#Maria Cisneros

[marblecafecake]

Here’s my brainrot of the month, that means making it an AU for my favs.

#welcome home au #die mutare #welcome home #Milana Nayar #Damien Ito #Maria Vitali #Jaqueline Cisneros #Artists on tumblr #muppets au #kidcore #die Mutare au

[cristinabcn]

XPLORALYA: DIA DE LA COCINA PERUANA - INVITACIÓN

XPLORALYA: DIA DE LA COCINA PERUANA – INVITACIÓN

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#AGUSTÍN CISNEROS ZARANGO #CAMARA DE COMERCIO DE JESUS MARIA #CAMARA GASTRONOMICA Y TURISTICA DEL PERÚ #EVENTO #INGENIERO #INVITACIÓN #LIMA #lomasleido #PERU #PRESIDENTE DE LA CAMARA #SETIEMBRE 13/2022 #SOCIEDAD ESTRATEGICA INSTITUCIONAL #SUSCRIBIRSE #XPLORALYA

[metamorphesque]

Do you have any poems about a love you can't have? 💔

Morning by Frank O Hara

We Don't Know How To Say Goodbye by Anna Akhmatova

Never Seek to Tell thy Love by William Blake

from “An Attempt at Jealousy” by Marina Tsvetaeva

Pad, Pad by Stevie Smith

If You Should Go by Countee Cullen

I am not yours by Sara Teasdale

One Last Poem For Richard by Sandra Cisneros

Time does not bring relief (Sonnet II) by Edna St. Vincent Millay 

I know I am but summer to your heart (Sonnet XXVII) by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Philosopher by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I think I should have loved you presently by Edna St. Vincent Millay

The More Loving One by W. H. Auden

Appeal by Anne Brontë 

You Who Never Arrived by Rainer Maria Rilke

The Side Effects of Eating Too Many Clementines by Alessia Di Cesare

“the winter sun says fight” by Peter Gizzi

#literature #poetry #classic literature #unrequited love #poetry recs #poems #asks

[soracities]

would you be willing to share books or poems with your favorite or even pretty writing / prose? thank you 😊

oh Absolutely

books!

A Moth to a Flame, Stig Dagerman

For Two Thousand Years, Mihail Sebastian

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado

The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros

The Waves, Virginia Woolf

Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

The Sea, John Banville

The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney

Possession, A.S. Byatt

The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

The Book of Delights, Ross Gay

Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys

i am lewy, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

Seiobo There Below, Laszlo Krasznahorkai

The History of Love, Nicole Krauss

The Carpenters Pencil, Manuel Rivas

Books Burn Badly, Manuel Rivas (full disclosure: the language in this book is HARD)

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone,  Saša Stanišić

From A to X: A Story in Letters, John Berger

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

Still Life with Oysters and Lemon, Mark Doty

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Paris, When It's Naked, Etel Adnan

A Ghost in the Throat, Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Four Bare Legs in a Bed: Stories, Helen Simpson

South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami

A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Patrick Süskind

The Things We Don't Do, Andrés Neuman

We Love Glenda So Much and Other Tales, Julio Cortázar

Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke

All We Saw, Anne Michaels (poetry)

Collected Poems of Vasko Popa, Vasko Popa (poetry)

Barefoot Souls, Maram al-Masri (poetry)

Without an Alphabet, Without a Face, Saadi Youssef (poetry)

poems!

