simonteen

Cover Illustration: Andrea Porretta @ andi.porretta

Cover Design: Karyn Lee @karynslee

(4/5 ⭐️)

[citylightsbooks]

5 Questions with Patricia Engel, Author of Infinite Country

Patricia Engel is the author of The Veins of the Ocean, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; It's Not Love, It's Just Paris, winner of the International Latino Book Award; and Vida, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway and Young Lions Fiction Awards, New York Times Notable Book, and winner of Colombia's national book award, the Premio Biblioteca de Narrativa Colombiana. She is a recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories appear in The Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery Stories, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and elsewhere. Born to Colombian parents, Patricia teaches creative writing at the University of Miami. 

Patricia Engel is joined by Roberto Lovato, Jean Guerrero, and Juliana Delgado Lopera to celebrate the launch of her new novel Infinite Country, published by Simon & Schuster, in our City Lights LIVE! discussion series on Thursday, March 18th

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Where are you writing to us from?

I'm at my apartment in Miami, which has been my home base for the past seventeen years.

What’s kept you sane during the pandemic?

Gratitude for my good health and stability amid so much chaos and uncertainty. On the daily, it's long walks, sunlight, checking in with my husband, family and friends, sharing laughter and finding small reasons to celebrate life.

What are 3 books you always recommend to people?

Here are three by incredible Colombian writers: Oblivion (El olvido que seremos) by Hector Abad Faciolince, The Bitch (La perra) by Pilar Quintana, and Rosario Tijeras by Jorge Franco.

Which writers, artists, and others influence your work in general, and this book, specifically?

My general influences are those that arrived earliest in my life: Albert Camus, Anais Nin, Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende, Laura Restrepo, Maryse Condé, and Pablo Neruda, to name a few. With Infinite Country, I wanted to write a slim, compressed novel that spanned years, decades, and generations, but still felt urgent, like a single held breath. Books that I admire that accomplish that are Sula by Toni Morrison, In the Beginning was the Sea by Tómas González, Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín, The Lover by Marguerite Duras, and Near to the Wild Heart by Clarice Lispector.

If you opened a bookstore, where would it be located, what would it be called, and what would your bestseller be?

This is one of my quiet dreams. I'm not sure where I would open it but I would probably name it after one of my childhood cats, Camus. Certain bestsellers, because I would likely push them on every customer, would be Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat and Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

[frangwilde]

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[williamjoyce]

I’ve been amazed by all the cosplayers and fan artists that have made Jack Frost a part of their lives. Their work has inspired me again and again. The extraordinary array of different costumes, situations, storylines, conjectures and relationships that this wide variety of artist, writers, storytellers, actors, players and just people have added to Jack’s life and world is overwhelming to me. I had never expected that Jack would become so embraced. I merely introduced him but y’all made him live a vast ever changing and personal experience. His novel will be released in bookstores on Tuesday November 20th. The next day is the 6th anniversary of The Rise of the Guardians release. I’m working very hard to get more Guardians stories made. If you still love Jack and his fellow Guardians please join in the crusade. Starting next Tuesday and till Christmas Eve go to the bookstore or anywhere you like and take a pic of yourself in full cosplay regalia holding a copy of “Jack Frost: The End is the Beginning” and post it on #rotg and tag me at #heybilljoyce. You can dress as any character from the Guardians film or books or fan fiction versions just make sure you are holding a copy of the book. I want to show the film companies and everyone that the support is out there. That y’all still love Jack. For your efforts you’ll receive a limited edition, signed by me print of this Jack Frost drawing that I created just for those who give it a go and post a pic. For those of you who live outside of the USA and want to post I’m working on a way to include you and make sure you get a print. Thank you all for making Jack real. Thank you for making people believe in him. Thank you for letting Jack know that he is SEEN. #jackfrostcosplay #riseoftheguardians #tgoc #jackfrost #kidslitart #guardiansofchildhood #rotg #rotgcosplay #toothfairy #dreamworksanimation #dreamworks #simonandschuster https://www.instagram.com/p/BqPitDShRfv/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1icb894k0iiw8

[laureadsdaily-blog]

Received this ARC today, can’t wait to hopefully buddy read it with @boneseasonofglass 💜

[geekbroll]

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[sleepy-bookworm]

Congratulations to @gsprendergast + Zero Repeat Forever for winning the Sheila A. Geoff Children’s Literature Prize here in BC! Zero Repeat Forever is one of my favourite books in general. But with that said, Zero Repeat Forever is my favourite alien invasion story! And that’s saying a lot because I’m INCREDIBLY picky about alien invasion novels. I am genuinely looking forward to reading more of the Nahx Invasions, whenever that may be.💖👽🖤 . . . #zerorepeatforever #thenahxinvasions #gsprendergast #simonandschusterbooksforyoungreaders #simonandschustercanada #simonandschuster #books #bookphotography #bookstagram #signedcopy #itwasachristmasgift #ilovethisbook #nojoke

[lisa-lostinlit]

I received such a great package from @simonandschuster the other day. Just look at all of this goodness!! 🤗😍 This @yankeecandle smells delicious!! And this book sounds like the perfect autumn read! The Rules of Magic by @ahoffmanwriter releases October 10th! Thank you @simonandschuster for this awesome package! 🤓🖤📖 . 💬Is this one on your TBR? ________________________________________________________ 📖Summary: Find your magic . For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. . Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. Difficult Franny, with skin as pale as milk and blood red hair, shy and beautiful Jet, who can read other people’s thoughts, and charismatic Vincent, who began looking for trouble on the day he could walk. . From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are. Back in New York City each begins a risky journey as they try to escape the family curse. . The Owens children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the revered, and sometimes feared, aunts in Practical Magic, while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy. ________________________________________________________ #therulesofmagic #alicehoffman #practicalmagic #simonandschuster #bookish #bookmail #bookishmerch #bookworm #booknerd #flatlay #vscobooks #fallfeels #autumnvibes #vintagevibes #bookblogger