ThoughtMantique

(Isa) (ES|ENG|CAT) Neurospicy. Pelusa cósmica. Errores 1/2 afortunados. Lo poco que existo y lo mucho que contengo. Entre los espacios de unos puntos suspensivos. 📍 https://linktr.ee/ThoughtMantique

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Un río en la oscuridad

Masaji Ishikawa

Mitad coreano, mitad japonés, Masaji Ishikawa ha pasado toda su vida sintiéndose como un hombre sin país. Esto se profundizó cuando su familia se mudó de Japón a Corea del Norte sus trece años y, sin saberlo, se convirtió en miembro de la casta social más baja. Su padre, coreano, fue atraído al nuevo país comunista con promesas de trabajo abundante, educación para sus hijos y una situación más alta en la sociedad. Pero la realidad fue lo contrario. En estas memorias Ishikawa relata con franqueza los brutales 36 años que pasó viviendo bajo un aplastante régimen totalitario, así como su huida de Corea del Norte arriesgando su vida. ‘Un río en la oscuridad’ no solo es un retrato impactante de la vida dentro del país, sino un testimonio de la dignidad y la naturaleza indomable del ser humano

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La flor de lis

Elena Poniatowska

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La noche de Tlatelolco

Elena Poniatowska

No bastaba una sola voz, por dolida y sincera que fuese, para dar el sonido, la significación, la dimensión misma de los trágicos días vividos por muchos mexicanos en octubre de 1968. Elena Poniatowska se dedicó, pues, a oír las múltiples voces de los protagonistas -indiferentes, solidarias, quejumbrosas o airadas- y compuso este enorme testimonio colectivo, que, a la manera de un coro plural, da la relación de los hechos. Desde cualquier punto de vista o posición que adopte ante lo sucedido en esos días, el lector sentirá que esta obra de algún modo le concierne y lo reclama. Estudiantes, obreros, padres y madres de familia, profesores, empleados, soldados y hombres de estado, en fin, diversos componentes de la sociedad mexicana actual, aportan su modo de ver, sentir y considerar los acontecimientos. No se trata de emitir un juicio general, sino de recoger la experiencia misma y su reflejo en la memoria de muchos. Los testimonios fueron fielmente transcritos: las palabras vibran en la página con su textura y su tono oral. Este es un libro que será oído más que leído. Un libro que no podemos dejar de oír.

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Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects

Joanna Macy

Inspiration, practices, and meditations to empower us in the face of planetary “True wisdom for tough times.” ―John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America Deepening global crises surround us, causing many to fall prey to denial and despair. Coming Back to Life shows how grief, anger, and fear are healthy responses to the harsh realities of our time, and that when honored through the revolutionary practice of the Work That Reconnects, they can free us from paralysis and move us toward creative action. This new, completely updated edition of the classic text illuminates the extraordinary Work that has inspired hundreds of thousands to make strides towards the creation of a life-sustaining human culture. Buddhist scholar and environmental activist Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown introduce the Work’s theoretical foundations, revealing the angst of our era with remarkable insight. Pointing the way forward out of apathy, they offer personal counsel as well as easy-to-use methods for group process that profoundly affect people’s outlook and ability to act in the world. “If you want to connect with your joy even in the midst of sadness, if you want to see new life arise out of despair, Coming Back to Life has my highest possible recommendation.” ―John Robbins, author of Diet for a New America and co-founder and president, The Food Revolution Network “A must for all who want to mobilize humanity in service of all beings. These concepts, exercises, and meditations have proven to work across generations, religions, ethnicities and races.” ―Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, Director of Social Justice Organizing, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College

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Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)

Arturo Escobar

In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and placed-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Mapping autonomous design’s principles to the history of decolonial efforts of indigenous and Afro-descended people in Latin America, Escobar shows how refiguring current design practices could lead to the creation of more just and sustainable social orders.