"In Spite of Everything, the Stars" by Edward Hirsch

"I Can Tell You a Story" by Chuck Carlise

"The Roses of Saadi" by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

"The Stare" by Sujata Bhatt

"Stolen Moments" by Kim Addonizio

"Moonlight Sonata" by Yannis Ritsos

"No Title Required" by Wislawa Szymborska

"I Sleep A Lot" by Czeslaw Milosz

"Prayer for the Mutilated World" by sam sax

"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" by Adam Zagajewski

"I Cannot be Known" by Paul Eluard

"The Cinnamon Peeler" by Michael Ondaatje

"Filling Spice Jars as Your Wife" by Kai Coggin

"Persimmons" by Li-Young Lee

"This Room and Everything in It" by Li-Young Lee

"When We With Sappho" by Kenneth Rexroth

"On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" by Ocean Vuong

"Not Even This" by Ocean Vuong

"Elegy of Fortinbras" by Zbigniew Herbert

"Wedding Poem" by Ross Gay

"Transformations of the Lover" by Adonis

"Cloves" by Saadi Youssef

"Punishment" by Seamus Heaney

"I've Dreamed of You So Much" by Robert Desnos

"Bleecker Street, Summer" by Derek Walcott

"Cave Dwellers" by A. Poulain Jr.

"De Humani Corporis Fabrica" by John Burnside

"The Great Fires" by Jack Gilbert

"The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" by Jack Gilbert

#ask #anonymous #book recs #poetry recs

[corrosivein]

HOW WILL YOU REMEMBER? — THAT I LOVE YOU? — YES. — THAT’S EASY. I CAN’T HELP IT.

alice oseman // anna akhmatova // trista mateer // anne sexton // friedrich nietzsche // simone de beauvoir // @/gayassnatural // cassan dra clare // rainer maria rilke // sor juana inés de la cruz // jenny slate // debasish mridha // sandra cisneros // hadestown // a. a. milne // antoinette brim // amal el-mohtar

#web weaving #lunter

[sarahivi]

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=253284880916586&id=100087052269925&mibextid=Nif5oz

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Elena Ríos continues collecting from the public treasury.

According to official reports, it is confirmed that the saxophonist Maria Elena Ríos Ortiz will continue to receive "support" with public money from taxpayers for "the damage" suffered to her person, despite the fact that last week it was announced publicly the opinions of the National Rehabilitation Institute in which it is reported that; the saxophonist "Maria Elena Rios does not present any damage, therefore she does not require any surgery or recovery treatment", she quotes verbatim from the document issued since 2019!.

Despite these and other irregularities, such as their statements that do not coincide with the event of the facts, about dates and the narrative of the alleged acid attack that constantly changes in each hearing, it has been determined that they will continue with the legal process as well as with the "supports" that he receives monthly, which exceed $150,000.

There are many articles where the large amounts of money they receive together with their family are cited, whom they have registered as "indirect victims" to have a protection mechanism that translates into $50,000 per month. Said payments and agreements were made during the administration of the previous government that preceded former Governor Alejandro Murat Hinojosa. There are receipts signed by the former administrative director of the administration secretariat, Mr. Manuel Estrada Montaño, as well as Jose Germán Espinoza Santibañez, who was the titular Secretary of Administration. Likewise, the person who served as director of Human Resources of said secretariat is the Public Accountant José de Jesús Cisneros Pérez.

It should be noted that the saxophonist is currently promoting a media campaign against Hollywood actors, as well as against other public figures, actions that have been counterproductive in her efforts to star as an "activist and defender of human rights", contrary to this, complaints have been exhibited criminal proceedings against him for extortion and defamation, not to mention the other lawsuits that exist against his family for various crimes ranging from falsifying official documents to murder, robbery and drug trafficking.

What do you think about this case?

[ofallingstar]

List of books I read this year

The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

Kink: Stories by R.O. Kwon

Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle by Vladimir Nabokov

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

The Vanishing Season by Dot Hutchison

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Nana by Émile Zola

Poesía completa by Alejandra Pizarnik

Hija de la fortuna by Isabel Allende

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes by Seamus Heaney

The Complete Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde

The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

The Dalkey Archive by Flann O'Brien

The Likeness by Tana French

The Gathering by Anne Enright

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

The Plague by Albert Camus

Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski

Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen

Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Dale

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

Graveyard Clay: Cré na Cille by Máirtín Ó Cadhain

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis

New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Close Range: Brokeback Mountain and Other Stories by Annie Proulx

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh

Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara

The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

The Silver Chair by C.S. Lewis

The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

As Normal as Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Mainland China and Hong Kong by Yau Ching

The Black Phone by Joe Hill

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis

Firelight of a Different Colour: The Life and Times of Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing by Nigel Collett

The Farthest Shore by Ursula K. Le Guin

Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag

I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis

How Now, Butterfly?: A Memoir of Murder, Survival and Transformation by Charity Lee

Santa by Federico Gamboa

Farewell My Concubine by Lilian Lee

Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin

Temprada de huracanes by Fernanda Melchor

The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell

The Doll-Master and Other Tales of Terror by Joyce Carol Oates

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Kissing Carrion by Gemma Files

The Last Battle by C.S. Lewis

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities by Flora Rheta Schreiber

The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin

Columbine by Dave Cullen

Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

Posion for Breakfast by Lemony Snicket

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Postcolonial Love Poem by Natalie Díaz

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations by Rainer Maria Rilke

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#about brenda #books #booksblr #goodreads

[rockislandadultreads]

Libby Spotlight: eAudiobook Fiction Picks for Hispanic Heritage Month

L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón (read by Frankie Corzo)

L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He’s harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with a little more intimacy and a little less Weather Channel, feels she has no choice but to end their marriage. Their three daughters—Claudia, a television chef with a hard-hearted attitude; Olivia, a successful architect who suffers from gentrification guilt; and Patricia, a social media wizard who has an uncanny knack for connecting with audiences but not with her lovers—are blindsided and left questioning everything they know. Each will have to take a critical look at her own relationships and make some tough decisions along the way.

With quick wit and humor, Maria Amparo Escandón follows the Alvarado family as they wrestle with impending evacuations, secrets, deception, and betrayal, and their toughest decision yet: whether to stick together or burn it all down.

Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton (read by Kyla Garcia)

After the death of her beloved grandmother, a Cuban-American woman travels to Havana, where she discovers the roots of her identity--and unearths a family secret hidden since the revolution...

Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, nineteen-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest--until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary...

Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee with her family during the revolution. Elisa's last wish was for Marisol to scatter her ashes in the country of her birth.

Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate. When more family history comes to light and Marisol finds herself attracted to a man with secrets of his own, she'll need the lessons of her grandmother's past to help her understand the true meaning of courage.

This is the first volume of "The Perez Family" series.

Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González (read by Almarie Guerra)

It's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers.

Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy. Sure, Olga can orchestrate the love stories of the 1%, but she can't seem to find her own...until she meets Matteo, who forces her to confront the effects of long-held family secrets...

Twenty-seven years ago, their mother, Blanca, a Young Lord-turned-radical, abandoned her children to advance a militant political cause, leaving them to be raised by their grandmother. Now, with the winds of hurricane season, Blanca has come barreling back into their lives.

Set against the backdrop of New York City in the months surrounding the most devastating hurricane in Puerto Rico's history, Olga Dies Dreaming is a story that examines political corruption, familial strife and the very notion of the American dream--all while asking what it really means to weather a storm.

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (read by Sandra Cisneros)

Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught everywhere from inner-city grade schools to universities across the country, and translated all over the world, The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero.

Told in a series of vignettes – sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes deeply joyous–it is the story of a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become. Few other books in our time have touched so many readers.

#hispanic heritage month #audiobooks #fiction #libby app #reading recommendations #book recommendations #reading recs #book recs #library resources #tbr pile #tbr #to read #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #library blog #readers advisory

[fuffette]

