another harsh and interesting year is over and i find myself, yet again, feeling sorry for not reading as much as i could have. so, 2016 means the following books and articles:

1. Maya Socolovsky, Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belongings

2. Ellen McCracken, New Latina Narrative. The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity

3. Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood

4. Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez (ed), Women Writing Resistance. Essays on Latin America and the Carribean

5. Cherrie Moraga, Giving Up the Ghost, Teatro in Two Acts (I am so happy to remember having read it in the Erlangen-Nurnberg train)

6. Cherrie Moraga, Loving in the War Years

7. Herta Muller, Încă de pe atunci vulpea era vînătorul

8. Martha Lorena Rubi, Politically Writing Women in Hispanic Literature. The Feminist Tradition in Contemporary Latin American and U.S. Latina Writers

9. Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from the Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

10. Maria-Cristina Ghiban (căs. Mocanu), The Female Subject in Chicano/a Literature, teză de doctorat, cond. științific Odette Blumenfeld, UAIC, Iași, iunie 2012

11. Alma Luz Villanueva, The Ultraviolet Sky

12. Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language (re-read it)

13. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

14. Nora Iuga, Sexagenara și tînărul

15. Jim Scrivener, Learning Teaching: The Essential Guide to English Language Teaching

16. Cecilia Ștefănescu, Intrarea Soarelui

17. Armando B. Rendon, Chicano Manifesto. The History and aspirations of the second largest minority in America

18. Cristian Tudor Popescu, Timp mort

19. Giannina Braschi, United States of Banana

20. Julia Kristeva, "Women's Time" (1981)

21. Norma Alarcon, "Traddutora, Traditora: A Paradigmatic Figure of Chicana Feminism"

22. Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (too much wishful thinking)

23. Sonia Saldivar-Hull, Feminism on the Border. Chicana Gender Politics and Literature

24. Maria Herrera-Sobek, Beyond Stereotypes. The Critical Analysis of Chicana Literature

25. Debra A. Castillo, Talking Back. Toward a Latin American Feminist Literature Criticism

26. Alma Luz Villanueva, Song of the Golden Scorpion

my greatest discovery for this year is Nora Iuga, whom i absolutely adore for her lively and strong writing. i am disappointed of Villanueva's Song of the Golden Scorpion, which is not necessarily a bad book, but i love Villanueva so much that my expectations are always high when it comes to her books. the worst book is of course Intrarea Soarelui. the biggest loss for this year is of recent date: the 30th of December marks the sudden death of the Puerto Rican writer Judith Ortiz Cofer, whose writings will always mark my life.