Closing the Audiobook Challenge (Listening Books) for 2021

 

I haven't kept up with the Listening Book Challenge since September. I've had some health problems and I've been of "low spirits" as a result. 

Here we are in December already and I want to wrap up the Listening Book Challenge for 2021.

I'm still not even halfway through the book I started in September, Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer.  I selected it for the "Listen to an Audiobook that is over 24 Hours Long" challenge (even if the book is 23 hours and 13 minutes long).  

I was looking at the Audiobook Listening Challenge list to see if any of the books I also read this year for various book clubs or for myself would fit any of the seven remaining challenges for the year.  

I'll add two from my book club reads:

* Listen to an audiobook featuring an LGBTQ romance:

The Long Call by Ann Cleves, narrated by Ben Aldridge

* Listen to an audiobook featuring a protagonist with a disability:

So Say the Fallen by Stuart Neville,  narrated by Deirdre O'Connell

That leaves four challenges on the list for 2021 unfinished.

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I found not having a monthly book assignment to make it more difficult for me to keep up.  Guess I need more structure to my challenges. 

For the other books I listened to for this 2021 challenge, go to the link below:

https://whiterosewritings.blogspot.com/search/label/Audiobook%20Challenge

Audiobook Challenge 2021 - September Audiobook

 I'm going to be cheating on my 

SEPTEMBER Listening Books  

AUDIOBOOK CHALLENGE:  

 Listen to an Audiobook that is over 24 Hours Long.

Listening Books  Audiobook Listening Challenge 2021:

https://www.listening-books.org.uk/library/audiobook-listening-challenge-2021

Why am I cheating?  Because the book I plan to listen to is 23 hours and 13 minutes long. 

Maybe Listening Books will forgive me since I will also be reading books for four (4) separate Zoom Book Clubs this month.  

Below a description of the book from the publisher:

"Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an ambitious and moving chronicle written for a moment that demands a new reckoning with both the island’s past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade.

Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. "

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As a Cuban-American I've been interested in this book and what Dr. Ada Ferrer, also a Cuban-American, has to say about the joint history of Cuba and the United States.