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My whoops library holds, the books I wanted to read this week for some #bookspinbingo
This months #bookspin I have tagged on audio and will be listening this past week of September!

#Bookspin for May:

1. We Measure the Earth
2. Lesser known Monsters
3. Seeing Ghosts
4. River Sing
5. New Jim Crow
6. Dream States
7. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
8. How Much of these Hills
9. The Savage Detectives
10. The Sleeping Car Porter
11. Fresh Banana Leaves
12. A Small Place
13. Night Tiger
14. Rememberings
15. Nasty Brutish
16. What You Have Heard Is True
17. Of Women and Salt
18. Beekeeper of Aleppo
19. Pure Colour
20. Wild Tongues

Two generations of a Vietnamese family are trying to survive the turbulent period of Vietnamese 20th century history. Vietnamese war seen from a personal perspective. Highly recomended!

The Mountains Sing is written very well, set in Vietnam during the war. There are many profound sentences and keeps the reader engaged. I personally didn‘t feel the mother-children bond the author tried very hard to portray but all in all makes for a good read/listen. Although a trigger warning, there are some graphic descriptions of violence in many parts.

This is a beautifully written, powerful novel that recounts the experiences of the Trần family during the Việt Nam War.

I hold such grief and guilt for the terror we inflicted on Việt Nam. Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai, born the year I graduated high school, has given me the gift of understanding, as have the novelists whose work preceded this publication.

Trần Diệu Lan and her granddaughter, Hương, shared their love with me and give me hope.

1 - I have done this and it was super helpful on the tagged book. I was worried about the pronunciations and the audio version was excellent. Once I heard the voices and names, I finished much of the last half without the audio.
2 - I‘ve only started listening to audiobooks in the last year but now, if it‘s a book I think both my husband and I would both enjoy, it‘s a lot more fun to listen together so we stay together. I read fast.
#Two4Tuesday

I really liked this book, there was some hard subject matter but still a great book (my mom read it too & gave it a big thumbs up, which says a lot because she reads a ton & is very picky). I don‘t know a lot about Vietnamese history, this story went back & forth between the Vietnam War & a few years earlier. It was an interesting story about one family‘s survival & what they endured. One more book off #bookspin

Author is talking with Storygraph on Instagram now!
#foodandlit vietnam

https://instagram.com/the.storygraph/live/17902911490762879?igshid=xwoyo23xafux

Feb 2021 - Vietnamese author / war novel - beautifully written and wonderfully told.

This was a multigenerational tale about the history of Vietnam in the 1900s. We follow a granddaughter and grandmother during the Vietnam war and the grandmother‘s life story as she tells it to her grandmother. Many of the family‘s stories are heart wrenching. Glad I read it for #foodandlit @Texreader @Butterfinger