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I‘m woefully behind on #ReadingTheAmericas2023 but have at least now completed #Cuba … one of the countries for which I had multiple options. The dual timeline worked for this story. Though I already knew much about the situation past and present, putting human faces to it was very touching.

My October #bookspin (trying again!)
1. We Measure the Earth with our Bodies
2. Olga Dies
3. Seeing Ghosts
4. Run Towards
5. Bad Girls
6. The Conductors
7. How The Garcia Girls
8. The Savage Detectives
9. The Sleeping Car Porter
10. Fresh Banana Leaves
11. A Small Place
12. Night Tiger
13. Rememberings
14. Nasty Brutish
15. Book of Goose
16. Migrations
17. Pure Colour
18. Wild Tongues Can‘t Be Tamed
19. Magdalena
20. Bandit Queens

The Pros: explores a setting & events & POV I was unfamiliar with (and should), in verse which is appealing to me. The Cons: if there weren‘t section breaks for the different wars, I would not have realized time was passing (maybe that‘s on purpose?) and I felt that Lt Death was unresolved. I still wondered if he would pop up again in the end. Still, glad to read it and would recommend. Newbery Honor, Pura Belpre Award Winner

So this one just didn‘t do much for me. I like a good historical novel that you actually learn something from but this story just kind of dragged on for me with a little too much detail. It took about 2 months to read and I just kinda left it on the back burner for in between books. I saw there is a spin off from this book from another perspective..I think one perspective was enough 🤨

So two of these are repeats because I didn‘t finish them and my book order got switched around by add-ons…oops!! # 60- Love and Ruin, # 76- All the King‘s Men, and # 83- Memoirs of a Geisha!!

My second time trying this one, just lost momentum the last time I tried to read it. I loved Next Year in Havana, so I‘m sure I‘ll enjoy this too.

Written in verse, this is the biography of Juan Francisco Manzano, who, despite his tragic life, found hope in poetry, art, and nature. For author Engle, the overarching concepts are the evils of censorship within or without the scourge of slavery.

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Newbery Honor HF in verse-setting: 1890s in Cuba 🇨🇺. Cuba has fought three wars for independence and still is not free. People have been rounded up in reconcentration camps with too little food and too much illness. Rosa is a nurse, but she dares not go to the camps. So she turns hidden caves into hospitals for those who know how to find her.

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I appreciated the idea of what the author was trying to do, but the story lagged in some parts, and I just wanted to get to the points sooner!