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This book touched my heart. Rose loses her unknown Japanese father and travels to Kyoto for his last will. She discovers the country, its culture and its people and all of this offers her the most beautiful way to mourn the father she never met. Thank you Cassie for bringing it to my attention! 🌹 🇯🇵

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This one's a soft pick for me.

A woman loses her father and travels to Japan. There's so much in this one about grief and the temples and gardens were described with such beautiful imagery that I felt like I was walking through them.

My only complaint is that because it was short some parts of the story felt rushed.

Overall, it was a heartfelt read and I love Barbery's writing style.

Beautiful story written in Barbery‘s unique style. Heartbreaking yet joyful.

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Returned some library books so of course I had to get more!!

The only thing that worked for me in this book is writing - at the level of sentences … everything else is too predictable and too pathetic.
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My first read of 2022 (pictured here with all the books my husband gave me for Christmas and my birthday, which was last week). I enjoyed the atmospheric descriptions of Kyoto's temples. Made me want to go there even more!

Rose travels to Kyoto for the reading of her fathers will. She didn‘t know her father. Paul, who was close to her father, takes Rose on a tour of the gardens of Kyoto and in doing so they both open up to new possibilities. There was something very beautiful about this book - even if I didn‘t always feel like I ‘got‘ every nuance. Thanks again @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego

This is a question I‘ve been grappling with. It‘s so satisfying to see it articulated so matter of factly on the page. #grief #mourning

Evening reading view #birthdayhaul

Thank you thank you thank you @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego for this thoughtful #jolabokaflodswap everything is perfectly delightful and so appreciated xo

This pendulum swing between the candor of happiness and the cruelty of desire was life itself.

Now this sounds fascinating! Another favorite author and this slim volume is only 148 pages so this must be fast moving to touch on all that.