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"Outstanding accomplishments [of Trujillo] include: the 1947 genocide against the Haitian and Haitian-Dominican community; one of the longest, most damaging US backed dictatorships in the Western Hemisphere; the creation of the first modern kleptocracy; the systematic bribing of American senators; and, last but not least, the forging of Dominican peoples into a modern state."

Just four pages in and falling in love. This riff on who (or what) killed Kennedy reminds me of Quién mató a Marilyn? by Los Prisioneros.

Sin embargo, a veces pienso que la historia de una siempre es parte de la historia de otras.

Tema central de la Serrano

(I returned my library book and bought a copy to restart.)

"In order to accumulate all of the soil nutrients that thirty-five pounds of leaves require, our tree must first absorb and then evaporate at least eight thousand gallons of water from the soil. That's enough to fill a tanker truck. That's enough to keep twenty-five people alive for a year. That's enough to make you worry about when it's going to rain."

I am afraid this book will make me cry by the end.

Studies have shown, however, that the more information there is on the screen, the less we actually remember.

In America, a pedestrian is someone who has just parked their car.

"As time goes on the technical problems become more automatic, while the people problems become more surrealistic." Henry Barnes former traffic commissioner of NYC

"But like a lot of people whose vocation it is to change the world, he proved to be, in person, outrageously petty."

"For it is the job of men, she said, to stop women from realizing their own indestructibility, and led as long as possible."

I cannot resist back-reading thrillers. Why do I lack self control?!

"I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for war will always pay better than science for knowledge."

Because the story of your life never starts at the beginning. Don't they teach you anything at school?

Was that when the troubles between them began? .... Words that all these years she hadn't been able to speak.

I think I have to stop now, or I'll be up all night.

RMB's books comfort me.

Just arriving part 2, saving it for later.