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Liz_M
Human Matter: A Fiction | Rodrigo Rey Rosa
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A novel based on real events, written in a non-fictional manner. It begins as a journalist‘s research notes from a visit to a newly surfaced archive of secret police records. But as the narrator digs deeper into the files, his access is denied and it becomes a journal of his continued investigations, leading to the discovery related to a traumatic event suffered by his mother. I didn‘t get the revelation, because I didn‘t pay attention the names.

Liz_M 3⭐ #Guatemala

Someone would not let me take a picture without him in it. #Bert #CatsofLitsy
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Ruthiella 😹😹😹 1mo
dabbe 🖤🐾🖤 1mo
Leftcoastzen 😂😸👏 1mo
BkClubCare Cool pic 📸 🐈‍⬛ 7d
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Dilara
Les sourds: roman | Rodrigo Rey Rosa
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Crime and disappearances in #Guatemala, a country where corruption is rife and income disparities are breathtaking. I have read the first 2/3 of this novel by one of the best-known contemporary Guatemalan authors, and am loving it so far.

Photo of lake Atitlán (which features in the story) by FerociousFlaherty via wikimedia

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Singout
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Highly recommended: captures the courage and terror of people fleeing through #Mexico from #Guatemala, #ElSalvador, and #Honduras in the hope of a safer life in the U.S. Centred on “The Beast,“ a train to which people cling in any way possible through Mexico. Martinez does a fabulous job of interviewing people from various backgrounds and at all stages of the journey. #ReadingtheAmericas2023 #Nonfiction2023 #StillHaventfoundwhatI'mLookingFor

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Daisey
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Although I still have some reading to do this week, I think I‘ve finished all I‘m going to fit in for #ReadingTheAmericas2023. I completed at least 15 books and experienced more countries through them. 7 of these books are also on the #1001books list. This challenge was a great way to continue to broaden my reading, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

#ReadingTheWorld #ReadTheWorld #2023Stats

BarbaraBB Wow, well done and such a great graphic! 3mo
Librarybelle Awesome! Thanks so much for joining us this year! 3mo
Daisey @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle Thank you both so much for hosting these. They‘ve been a fun and interesting way to add more variety to my reading! 3mo
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Chelsea.Poole
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Mehso-so

Brooklyn, present day, a snowstorm brings three people together who‘ve each had struggles. Their pasts are remembered in alternating chapters and locations/times. A Guatemalan woman who has immigrated to the US becomes a guardian of a teenager with cerebral palsy, a Chilean woman and English professor become housemates all under tragic circumstances. The present chapters feature a bit of a mystery for the reader to figure out. I was underwhelmed.

IuliaC I felt the same. Not one of her best novels 3mo
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Andrew65
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Not my normal type of book but I read this for #Guatemala for #ReadingTheAmericas2023 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Despite this I did enjoy this book that told the story of Father Stanley Rother who was murdered in Guatemala in 1981, having been in Guatemala since 1968. In 2017 he was made into a Saint. A remarkable man, who was warned, and given option to leave, on the day he was murdered but refused to.

Andrew65 25th book finished in November #Rushathon @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses
10th and final book finished for #NovelNovember
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Andrew65 Available free to download if you are an Audible subscriber. 4mo
Librarybelle Hooray!! 4mo
BarbaraBB He sounds like a brave man 4mo
AnnCrystal 🙏💝. 4mo
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Andrew65
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An update on my #ReadingTheAmericas2023 Challenge.

Still got :
5 South American Countries to get
4 Central American Countries (reading a Panama book at the moment)
And quite a few islands!

Thanks to @BarbaraBB @Librarybelle for hosting these great challenges and setting them up on StoryGraph which is a good way to track them.

Librarybelle Great progress! 4mo
AnnR 👍🌎 4mo
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BarbaraBB So impressive!! 4mo
Andrew65 @GinaKButler Thanks for the book suggestion, I will check it out. 4mo
kspenmoll Amazing!!! 4mo
TheSpineView Are you up again for helping me cohost SeriesLove2024? 4mo
Andrew65 @TheSpineView Most definitely, been one of the highlights of 2023 😁 4mo
TheSpineView @Andrew65 Yes! Love all these new series! If it works for you, I'll get a graphic together and post in the next couple of days. 4mo
Andrew65 @TheSpineView That‘s great as I‘m not very creative with graphics! 4mo
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BarbaraBB
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I enjoyed reading about Levison Wood walking across Central America. I recognized many places from when I traveled those countries myself in the 90s (by bus, not walking 😉). The book is more about the traveling than the visited places though.

Ticking off many prompts for #ReadingTheAmericas23: #Mexico #Belize #Guatemala #Honduras #CostaRica #Panama #Colombia 🇲🇽 🇧🇿 🇬🇹 🇭🇳 🇨🇷 🇵🇦 🇨🇴

(Photo: Serralunga, Piemonte, Italy)

Librarybelle I like the cover of this edition! 6mo
Megabooks I found the part in the Darien Gap really interesting! 6mo
BarbaraBB @Megabooks Yes! But also Honduras and Guatemala! 6mo
Simona What a view❣️🥂 6mo
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Graywacke
The Polish Boxer | Eduardo Halfon
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A moment in my San Francisco hotel room after dropping my daughter off at college.

I finished this on the plane here and loved it. Literature and life and a dizzying kaleidoscope of cultural clashes and mishmashes. And many beautifully quirky lines. Halfon is a Jewish-born Guatemalan grandson of a Polish Holocaust survivor and writes about himself fictionally or metafictionally, occasionally holding the seams up for us to see.

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Texreader
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While I admired Teddy Roosevelt after reading The River of Doubt, I‘m pretty ticked off with him for his aggression in Central America. Of course the Panama Canal is vital for many reasons, not least of which its value to Panama, but to take the land by force and Roosevelt‘s aggressive Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine are reprehensible. #readingtheAmericas #Belize
#CostaRica
#ElSalvador
#Guatemala
#Honduras
#Nicaragua
#Panama

Eggs Agreed 7mo
Susanita Now the canal is backlogged due to drought 😕 7mo
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