Tag: How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

• Listen to What You Don’t Want to Read (How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents)

  By now, you know that I’ve recently gotten into audiobooks. Turns out, it inspired a new motto: Listen to what you don’t want to read. I had the most difficult time getting through How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. I’ve enjoyed some of Julia Alvarez’s other work, but this one was tough. From the…

  Christine

  February 20, 2024

  Book Talk, Related Things, Review

  audiobooks, book listening, book review, books, fiction, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Julia Alvarez, literature, reading

• 2024 Reading List

  I’ve said it before, and I’ll lie to myself again: I will finish the books on my shelf before buying new books this year! I wasn’t going to make a TBR list for the year, but the book club subgroup in my small group group chat (so many “groups”!) asked us to post our reading…

  Christine

  January 2, 2024

  Book Talk

  Alan Paton, books, Creep, Cry the Beloved Country, Drawing Near, fiction, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, John Bevere, Julia Alvarez, literature, Maria Romasco Moore, Myriam Gurba, reading, reading list, Some Kind of Animal, The Source of Self Regard, toni morrison