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Little Free Library haul tonight

#bookhaul from my outing with @Rissreads today 📚❤️🙏

I read this book for a book club and boy was I disappointed! I was excited by the plot, a dual story of immigration and tales of the Apache. But, I only finished it because I needed to. The moms‘s POV was heartbreaking and left me feeling hopeless. The boys part of the book offered a refreshing perspective. However, the lesson I took away from it was that no matter how hard you try to change your situation you can‘t.
My Review: ⭐️✨(1.5/5)

This was an interesting story about a family traveling across country. The father is looking for sounds of the Apaches. The mother is looking for information on refugee children from Mexico. The kids are there for the ride since it is summer. It was slow at first, but it became interesting as there was explanation of the contents of the boxes that they had.

In “Archive,” remembering those lost to history (the Apaches) or the present (refugees) is a noble effort. When you dedicate your life to archiving, however, you inevitably leave others behind and unrecorded. Two documentarians tear up their old lives and bring their kids (and us) on a long, pretty dull car ride, made worse when you see the selfishness of the effort, and how commemoration of some makes others disappear.

Day 19 #DNF not sure why, I was interested in the sound collection idea but....
#FallTreasures
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

I didn't finish this but I remember their project capturing New York soundscapes.
July 18 Listening Day - I had to google this interesting concept.
#JulyJourneys
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

https://apple.news/AVQmFzHDbTRq5Iyw7o282DA

Reminder: November‘s country is Mexico for #foodandlit

This books is not the most exciting book.
All I learned is this lady and her husband like to read and never wanted children even though they have got 2! Not the best book I was bored a lot.
#AxeTheStacks @howjessicareads

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Failing marriage meets road trip with planned study of the Apache (Pa) and refugee children (Ma) thrown in for pathos. In another year, I may have loved this, but I found their reluctance to face truth tiresome.

The writing is, however, beautiful.

Ma, Pa, the boy, and the girl drive from New York to the southwest, in search of the history of the Apaches. They listen, talk, and record their journey. They reflect on the children trying to cross into the U.S., separated from their families, lost. A deeply emotional story. The audiobook production is stunning and made me very curious what this is like in print. Second 5⭐ read of the year.

I read this way back in July this year. It's a great piece of writing that I could never quite put my finger on.

Overwhelmingly depressing; not just because of the terrible situation of the children at the border, but the parallel story is just as sad. It's a story firmly in the present as everything falls to pieces. The lack of a future for the children and the family is what got me.

I'm a little frustrated by something and I'll take it out on Litsy. I'm currently reading the tagged book in Spanish and at the beginning I was frustrated that it had very little to do with the immigration crisis. When I expressed this to my book club they recommended American Dirt. It comes up at EVERY meeting. It's driving me BSC. There are so many other, better books about the border. See link in comments.

I'm finding large portions of the book utterly pointless and boring. Yes, Ms. Luiselli, I get it. You are a VERY SMART WRITER. Must you name drop and philosophize so much? My poor little pea brain can't deal with your word salad.

Probably an #unpopularopinion.

Just getting started with THE LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE. The writing is gorgeous and slows you down reading to take in each sentence. Looking forward to digging into it more this weekend!

“He said kids in this country were usually not allowed to taste wine, said their taste buds were completely ruined by puritanism, chicken fingers, ketchup, and peanut butter. “

...how our rational, linear, organized world dissolves into the chaos of children‘s words.

... all those books and stories devoted to adult-less children ... are nothing but desperate attempts by adults to come to terms with childhood. That although they seem to be stories about children‘s worlds—worlds without adults—they are in fact stories about an adult‘s world when there are children in it, about the way that children‘s imaginations destabilize our adult sense of reality and force us to question the very grounds of that reality.

“I read those first lines once, then twice—both times getting a little lost in the words and syntax.”

One thing this book reminds me of is the permanence of print, that I don‘t need to rush through the words and worry about time, worry whether I‘m being careful and getting it all right. That I can stumble across them and later come back again and stumble across them in a different way. They‘ll remember what they said.

“The inventory of echoes was not a collection of sounds that have been lost —such a thing would in fact be impossible —but rather one of the sounds that were present in the time of recording and that, when we listen to them, remind us of the ones that are lost.”

No one decides to not go to work and start a hunger strike after listening to the radio in the morning.

Best I can do today - Mexico edition! The Story of My Teeth is still on the TBR! I think my TBR will grow significantly with this week's prompt!

#integrateyourshelf @ChasingOm @Emilymdxn

I can‘t help but be irritated by these people being so stuck in history that they fail to acknowledge modern settlements. These places need some acknowledgment. Sounds like they‘re out near modern Sunizona. #cochisecounty

Wow this was intense. So beautifully written and so smart. Unforgettable. The intermingling of the refugee children and these children “The Boy” and “The Girl” aka Swift Feather and Memphis. Just lovely and a book I may actually read again.

This book is not what I expected. It is the story of a marriage across its arc with a side story on migration that could have been removed entirely and not changed the book much. The way it is talked about, I expected a full-on migration story. I liked parts of this quite a bit but found other parts unnecessary, distracting, or seemingly pointless. It‘s a little odd.

