La Finca
Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island

Thank you to #Netgalley for a free copy of this audio book in exchange for an honest review. map-of-puerto-rico My Interest I have a fairly strong family connection to the Puerto Rican island Vieques. Before the likes of RFK, jr and his siblings were done there protesting the US Navy’s presence there,......more

I enjoy reading memoirs about people who take a leap and do something really adventurous because I am not one of those people. Corky Parker bought an assortment of buildings in Puerto Rico and ran it as an inn. Most of the book is about the ups and downs of managing the property from Washington stat......more

I loved this book!!!! Maybe a big reason is that I was lucky to stay at La Finca on a Sierra Club trip. It was a wonderful place and I wanted to go back there sometime. I loved reading about how it evolved over the years. Such a sweet place.......more

Thank you NetGalley and Lantern Audio, Trinity University Press for accepting my request to audibly read and review La Finca: Love, Loss, and Laundry on a Tiny Puerto Rican Island. Narrated by Corky Parker. So often am I disappointed in an author narrating their own work I have made a conscious deci......more

Both heart warming and heart wrenching as Corky takes us along her journey of dreaming of La Finca to acquiring it, to what time proves this journey to be equally hard as it is satisfying. As a Puerto Rico native, hearing how she fell in love with PR had me smiling from ear to ear. I loved how she p......more