#It Would Be Night in Caracas

[smokefalls]

Every sea is an operating room and a sharp scalpel slices into those who dare cross it.

Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas (translated by Elizabeth Bryer)

#Karina Sainz Borgo #It Would Be Night in Caracas #quote #fiction #2024 reads

[world-literatures]

just read: It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo

I feel very mixed on this book. On one hand, I liked the writing in the line by line sense - it had some nice passages and a rhythmic, poetic style I enjoyed. I also liked the dual timelines.

On the other hand, I found this writing style a little nebulous and distant. I found it difficult to feel 'grounded' in this book, to find myself really immersed in the story and place.

I did think the last 30 or so pages were excellent though, and really brought me back into it when my interest was starting to wane. The author stuck the landing completely.

genres: contemporary, border fiction

translator:  Elizabeth Bryer

rating: ★★★

themes: grief and death, politics and revolution, immigration and refugees, war and violence

Told with gripping intensity, It Would be Night in Caracas chronicles one woman’s desperate battle to survive amid the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela and the lengths she must go to secure her future. In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother–the only family Adelaida has ever known.

Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside the window that she tapes shut every night—to prevent the tear gas raining down on protesters in the streets from seeping in. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida resists and is beaten up. It is the beginning of a fight for survival in a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. But as fate would have it, Adelaida is given a gruesome choice that could secure her escape.

Filled with riveting twists and turns, and told in a powerful, urgent voice, It Would Be Night in Caracas is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble.

#it would be night in caracas #karina sainz borgo #world fiction #translated fiction #women in translation #south american lit #south america #venezuela

[jennamacaroni]

Writing out the inscription for her headstone, I understood that death takes place in language first, in that act of wrenching subjects from the present and planting them in the past. Completed actions. Things that had a beginning and an end, in a time that's gone forever. What was but would never be again. That was the way things were now: from then on, my mother would exist only if worded differently. Burying her meant my life as a childless daughter came to an end. In a city in its death throes, we had lost everything, even words conjugated in the present.

Karina Sainz Borgo, "It Would Be Night in Caracas"

#karina sainz borgo #quotes #what i'm reading #it would be night in caracas

[shespeaksinsongs]

Too gringa, demasiada latina

When I say I’m from Venezuela, sometimes people misunderstand me.

“Minnesota? Oh, cool! I hear it’s nice there this time of year.”

I fight the urge to roll my eyes, because

I wouldn’t want to meet the stereotype of being “feisty,” 

(Not that there’s anything wrong with that, Sofia Vergara)

and I repeat.

Other times, they look at me through furrowed brows,

Unaware that there are countries that speak Spanish other than

Mexico and Spain.

They tell me to prove it, but how?

How do I prove wearing yellow underwear every New Year’s Eve, 

For good luck?

Where are the records saying that 

I am a certified quinceañera?

Who documents how often I eat

Arepas?

Where are the diary entries from the week that I spent,

Pent up in my room,

Afraid that la llorona would get me at night?

And even though they wouldn't know a thing,

About how it feels to have your identity constantly questioned,

I worry that they're right.

I can’t recite the Venezuelan anthem like my dad proudly does, before each fútbol game,

I can’t bake a quesillo like my mom does, for each birthday.

And if you asked me what “carcacha,” meant, I couldn’t tell you,

But I could sing that song by Selena if you needed me to.

After my parents are gone,

And all that is left of them is my Spanish and my drooping nose,

Who will carry their legacy?

Most days,

When it is dark and everyone else is asleep,

I ask my ceiling what language my children will speak,

And if they will be able to dance salsa,

Or if they will know what a torta de guayaba tastes like,

Or if they will ever be able to gaze up at the billowing yellow, blue, and red flag,

Complete with eight stars for the eight provinces,

(Barcelona, Barinas,

Caracas, Cumaná,

Guayana, Margarita

Mérida, and Trujillo)

and be able to say,

“That’s mine - es mi país.”

I wonder if they will see this all and grasp it - 

Hold it in the palm of their hands,

Or if they will be just as lost as I am.

-

guys this was my first poem on here!! i wrote it for my english class. the theme was identity. i hope you like this, and even more, if you can relate to this, i hope i could give you at least the smallest bit of comfort. my dm's are always open if you want to discuss these kinds of things... and even if you don't - they're still open <3 i love chatting, so text me!

my biggest thank you's to @definitelymustard and @marcela6malfoy for proof-reading and critiquing! <33

shespeaksinsongs ©

#hispanic #poetry #writeblr #creative writing #venezuelan american #hispanic heritage #latina #latino #hispanic authors

[lulutaylorsimaginarium]

The Chain

Summary: When the guys get stuck in a situation and hunted down by a drug lord. Frankie makes a call he really doesn’t want to make to the only person that can help them

Words: 1482

Warnings: “creator chooses not to use warnings.” If you click Keep Reading, that means you agree that you’re the right age to handle mature themes. We handle our own triggers with kindness and grace

AN: Mind any grammar mistakes even though the story has been checked. The author is dyslexic and it is the wonders of her brain.

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR

Part 5

She didn’t say much the next morning. Gabby figured if she said anything the chances of a fight increased. She was tired of the arguments; she was tired of the whole situation. She was sick of the fear in the pit of her stomach that never went away. 

She wanted to go home. It was quiet there. Everybody was calm and polite. No one made a fuss.

There was comfort in that.

Maybe that’s what she was needing

Comfort.

Gabby helped pack up the van, which she had to admit. They were getting fast at it.

Suddenly Frankie appeared next to her. He dropped the keys to the van in her hand

“Really?”