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami Invisibility: A Manifesto by Audrey Szasz Bunny by Mona Awad Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. The Sentence by Louise Erdrich Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado The Encyclopedia of the Dead by Danilo Kiš One Hundred Shadows by Jungeun Hwang Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto Whale by Myeong-Kwan Cheon The Cat Who Saved Books by Sōsuke Natsukawa Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges The Probable Future by Alice Hoffman Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald The Overstory by Richard Powers Poison by Kathryn Harrison Bitter Orange by Fuller, Claire We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Fowler, Karen Joy The Edible Woman by Atwood, Margaret A School for Fools by Sokolov, Sasha Ferdydurke by Gombrowicz, Witold The Iliac Crest by Rivera Garza, Cristina Paris Peasant by Aragon, Louis The Making of a Marchioness by Burnett, Frances Hodgson Where'd You Go, Bernadette by Semple, Maria Hell by Barbusse, Henri The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Letts, Billie Find Me by Berg, Laura van den * Big Swiss by Beagin, Jen Mariana by Dickens, Monica The Lime Works by Bernhard, Thomas Dead Souls by Gogol, Nikolai Gargoyles by Bernhard, Thomas The Pachinko Parlour by Dusapin, Elisa Shua Lolly Willowes by Warner, Sylvia Townsend Rebecca by du Maurier, Daphne The Hearing Trumpet by Carrington, Leonora Jane Eyre by Brontë, Charlotte The Savage Detectives by Bolaño, Roberto Solitude: A Novel of Catalonia by Català, Víctor Almond by Sohn Won-Pyung My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Moshfegh, Ottessa Heaven by Kawakami, Mieko Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-joo Convenience Store Woman by Murata, Sayaka Iza's Ballad by Szabó, Magda The Door by Szabó, Magda Phantom Limb by Berry, Lucinda The Night Journal by Crook, Elizabeth Faces in the Water by Frame, Janet Three Apples Fell from the Sky by Abgaryan, Narine The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine by Bronsky, Alina Eileen by Moshfegh, Ottessa I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Moore, Lorrie The Stationery Shop by Kamali, Marjan Breasts and Eggs by Kawakami, Mieko Milkman by Burns, Anna The Maid by Prose, Nita The Guest by Cline, Emma Hang the Moon by Walls, Jeannette The Secret of Ventriloquism by Padgett, Jon The Salt Line by Jones, Holly Goddard Perdido Street Station by Miéville, China The Accursed by Oates, Joyce Carol Occupy Me by Sullivan, Tricia Poison Study by Snyder, Maria V. The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Fox, Hester Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Fawcett, Heather Skylark by Kosztolányi, Dezső Blue of Noon by Bataille, Georges Ruth Hall and Other Writings by Fern, Fanny The Vegetarian by Han Kang Nadja by Breton, André Exquisite Corpse by Brite, Poppy Z. Ice by Kavan, Anna Kallocain by Boye, Karin Palimpsest by Valente, Catherynne M. Elena Knows by Piñeiro, Claudia Landor's Tower: Or Imaginary Conversations by Sinclair, Iain The Birthday Party by Mauvignier, Laurent The Magnolia Palace by Davis, Fiona Memories of the Future by Krzhizhanovsky, Sigizmund Under a Glass Bell by Nin, Anaïs Sugar by McFadden, Bernice L. Vintage Cisneros by Cisneros, Sandra Raising Hope by Willard, Katie Chodleros de Laclos Les Liasions Dangereuses by Various Daddy-Long-Legs by Webster, Jean Local Anaesthetic by Grass, Günter Don't Stop the Carnival by Wouk, Herman Confessions of Felix Krull by Mann, Thomas The House of Mirth by Wharton, Edith Radiant Terminus by Volodine, Antoine Shanghai Girls by See, Lisa The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov, Mikhail (Translator: Mirra Ginsburg) Owlish by Tse, Dorothy

undue influence by anita brookner slip of a fish by amy arnold beside myself by ann morgan blue ticket by sophie mackintosh nostalgia by mircea cartarescu I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Crane, Marisa

#saved

[majestativa]

A progressively-edited post about my muses, because why not?

