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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
Goodreads Author
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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4 editions
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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 Paso Blue
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El Otro
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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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That’s curious. I’m more than a hundred pages in, and the novel reads like a noir thriller to me. Zips along very readily. Maybe it’s because I’ve jus
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| 27 poems by the youthful Ferlinghetti. Spry and sly, fresh and delicious, playful as a scorpion and deadly as lace. These are epitomes of the surrealist works that overtook the scene in San Francisco in the late 1950s. But they also have a tinge of s ...more | |
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| I picked up this volume of stories to read The Aspern Papers in anticipation of our summer trip to Venice, which is where the story takes place. But the bonus were the other stories that frame this magnificent novella. These are masterfully written t ...more | |
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A lot of private “time”, I meant to write.
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Octavio Solis
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Roman Clodia's review
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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories:
"This new Oxford edition (2013) sites `The Aspern Papers' alongside some of James' other short fictions which are concerned with literary life, especially the relationships between author, texts, and critics.
Written between 1888-1896, the four stories" Read more of this review » |
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"How can any collection that includes The Aspern Papers, The Figure in the Carpet, and “The Real Thing” get less than 5 stars? Each of these three and other “tales” in this book vary in length, from a gem of the short story “The Real Thing” to the mas"
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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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