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I really liked the images of the Mary Magdalene & Materia Prima Oracles. By the way, I hope you are having an extraordinarily wonderful trip!🧡

Cancer moon 🫶 🫂

Sacred Destiny is great. I didn't expect to like it, but it's really easy to use and see the images.

Hope you’re having a great vacation and maybe finding some book to bring back home with you! Also, I didn't know you're a graphic designer, so am I! I have a major in graphic design and a minor in illustration 😄

if it's not too late..a historical mystery recommendation...the daughter of time by josephine tey.

I love your interpretation of the Paul Mescal shorts! The Shaun Tan books is great, I also love The Arrival by him, which is a silent graphic novel. Hope you enjoy your trip 🤗

ooo I have The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making but never got round to reading it, that could work for the long title one haha! I hope you enjoy Scotland and Ireland, I've never been to either which is terrible really as an englishman. T-Rex have some great songs.

I love Café Tacvba! "En el metro", "Eres", "Tengo todo", ... Such a great rock band.🎸 P.S. Have a wonderful time in Ireland and Scotland!🧡

Bahaha I love food descriptions in books with medieval-ish settings too 🤣😅❤️. They always make me want to eat really plain foods as if they're suddenly wildly exotic - like plain crackers with slices of cheese or something 😅. Ooh your Scotland/Ireland trip sounds fab!! Hope it's amazing!

Wow! What a huge list of reading for September! Thank you for the shoutout for "Framed! in September", your enthusiasm is infectious. What a perfect crossover with historathon. I'm sorry that you have such difficulties with travelling, I can understand you feeling frustrated. I hope that it all comes together well for you.

I just read “Bisclavret” by Marie de France. It was quite good fun 💜

"Verso alejandrino" (named for the "Libro de Aleixandre" epic poem), the verse of Spanish epic poetry!🧡P.S. "Cantiga" #1 (de Sta. Maria) on TH-cam: watch?v=M15c2ISsbA4

Oh I read Rest is Resistance - didnt know there were cards too! Love your TBR! I've actually never watched The Titanic! 😬 Siân

I love Shaun Tan's art!

I’m so excited to see what shorties you pick up on your trip!

I don’t remember food descriptions in The Gallant, but I’m so intrigued by what you shared about Medieval food descriptions! Unless it’s Martin’s food descriptions, most Medieval ones I’ve come across have been dark, stale bread and hard cheese. And yes, ale to soften the bread. Usually characters are hungry enough that it may as well be a gourmet meal. 😂

I’m so excited to read Mio Cid!

I loved hearing your interpretations! This is a really neat practice, one I will have to pick up next time I go on a trip. I always feel that I pick the "wrong" one - but I think that's because I change decks like... every day. 😅 I read Tarot on Tarot similarly! The scenic deck goes on top, pips on bottom to contextualize the reading. I struggle with Wildwood. It's SO stunning, but I got tired of it by the end of the Year in the Wildwood journey. I'm hoping it'll get more play in winter. Giving it time to see if it wants to be worked with then. ❤ Thanks for sharing!

Yesss loved. Great choice. The last one was so good too. Love my trimmed John Bauer as well. .when is the trip?

Yes anatomy oracle video!!! and before the interviews my vote is capsule one… let’s goooo

Does the Mystical Moments Tarot have a miniature deck? (Ceccioli does) For Oracle, I like the Spirit Animals miniature deck (comes in a metal tin) by Coletter Baron-Reid. Please do more tarot videos! I love your BookTube content too.🧡 P.S. Don't forget to visit The Wyrd Shop in Edinburgh! (154 Canongate, Edinburgh EH8 8DD, UK)

Now I have to watch those shorty September video! 💜

You have excellent taste in decks!!! You listed so many that have been on my list for a long time. I totally get what you mean by decks with pips but an illustration in the middle throw you off. I feel that way about the Golen Tsar Tarot, so I end up usually the deck more for intuitive practice than for readings. I love pips so in theory, it should work, but I guess the lack of commitment either way gets to me! You showed a couple of mini Mariselle that I'm really interested in. It's always been a part of my fantasy self to carry a gorgeous mini deck of Marseille on me at times, ready for readings whenever. 💖 I only have two Mariseilles, CBD and Squidcake, and this video has me itching for Edoardo Dotti so badly!!! I very much enjoyed this video. I hope you have a fabulous trip! 😊

Stoked for part two. I think you could take playing cards for vibes! maybe take a deck that you want to hold the special meaning of the trip forever?

yay! i love when you do tarot videos. everytime you show that cat deck it makes me so happy :) - El oráculo del gato!

I’m so excited for framed in September but now you’re making me want to take part in shorty September too. I’ve never participated before. I’m so looking forward to your tbrs! I’m onto Batallas en el Desierto, I love short fiction. I love your idea to use or show your tarot cards in a video and I love art and art history too! I’m sorry about all the health related inconveniences and worries you have to deal with. I hope you’re able to enjoy your trip in other ways. I’ve never been to Ireland, hope to someday, but I went to Edinburgh last year and it was so gorgeous. I understand your disappointment at not being able to film videos while you’re away on your trip. I find myself sometimes hoping I don’t have anything come up on the weekend so I can work on videos too 🙈 for fun! Especially during a fun readathon!