“To the next pitstop. That’s it”

“Oh, come on”

“If Rojas finds us. You put your foot down and avoid the trees”

“One tree and I never hear the end of it”

“I’m serious”

“I know you are”

She didn’t try to avoid Santiago but she also didn’t want to talk to him. Maybe if she could just say silent. Speak when spoken too. Remain professional, get the job done and move on. She had done that before on the job.

This was a job.

They were like a mouse and a boa constrictor. She understood that now and they would probably always would be that way. They both also would always be in Frankie’s life,  so she had to find a way around it.

She jumped into the driver’s seat and turn the key and idled the engine aggressively before smiling at Frankie

“You’re hilarious”

“Only seventy two hours to go”

“Jesus” Frankie uttered under his breath

“You’re brave handing her the keys” a voice said outside the car.

Santiago.

She didn’t say anything about his comment, she didn’t even react and everybody noticed, instead she asked

“Are we headed to Trujillo?”

“Yeah. Stop at Huacho though”

“Why not stop at Santa Maria or Chonta?”

“You wanna see the condors?” Santiago teased

“Well, if you stop in Santa Maria we can get on the La Panamericana Norte”

“Too open” he said shaking his head

“Huacho it is” she gave him a tight smile “See you guys there”

Santiago and the brothers watched the van drive away. Will chuckled quietly

“You’re screwed, man”

“This may be worse”

“She’s going to make it worse” Benny laughed

“Let’s go” Santiago mumbled

They had to give her credit. Once she decided something she worked fast and it was beautiful to watch

 

#

 

Frankie and Gabby were leaning on their van as the other guys pulled up to the pit stop. Gabby eating picarones and Frankie hoeing down cachangas.

“How long have you guys been here?” Will asked

“While” Frankie said shoving food into his mouth

“We were hungry and had time to waste because you drive like a grandma” she said offering him some food. He stole one and took a bite

“Ok, Speed Racer”

“If Gabby’s drives the rest of the way. We’ll be in Caracas by tomorrow” Frankie joked

“You love it” she laughed

The thought of being in the vans for more days than they needed made all of them edgy. The sooner they get rid of this stuff the better.

Suddenly her phone rang in her pocket. Gabby jumped at the sound before answering the call.

Santiago unfolded a map and spread it across the bonnet of one of the vans. As Gabby paced back and forth talking to someone with a big smile on her face.

“This is taking too long” he told them “We have to start driving through the night. We’ll have to do shifts”

“We’re one person down for shifts, Pope” Frankie told him “You have to sleep too”

“We’ll figure it out. We’ll stop just not as much”

Suddenly they heard Gabby’s laugh. They all looked over at her and she didn’t have a clue, she was too distracted.

  “What did you figure out?” Will asked

“One person driving during the day. One at night. Quick breaks in between”

“What going on?” she asked walking back over to the guys

“Guayaquil to Quito to Cali to Bogota to Puerto Ayacuho to Caracas” Santiago told them his finger following on the map

“There’s a place we can stay in Cali. Won’t be enough beds but inside plumbing and it will be more comfortable than a van” she told them

“I’ve got night shift” Frank told her. That was all he had to tell her for her to know the plan had shifted

“If you guys wanna go into town and get some real food. We can stay by the vans” she offered

“Everything alright with Caracas?” Santiago asked her “That was the phone call, yeah?”

“Yeah. He’s just flown in. He’ll get everything ready for us. So when we get there we can move it, store it and relax while I figure out the rest of the plan. We’ll probably be there are a few days”

“Okay”

“Go get something to eat. It’s not far” 

She watched them walk away as she folded up the map and put it back in Santiago’s van.

Talking to Sebastian helped her nerves. He was more confident than she was, which oddly made her feel more confident. She still had to figure out a way to get it from Caracas to wherever they were going to next. Time had clearly become an issue, if only in Santiago’s mind.

Sebastian had sent out some feelers to see if they could get some information. She knew that they needed it, but she didn’t like the idea of Sebastian poking around in Rojas’ business. What if he asked the wrong person, the wrong question and Seb got a knock on the door?

This was all become too real for her.

She couldn’t turn back now.

“I can hear that mind working from all the way over here” Frankie told her quietly

“We’re going to need a cover story for all the border crossings”

“We’re tourists”

“With sacks of coffee beans?”

“They haven’t check us so far”

“We’ve been lucky”

“I wish he had made you fake ID too” he told her quietly “They can track you. Rojas has to have people working on the boarders”

“If things get hairy I’ll just flash the work credentials. They’ll get bored, real fast”

“They’ll have you’re name and your job then”

“I’ll was thinking of moving on anyhow”

“What would you do?”

“Go work at a bank” she joked. He didn’t laugh “It’s too emotional. You know me. I want to fix everybody”

“You do for the most part”

“Maybe I’ll go back to London”

“That’s too far away” he playfully whined

“The Netherlands isn’t?” she laughed

“Also too far”

“You wanna be neighbours?”

“Yes, I need a babysitter now anyhow”

“I could be your nanny”

“Listen, if you don’t mind being paid in room and board. I’m cool with it”

“You’d get sick of me eventually”

“No I wouldn’t”

She chuckled sweetly and shook her head

“Let’s just get out of South America and then I’ll figure out the rest”

They peacefully ate their food in silence. No awkwardness, no need to fill the silence. The wheels in her mind were spinning. He could see them. She was trying to be a step ahead. Trying to plan ahead, even though they didn’t know what was in front of them. Gabby was logical, she always had been and that was why she was good at her job. If she could be five steps ahead, she would be. 

 

#

When they got back from town Gabby was asleep in the back seat and Frankie was lost in his own little world. Santiago walked over to their van and looked through the window to see not even a hurricane could have woken her.

