pickSitting on my shelf for about 4 years (a mere youngster), finally asked to be read, and it's really good. The story of several generations of Cuban women in Cuba and the US.
“Later I would see that I was wrong about Leidy, wrong to think I wouldn‘t need her and that being a mom herself hadn‘t changed her in a way that would help us deal with Mami. I was wrong to believe the stories we‘d been told about ourselves: that I was the only one bright enough and aware enough to have some kind of plan.”
Have the day off (yay!), but still had to wake up early to go to the dentist (boo!). At least I can now spend the rest of the day doing whatever I want - starting with a coconut butter latte and some reading 📖
pickI loved this 1958 satire poking fun at the British Secret Services.
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pickThe third and last book in the Coughli trilogy. Just as Joe, we start to wonder who is up to kill him and why. Can he (we?) trust the people around him (us)? I maybe should've skimmed through the previous novels to get allt he details, but the book is readable without deeper kowledge of the previous books. Loved Joe's son and wonder what happened to him after this book ends. Dark, bloody, and lots of trigger warnings. Mafia stuff, you know.
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Beatriz Perez has two goals with the same solution: she wants to work with the CIA to assassinate Fidel Castro. The novel follows Beatriz in the 1960s as she becomes deeper enmeshed in American politics and espionage.