Oh gosh i SO enjoyed this! Thank you for being such a supporter of Shorty September ✨🩳 I love the sound of Battles In The Desert, looks tricky to find here at the moment but I will have a hunt for it! Lots of love, Bert x

Hi Mariana. I find September is a really busy work month, with lots of weekend and late ight working for me. So if you shift some of your Shorty September into October I will get to read along with some short books this year and I'll (partially) participate for the first time. What a great idea to postpone but still join-in. I hope your holiday has some surprising and enriching experiences, to reward you for the extra challenges involved with travel.

thanks for this, really wanna know more about the middle bit in the venn diagram of conquistador invasion and literature ~ will check out the rec video =)

Thank you so much for making such a well thought out and informative recommendations video Mariana! I really appreciate how you decided to structure and analyze everything you wanted to share, it’s super helpful. I ended up learning so much about certain qualities and criteria to look for when reading about history and assessing historians’ writing! I think I'll start with Conquistadors and Aztecs and go from there. All the books you talked about sound interesting and worthwhile in different ways based on your assessments, which will be helpful to keep in mind while reading them.

Oh, this is so much fun! I love this idea and can't wait to see more ideas from you!

Indigenous Science and Technology looks cool. And kind of glad I'm not the only one who has been having disappointing medieval books. Great vid

Malintzin does sound like a badass, I bet someone could write a great historical fiction from her perspective.

Oooo I loved this! I had Fifth Sun and Conquistador by Buddy Levy on my TBR but it kinda sounds like I should start with Conquistadors and Aztecs!

Great video!

"This is just for fun. No one is going to make you marry your fictional crush. The people who have fictional crushes know that these characters aren't real. We know that you can't physically marry them." But do we, Mariana? Do we really? Stop harshing our collective mellow.😅Loved the tag!

I'm so glad you made this because I'm really interested in this subject since The Rest Is History did their series on it, they have a great respect for Restall but I think they said that his utter hatred of Cortés clouds it a bit if I remember correctly. They really liked Fifth Sun but the author was a guest host so they are friends. The Rinke might be what I'm after!

I'm so glad you enjoyed Tu sueño so much. It's one of my best books of the year, too. It seems like Muerte súbita is available from Germany again, so I'll try to get my hands on a copy. It was actually the first book of his that I ever had on my radar. It sounds even weirder than I was aware of, though. 😅

Cortezuma! Why is that such a good ship name lol, sorry. Thank you for the shoutout! It makes me happy to know I motivated you to get to Cartucho! You’re the reason I picked it up :) How you described looking to historical fiction to place you into the setting is what I love most about historical fiction. And yes, some people prefer when the story is not about a historical figure or event so they’re not worried about accuracy. I really like history but I’m not a history buff so I don’t tend to have the issue of worrying about inaccuracies (and that taking me out of a story.) I do try to remain skeptical about accuracy to some extent and also try to find trustworthy authors, like you said. I didn’t know the current english translation of Cartucho is considered to be bad but that makes sense because the language is very regional and probably tricky to translate well. I hope an indie press picks it up too. Charco Press please! Nellie Campobello sounds fascinating, there should be a book about her and Muerte Súbita sounds hilarious!

I need that Kelly Bishop memoir so bad!!! Gilmore Girls is still the best TV show.

Such a good video! Ive added the Rinke book to my TBR! Have you read/do you have any thoughts on Conquistadores by Fernando Cervantes? I have this in my goodreads tbr, but im always weary of the perspective i may encounter in books like this..

Good list. My favorite being: When Moctezuma met Cortes by Matthew Restall. Excellent book. More than just facts it gives you a good perspective on flawed spanish thinking when they wrote their chronicles. Must read before reading anything else. Most other books use spanish chronicles as their main source. Knowing how distorted those accounts are is important. Runners up: Guns, germs and steel, and 1491, 1493.

Where in Empire of Silence does Hadrian change his opinion for "cool things to happen"? Did we read the same book? It is purely character driven where Hadrian's decisions drive the plot and not the other way around.

That cover with the tarot card reference is great! I’ve put _You Dreamed of Empires_ on hold - there’s a long queue ahead of me at the library - because the premise sounds interesting, and the historical research behind it awesome. (I’ll decide to read it or not after I’ve had the chance to give it a glance.)

Well I'm looking up Alvaro Enrigue!

You Dreamed of Empires sounds so interesting! I've added it to my TBR!🤓 Also that was an elegant review of Empire of Silence. I have a feeling if/when I try to review it on my channel it's going to turn into a ran. 😅 And I love that you figured out a way to make two separate midyear freakout tags. 😂

Excellent job, Mariana! I love the part about the Spanish being among the first generation of avid readers. I wonder how much human sacrifice played a role in Cortes gaining local allies. My understanding is that the Aztecs had really increased the rate of sacrifices and I assume the victims had to be pulled from the Aztec’s conquered tributary civilizations.

Well done Mariana, great video and storytelling. Definitely need to look up some of the tangents such as the story of Cortes seedlings his way to a command position.

Wow, this was so fascinating. Thank you so much for making this video and sharing your insights Mariana! I’m excited for part 2!

This video is awesome! I can't wait for part 2...and for the book recommendations, of course!