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A nuanced look at a Mennonite community that is facing an impossible decision. Loosely based on real events, I was moved by the descriptions of the women as the decide their fate. The story is told from the POV of a male school teacher, which gives us the feeling of looking in from the outside. The story feels simple, but the result is a powerful look at the complicated relationships these women have built in their tight-knit group.

Anna and Faye rode their bikes 5500 miles from La Paz, Bolivia, through Chile to Ushuaia, Argentina, along the Andes Mountains. Their adventure took them from big cities to tiny rural outputs. Anna narrated the audio and described the people, animals, and landscape beautifully and didn't skip the problems that occurred along the way. This was a delightful story. #ReadingTheAmericas2023 #Bolivia #Chile @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

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The author, a Mennonite (or anabaptist), traveled via motorbike from his birthplace in #Canada to #Argentina stopping at Mennonite settlements along the way. First, a number of practices and beliefs are similar to how I was raised as a Baptist but I‘d never associated them with religion. That was very eye-opening. The author, now a very modern resident of Hong Kong, seemed hypercritical of the people he met and their ways. But eventually he ⬇️

A young woman backpacking through Bolivia decides to spend a month volunteering at a wildlife sanctuary in the jungle. Falling in love with the animals there changes her life. The descriptions of the personalities of the animals and daily life in the jungle were fantastic.

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Journalist Cameron Dueck decided to ride his motorcycle from Canada to Argentina to better understand his Mennonite roots. I had no idea there were so many Mennonite settlements across North and South America, and the stories of how they came to be were pretty interesting. They weren‘t all flattering either. #ReadingTheAmericas #FoodAndLit #Canada #Paraguay #Mexico #Bolivia #Argentina

Peter Allison was a former long-time African safari guide who despised his desk job. So he decided he needed to travel and admire wildlife in South America. First stop was to spend a month volunteering on an animal reserve. He chose to help tend Roy the puma. Sold as a cub, Roy‘d never be rewilded so to help keep him as wild as possible, a volunteer ropes himself to Roy and gives him the run of the jungle. It‘s absolutely brutal and he became ⬇️

I‘m in a hotel for a stressful meeting in the a.m. I‘m delivering news to a client with survey results about the workplace culture, which had a lot of bad news. I worried way too much until this afternoon when I realized there was a lot of positive news as well. So I made a list of all the great things the client is doing, and then we‘ll discuss ways to improve. I‘m reading loads tonight to try to destress. Here are my current reads. Wish me luck!

I‘m almost finished with this book and I don‘t want to miss an opportunity to share the author‘s humor. He‘s spending some nights alone in the Amazon, and to help him go to sleep he‘s listing all the things that could kill him. This description of the lethal snakes 🐍 is just great. The “Roy” he mentions is a Puma he volunteered to care for for a month when he first arrived in South America, and what a wild ride that was. #readingtheamericas