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Up next on audio 🎧 (I checked out a hard copy to see maps/photos/etc.)

My first by this author…looking forward to it!

I am posting one book per day from my extensive, and ever growing, TBR shelves. Some are new and some are old, some were gifts and some I don't even remember why I bought them.
Day 17
#ABookADay2024

First review in a long time. I finally finished this trilogy! It was a really insightful look into the life of an incredibly interesting man who died too soon. Highly recommend if you're interested in Teddy. I will admit it did drag a bit at the end.

#nonfiction #history

This is a fascinating book about the beginnings of the US Forest Service and our relationship with public lands. The scenes that describe the 1910 wildfire in Idaho are fast paced, and the background information about forestry is interesting.

108/150 It is easy to get swept up in this amazing adventure and grueling struggle for Survival. After losing the presidential election of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt decided to join an expedition to explore part of the Amazon known as the River of Doubt. Looking back with 20/20 hindsight, the expedition was ill-conceived, ill-equipped and hopelessly optimistic about their voyage. What was planned as a pleasant jaunt ⬇️

I am a part of everything I have read.

The tagged book really was that good. It wins its bracket. #readingbracket2023

#two4tuesday Thank you @TheSpineView for the tag!

1) tagged
2) I learned so much about Roosevelt, South America, Brazil, the Amazon—& the book read like a thriller. It was excellent.

Initially I had mixed feelings about Roosevelt, as he was unable to accept he lost the election & he ran again with an oversized ego, and pouted when he lost again. But it turns out, he was brave and selfless, in endless quantities. He and native Brazilian Rondon set out to map a lengthy deadly uncharted Amazon river, one that promised danger and treachery. This book reads like a thriller of the highest order. #Brazil #readingtheamericas

My next audiobook. #readingtheAmericas2023 #Brazil @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB