seriela | Books for Three Kings Day @seriela | Uploaded December 2018 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
Books for Three Kings Day, some bilingual, interspersed with excerpts from the Ponce Children's Choir's Christmas concert, directed by María Inés Suárez. And, a bit of controversy!
Books mentioned:
Los Tres Reyes (a caballo), by Carmen Rivera Lassén and Víctor Maldonado Dávila, Illustrator - Mrinali Álvarez Astacio
La fiesta de Melchor, by Carmen Rivera Lassén, Illustrator - Juan Álvarez O'Neil
Un coquí de Boriquén con los Reyes a Belén, by Lara Mercado and Armando Valdés, Illustrator - Nívea Ortiz Montañez
¡Ya llegan los Reyes Magos! by Georgina Lázaro, Illustrator - Morella Fuenmayor
Las Navidades, Popular Christmas Songs from Latin America, selected and illustrated by Lulu Delacre
Villancico Yaucano, composer Amaury Veray, Illustrator - Iván Camilli
Placido Domingo singing Villancico Yaucano: youtube.com/watch?v=y64NWi7rRy8
Books for Three Kings Day, some bilingual, interspersed with excerpts from the Ponce Children's Choir's Christmas concert, directed by María Inés Suárez. And, a bit of controversy!
Books mentioned:
Los Tres Reyes (a caballo), by Carmen Rivera Lassén and Víctor Maldonado Dávila, Illustrator - Mrinali Álvarez Astacio
La fiesta de Melchor, by Carmen Rivera Lassén, Illustrator - Juan Álvarez O'Neil
Un coquí de Boriquén con los Reyes a Belén, by Lara Mercado and Armando Valdés, Illustrator - Nívea Ortiz Montañez
¡Ya llegan los Reyes Magos! by Georgina Lázaro, Illustrator - Morella Fuenmayor
Las Navidades, Popular Christmas Songs from Latin America, selected and illustrated by Lulu Delacre
Villancico Yaucano, composer Amaury Veray, Illustrator - Iván Camilli
Placido Domingo singing Villancico Yaucano: youtube.com/watch?v=y64NWi7rRy8
![#ReadBannedBooks Colonial Edition [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PJVZFsGKuEk/hqdefault.jpg "#ReadBannedBooks Colonial Edition [CC]
Would I ban these Puerto Rican books?
Channels and videos mentioned:
Brian at Bookish, The #ReadBannedBooks Tag:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_jFGB4EuVE&t=166s&ab_channel=Bookish
Roxanne at The Novel Sanctuary, Banned and Challenged Books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRL_wHNh1lk&ab_channel=TheNovelSanctuary
Ashley at Bookish Realm, Texas wants to ban these 50 books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHc5T1VoPg&ab_channel=BookishRealm
Erica(!) at The Broken Spine, Lets Talk Banning Books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6YSRlY8Ra0&ab_channel=TheBrokenSpine
John Oliver, Critical Race Theory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EICp1vGlh_U&ab_channel=LastWeekTonight
Jason Reynolds with Steven Colbert on his own banned books:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNzYE_4DdtA&ab_channel=TheLateShowwithStephenColbert
Britta Bohlers video with link to the ALA list:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlTikFN5cAo&t=339s&ab_channel=BrittaB%C3%B6hler
Banned and challenged books: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlTikFN5cAo&t=339s&ab_channel=BrittaB%C3%B6hler
Students of York, Pennsylvania protest book banning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_txZZH9i_8&ab_channel=CNN
#PuertoRico")
![Friday Reads 19Mar21 [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/PWepoooglrg/hqdefault.jpg "Friday Reads 19Mar21 [CC]
Books finished, currently reading and tbr
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Adri at Perpetual Pages offers a comprehensive list of resources and organizations actively seeking change. This is the link to the video in which they include those links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgmV04E_yjE&t=4s
Palante, Adri.
BOOKS MENTIONED:
Teresa Angleró Sepúlveda by Bianca Medina
These Truths by Jill Lepore
Bluebird Bluebird by Attica Locke
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Cualquier miércoles soy tuya by Mayra Santos Febres
Todo Belascoarán by Paco Ignacio Taibo
Daughters of the Stone by Dahlma Llanos Figueroa
Clays Ark by Octavia E. Butler
How the García Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez
Red Rosa by Kate Evans
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Karen Evans These Truths Readalong Announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYIg5ckARDA&t=7s
Kim at MIDDLE of the book MARCH (did you guess?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93vk2_OXQe8
(where she gushes about Bluebird Bluebird 🤣)
March Mystery Madness, Jen at Remembered Readss announcement video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC6aaOKP1NU&t=10s
March of the Mammoths A Cruel Readers Thesiss (Lukáš)announcement video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYrxR52AUuQ&t=1s (LOVE the music!)
