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Octavio’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Octavio’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Octavio Solis
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Member Since
January 2009
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Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
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2018
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7 editions
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Lydia
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2010
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Santos & Santos
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1997
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Dreamlandia
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2010
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Bethlehem
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2010
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Octavio Solis: The River Plays (El Otro, Dreamlandia, Bethlehem)
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2010
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El Otro
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El Paso Blue
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Lydia by Octavio Solis (2010-03-15)
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Plays By Octavio Solis
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Octavio’s Recent Updates
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is on page 371 of 400 of Honey: A masterpiece by my friend and colleague Victor Lodato. He has such a vital instinct for capturing the essence of human behavior in such lyrical language. The book fairly sings.
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"ⓒ 1964. A wonderful collection of excerpts by many authors including Martin Luther, John Donne, Geo. Herbert, Geo. Fox, John Wesley, Blake, Keats, Emerson, Tennyson, Yeats, Whitman, Geo. MacDonald, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Bonhoeffer, and many more."
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An excellent volume of poetry by the talented Maggie Smith. Even though this collection was published in 2021, it really resonated with me at this time of such terrible brutality against immigrants in this country. There is one poem in particular tha ...more |
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Venetian Vespers is such a delightful novel that works like a mystery novel, but still stands essentially as pure Literature. Mr. Banville knows how to craft such delicious prose that feels at once historical and contemporary. It's a period piece set ...more |
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| This amazing novel by Camus was pivotal to the development of the modern novel in so many ways, but mainly due to its human expression of the profound philosophical view that he held during his life. I found this book even more relevant now in light ...more | |
"Read The Plague free here. Coronovirus is the name of the 21stC plague. If you don't know what existentialism is, reading this and relating to the world we have today and how it's looking for the next week, month and perhaps even longer, will show yo"
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“But every baby is an anchor for young parents navigating the stormy waters of daily life; every baby is an anchor for those who are looking for their true north, their purpose, their identity. We give our parents hope when they drift from bad times to bad times to worse.”
― Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
― Retablos: Stories From a Life Lived Along the Border
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