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: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Sonia considered the enticement of white people by route of peacocks, monsoons, exotic-spice bazaars—exotic to whom? you might ask—but there was legitimate concern over how...

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Bragging alert:My toddler, who turns 3 at the end of December, just read her first word! VOS ( Dutch for 'fox' ) #parenting #proud Thank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a...

📚 Books: LOG: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

"Yes, that doesn't make sense, he said. "Should we get up and eat strawberry jam for happiness?" I just love how this character talks!

📚 Books: LOG: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

"I thought Mexico was a country where I could be happy and it wouldn't be a tawdry happiness. I could be miserable and I could as- sume a noble misery. The tragic is elevated in...

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I suppose I reached the peak of my Dutchness when I saw this on a reddit ad, and my reaction was "oh rot op!". Hallo werkend Nederland. Ga je eens wat netter kleden! #life...

📚 Books: LOG: The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai

Eventually loneliness and snow became the same thing in her mind, lighter than air, made of nothing; only upon tackling the stuff did you realize it had piled too heavy to yield.

📝 Blog Post: RE: The Internet Is No Longer A Safe Haven | Brain Baking

  I enjoyed reading this. It helped realize I am not alone, and my defenses are reasonable. I figured I would share my strategy for those wondering what to do. Defending my...

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I started a linked data catalogue experiment, and it is so pretty! #books #cataloguing #library #data #linked_dataThank you for following my feed! ♥ Leave a reply here.

📚 Books: LOG: Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

I need a simple pick me up book after this T-T

📷 Snippet!: Tender is the Flesh, TBR???

Tender is the Flesh, TBR???Had a dream where we were kept inside a labyrinth building. It was dark. Grey walls. Lots of doors. Then a restaurant where the elite were eating...

📚 Books: LOG: Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

This is much more sad than horrifying 😢 I have training tomorrow, else I would read it all tonight and welcome the nightmares gladly. So so well written!

📚 Books: LOG: Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

I'm in dangerous territory... I just wanted to see if the writing was ok considering it is translated from Spanish. Now I can't stop...

📝 Blog Post: Memories of Puerto Rican Winters

 I wrote this during the first days of autumn here in the Netherlands while looking out of the window from my desk at the library. There is this pond next to us, full of...

📚 Books: LOG: I Had That Same Dream Again (Light Novel) by Yoru Sumino

Wait a minute... I'm starting to see a pattern... are they all versions of herself in different timeliness correcting her own mistakes????

📚 Books: LOG: Cataloging the World by Alex Wright

chapter 2 "I don't know where to turn next with my career. Such is the problem that is ceaselessly buzzing in my ears. Indecision is the worst of evils." At school he continued...
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