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: Contact by Carl Sagan
Half way and I'm starting to struggle. A lot of political details involving many many names mentioned once. It's dragging a lot to introduce a new turn of plot every chapter. So...
Added this to my Salvation of the Reader essay as footnote: Hoe lossen we de leescrisis op? - NTR Wetenschap : the end of this video is exactly what I mean about starting with...
📝 Blog Post: September Life with Books
It is October. Time, as always, has flown. My writing has slowed, but my mind, as always, has not. Let’s recap. Life September began with the familiar buzz of a new year, both...
📝 Blog Post: Warriors of Narration
This essay is a reflection on the book The crisis of narration by Byung-Chul Han, read during the summer of 2025. All the quotes are from the book. Because we lack...
📚 Books: REVIEW: I who have never known men by Jacqueline Harpman
I devoured these pages in two nights. I had promised myself three, but after meeting my second goal, I couldn’t stop. I needed to know what came next. What came next was life....
I added a similarity map using custom tags for my books. They will now show the top 3 matching books according to these tags. But the tags are a manual job... so it should take...
Just went to linkedin — I log in like every few months. I see a post of someone I know, super smart and energetic, her own walking brand. Then I read what she posted to increase...
📷 Snippet!: WIP summer at blaak
WIP summer at blaakIt's not perfect, but good enough to start coloring in the next session next Saturday. #art #color_pencils #blaak #drawingThank you for following my feed! ♥...
📚 Books: LOG: Babylon's Ashes (The Expanse #6) (ebook) by James S. A. Corey
Except she thought, there wouldn't be semesters. Of poetry courses. Or any of the things that had made her life hers before the rocks fell. And then, almost as if he was there,...
📚 Books: LOG: Pandora's Star: Commonwealth Saga 1 (paperback) by Peter F. Hamilton
I was supposed to stop reading and go sleep. But then that proceeding scene against Morton sucked me in. I'm so glad I'm rereading this! I missed so much the first time around....
adding tags to my books so I can later create a story of "related" books list, BUT, it's making me want to re-read a lot of them. Ahhh, maybe next year is re-reading year. 😅...
Autumn is here!This season I want to savour my big books, on my couch, under the warmth of blankets and my rob. A good cup of tea. And enough light to read them. Let the cozy...
📚 Books: LOG: Pandora's Star: Commonwealth Saga 1 (paperback) by Peter F. Hamilton
Ohhh this is where I got hocked up last time I read this book! The SI! The Silken myths! Is like getting on a rollercoaster ride and reaching the top before the thrill of the...
👽 I have a literature problem. After reading those 2 books by Sayaka Murata I need to go back to my Sci-Fi books. BUT, I have the whole collection of Xeelee, the whole...
📚 Books: LOG: Pandora's Star: Commonwealth Saga 1 (paperback) by Peter F. Hamilton
I can't remember much from when I read this so long ago. But some things I'm noticing, how people deal with immortality while in my head the fact that you can transplant...