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Mil cosas

Juan Tallón

Un día en la vida de Travis y Anne no empieza y acaba para dar paso a una nueva jornada. No. Su existencia hiperactiva se levanta más bien sobre un día perpetuo, extenuante, que impide desconectar un segundo de la realidad. La velocidad endiablada de la gran ciudad, el ir y venir de un sitio a otro, las infinitas tareas que la pareja encadena sin descanso, los sobresaltos, la prisa, el estrés, la crianza de un hijo pequeño, la dispersión, lo que queda siempre por hacer, conforman un estilo de vida trepidante que el lector puede llegar a reconocer como propio. En vísperas de comenzar sus vacaciones, bajo un calor insoportable, ambos tienen mil cosas en la cabeza que resolver, y todas ellas parecen urgentes. La vida contemporánea ya se caracteriza, sin embargo, por no saber precisar dónde reside de verdad la importancia, así que cada pequeña decisión, tarea, contratiempo, se afronta como un asunto de vida o muerte. Travis trabaja en una revista y es día de cierre. Mientras le ronda la pavorosa idea de que van a despedirlo, no dejan de sucederse a su alrededor imprevistos de toda clase. Anne, por su parte, se siente harta del departamento de atención al cliente en el que está destinada, donde la relación con algunos de sus compañeros amenaza con hacer saltar la oficina por los aires. No va a ser fácil llegar al final del día. Mil cosas es una novela sobre la vida absolutizada por el trabajo, las agendas ocupadas, el estrés cotidiano, la fragmentación de la atención, la velocidad de las cosas, las pequeñas tragedias y las grandes penurias a las que las metrópolis nos abocan. Una novela acelerada sobre la vida vertiginosa, apremiante, narrada como un thriller, con una tensión creciente en la que todo puede estallar de un momento a otro. Una nueva muestra del contundente, ingenioso y perspicaz talento narrativo de Juan Tallón para capturar uno de los males de nuestro tiempo.

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Apr 29, 2026

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Enjoyment: 4.5Quality: 4.0Characters: 3.5Plot: 4.0

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Cómo se me ha metido este cuento dentro que he pasado este invierno con flashbacks ansiosos cada vez que me ponía un jerséi...

// ENG This story has gotten so ingrained in me that I've spent this winter with anxious flashbacks every time I put on a sweater...

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Apr 29, 2026

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 4.5Plot: 4.5

Este es un trocito de una reseña más completa.

Revelar el argumento es quitarle una capa de profundidad. Hay dos madres con sus hijos, hay una búsqueda de detalle, un punto de partida que se escapa, y la incógnita de qué pasa, pero también de qué es importante. Es una novela incómoda, extraña, febril, voraz. Su ritmo frenético empieza desde la primera página y se mantiene junto a la confusión. ¿Qué buscamos? No lo sé, pero hay que encontrarlo, no hay que despistarnos, sigue, sigue. Aquí pasa algo, ¿el qué? No lo sé, pero sigue, sigue.

Suelo leer antes de dormir, y «Distancia de rescate» pronto se convirtió en una lectura que no podía soltar a pesar del mal cuerpo que me dejaba. Colocaba el libro en la mesita, me tumbaba, y ese hormigueo bajo la piel, ese algo que no debería estar se quedaba conmigo.

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Revealing the plot would strip it of a layer of depth. There are two mothers and their children, a search for a particular detail, a starting point that eludes us, and the enigma of what is happening, but also of that "something" that is important. It's an unsettling, strange, feverish, voracious novel. Its frenetic pace begins on the first page and is maintained alongside its confusion. What are we looking for? I don't know, but we have to find it, we can't get distracted, keep going, keep going. Something is happening here, what? I don't know, but keep going, keep going.

I usually read before bed, and it quickly became a book I couldn't put down despite the unsettling feeling it left me with. I would stop reading, lie down, and that tingling feeling under my skin, that something that shouldn't be there, would stay with me.

