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Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela | William Neuman

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2✨ I DNF‘d this because I felt really lost. I was hoping for understanding in the topic, and man there was an information! It goes through several peoples real life events in interviews. I listened to this so it got very confusing very quickly. I can‘t say there was a timeline since there was a lot of different situations. I want to say it was mostly linear. I‘m going to research this a bit more and maybe try this again as a physical read.

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Roary47 #FoodandLit Venezuela 🇻🇪 7d

Texreader Yikes. I‘ve seen good reviews for it so I‘m glad to hear your opinion on it. 7d

Roary47 @Texreader Audio was just a bad idea for this one. There was a lot of info and it was hard to follow along with in this format. 7d

dabbe #hailthebail! #betterbooksahead 🤩🤩🤩 6d

Catsandbooks Aw too bad 🇻🇪 6d

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Maggie4483

Blue Label | Eduardo Sanchez Rugeles

#LaterPost for April‘s #FoodAndLit #Venezuela. Carne Mechada is a family favorite, but this was not my family‘s recipe. It probably would have been better if I had made some arepas and platanos, but I was too lazy. I may have to hit up my fave Venezuelan restaurant to get my fix. I‘m also struggling to get into this book.

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A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga: Stories | Julia Whitty

I‘ve really slowed down reading for the month of April with only 8 books finished. Six were for #foodandlit #Venezuela, 1 for #authoramonth (I wasn‘t inclined to read more by this author), and 1 for #readingOceania #Tonga (and completing that challenge for the year). I‘ve tagged my favorite book this month, oddly a book of short stories that I normally don‘t care for, but these were exceptional.

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Librarybelle Still a great reading month! 2w

Catsandbooks Awesome! 1w

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Jaguars and Electric Eels | Alexander von Humboldt

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I‘ve come to love nonfiction works from authors who‘ve trekked the world thanks to the #readingthecontinents challenges. So I couldn‘t miss this book written about the author‘s journey through #Venezuela from 1798-1804. He was a naturalist so he includes many in-depth descriptions of plants and animals, landscapes and people. He was obviously extremely knowledgeable and tough to deal with the harsh terrains of all sorts. He was sensitive to the ⬇️

Texreader plight of slaves, but less sensitive to some tribes he labeled lazy. But he was fair, too, identifying the good, the bad, the ugly, and the lovely (and sometimes the crazy) about all the people he encountered. One obviously native man insisted he was white and held himself out as so pretentious it was quite comical. Sometimes a bit boring, but overall this was a fascinating peak at a world far distant from our own. #foodandljt @Catsandbooks 2w

Catsandbooks ❤️👏🏼🇻🇪 1w

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Jaguars and Electric Eels | Alexander von Humboldt

Ugh! He described the mosquitos being so thick he couldn‘t see the horizon to take location measurements. Their faces and hands would swell from the biting and poking insects. Just miserable.

#Venezuela #foodandlit @Catsandbooks

Catsandbooks Well that sounds horrible! 2w

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The Deserter: A Novel | Nelson DeMille, Alex DeMille

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#Venezuela is a very bad place to be for Americans, if this book is to be believed. Based on my other readings about the country, sadly I do believe it. Once a thriving country, rich because of its oil and a thriving economy, it is now a solid dictatorship rife with corruption and crime. So, Caracas is the perfect place for an AWOL‘d soldier escaping the Taliban to be found. But what is his real motive and what is America‘s for Venezuela? CID ⬇️

Texreader officers Brody and Taylor are sent first to Caracas to find and apprehend him and they follow his tracks deep into the jungle—both places, Caracas and the jungle, are characters as much as the people and as likely to kill them. Action-packed but also a lot of “telling” about back stories and repetition that gets a bit numbing. Still a good read that likely accurately portrays a country in serious distress. #foodandlit @Catsandbooks 2w

Catsandbooks 👏🏼🇻🇪 2w

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Bookwormjillk

Untitled | Untitled

Made arepas tonight for #FoodAndLit #Venezuela

Kids are already asking when I‘ll make them again!

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Bookwormjillk Here‘s the recipe I used https://familiakitchen.com/how-to-make-arepas/ 2w

Texreader Yes!!! Thanks for posting! 2w

slategreyskies Thank you for this recipe! I didn‘t know that arepas were gluten free, so I‘m super excited to try them out! I just picked up a bag of the white corn flour online and plan on making them soon. :) 2w

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Bookwormjillk @slategreyskies yay! They were really easy too. 2w

Catsandbooks Awesome! 👏🏼🇻🇪 2w

Dilara I was pleasantly surprised at how quick and easy arepas were to make. And they're tasty AND they're gluten-free! I probably wouldn't have come across them if not for Food and Lit, so here's a big thank you to the organizers #Texreader #Catsandbooks 2w

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Jaguars and Electric Eels | Alexander von Humboldt