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  We may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now. --        Martin Luther King, Jr.  

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Reflecting on the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. Conclusion --- I too choose to stick with Love . Wishing you many blessings in 2018.  Stay positive. My focus word this year is Celebration . I am celebrating small and big things. Join me---mcf I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. ---Martin Luther King, Jr. Stick with Love Read Latino

    Vintage Books All is not lost. The future remains unwritten. It is ours to shape.       ---Carolina De Robertis Love not hate makes America great Fight for Democracy / Fight like a girl I’m with her & her & her & her & her & her & her & her & her & her Viva la vulva We can we will I have been to the future and                                         We won Resist defend love The seas are rising but so are we         ---signs from the Women’s March on DC The Latina Book Club has chosen RADICAL HOPE , an anthology of letters of “Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times” as its Book of the Month.  This anthology, edited by author and activist C...

   Happy New Year!   (I can still say that, especially with the Chinese New Year around the corner.) "Monday Musings" is a new feature for The Latina Book Club.   It will be a place I can share things with you about books, authors, my TBR pile, and other musings that just don't fit on a 140-character tweet.   Happy Reading!   --mcf QUOTES FROM MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR Today is Martin Luther King Junior Day.   Americans everywhere are reflecting on MLK's life and his dream for little black boys and girls to hold hands with little white boys and girls.   I would like to add to that dream that those little black and white boys and girls also hold hands with little yellow and brown boys and girls too.   Here are two of my favorite MLK quotes: "No person has the right to rain on your dreams." "We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools." BEST AWARD SPEECH TO-DATE Congratulations to Gina Rodriguez.   She ga...