Literature:

Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Al-Khansae, Andrée Chedid, Anna Akhmatova, Anne Carson, Antonia Pozzi

Blaga Dimitrova, Brenda Venus

Carmen M. Pursifull, Claribel Alegría, Clarice Lispector, Constance Merritt

Dacia Maraini, Daniela Crăsnaru, Diane di Parma, Dora Maar

Edith Södergran, Eira Stenberg, Excilia Saldaña

Florbela Espanca, Frida Kahlo, Forough Farrokhzad

Georgina Herrera, Gertrud Kolmar, Gioconda Belli, Guadalupe Amor, Gwendolyn MacEwen

Halina Poświatowska, Hélène Cixous, Hilda Hilst

Ingeborg Bachmann

Jorie Graham, Joyce Mansour, Juana de Ibarbourou, June Jordan

Kerstin Söderholm

Lia Sturua, Liliana Ursu, Lillian Olson, Linda Pastan, Lou Andreas-Salomé, Lourdes Vázquez

Marina Tsvetaeva, May Ziadeh, Maya Angelou, Mina Loy

Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Nazik Al-Malaika, Nina Berberova, Nina Cassian

Olga Orozco, Olga Sedakova

Remedios Varo, Renate Druks, Rita Dove, Rosario Castellanos

Sandra Cisneros, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, Sheri-D Wilson, Sheryl St. Germain, Siham Bouhlal, Simin Behbahani, Simone Weil, Stella Díaz Varín, Stephanie M. Wytovich, Sylvia Plath

Unica Zürn

Valentina Saraçini, Valzhyna Mort, Virginia Woolf, Vivian Hansen

Warsan Shire

Zakiyya Malallah

Movies’ Actors/Directors/Performers:

Agnès Varda, Anjelica Huston, Anna Magnani, Audrey Hepburn

Bettie Paige

Dalia Mostafa, Dita Von Teese

Elizabeth Taylor

Faten Hamama

Gemma Chan, Ghada Adel

Haifa Wehbe, Hanan Tork, Hande Erçel, Hema Malini

Jaime Pressly, Joanne Woodward

Kareena Kapoor, Katie Holmes, Keira Knightley, Kim Basinger

Lekaa Elkhamissi, Lucy Lawless, Lucy Liu

Madhuri Dixit, Magda al Sabbahi, Mariam Fakhr-Eddine, Marilyn Manroe, Marlene Dietrich, Megan Fox, Melike İpek Yalova, Menna Shalabi, Meryl Streep, Mia Goth, Michelle Pfeiffer

Nelly Karim, Nicole Kidman

Ola Ghanem

Penelope Cruz

Rachel Weisz, Rita Hayworth, Rooney Mara

Shadia, Sherihan

Thalia, Theda Bara, Tuba Büyüküstün

Vanessa Hudgens

Musicians:

Aaliyah, Asmahan

Chelsea Wolf, Colleen Duffy (Devil Doll)

Elsieanne Caplette (Elsiane)

FKA Twigs, Floor Jansen

Lana Del Rey (Post-Sylvia-Plath Era)

Maria Callas

Sevdaliza, Shana Halligan (Bitter:Sweet), Sharon den Adel (Within Temptation), Simone Simons (Epica)

Tarja Turunen, Taylor Swift (Since Reputation Era)

Warda Al-Jazairia

Characters:

Antigone, Artemis

Chandramukhi

Desdemona, Durga

Electra, Ereshkigal, Eve

Kahina, Kali

Lilith

Magdalene, Medea, Medusa, Messalina, Morticia Addams

Ophelia

Persephone

Shahmaran, Scheherazade

Xena

#Links #Muses #Literature #Music #Characters #Movies

[freakoutgirl]

short stories that have stuck with me over the years

Tiny, Smiling Daddy by Mary Gaitskill

People Like That are the Only People Here by Lorrie Moore

The Cavemen in the Hedges by Stacey Richter

The Half-Skinned Steer by Annie E. Proulx

Real Women Have Bodies by Carmen Maria Machado

Bloodchild by Octavia Butler

The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury

Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas by Ursula Le Guin

Stone Animals by Kelly Link

A Real Doll by A.M. Holmes

Bartleby by Herman Melville

The Ceiling by Kevin Brockmeier

Eleven by Sandra Cisneros 

Pilgrims by Julie Orringer

The Way We Live Now by Susan Sontag

[marblecafecake]

Muppet/ Welcome Home AU Yayyyyy!!!

