Posts by Carmen 📚 Latinx Book Influencer 📚
🗳️ CALLING TAMPA/HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY RESIDENTS 🗳️
TODAY, March 24th, there is a special election for State Senate District 14 which covers South Tampa, Carrollwood and Westchase.
Please share this far and wide. Polls are open 7 AM to 7 PM (find more details and polling station below ⬇️)
A reminder that I’m partnering with Vintage Books & Out of Print to giveaway 5 copies of The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende AND 5 of these amazing 100% cotton t-shirts that feature the OG cover. Enter the sweepstakes here: sites.prh.com/house-of-spi...
A reminder that I’m partnering with Vintage Books & Out of Print to giveaway 5 copies of The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende AND 5 of these amazing 100% cotton t-shirts that feature the OG cover. Enter the sweepstakes here: sites.prh.com/house-of-spi...
🤣🤣🤣 I HOPE YPU ARE READING WITH US ON DISCORD! (We might be chatting with him 👀👀👀👀)
Carmen's superb IG and Bindery is why I have a "Tomes" link on my Libby. AND IT IS SO FILLED WITH BOOKS, I TELL YOU WHAT.
😭😭😭 omg! Thank you so much for sharing this with me!!!!
Happy book birthday to ALL the lovely Latine releases today, including two that made it to my doorstep yesterday!
If you want a weekly newsletter of ALL the Latine releases on my radar, sign up for my Bien Leidos Bindery to get it in your inbox weekly: bien-leidos.binderybooks.com/item/al7sap2...
Did you know @ireadvintage.bsky.social is giving away 5 copies of The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende AND this cute t-shirt to celebrate next month’s release of the show? You can enter here: sites.prh.com/house-of-spi...
"The data labelers in Kenya described seeing footage of people naked, watching porn, and talking about crimes and protests. Faces are often blurred, the story said, but sometimes are visible, depending on the lighting."
I see what Timothee Chalamet’s comments are doing to interest in ballet and opera in a time where NEA grants have been slashed by this administration…thriving arts are a form of resistance
Hey LA! I will be at Skylight Books tomorrow talking with Alvaro Enrique, author of Your Dreamed of Empires, to introduce his new novel, NOW I SURRENDER! This is an incredible expansive book and I can't wait to chat with him about it. Come on out! 3/6, 7pm!
www.skylightbooks.com/event/skylig...
Happy bookmbirthday to all the Latine books releasing today! Every week, I publish a newsletter breaking down all the Latine books on my radar. You can subscribe here to receive it! bien-leidos.binderybooks.com/item/DCpzXkg...
May every single person in power be held accountable. Let the system that upheld their abuse burn and justice prevail.
If you’re still looking for Latine books to read after the Benito Bowl, then join Bien Leidos Bindery where you get a weekly newsletter, book club, access to a very active Discord and so much more.
Join us: bien-leidos.binderybooks.com/membership/
You can find all these lists linked in my bio: linktr.ee/tomesandtext...
My love language is letting me rewatch the Benito Bowl over and over again
If you’re looking for more Latine books this week, my weekly newsletter highlights all the Latine releases on my radar. It’s free to join! And if you want to support the work I do, there are paid tiers as well.
Today’s releases: bien-leidos.binderybooks.com/item/ilpwR5A...
I sent this photo I took of the Benito Bowl to my primata and she texted back:
En el nombre del padre, el hijo, y el espíritu Benito
I’m going to be obnoxiously Latina for at least 7 business days
A graphic with headshots from Jonny Garza Villa and Sonora Reyes that reads: Bidi bidi book pod! ep #01 Jonny & Soni are cautiously optimistic
We're live!!!! @jgv.bsky.social and I started a podcast! You can search "bidi bidi book pod" wherever you listen to podcasts or find the full ep and transcript here: bidibidibookpod.com/episodes/jon...
Happy book birthday to all the amazing Latine titles releasing today! I put together this list and post all the new Latine books every week on my Bindery. It’s free to join to get this newsletter in your inbox! bien-leidos.binderybooks.com/item/DKcP8el...
This is appalling
Uh, @thehill.com, why did you just post this piece of right-wing propaganda about the Freedom Trucks that STOLE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM AMERICAN LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS?
thehill.com/opinion/educ...
Friendly reminder that if you’re reading US history and it makes you feel patriotic, you’re actually reading propaganda
They can try all they want to strike fear in our hearts but there is no denying our Latinidad is a superpower
I wrote my first Substack!
I’ll begin posting my weekly Latine releases over there next week, but here are last week’s releases a little late and more about Bien Leidos book club…
substack.com/@tomesandtex...
Good thread.
🙏🏼🙏🏼