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Summer Reading starting soon

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Public library Summer Reading Programs are starting soon--many offer ways to participate online!  Illustration (which would make a great poster) is for www.lapl.org Los Angeles Libros Festival, a shorter reading program with emphases on materials in Spanish and Latinx culture in September.  Prizes were provided by  La Libreria , Los Angeles bookstore specializing in books for children in Spanish, bilingual or about Hispanic culture.   https://www.la-libreria.net   https://www.facebook.com/la.libreria.en.L.A.  http://remezcla.com/lists/culture/latin-run-bookstores-los angeles   

Episode 44: "Una actriz sincera"

English subtitles  https://youtu.be/G6dY-oImLmY No subtitles   https://youtu.be/D2FE4hUAo6U For complete capitulos go to  www.Telemundo.com    All entire episodes of PARIENTES A LA FUERZA can be seen  On Demand with  www.NBC.com  app .           Lots of characters have called others  loco , crazy, insane--questioning "have you lost your mind?"--but really meaning that they don't share the same world views, beliefs and values with such people (including their own relatives and supposed "loved ones"), proving they don't truly have much in common after all.   Quick-thinking Leti and Juancho demonstrate they are birds of a feather--a true team--working together in way Leti doesn't with her former husband, and mini-me children who are growing up and developing their own minds.          LETI:   Aqui, izquierda, por favor.   JUANCHO (low voice):   Aviste lo a la manita.   AURELIO:   A quien?  Aqui es?    (Leti exhales/sighs)  JUANCHO:   Que?   PERROTE:   Ya, bu

Episode 43: "Escritor sumiso"

English subtitles   https://youtu.be/c_5P-1V3ZCQ No subtitles  https://youtu.be/X6RU83GQwxo   For complete capitulos go to  www.Telemundo.com    All entire episodes of PARIENTES A LA FUERZA can be seen  On Demand with  www.NBC.com  app .     Might poster in very first episode of PALF showing  Tacos y Tiros  franchise  zombie  flick--"el virus que se comio todos"--refer to characters being "taken over" by plague that makes them lose their own will, forced to do the bidding of parasites like Felix and "evil genus" types such as Tania and Lulu? Outside Orbit Studio, cart wheeled by with large black and white portrait of woman in kimono style garment, Chinese doll bob hair style may be reference to  Tacos & Tiros  poster with samurai theme--sort of  Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon ?  CARMEN:   Que mosca te pico?  Te hiciste bien guey alla.   ANDY:   Calmate, Carmen, por favor.   CARMEN:   Como me voy a calmar?  Es neta?  No dijiste nada, nada mas los dejast