“She alright?”

Frankie just laughed to himself because that’s not what Pope was really asking him

“Don’t like being freeze out, huh?”

“Polite Gabby is actually much worse”

“If it makes you feel any better. She’s not actually angry. She’s worried. She’s in protective mode. That’s why she’s attacking. She maybe a bleeding heart but she doesn’t love easily. We’re putting a lot of people she loves in danger. Don’t take it personally”

“Difficult not too”

“Well, maybe take it a little personal” he laughed “Once we get to the farm. She’ll calm down. Sebastian, has that effect on her”

“Yeah, I’ve noticed”

“Trust me, this guy can handle whatever will get thrown at him. If Gabby is always five steps ahead. Sebastian is always ten steps ahead. We need him and unfortunately, Pope. You need her. Wouldn’t hurt to go easy on her”

“Noted”

“What time do you want to take off?”

“Half an hour?”

Frankie nodded his head in agreement before Santiago walked away, but not without a sneaky look into the back seat that Frankie didn’t mention that he noticed

#frankie morales #romanticism #santiago garcia #will miller #benny miller #netflix #santiago garcia x oc #triple frontier #ben miller #charlie hunnam #pedro pascal #oscar isaac #garrett hedlund #the chain

[colemckenzies]

Books I read in July ranked best* to worst:

In A Thousand Different Ways by Cecelia Ahern

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega

Witchlings: The Golden Frog Games (witchlings 2) by Claribel A. Ortega

The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean

Big Summer by Jennifer Weiner

It Would Be Night In Caracas by Karina Saenz Borgo

Sunshine: Diary of a Lapdancer by Samantha C. Cross (buzzword readathon)

#seven moons is such an incredibly constructed book #but in a thousand different ways is like. very personally resonant lol #book list #also everyone read witchlings pls <3

[booksforbirdie]

Welcome to my blog!

Thought I’d do a little intro post now that I’ve emerged from the ether into the bookblr world.

About me: My name’s Josie, but you can call me Jojo. My pronouns are she/her, I’m 23 years old, and I’m a graduate student in economics. Most important of all, I love books! I loved to hold them and flip through their pages before I could even read. In adulthood this has translated into a bit of a book-buying addiction, but there’s worse problems to have, right?

Some of my favorite books: East of Eden by John Steinbeck, The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Severance by Ling Ma, It Would Be Night In Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo, Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam, The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang, Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some of my favorite writers: Joan Didion, Rebecca Yarros, Helen Hoang, John Steinbeck, Donna Tartt, Anthony Doerr, Leo Tolstoy, Ruta Sepetys, Lisa See, Ali Hazelwood, Sue Monk Kidd, W.B. Yeats, Charles Dickens, R.F. Kuang, Sylvia Plath

Some of my favorite genres: Historical fiction, Romantasy, Essays, Memoir, Literary fiction, Suspense/Thriller, Fantasy, Nonfiction

I plan to post about books I’m reading/read, quotes I enjoy, reviews, and the occasional rant perhaps. Most of all, I hope to find some friends in you fellow book lovers who I know are out there somewhere!!!

#bookblr #booklr #books & libraries #book blog #booklover #bookworm #book quotes #new blog #my post #book recommendations #bibliophile #about me #favorite books #bookish

[annethunderstorms]

My Year in Books 2022:

11,299 pages read

33 books read

Children of the Volga/My Children by Guzel Yakinha

historical fiction, life, solitude

set in Russia (German colony Gnadenthal) between 1910s-1940s

main characters: Jakob Bach, Klara Grimm, Anna Bach

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa

historical fiction, politics, betrayal

set in Dominican Republic in 1960s + 1990s

main characters: Urania Cabral, Augustín Cabral, Rafael Trujillo

Persuasion by Jane Austen

historical fiction, romance

set in United Kingdom (Somerset) in 1814-15

main characters: Anne Elliott, Frederick Wentworth, Lady Russell

In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park

nonfiction, memoir, oppression, human trafficking, survival

set in North Korea, China, South Korea in 1990s-2000s

Outpost: A Journey to the Wild Ends of the Earth by Dan Richards

nonfiction, memoir, travel

set in Iceland, US, Scotland, France, Japan, Svalbard

Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

historical fiction, romance

set in Chile (Valparaíso), US (San Francisco) between 1843-1853

main characters: Eliza Sommers, Rose Sommers, Joaquín Andieta, Tao Chi'en

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara

fiction, dystopia, family, relationships

set in US (New York, Hawaii) in 1893, 1993 & 2093

main characters: David Bingham, Kawika Bingham, Charlie Bingham-Griffith

Dálvi: Six Years in the Arctic Tundra by Laura Galloway

nonfiction, memoir, introspection, Sámi, nature

set in northern Norway

Where the Lost Wander by Amy Harmon

historical fiction, romance, western

set in US (Missouri, Nebraska, Wyoming) between 1853-1858

main characters: Naomi May, John Lowry

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

historical fiction, family, hardship, Great Depression

set in US (Texas, California) in 1921 & 1934-1940

main characters: Elsa Martinelli, Loreda Martinelli, Anthony Martinelli

The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich

historical fiction, Indigenous, mystery

set in US (North Dakota) in 1960s, 1970s and before

main characters: Evelina Harp, Mooshum Milk, Antone Bazil Coutts

Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward

nonfiction, memoir, race, grief

set in US (Mississippi) between 1970s-2000s

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan

fiction, dystopia, motherhood

set in future US (Philadelphia)

