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Becky’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Becky’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Becky Blake
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Proof I Was Here
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Against Death: 35 Essays on Living
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Unlock Your Child's True Potential: Breakthrough Social, Sensory, and Speech Barriers
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Novels Set in Barcelona
Barcelona is my favourite city, which is why I chose it as the setting for my first novel Proof I Was Here. If you also love the city, or simply wish to visit via a great book, here are four of my favourite novels that take place in Barcelona (and are available in English translation):
The first three novels take place during or shortly after the Spanish civil war. No Word from Gur Read more of this blog post »
The first three novels take place during or shortly after the Spanish civil war. No Word from Gur Read more of this blog post »
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“She was never going to seek gainful employment again, that was for certain. She'd remain outside the public sector. She'd be an anarchist, she'd travel with jaguars. She was going to train herself to be totally irrational. She'd fall in love with a totally inappropriate person. She'd really work on it, but abandon would be involved as well. She'd have different names, a.k.a. Snake, a.k.a. Snow - no that was juvenile. She wanted to be extraordinary, to possess a savage glitter.”
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