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Celina
rated a book it was amazing
by Yuri Herrera
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guilty-pleasure,
latin-america,
magic-realism,
translated
Reading for the 2nd time
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"This book—I don’t want to call it a mere book—is arresting. I feel like it has colonized a small cove in my brain and will love there for eternity." — Nov 27, 2019 09:44AM
"This book—I don’t want to call it a mere book—is arresting. I feel like it has colonized a small cove in my brain and will love there for eternity." — Nov 27, 2019 09:44AM
all the reasons she did anything—the wrong things, the strange things, the dangerous, the sublime—the reasons she does any of it, still, is to protect me. Remember this.


“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch

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