main characters: Frida Liu, Harriet, Gust

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers by Loung Ung

nonfiction, memoir, war, Khmer Rouge, family, survival

set in Cambodia between 1975-1980

Train Dreams by Denis Johnson

historical fiction, solitude, western

set in US (Idaho) between 1910s-1930s

main character: Robert Grainier

Of Love and Shadows by Isabel Allende

historical fiction, romance, dictatorship

set in Chile in 1970s

main characters: Irene Beltrán, Francisco Leal

The Promise by Damon Galgut

(historical) fiction, family, grief, race

set in South Africa (Pretoria) in 1986, 1995, 1999, 2017

main characters: Amor Swart, Anton Swart, Astrid Swart

Peach Blossom Spring by Melissa Fu

historical fiction, family, survival, immigration, identity

set in China, Taiwan, US (Illinois, New Mexico) between 1938-2005

main characters: Meilin, Renshu/Henry, Longwei, Lily

Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia

(historical) fiction, family, immigration, deportation

set in Cuba, US (Florida, Texas), Mexico between 1866-2019

main characters: Jeanette, Carmen, Gloria Ramos, Ana

It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo

fiction, social unrest, oppression, grief

set in Venezuela

main character: Adelaida Falcón 

Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall

nonfiction, geopolitics, history, international relations

set worldwide

Stolen (Stöld) by Ann-Helén Laestadius

fiction, Sámi, discrimination, crime, family

set in northern Sweden

main character: Elsa

The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave

historical fiction, witch trials, romance

set in northern Norway (Vardø) between 1617-1619

main character: Maren Bergensdatter, Ursula Cornet

Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra

(historical) fiction, identity, politics, dictatorship

set in Chile between 1980s-2000s

characters: nameless protagonist, Claudia, Eme

I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

nonfiction, memoir, abuse, mental health, child acting

set in US (LA)

The Marshal (Die Marschallin) by Zora del Buono

historical fiction, family, politics, war

set in Slovenia (Bovec) and Italy (Bari) between 1919-1980

main characters: Zora Ostan, Pietro del Buono

Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey

nonfiction, nature, environment, national parks

set in US (Utah) in 1960s

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

historical fiction, geisha’s, Japanese culture

set in Japan (Kyoto) in 1930s-1940s

main character: Sakamoto Chiyo/Nitta Sayuri

Burnt Shadows by Kamila Shamsie

historical fiction, romance, family

set in Japan (Nagasaki), India (Delhi), Pakistan (Karachi) in 1945, 1947, 1982-1983, 2001-2002

main characters: Hiroko Tanaka, Sajjad Ali Ashraf, Raza Ashraf, Harry Burton

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

nonfiction, self help

The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante

fiction, separation, abandonment

set in Italy (Turin) in 2000s

main character: Olga

The Gift of the Wild (Das Geschenk der Wildnis) by Elli H. Radinger

nonfiction, nature, animals, environment

set in US (Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Arizona, Minnesota,   Massachusetts, Texas), Germany

Kindred by Octavia E. Butler

historical fiction, sci-fi, time travel, race, slavery

set in US (California and Maryland) in 1810s-1820s and 1976

Main characters: Dana Franklin, Kevin Franklin, Rufus Weylin, Alice Greenwood

#me #booklr #2022 reads #book recommendations #books #goodreads

[rockislandadultreads]

Hispanic Heritage Month: Literary Fiction Picks

It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo, Elizabeth Bryer (Translation)

In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother–the only family Adelaida has ever known. Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside the window that she tapes shut every night—to prevent the tear gas raining down on protesters in the streets from seeping in. When looters masquerading as revolutionaries take over her apartment, Adelaida resists and is beaten up. It is the beginning of a fight for survival in a country that has disintegrated into violence and anarchy, where citizens are increasingly pitted against each other. But as fate would have it, Adelaida is given a gruesome choice that could secure her escape. Filled with riveting twists and turns, and told in a powerful, urgent voice, It Would Be Night in Caracas is a chilling reminder of how quickly the world we know can crumble.

The Lost Book of Adana Moreau by Michael Zapata

In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript. Decades later in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather’s home when he discovers a mysterious manuscript written by none other than Adana Moreau. With the help of his friend Javier, Saul tracks down an address for Adana’s son in New Orleans, but as Hurricane Katrina strikes, they must head to the storm-ravaged city for answers. What results is a brilliantly layered masterpiece—an ode to home, storytelling and the possibility of parallel worlds.

Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea, Enrique Hubbard Urrea (Translator)

Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the United States to find work. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village--they've all gone north. While watching The Magnificent Seven, Nayeli decides to go north herself and recruit seven men--her own "Siete Magníficos"--to repopulate her hometown and protect it from the bandidos who plan on taking it over. Filled with unforgettable characters and prose as radiant as the Sinaloan sun, Into the Beautiful North is the story of an irresistible young woman's quest to find herself on both sides of the fence.

Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago

As a young girl growing up in Spain, Ana Larragoity Cubillas is powerfully drawn to Puerto Rico by the diaries of an ancestor who traveled there with Ponce de León. And in handsome twin brothers Ramón and Inocente—both in love with Ana—she finds a way to get there. She marries Ramón, and in 1844, just eighteen, she travels across the ocean to a remote sugar plantation the brothers have inherited on the island. Ana faces unrelenting heat, disease and isolation, and the dangers of the untamed countryside even as she relishes the challenge of running Hacienda los Gemelos. But when the Civil War breaks out in the United States, Ana finds her livelihood, and perhaps even her life, threatened by the very people on whose backs her wealth has been built: the hacienda’s slaves, whose richly drawn stories unfold alongside her own. And when at last Ana falls for a man who may be her destiny—a once-forbidden love—she will sacrifice nearly everything to keep hold of the land that has become her true home. This is a sensual, riveting tale, set in a place where human passions and cruelties collide: thrilling history that has never before been brought so vividly and unforgettably to life.

