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My next audiobook is for #Palau, my second book for that country. #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

I stuck it out and was rewarded with the book just getting more and more depressing! All the different groups fighting for different things never stopped confusing me. Yet I did learn a lot and I don't know if I can say I'm sorry I read it. Just don't expect it to be anything like The Sparrow. Unfortunately some of her characters come off cheesy rather than profound and moving in this book.

Started this as an audiobook because I needed something for my drive. Finished it yesterday morning in print. Pretty good for an author‘s first attempt at historical mystery. Well contextualized historical details but I guessed the murderer super early on so it wasn‘t very complex. Appreciated the references to mystery writers and books sprinkled throughout. I‘d give it a 3.5/5

“Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they are forced to live.” Louis Zamperini

#Unbroken

#PoetryMatters

@TheSpineView

The story of Louis Zamperini is amazing and humbling.

I‘ve enjoyed listening to this book, but it didn‘t quite live up to my expectations. There is a fascinating story here of the horses‘ movement and survival throughout the war as well as the people that kept them safe. However, I wanted more about the ones that remained in Europe along with the ones that came to the U.S. after.

📷: Photos from recent walks as I listened.

#audiobook #audiowalk #nonfiction #WWII

This is a pick because the writing was good, and I wanted to see how everything would tie together. I also appreciated learning about an area I do not know a lot about. I did feel like the ending was rushed. The whole book was a slow build, which I enjoyed, and then the end just went pretty rapidly for me.

“Wind rises up and fades away, but a river flows endlessly. And our suffering? This too shall pass. The
wind is not a river.”

WWII: When John‘s plane is shot down over the Aleutian Islands, he survives only to find himself exposed to a harsh and unforgiving wilderness, known as “the birthplace of winds.”

#AirportOrPlane

#StorySettings

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My #FriendsPick and #ClassicCountdown for the month of May

1- ✅

2- A random selection from Mt TBR 😃

#two4tuesday @TheSpineView

#SpringSkies

For today‘s #2BksWSimilarTitle we‘ll start with the top 2 books with the same title. The tagged one is about a Paris apartment full of hidden treasure as are the bottom 3 books. A lot of these came out after the Paris apartment that was shut up for 70 years was discovered. I read The Paris Secret & Paris Time Capsule & always get them confused!