#die mutare #Maria Vitali #Damien Ito #Milana Nayar #Jaqueline Cisneros #welcome home #welcome home au #muppets #muppets au #artists on tumblr #marblecafecake #digital art #kidcore #die mutare au

[let-me-read-books]

A Comprehensive List of Assigned Readings for Spring Semester

This list is in roughly the same order I read them and doesn't include supplementary readings online. (Not all are photographed because I don't have physical copies).

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar

An Introduction to Religion and Literature by Mark Knight

Children's Literature by Seth Lerer

The Cambridge Guide to Literature and Religion by Susan M. Felch

Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi

Whose Body by Dorothy Sayers

We the Animals by Justin Torres

The Book Against God by James Wood

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

A Certain Ambiguity by Gaurav Suri and Hartosh Singh Bal

Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie

Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich

Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Lila by Marilynne Robinson

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling

There are some great books on this list. I highly recommend Louise Erdrich, who is a Native American author. Both books of hers I read were really enjoyable. I also enjoyed Wind in the Willows, The Road, and Dew Breaker.

Ones I didn't enjoy as much were Dubliners and A Certain Ambiguity, the latter mostly because I didn't become an English Major to read about math.

My Three Favorites

(Hilariously, there's one from each class)

The Hound of Baskersville by Arthur Conan Doyle

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien

(P.S. I got my grades and I'm pretty happy with how I did)

#english major #university #children's literature #postsecular studies #short stories #school reads #list #book list #i mostly read these #school reading #reading list #Helen oyeyemi #dorothy sayers #justin torres #james wood #lewis carroll #louise erdrich #Kenneth grahame #j.m. barrie #edwidge danticat #cormac mccarthy #c.s. lewis #marilynne robinson #I almost died #spring semester #book recommendations

[mari-cisneros-photos]

Here is the draft outline for my theme project for this semester

[thedanwich]

Top 10 Books of 2023

10. Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America - Nicole Eustace

9. In the Distance - Hernan Diaz

8. Mission of Gravity - Hal Clement

7. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel

6. Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson

5. All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque

4. The Death of Ivan Ilych - Leo Tolstoy

3. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

2. The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, The Stone Sky) - N.K. Jemison

Sea of Tranquility - Emily St. John Mandel

Honorable mentions:

The Girl Who Cried Monster (Goosebumps #8) - R.L. Stine Welcome to Camp Nightmare (Goosebumps #9) - R.L. Stine The Ghost Next Door (Goosebumps #10) - R.L. Stine The Haunted Mask (Goosebumps #11) - R.L. Stine Hello, Molly!: A Memoir - Molly Shannon No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood Empire Express: Building the First Transcontinental Railroad - David Haward Bain Be Careful What You Wish For...(Goosbumps #12) - R.L. Stine Piano Lessons Can Be Murder (Goosebumps #13) - R.L. Stine The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (Goosebumps #14) - R.L. Stine Acts of Service - Lillian Fishman You Can't Scare Me! (Goosebumps #15) - R.L. Stine The Street - Ann Petry Omelette: Food, Love, Chaos and Other Conversations - Jessie Ware Cyndi Lauper: A Memoir - Cyndi Lauper The Power of the Dog - Thomas Savage The Endless and Other Stories - Brandon Baker One Day at Horrorland (Goosebumps #16) - R.L. Stine 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World - Elif Shafak Why I'm Afraid of Bees (Goosebumps #17) - R.L. Stine Monster Blood II (Goosebumps #18) - R.L. Stine The Story of the World in 100 Species - Christopher Lloyd Facing Mount Kenya - Jomo Kenyatta Deep Trouble (Goosebumps #19) - R.L. Stine Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Future - Merlin Sheldrake The Employees - Olga Ravn The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight (Goosebumps #20) - R.L. Stine The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir - Anatole Broyard Bewilderment - Richard Powers Go Eat Worms! (Goosebumps #21) - R.L. Stine Ghost Beach (Goosebumps #22) - R.L. Stine If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat - Aubrey Gordon Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin Return of the Mummy (Goosebumps #23) - R.L. Stine A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith Phantom of the Auditorium (Goosebumps #24) - R.L. Stine I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman Attack of the Mutant (Goosebumps #25) - R.L. Stine

