📚 Just Finished: Next Year In Havana 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺 (Book Club Selection) A tale of the Cuban Revolution, then & impact still. How oppressed, repressed generations were/are … in a country just 90 miles away. Reading about the regime was just depressing…the love story too. Meh. (Raphi 🐈 agreed, apparently).
Maybe your Book Club director has a cat too? Lol Raphi!
I can’t believe this cat…I’m hoping they make me pay a fine so I’m more careful about keeping the library’s books away from his sharp little fangs. It’s my fault!
Oh Raphi! What big teeth you have! 🐅
“I’m such a big boy I can eat books!” I love this painting!
Me too…I think it captures most kitty personalities purr-fectly. Raphi’s most definitely. 😹
Yep, it’s Fritz to a T. I’m not sure he dreams of the jungle but he definitely thinks he’s in charge of the house and me.
Fritz is right. And things are just as they should be. You’re in good paws. 🦁 🏡 (😘)
Guess I’ll give this one a pass. I was intrigued by the subject of the Cuban Revolution but your review gives me pause. Too many better books to read! 📚📚
It may just be me…I did learn a lot about Cuba that I didn’t know and really liked that aspect. I’m just so averse to things even remotely political these days. You might want to give it a try - honestly, my mood may have tainted it unfairly.
Went to Amazon, read a sample & decided no. So it’s not just you but may be just me. 😀 I got burned out long ago on a certain kind of book club read: family drama, family pain, forbidden/lost/conflicted love, set with a colorful backdrop of history which may not be particularly factual. Not for me.😬
The author’s bio is pretty impressive, which leaned me into thinking historical parts were likely close to factual. In any case, I do feel like I got something worthwhile out of it about Cuba, but the writing and obligatory current day conflicted love thing didn’t resonate with me at all. Onward! 📚
Es kommt zwar nicht oft vor, aber wenn mir ein Buch nicht gefällt oder zu stark emotional belastet,lese ich es nicht fertig. Du wirst es sicherlich in deiner Buch Club Runde diskutieren und daher in diesem Fall lesen müssen.
Es fällt mir schwer, etwas, das ich begonnen habe, nicht zu beenden, auch wenn es nicht gut ist. Wirklich eine schlechte Angewohnheit. Man sollte meinen, ich würde das an dieser Stelle lernen - manchmal gibt es wirklich keine erlösende Qualität oder eine Lektion, die es wert ist, gelernt zu werden.
