6/30/2023 0 Comments Book review next year in havanaWhen you listen to a book, especially one that is 11 hours long, you need the voices to be pleasing, which was the case here. The audiobook is narrated by Kyla Garcia and Frankie Maria Corzo…at least that’s what it says on the Audible page, but I did not realize there were 2 narrators until now. I’ll start by talking a bit about my experience listening to it, as I think impacted my opinion of the book. I didn’t know what to expect from Next Year in Havana…I had never heard of the author Chanel Cleeton and honestly, the only things that were appealing to me were the attractive cover and the fact that it was about Cuba.īut if there’s one thing I love most about reading is being surprised. Next Year in Havana was also featured in Reese’s Book Club, which was a good sign as I have not yet met a book I didn’t like from Reese Witherspoon’s book list. I was looking for something to listen to on Audible and saw that this one was free. I picked up this book without much thought. Well, definitely don’t read this if you are not ready to pack your bags and fly to Cuba!
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Paris is a moveable feastHe wrote about socioeconomic status in prose that was, at least next to Hemingway’s, often lyrical and adorned, and most would readily agree that he’s the more effeminate of the two. Fitzgerald, on the other hand, we know as a social striver, someone who prided himself on his budding elitism and his (incomplete) Princeton education, who was known to have his pocket square and his hair-part always just right. Hemingway, we’re told, epitomizes a certain archetypal masculinity he presented himself as a hunter, a boxer, a war veteran, and a ladies’ man accordingly, he wrote in a spare, economical style, mostly about war, solitude, and adventure. Scott Fitzgerald-and why not? As contemporaries and rivals, the two make natural foils for each other. History tends to compare Ernest Hemingway and F. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Area 51 books robert dohertyTo stop the aliens - at least until the Pandora's box of Area 51 opens up again. An unemployed freelance journalist receives an audio tape that. JUST A FEW SCIENTISTS AND MILITARY PERSONNEL DO, AND THEY ARE ABOUT TO MAKE A VERY BIG MISTAKE. government established Area 51 to study the abandoned technology. THE MOST CHILLING EXPERIMENT OF ALL TIME IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. Now from the Great Wall of China to a top-secret facility beneath Antarctica's ice cap, an eclectic group of soldiers and scholars are working with Duncan and Turcotte to give humankind one last shimmering hope to survive. spine creasing, edge wear When nine atmospheric crafts of unknown origin were discovered in the Antarctic in the late 1940s, the U.S. Them? The aliens who are part of a chilling conspiracy connected to ancient riddles, a covert government agency.and Area 51. Scientist Lisa Duncan and Special Forces Officer Mike Turcotte suspect this new "Black Death" is actually a biological weapon in an escalating war between us.and "them". They can't stop it from exploding into a worldwide epidemic poised to kill us all. And in nearby villages people are screaming in pain as they die from a virus more deadly than Ebola. Hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest is a place shrouded in mystery. From New York Times best-selling author Bob Mayer writing as Robert Doherty: Now we know what the government hid there. 6/30/2023 0 Comments Lady in waiting princess margaretSo, writes Anne, Margaret accompanied Glenconner's husband Colin to pick Lewllyn up at the train station. When Princess Margaret heard who was joining them, she "was intrigued because she knew Roddy's father," an Olympic medalist in equestrian sports. And so Llewellyn made his way to Edinburgh. "Young and available, although we'd never met him, Roddy fitted the bill," Glenconner writes. During her visit, there were plans for a large dinner party, but per Glenconner, a friend had to cancel last-minute, leaving the guest list one short.Ī quick phone call was placed to a relative well versed in who might be a fit to round out the group, and Llewellyn received a invitation to the fête. But according to Glenconner's new memoir Lady in Waiting, in real life, things happened a little differently than they did on-screen.ĭuring the summer of 1973, Princess Margaret was indeed heading to the Glen, the Glenconners' home in southern Scotland. |