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Showing posts with label Valenciana. Show all posts
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Monday, December 14, 2009

More pics are up!

Our neighborhood, a trip up the hill to a pretty church and the discovery, while there, of a mezcal bar, a Virgin of Guadalupe parade, the arrival of the circus, the first night of Hanuka.
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Labels: Circus, Guanajuato, Valenciana
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain

Books Read (Juliet)

Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (finished here)
The Magician's Assistant, Ann Patchett
Good Omens, Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
No Touch Monkey: And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late, Ayun Halliday
A Gate at the Stairs, Lorrie Moore
The World to Come, Dara Horn
The Virgin Blue, Tracy Chevalier
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Manhood for Amateurs, Michael Chabon
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
The Girl Who Played With Fire, Stieg Larsson
The Magus, John Fowles
The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan


Books Read (Peter)

The Deadhouse Gates, Steven Erikson (finished)
Memories of Ice, Steven Erikson
The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman
Legacies, L. E. Modesitt Jr.
House of Chains, Steven Erikson
Trading in Danger, Elizabeth Moon
A Clash of Kings, George R. R. Martin
A Feast for Crows, George R. R. Martin
The Last Wish, Andrzej Sapowski

Words Learned

Grosella: Red currant
Zapote: Big black fruit that grows on trees
Germen: Germ, also Sprouts
Tijeras: Scissors
Ajonjoli: Sesame seeds
Zorro: fox
Devoluciones: Returns
Empenar: To fog up (like glasses or windshields)

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