Konfetti Explorations
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Marisabel
Hi! I'm Marisabel! Puertorican living the Dutch life. This is my personal web garden to make things grow.
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📚 Books: LOG: Polderjapanner by Fumiko Miura
Dit boek is zo leuk! Ik ben geen Japanner, maar ik zie mezelf in haar verhaal als buitenlander.
📚 Books: LOG: Polderjapanner by Fumiko Miura
Niet alleen buiten was het donker, maar tot mijn verrassing ook in de gebouwen. In woonhuizen. in cafés. in musea en restaurants: over- al was het donker. Het was bedoeld om...
I just realized that when I have long periods of not reading, it is because I am forcing myself to read books I am not enjoying. So I procrastinate. Just abandoned 2. Time to...
I just finished my first japanese book after 7 months — I think — and started a new one! The kobo helps a lot. But about 75% , I was able rely less and less on the dictionary!!!...
I barely have time to sit by the computer, work has picked up and I love it. But it means less time to play. However... I'm ITCHING to redesignthe layout — not the style — of...
📚 Books: LOG: Death in Spring by Mercè Rodoreda
Everytime I believe I'm understanding, something happens and I realize I have no idea what is going on. Right now it's starting to feel like a paint of insanity note than a story.
Going on semi-hiatus Focus of November 2025: 📚 catalog my personal book collection 🏯 Study more Japanese actively and finish reading my first book. 🙅🏻♀️ DEC will be out of the...
My daughter is in her Frozen period, and she is obsessed with "Do you want to be a snowman" song. I keep telling her not to put it on... (she can use spotify) because I keep...
📚 Books: LOG: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Whenever I see passages in Sonia's writing, I can't help but wonder if the writer wrote from own experience.
📚 Books: LOG: Het menselijk tekort by Midas Dekkers
Het lichtend schermpje van de mobiel belooft de kortste weg. Neem die niet! Weersta de verleiding van de kortste weg. Anders heb je voor je het weet je doel bereikt. En daar sta...
📚 Books: LOG: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Oh, how could he have forgotten that love, when it arrives, arrives always twinned to its destructive force, as inevitably as God and devil, life and death, home and the leaving...
Just came back from my very first in-person bookclub. And maybe it's the optimistic romantic in me, but I think i finally found my tribe!Looking forward to next month! #books...
📝 Blog Post: October 2025 Recap
Life In contrast to September, October was like a long stroll along a fiery park noticing the changing of the season, mother nature dressing up in her best red gown, for her...
📚 Books: LOG: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
By May, Vermont had entered its fragile season, the trans- parent speckled time of honeysuckle and cloudberries, of spring rain falling in polka dots, which triggered and spun...