#Fiction #Adult Fiction #literature #modern literature #literary #literary fiction #to read #tbr #hispanic heritage month #hispanic characters #Hispanic Authors #booklr #book tumblr #book blog #to be read #reading recommendations #Book Recommendations #library books

[smokefalls]

You were angry on the inside, which is how feelings hurt most, when they fester.

Karina Sainz Borgo, It Would Be Night in Caracas (translated by Elizabeth Bryer)

#Karina Sainz Borgo #It Would Be Night in Caracas #quote #fiction #2024 reads

[tokillamockingbird427]

What do you think it would of been like for Gabe and Elias to raise the boys together as a couple?

Argghhhh they wouldn't even realize they're co-parenting for a good few months.

Then Elias is like "Wait a minute." realizes Gabe doesn't realize, and fight himself debating whether or not to tell him.

Gabe seems really happy with things how they are, and Elias is a bit scared that telling him would change things. Mostly he's afraid that Rorke might leave, or distance himself, and Elias can manage on his own, it would just... hurt.

Why Gabe might leave? Elias can't really answer. He's not sure how Gabe would handle the responsibility of being a parent. (Though he is already handling it, Elias revealing it suggests he might want some commitment on Gabes end.)

Plus, Elias isn't sure what that means for their relationship. He's comfortable. Maybe he doesn't have everything he wants but he has what he needs. That's pretty okay in his book.

Gabe kinda gets it. He realizes that the boys really do look up to him, realizes that he loves them like a dad, but he's not sure if thats a line Elias is okay with him crossing. So he sits, waits for a cue, not really sure what the "cue" is.

And yeah. He might love Elias. He's aware of that, not sure if he can confront it. Not sure if he'd ever be allowed to say it either. Gabe is his Captain after all. Not a very work-appropriate thing, falling for your lieutenant.

Not sure what the trigger would be.

Caracas has to happen.

I've referred to it as a "Nexus" point before, and that's because I consider it one of the most important events in their universe. Just like Operation: Sand Viper. The stories direction, the characters, everything hinges on something happening there. (Inciting incident in writing terms.)

So Caracas happens, Rorke falls. With one of it's pillars removed, Elias's world crumbles a little. Logan and David's world crumbles. (They're 14 & 16 respectively, when Caracas happens.)

But another nexus is the ODIN strikes. The Federation entered a truce with the US following Operation: Return to Sender, because taking out Almagro and their capital really did hurt them. For the war to kick off again, the Federation has to use ODIN to weaken the United States, tipping the playing field in their favor.

But they don't. They can't.

Real world shit here: A project like ODIN is entirely too difficult to accomplish. The United States could do it as a mega-giant in military funding, but it would be very costly. A project like that has never taken off in real life, because simply put: not enough bang for their buck. (Also Space is supposed to be neutral territory. Pretty sure NATO did a declaration.)

ODIN being scrapped before completion is more realistic than it being finished. Never gets into the building stage. The US simply chooses to remain reliant on its nuclear armament.

So since ODIN never happens, the war never kicks off again. Rorke is still in the pit, still a POW, but they can't exactly use him for much. Nothing besides information.

That's a very dangerous position to be in for Gabe. His status is wrong, he's KIA instead of WIA/POW, but no one knows that. Not anyone that cares.

From here, I can see two scenarios: Rorke breaks out himself, goes to Elias's because he has no clue where else to go. He breaks in, dead of night, raids his fucking pantry, and Logan+David catch him. He's hard to recognize because of reasons, so they go and get Dad. Elias of course, immedietly recognizes his bitchass best friend probboly eating an entire jar of peanut butter, and goes nuts. Boom. That's kinda where the line fades.

Other scenario, and my favorite of the two: Elias figures out Gabriel isn't actually dead. Maybe some defector from the Federation feels bad for the guy they're holding captive for no reason, and finds the right guy to tell, who gets it to Elias.

So now Elias knows. He'll try to go through the military first, because Rorke is a soldier and this is cross-country shit, but due to concerns over maybe triggering a war and "lack of solid evidence" Elias gets no help.

Then the Ghosts catch wind, because of course they do. Gabe was important, they keep ears for any news on him, even if it's a supposedly useless hope. Now, they're not allowed to do jack shit either, but they don't give a fuck.

Elias never goes to them for help, but they show up anyways. Because hell yeah, family.

HIJINKS. SHENANIGANS. FUCK YEAH: PLOT.

They go down, spend a while searching for the pit itself. Possible plot point: Rorke gets moved to just like, a normal prison, but like a normal high security prison. In which case the Ghosts get to do a prison break. (Keegan would love this I feel.) Any either way: They bust him out!

Now they gotta hoof it out of the fucking country because the Federations pissed they're gonna be exposed for violating a bunch of geneva conventions or something. (Also Rorke probably learned some shit while a POW. Important shit. People talk a lot when they think no one's listening.)

MORE HIJINKS AND POSSIBLY EVEN SHENANIGANS.

They get home (Just safe in the US.) and both Gabe and Elias are like "Holy shit, I gotta tell this motherfucker I'm in love with him."

Church bells.

Okay, this kinda went from trying to answer your question, to accidentally writing a fic outline instead. Uh, whoops? Enjoy.

I think them raising Logan and David together would produce the two more lawful chaotic motherfucker the US Special Forces has ever seen. Logan and Hesh would also just be terrifying and one degree away from being demigods. And Elias and Gabe would be really cute Dads.

Caracas happens but they just don't pursue Almagro and neither of them fall. Elias and Gabe both have the "Oh shit I DO love him fuck fuck fuck." moment and tell each other. The relationship is a secret for two years up until Elias retires and then they get married. Yeahhhhh.