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Catch the Rabbit

Lana Bastašić

A moving story about loss, forgetting and female friendship: two women on a road trip across Bosnia head towards a lost brother and a collision with the lies they’ve told themselves about where they’re from. Sara hasn't seen or heard from Lejla in years. She's comfortable with her life in Dublin, with her partner, their avocado plant, and their naturist neighbour. But when Lejla calls and demands she come home to Bosnia, Sara finds that she can't say no. What begins as a road trip becomes a journey through the past, as the two women set off to find Armin, Lejla's brother who disappeared towards the end of the Bosnian War. Presumed dead by everyone else, only Lejla and Sara believed Armin was still alive. Confronted with the limits of memory, Sara is forced to reconsider the things she thought she understood as a girl: the best friend she loved, the first experiences they shared, but also the social and religious lines that separated them, that brought them such different lives. In Catch the Rabbit, Lana Bastašic tells the story of how we place the ones we love on pedestals, and then wait for them to fall off, how loss marks us indelibly, and how the traumas of war echo down the years.

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Nonfiction focused on social identity, diversity, equity, inclusivity, class, and belonging. Together, we find history, identity, love, compassion, and community.

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This Long Thread

Jen Hewett

Weaving together interviews, first-person essays, and artist profiles, This Long Thread explores the work and contributions of women of color across the fiber arts and crafts community. These conversations explore materials, belonging, identity, cultural misappropriation, privilege, the value (or undervaluing) of craft, community support structures, recognition and exclusion, intergenerational dialogue, and much more. Be inspired by the work and stories of innovative people of color who are making exceptional contributions to the world of craft. The textile artists featured include knitters, quilters, sewers, weavers, and more who are making inspiring and innovative work.

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Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology

Rozsika Parker

Old Women, Art and Ideology [paperback] Parker, Rozsika,Pollock, Griselda [Jan 01, 1991]

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With Her Own Hands: Women Weaving Their Stories

Nicole Nehrig

A rich and intimate exploration of how women have used textile work to create meaningful lives, from ancient mythology to our current moment. In this captivating work, psychologist and knitter Nicole Nehrig delves into the myriad ways that art forms such as knitting, sewing, and embroidery were and continue to be liberating for women. Spanning continents and centuries, Nehrig brings together remarkable stories of women, from an eighteenth-century Quaker boarding school that used embroidered samples to teach girls math and geography to the Quechua weavers working to preserve and revive Incan traditions today, and from the Miao women of southern China who, in the absence of a written language, pass down their histories in elaborate “story cloths” to a midcentury British women’s postal art exchange. Throughout history, textiles have been a way for women to explore their intellectual capacities, seek economic independence, create community, process traumas, and convey powerful messages of self-expression and political protest. With Her Own Hands is a celebration of women who have woven their own stories and created objects of beauty and significance to bring them through hardships.

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Unravelling Women's Art

P.L. Henderson

Creators, Rebels, & Innovators in Textile Arts The author unpicks the threads that link female textile artists and the arts they produce, revealing a global and historic patchwork of assorted roles, identities and representations. Entertaining as well as informative, this book offers a unique overview of female-centric textile art production including embroidery, weaving, soft sculpture and more. Includes over 20 interviews with contemporary textile artists, providing fascinating insights into their practices, themes and personal motivation. Tells us: How knitting became a spying device in wartime Why dress design was so important for the Suffragettes Why spiders were emblems in ancient times and now How women’s arts and crafts moved from the backroom to the gallery showroom

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Help! Looking for a very specific topic

Hi, Pagebound! The other day I went to a masterclass where we crafted our own travel journal. We were all women, and even the artisan that taught us was pointing that out. I'm always marveled at how women are mostly present in artistic spaces, even if its just crafting for the joy of it. I don't know if there is a specific term to this phenomenon, but I'm craving some books or essays about this topic, do you have any recommendations? 👀

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