hungrytwins:

Memory Mambo by Achy Obejas -culture, memory, relationships, family, love, queer persons of color I really liked this book. It was a good, relatively quick read. I would definitely like to re-read it some time later just to savor and analyze it. If you like drama, I highly suggest it. I will issue a warning though because there is some… abuse in it? Augh, I really don’t wanna spoil it. When I got to a certain point (and if you read this book, you will know what part I’m talking about), I just gasped and cringed and was just in omg mode. My sister was next to me when I was having my disbelief fit and she was like, “Oh, you’re at that part? Yeah, I pretty much said the same thing.” I don’t know if you guys do the same thing or not, but sometimes when I’m reading something I just imagine it as a movie or tv show. When the writing is vivid and the story really captures me, I think, “Wow, this would make a great movie.” Of course if it was done right, and if not, that would just be really sad. I’d really love it if it were some sort of HBO mini-series special. This has been sitting in my drafts for forever, and I have since then read a few other books. I think I’ll try to keep going with this until school starts. I didn’t want to bs a summary so at the top are just a few themes and topics I thought were related to the novel. Should I make some sort of grading system? I’d love to hear any questions or comments you guys have! I wanna know if our followers are alive haha

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