Currently reading
The 5th Wave
14
The Light Between Oceans: A Novel
The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do To Get More of It
Clockwork Princess
The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness
Love Medicine
Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition
Telex from Cuba: A Novel
This novel is set in Cuba before Castro's revolution. It focuses mainly on the lives of Americans who are exploiting the Cubans through the sugar, nickel and fruit industries. On the positive side, this book reminded me how cut off we are from Cuba and how we really do not learn anything about this country, even though we played a very big part in its history. Although the book is fiction, many real people are minor characters in this story including Castro, Bautista, Prijo as well as Hemingway and American politicians of the time. The writing is descriptive and there were many vignettes that I enjoyed. I found the book lacked an overall plot though. I think I would have liked it better if I read it with the mindset of just getting an overall feel to what life in Cuba was like at the time.