#this post was not meant to get this long #whoopsies #call of duty #call of duty ghosts #logan walker #gabriel rorke #elias walker #hesh walker #diet fanfic #ghost husbands

[read-alert]

Figured that now that I've got a bookblr, I should make a post about the Read the World Challenge I'm doing! I'm reading a book primarily set in every country, doing my best to focus on authors from said country, though I will read diaspora authors if that's not feasible. Also some of the books from early on were from diaspora authors because I was pulling from books I had already read; I'll likely read more books from those countries in the future if I can. I've got 52 countries so far, and I'll list the titles and countries under the cut

USA- Kindred by Octavia Butler- 5⭐️

Canada- The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline- 5⭐️

Trinidad and Tobago- The Lesson by Cadwell Turnbull- 3⭐️

Brazil- Where We Go From Here by Lucas Rocha trans by Larissa Helena- 5⭐️

Argentina- Tender is the Flesh by Augustina Bazterrica trans by Sarah Moses- 5⭐️

South Africa- The Prey of Gods by Nicky Drayden- 3⭐️

Nigeria- Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor- 4⭐️

Liberia- Dream Country by Shannon Gibney 5⭐️

France- Romance in Marseilles by Claude McKay- 2⭐️

UK- Watership Down by Richard Adams- 5⭐️

Ireland- Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen- 4⭐️

Qatar- Love from A to Z by SK Ali- 4⭐️

Iran- Darius the Great is Not Okay by Adib Khorram- 4⭐️

China- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu trans by Ken Liu- 5⭐️

Taiwan- Loveboat, Taipei by Abigail Hing Wen- 4⭐️

Japan- Confessions by Kanae Minato trans by Stephen Snyder- 3.5⭐️

Norway- Survival Kit by AH Haga- 4.5⭐️

Germany- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak- 4.5⭐️

India- The Henna Artist by Alka Joshi- 4⭐️

South Korea- The Mermaid from Jeju by Sumi Hahn- 4⭐️

Columbia- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez trans by Gregory Rabassa- 4⭐️

Ghana- Wife of the Gods by Kwei Quartey- 4⭐️

Turkey- 10 Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak- 4⭐️

Russia- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy trans by Louise Maude- 4⭐️

Sierra Leone- The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna- 4⭐️

Austria- The Wall by Marlen Haushofer trans by Shaun Whiteside- 5⭐️

Zimbabwe- Nervous Conditions by Tsiti Dangarembga- 5⭐️

Venezuela- It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo trans by Elizabeth Bryer- 4⭐️

Chile- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende trans by Magda Bogin- 5⭐️

Sri Lanka- Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai- 4⭐️

Singapore- How We Dissappeared by Jing-Jing Lee- 4.5⭐️

Malaysia- Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf- 3.5⭐️

Egypt- A Master of Djinn by P Djèlí Clark- 4.5⭐️

Sudan- Ghost Season by Fatin Abbas- 4.5⭐️

Antigua and Barbuda- At the Bottom of the River by Jamaica Kincaid- 4⭐️

Ukraine- The Lost Year by Katherine Marsh- 5⭐️

Bahamas- Learning to Breathe by Janice Lynn Mather- 4⭐️

Cuba- The Black Cathedral by Marcial Gala trans by Anna Kushner- 4⭐️

Dominica- The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid- 3⭐️

Bangladesh- Djinn City by Saad Z Hossain- 4⭐️

Mexico- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia- 4⭐️

Jamaica- Here Comes the Sun by Nicole Dennis-Benn- 4⭐️

Vietnam- Dust Child by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai- 4.5⭐️

Australia- Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko- 4⭐️

Israel- Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa- 4.5⭐️

Palestine- Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa- 5⭐️

Costa Rica- Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias- 4.5⭐️

Uruguay- Cantoras by Carolina De Robertis- 5⭐️

Dominican Republic- Tentacle by Rita Indiana trans by Achy Obejas- 2.5⭐️

Republic of the Congo- Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou trans by Helen Stevenson- 2⭐️

Czech Republic- The Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař- 2.5⭐️

Honduras- Turtles of the Midnight Moon by María José Fitzgerald- 4.5⭐️

#bookblr #read the world

[kattra]

What I’m Reading

FEBRUARY READS A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee **  It Would Be Night In Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo  Under the Smokestrewn Sky by A. Deborah Baker **  Sleep No More by Seanan McGuire ** Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett  Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson (NF)  Hana Khan Carries On by Uzma Jalaluddin Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo ** Kat and Meg Conquer the World by Anna Preimaza  Full-Metal Indigiqueer by Joshua Whitehead (P)  The Witches by Roald Dahl 

Graphic Novels: Eros/Psyche by Maria Llovet (GN) Porcelain by Maria Llovet (GN)

(26 books read / 100 books goal)

currently reading:  What I Learned From the Trees by L.E. Bowman (P) A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt  Prospero Regained by L. Jagi Lamplighter  Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making by Andrew Peterson (NF) How Long ’til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin (SS)  An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon  Mislaid in Parts Half-Known by Seanan McGuire

* - re-read // ** - 4+ star-rating (recommended)

GN - graphic novel // NF - non-fiction // P - poetry SS - short story collection // AB - audiobook 

TBR: The Innocent Sleep by Seanan McGuire XOXO by Axis Oh  Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo  Eat A Peach by David Chang (NF) 

WHAT ARE YOU READING? :D

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#books #bookworm #reading #TBR #what are you reading #my books #february #march #reading year 2024 #books of 2024 #novels #graphic novels #fiction #non fiction #poetry #psychology #fantasy #YA #short stories

[newstfionline]

Sunday, February 11, 2024

For Voters, When Does Old Become Too Old? (NYT) When a reporter asked President Biden on Thursday night about concerns about his age, his first instinct was to reject the premise. He replied in part: “That is your judgment. That is not the judgment of the press.” The question was about the public’s concern, not the press, but either way the concerns over his age were not just those of one reporter. A clear majority of Americans harbor serious doubts about it, polls show. To take just one example: In Times/Siena polling last fall, more than 70 percent of battleground state voters agreed with the statement that Mr. Biden’s “just too old to be an effective president.” More than 60 percent said they didn’t think Mr. Biden had “the mental sharpness to be an effective president.” And fair or not, fewer than half of voters express similar doubts about Donald J. Trump’s age or mental acuity.

