1) HAHA OMG AWESOME. I have this Che biography with a picture of him playing baseball. Baseball is huuuuge in Cuba; we watched a documentary thing on it in highschool spanish. When the US and Cuba stopped letting people travel between the countries baseball players had to decide whether they were going to stay in the states forever and bring their families, or play in Cuba. it was sad!
3) I hear The Book Thief does that. never read it. Also totally try out Terry Pratchett; Good Omens is hilarious and though Death is not the main character he is an important one. obviously. :)) Also Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novel series! They are AWESOME plus Death is Dream's cool big sister :D
1) Oh wow, that is really sad. Could you write me fic about a world with Castro as a baseball player and everything that would mean for history? Because that would be the coolest thing ever.
3) Book Thief is amazing! You should read it like yesterday. Actually it's what made me want more of that kind of thing. I've looked for Terry Pratchet in three used bookstores and a library, but I can't find the first book in the series anywhere. I'll check out Sandman, though. Thanks so much!
"Castro hits it way into left field!" La pego a la izquierda!Fidel isn't known as Fidel here. Fidel is known as CASTRO, number 16, who is getting slower at running the bases but can still hit a pretty good one
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This is awesome, thank you! But so sad. he's got everything he ever wanted, except Cuba.. I love this, but at the same time I hate it for making me cry. And then the end is just heartbreaking.
It's funny, I've done two internal assessments on Castro, but I've mostly just thought about him as a subject to study, not so much as a person with hopes and dreams that are his own and not his entire country's. So this is an entirely new paradigm for me, and that's awesome.
Ooh, ooh, book rec! The Vulnerable Observer, by Ruth Behar. It's about the painful experience of participant-observer anthropology and how it's impossible to remain entirely objective. She refers to her time growing up as a Jewish Cuban in America and the sense of loss that she could never really go back home.
I made stuff up obviously. Like, the US wasn't selling weapons to the Batista regime because they kinda wanted it overthrown. And Fidel really was committed to the revolution, like so committed to a free Cuba.
That book sounds really neat!
I am here for one more week! I leave sunday the 14th. :(((((
3) I hear The Book Thief does that. never read it. Also totally try out Terry Pratchett; Good Omens is hilarious and though Death is not the main character he is an important one. obviously. :)) Also Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novel series! They are AWESOME plus Death is Dream's cool big sister :D
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3) Book Thief is amazing! You should read it like yesterday. Actually it's what made me want more of that kind of thing. I've looked for Terry Pratchet in three used bookstores and a library, but I can't find the first book in the series anywhere. I'll check out Sandman, though. Thanks so much!
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"Castro hits it way into left field!"
La pego a la izquierda!Fidel isn't known as Fidel here. Fidel is known as CASTRO, number 16, who is getting slower at running the bases but can still hit a pretty good one ( ... )
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It's funny, I've done two internal assessments on Castro, but I've mostly just thought about him as a subject to study, not so much as a person with hopes and dreams that are his own and not his entire country's. So this is an entirely new paradigm for me, and that's awesome.
Ooh, ooh, book rec! The Vulnerable Observer, by Ruth Behar. It's about the painful experience of participant-observer anthropology and how it's impossible to remain entirely objective. She refers to her time growing up as a Jewish Cuban in America and the sense of loss that she could never really go back home.
How long are you still in Mexico, by the way?
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That book sounds really neat!
I am here for one more week! I leave sunday the 14th. :(((((
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