This afternoon Duck managed to get me out of the house and downtown to browse at some livrerias. As in Spanish, this word is a false cognate; it does not mean library (that’s biblioteca) but rather bookstore. But the two we went to today were not what you’re thinking. One, called Pauline, we arrived at …
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Serenity Now
“Serene was a word you could put to Brooklyn, New York. Especially in the summer of 1912. Somber, as a word, was better. But it did not apply to Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Prairie was lovely and Shenandoah had a beautiful sound, but you couldn’t fit those words into Brooklyn. Serene was the only word for it, …
Os livros para meninos
(Books for children) Since I’ll be studying libraries and in particular how families use the library, I imagine I’ll be spending some significant time in children’s library spaces, so I figured I should get to know some children’s books. Unfortunately, my library doesn’t have too many that were originally written in Portuguese. I requested a …
Horntoes in Brazil 