Venezuela builds forces near border with Guyana despite agreement to de-escalate (CNN) Satellite images show Venezuela has bolstered its military presence near the border with Guyana, despite Caracas saying it would pursue a diplomatic avenue to try and resolve the long-standing territorial dispute over an oil-rich piece of Guyanese land. Imagery from Maxar collected in January showed an expansion of operations at Venezuela’s Anacoco Island military base, on the Cuyuni river, which borders Guyana. In January, Venezuela bragged about expanding its military presence in the region in propaganda videos released on its army’s social media accounts, showing bulldozers clearing land, as well as light tanks and infantry fighting vehicles on the move and an Mi-17 military transport helicopter.

Carnival kicks off in Rio de Janeiro (AP) To thunderous applause, Rio de Janeiro’s mayor coronated King Momo on Friday, marking the beginning of the symbolic Carnival monarch’s five-day reign over the revelry. Festivities will last through to Feb 14. Nowhere to be seen were the troubles recently ailing the tropical city: a dengue outbreak that days ago prompted the decree of public health emergency; a federal decree to combat a rise in violence by militias and drug-traffickers. Indeed, Carnival is a chance for people to temporarily put aside their troubles.

Iceland volcano eruption ends but leaves residents in the cold (Reuters) Iceland’s latest volcanic eruption appeared to have ended on Friday but left a trail of damage to roads and pipelines, cutting hot water to parts of the Reykjanes peninsula during freezing temperatures. The eruption began on Thursday, spewing orange lava 80 metres (260 feet) high from a 3 km (2 mile) crack in the earth. However, by mid-day on Friday drone-footage showed no signs of activity at the site. About 15 million cubic meters of molten rock had flowed from the ground in the first seven hours of the eruption, according to an IMO estimate on Friday.

Portugal attracts US expats (CSM) The reasons for Alfreda Chandler’s move are right here, on her new home block, in the Areeiro district of Lisbon. The sun-drenched promenade of apartments and eateries is still considered an authentically “local” section of this increasingly global city. Across from her pink building there is a fruit stand shaded by a stone portico. Next door is a cafe with a mouthwatering display of pastries. A block away is easy transportation downtown. But more important to Ms. Chandler than this picturesque European urbanity is that in Areeiro, she talks to way more neighbors than she ever did back in suburban Indiana. “Everybody knows everybody here,” she says from her seat at an outdoor table at her local coffee joint. “Living alone in a big house—it’s isolating.” For the past few years, Portugal has topped the list of “hot destinations” for U.S. citizens looking to move abroad, whether for retirement, a home base for remote work, or just a shift in lifestyle. Although Americans make up only a small percentage of the foreigners living in this country, the number has grown to about 10,000 U.S. citizens in 2022, up 239% from 2017, according to government data. The popular explanations for this increase often focus on Portugal’s low cost of living, along with its temperate weather, beneficial visas, and minuscule crime rate. But for Ms. Chandler and other Americans living in this city of half a million residents, the draw to Portugal goes deeper: the comfort of community; the appeal of a culture with less focus on consumption and “productivity”; and more freedom from the stressors of racism, gun violence, and toxic political divisions.

Ukraine Has a New Military Commander but the Problems Haven’t Changed (NYT) Russian forces are razing the already battered city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine to the ground and sending waves of assault units to overwhelm outgunned Ukrainian troops. After months of brutal fighting, the Russian military is threatening to cut off a vital supply line to the city, which could render further defense impossible. As Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky assumes his role as Ukraine’s top military commander, he could soon be confronted again with the grim calculus that has been a feature of the two-year war: When does the cost of defending ground outweigh any benefit gained by inflicting pain on the enemy? It is a bloody equation that General Syrsky has had to try to work out many times as the commander of ground forces in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s military challenges go well beyond any single battle. American assistance, urgently needed, remains in doubt. Ukrainian troops are exhausted, and they lack weapons and ammunition. Air defense systems, crucial to protecting civilians from Russian missiles, are being steadily exhausted by repeated bombardments.

Pakistan stunned as ex-premier Khan’s party overperforms in election (Washington Post) Pakistan’s general election took a surprising turn Friday after candidates affiliated with the party of jailed opposition leader Imran Khan appeared to have performed well above expectations, according to provisional official results for more than 90 percent of the races. Khan’s rival, three-time prime minister Nawaz Sharif, had been widely viewed as the clear front-runner and preferred candidate of Pakistan’s powerful military, which has a history of shaping politics in the country. But by Friday evening, his party had won only 70 out of 246 called races—compared to over 90 for Khan-linked candidates.