Didi at Brown Girl Reading:
https://www.youtube.com/user/frenchiedee/videos
Njeri at ONYX Pages, Clays Ark Live chat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHYI3l-BHi0
Terri at MsTerriB:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7L6DftxdyE
Teresa Angleró Sepúlveda video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pfk_MBiqIU
Mayra Santos Febres on Blackness in the Caribbean and Latin America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMGCuBlPi1Q
#PuertoRico")
![[CC]This Weeks Reads](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/TW7xIZkKii8/hqdefault.jpg "[CC]This Weeks Reads
I have such wonderful buddy readers!
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Karen Evans These Truths Readalong Announcement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYIg5ckARDA&t=200s
Kim @ K Beckers Books, one of the MANY in which she mentions These Truths:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvxsMt8279o&t=23s
Kazen @ Always Doing:
https://www.youtube.com/c/AlwaysDoing/featured
Belinda @ Belindas Book Nook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtrKTL6c9vw
Doris @ all D books:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIUd11Ux5dXkADUynY-4MCA
Heidi @ My Reading Life:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCftcdJ7T0cQaz2DIV9abD6w
BOOKS MENTIONED:
These Truths by Jill Lepore
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight
The Turkish Lover by Esmeralda Santiago
Daniel Deronda by George Eliot
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Black lives continue to matter in October and will always matter.
Links here for information and resources:
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
Videos that gave me hope:
Jesse Williams at 2016 BET Awards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7VPMJcXPGs&list=PLz7WWEJz5NH38rHCOHrq_5RjLW65_prn4&index=53
Color of Compromise- Episode 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sG76Ijx7Vrk&list=PLz7WWEJz5NH38rHCOHrq_5RjLW65_prn4&index=36
The Unequal Opportunity Race:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_Vzl-r8NY&list=PLz7WWEJz5NH38rHCOHrq_5RjLW65_prn4&index=23
#PuertoRico #Victober #thesetruthsreadalong")
![Part 2 - Memoirs [CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VPu1o6RWUv8/hqdefault.jpg "Part 2 - Memoirs [CC]
Its complicated.
BOOKS MENTIONED:
Esmeralda Santiagos memoirs -
When I Was Puerto Rican
Almost a Woman
The Turkish Lover (translated by Nina Torres-Vidal in El amante turco)
Signing in Puerto Rican by Andres Torres
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Raymond Dalmau: From Harlem a Puerto Rico by Raymond Dalmau and Hiram Sanchez
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Marilyn Maya Mendoza:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZiDCe0n2FnHtoLdUUQgDA
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Black lives continue to matter in December and will always matter.
Links here for information and resources:
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
#PuertoRico")
![Friday Reads, 21May21[CC]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W916qhUNEF0/hqdefault.jpg "Friday Reads, 21May21[CC]
Joy is an act of resistance.
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🎶🎧Ana Tijoux & Shadia Mansour - Somos Sur 🎶🎧
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFp4-3XQNnM
🇵🇸Search for Palestinian aid organizations and find ways to act in any way you can.
How to help victims of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/05/16/world/iyw-how-to-help-israeli-palestinian-victims/index.html
🇨🇴How to help Colombian protestors:
https://remezcla.com/lists/culture/colombia-protest-information-and-help-guide/
✊🏾I suggest Adris channel. They link a comprehensive list of organizations and resources so we may all do better where we are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe9xBq3f5oI
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Wolf Hall by Hillary Mantel
Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life by Diarmaid MacCulloch
Arthur Ashe: A Life by Raymond Arsenault
These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
Black Water Rising by Attica Locke
Gaza in Crisis by Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappé
Vito Marcantonio y Puerto Rico: Por los trabajadores y por la Nación by Félix Ojeda Reyes
Islam: A Short History by Karen Armstrong
The Country Girls by Edna O Brien
A Tall History of Sugar by Curdella Forbes
The Hundred Years War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi
CHANNELS MENTIONED:
Kim at MIDDLE of the book MARCH:
https://www.youtube.com/c/MIDDLEoftheBookMARCH/videos
Karen Evans:
https://www.youtube.com/user/k4evans1
Marilyn Maya Mendoza:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeZiDCe0n2FnHtoLdUUQgDA
Didi at Brown Girl Reading (Read Soul Lit Book Club):
https://www.youtube.com/user/frenchiedee/videos
Nashwa at Nashwa S.:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDOn8oYBbMMFdRPBVbQRXGA/videos
#PuertoRico #SolidaridadconPalestina #ReadSoulLit")