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Then, now, next

Museums, with all their faults and shortcomings, have always, in some form or another, been about educating the public. Therefore, they have always engaged with their respectives communities. In the article “Where does the history of museum education begin?” Nathaniel Prottas tries to (as the title suggests) pin down when and where museums started focusing on providing an educational experience for its visitors. Prottas argues that this has always been the case, beginning with what he considers to be the first museum, the Belvedere, in Vienna, founded in 1781. Its first curator, Christian von Mechel, believed that the Belvedere should teach its visitors about the history of art. He also “...chose to write short entries that helped direct visitors to look at the paintings, with the goal of having them look closely and for extended periods… It received praise for helping the uninitiated understand the works on display and the history of art” (Prottas, p. 338). This was then replicated throughout all of Europe, which exemplifies how successful a museum becomes when it actively engages with its participants. I admit this is viewing history through rose colored glasses. If this was community engagement in 18th century European museums, it is safe to say that the engagement “...smacks of the kind of social control that defined Vienna under Empress Maria Theresa and her son, Joseph II” (Prottas, p. 338), and being that the Belvedere was a royal palace, the community mostly consisted of wealthy, white individuals. Or at least, only felt welcoming for those individuals.  

(pictured above: engraving of Christian von Mechel by one of his students, c.1770)

A modern example of successful community engagement, which I love, is the Camilo Egas museum in Quito, Ecuador. Egas is an Ecuadorian artist who portrayed indigenous people frequently in his work, becoming one of the most prominent artists in the Indigenism movement. His work is being viewed under a more critical lens as of late (if you want to read more, click here), however, the museum founded under his name has created a completely different legacy, I believe. The building itself is a colonial house within Quito’s historical center, relatively removed from the rest of the touristic attractions, and surrounded by what Cisneros calls “fuertes problemáticas sociales” or “strong social problems” such as prostitution and delinquency (p. 1). Since the museum could count on little funding from the government, and being that the only staff members were Cisneros herself as the curator, security guards and concierges, they relied on a “bricolage” of methods in order to engage with their community. Cisneros managed programs, guided tours, as well as working with nearby schools and universities; but the method that gave the most results was the simple act of security guards inviting passersby inside. According to visitor surveys, there were certain months where it was the most prominent reason as to why participants stepped inside the museum. 

This is how it works: the guard stands in the doorway of the museum and tells people that the museum is free and that it only takes ten minutes to see the collection. This was proven to be the most effective way to entice people, since by offering to see the museum for free, it meant that anyone was welcome. It also meant that participants didn’t feel like they had to give up more than ten minutes of their time, making it more convenient for their day to day, all of which means that the museum truly turned into a public space for the community. For the most part, after people came in, they stayed longer than the projected ten minutes, admiring the architecture, the art, or simply conversing in the patio (Cisneros, p. 10). My favorite story is Cisneros rushing downstairs to find an elderly woman being guided inside by the security guard on one of the days the museum was closed, offering to plant flowers in the patio as thanks for being invited inside the day before.  

I don’t mean to romanticize this example either. This museum could do and provide so much more for the community if they had more sufficient funds and bigger staff, which it deserves. But the way this institution simply opens its doors, and invites you in, is I feel the core of community engagement; which can be done by the Smithsonian or by an old house placed in a narrow stretch of road in Quito.

(pictured above: Camilo Egas Museum, photo credits to Encircle Photos)

References:

Cisneros, Lorena. "Etnografía de una práctica de mediación en el Museo Camilo Egas." HISTOIRE (S) de l'Amérique latine 10 (2014): 14-14.

Prottas, Nathaniel. “Where Does the History of Museum Education Begin?” Journal of Museum Education, vol. 44, no. 4, Oct. 2019, pp. 337–41, https://doi.org/10.1080/10598650.2019.1677020.