China’s New Year travel rush kicks into high gear (Reuters) China on Friday kicked into high gear on the eve of the annual Lunar New Year holiday, with travellers cramming onto trains and planes to head back to their hometowns and families preparing for traditional reunion dinner gatherings. The country has been adding travel capacity to help smooth transportation after harsh weather threatened trips for millions returning home for the holiday. Some 1,873 passenger trains were added on one day across a vast railway network, a record according to state media outlet Global Times. In the busiest travel migration period in the world, 13.1 million passengers rode on China’s national railway on Wednesday alone. That marked the first time during the Spring Festival travel rush, also known as Chunyun period, that daily passengers exceeded 13 million, according to Global Times.

Israel is holding up food for 1.1 million Palestinians in Gaza, the main UN aid agency there says (AP) Israel has imposed financial restrictions on the main U.N. agency providing aid in the Gaza Strip, a measure which prevented a shipment of food for 1.1 million Palestinians from reaching the war-battered enclave, the agency’s director said Friday. The restrictions deepened a crisis between Israel and UNRWA, whose operations have been threatened following Israeli accusations that some of its workers participated in the Oct. 7 attack that triggered Israel’s war in Gaza. Those accusations have led major donor nations, including the U.S., to suspend funding to the U.N. organization and left its future in question. UNRWA’s director, Philippe Lazzarini, said Friday that that a convoy of food donated by Turkey has been sitting for weeks in the Israeli port city of Ashdod. The agency said that the Israeli contractor they work with received a call from Israeli customs authorities “ordering them not to process any UNRWA goods.” That stoppage means 1,049 shipping containers of rice, flour, chickpeas, sugar and cooking oil—enough to feed 1.1 million people for one month—are stuck, even as an estimated 25% of families in Gaza face catastrophic hunger.

Netanyahu Orders Evacuation Plan for City Where a Million Gazans Shelter (NYT) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered the Israeli military to draw up plans to evacuate Rafah, a Gazan city packed with more than a million people, in advance of an expected ground offensive that has set off international alarm. Many civilians in Rafah are sheltering in rickety tents made of plastic and wood and say there is nowhere left in Gaza to avoid Israeli shelling. Mr. Netanyahu’s office said it would be impossible to realize Israel’s goal of smashing Hamas’s rule in Gaza without destroying what it said were the group’s four battalions in Rafah, on Egypt’s border. The military’s “combined plan” would have to both “evacuate the civilian population and topple the battalions,” the statement said. Mr. Netanyahu’s office announced the orders less than a day after President Biden issued some of his sharpest criticism of Israel’s conduct in the war, calling it “over the top” and saying the starvation, suffering and killing of civilians had “got to stop.” His criticism, which dominated Israeli news headlines, revealed growing frustration with Mr. Netanyahu as the death toll in Gaza has risen above 27,000.

UN chief urges all nations to do everything possible to stop the ‘horrible’ war in Sudan (AP) The United Nations chief on Thursday urged the international community to mobilize and do everything possible to stop the war in Sudan, saying “what is happening is horrible.” Secretary-General António Guterres said there is no military solution to the conflict between forces supporting rival generals that began in mid-April 2023, and he stressed that continued fighting “will not bring any solution so we must stop this as soon as possible.” Guterres told a U.N. press conference that it’s time for the warring rivals—Sudan’s military, Gen. Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo—to start talking about ending the conflict, which has killed at least 12,000 people and sent over 7 million fleeing their homes.

Ocean system that moves heat gets closer to collapse, which could cause weather chaos, study says (AP) An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely as a new complex computer simulation finds a “cliff-like” tipping point looming in the future. A long-worried nightmare scenario, triggered by Greenland’s ice sheet melting from global warming, still is at least decades away if not longer, but maybe not the centuries that it once seemed, a new study in Friday’s Science Advances finds. A collapse of the current—called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC—would change weather worldwide because it means a shutdown of one of the key climate and ocean forces of the planet. It would plunge northwestern European temperatures by 9 to 27 degrees (5 to 15 degrees Celsius) over the decades, extend Arctic ice much farther south, turn up the heat even more in the Southern Hemisphere, change global rainfall patterns and disrupt the Amazon, the study said. Other scientists said it would be a catastrophe that could cause worldwide food and water shortages.

#headlines #news

[world-literatures]

Halfway through it would be night in Caracas and I’m not totally sold on it. I don’t think it’s very grounded idk how to explain it but it hasn’t really Put Me into the book and world

#just kinda words on a page but no feeling and atmosphere #but I’m gonna keep reading it

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.13 (before 1960)

1002 – English king Æthelred II orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St. Brice's Day massacre. 1093 – Battle of Alnwick: in an English victory over the Scots, Malcolm III of Scotland, and his son Edward, are killed. 1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adela of Champagne. 1642 – First English Civil War: Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London. 1715 – Jacobite rising in Scotland: Battle of Sheriffmuir: The forces of the Kingdom of Great Britain halt the Jacobite advance, although the action is inconclusive. 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard Montgomery occupy Montreal. 1833 – Great Meteor Storm of 1833 1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism by Charles Lafontaine, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism. 1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle. 1864 – American Civil War: The three-day Battle of Bull's Gap ends in a Union rout as Confederates under Major General John C. Breckinridge pursue them to Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. 1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London. 1901 – The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster. 1914 – Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri. 1916 – World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription. 1917 – World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in Italy known as the "First Battle of the Piave"). The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, despite help from the German Alpenkorps and numerical superiority, will fail their offensive against the Italian Army now led by its new chief of staff Armando Diaz. 1918 – World War I: Allied troops occupy Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire. 1922 – The United States Supreme Court upholds mandatory vaccinations for public school students in Zucht v. King. 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City. 1940 – Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released at New York's Broadway Theatre, on the first night of a roadshow. 1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. 1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal: U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the Guadalcanal Campaign. 1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. 1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas. 1954 – Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators. 1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery bus boycott.

#Events