Another review I read said this book rides a line between fiction and nonfiction, and I think that‘s accurate.

Much of the story is about a crumbling marriage, both partners knowing things are falling apart and being unsure if what they have is worth saving. There are two children as well, and the older one‘s point of view is also taken into consideration.
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I didn‘t think I loved this, although now I‘ve finished it I can‘t stop thinking about it, so maybe I did after all! The writing is really beautiful, but the story wasn‘t there for me and I always struggle with that. The final third, however, felt almost like a different book and won me over, so much so that it might be one for a reread one day, when I‘m not feeling so impatient. I‘m glad I read it.

#7days7books Day 7

Seven books that left a deep impression on me and changed me.

One of my favorite books ever and favorite audiobooks ever. I was too lost in the book to notice if it changed me, but I hope it did.

Thanks, once more, for the tag @batsy
@greenreads - want to play?

Only Q9.99 on Kindle today. Not an easy subject matter, but I loved this book, and I know a lot of other Littens do too....

#TOB2020

I am so glad to see LCA back in the tournament thanks up the zombie votes. I‘m sure it won‘t give away this well-deserved position and we‘ll see it back in tomorrow‘s Finals, don‘t you think?

#booked2020 #winter

#millennialauthor #lostchildrenarchive
#hatorheadcoveringonthecover #themanwhomistookhiswifeforahat
#liveandlearnsubjectmostlynewtoyou #badpharma
#SetinHollywood #theblackdahlia
#covercrush #oscarwildeandthedeadmanssmile
#finishinaday #fivedarkfates

It's easier to say that the middle books in both rows were my least favourite of the ones I read - all the rest are 5 🌟

@Cinfhen @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

5 🌟

Loved this - I enjoyed the relationship between boy and the girl and was close to tears at the end.

#millennialauthor for #booked2020 & completes January to March's prompts - update coming shortly! @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage @4thhouseontheleft

4th virtual book for #MarchUnshelfing @Clwojick

#chaos section in my #currentread #magnificentmarch @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @OriginalCyn620

I did have tickets to see this awards ceremony live at the British Library - watched it on Twitter instead! My favourite won(which seldom happens!).

#weeklyforecast @Cinfhen

I hope to complete these two this week.

#lostchildrenarchive will complete #winter for #booked2020 #millennialauthor @4thhouseontheleft @BarbaraTheBibliophage

#mythos was my #doublespin number @TheAromaofBooks

#bookreport week 21/3/20 @Cinfhen

Finished
🥇 The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
🥇 When the Doves Disappeared

Made progress on
🥈 The Daughter of Time

Started
🥉 Lost Children Archive

Reading Envy Podcast Episode 183: Birthing Rabbits with Jessica (ToB2020) @thebluestocking

Ready your brackets, this is the only madness happening in March!⤵️

https://tinyurl.com/ReadingEnvy183

This book was a wild ride, it really was a surprising story, both in how the story was crafted and how each character develops and changes over the course of the story and how the Audiobook was crafted and delivered.

I would sorta suggest this book, with a strong understanding that it's slow in the beginning.

Reading through chapter 5, this whole story is really a wild ride for me, I at times felt frustrated, intrigued, inspired and disliked the narrator, but then in chapters 4 and 5 a younger narrator comes into the story and really gives the story more depth then what I found in the beginning. This chapter does a interesting transition between the main character and the secondary character while one speaks and the other takes over. Interesting.

I am now a member of Libro.fm :) wooo hoo!! Supporting Tattered Cover Bookstore in Denver CO!

I get two free books, which one should be my first Audiobook? Hmmm

So this is happening next weekend! Sign up for the #24In48 Social Distancing Readathon

Sign up here https://24in48.com/2020/03/12/24in48-the-social-distancing-edition/

I am really struggling to read cause of my new job, so if I am not working I'll be reading!

A good portion of the story seems to be around the narrators relationship with her family and her own desire to grow her own career without them and trying to decide to leave. It's not what I expected I thought there would be more focus on the crisis as the border.

This is my third author read to compliment American Dirt. Because of mixed reviews I opted to read critiques before diving in. I‘m glad I did. It helped me appreciate both story and writing. The second, and fascinating, POV begins in the last third. But that third was as good as it was because of the first POV. ... The migration story is really more of a background story to this book, but it worked.

What an interesting story so far, a family takes a road trip across the country (The U.S) as the situation on the southern boarder becomes a crisis with migrant children as they are taken into custody.

Hearing the story from the mother as they travel gives the story a nice depth both in terms of narration and the story it's self. It's a book that is very deep intellectually, and so far isn't a hand holder.

Good Morning Litsy, I am currently listening to this story for the #TOB2020 it's an interesting Audiobook, I am only into the first hour, but I can already understand why this book was suggested as a better option than American Dirt.

#Audiobook #TOB

All the ruins of early capitalism now engulfed by future ruins of later capitalism. #realtalk

The kid questions in this book are so astute and so sweet.

I've read mixed reviews about this.
The premis sounds like a road trip with a purpose and underlying theme.
I'm making a start...