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Haiku: Asian Arts and Crafts for Creative Kids | Patricia Donegan

5/7/25
#haikuaday
#haikuhive
@dabbe
@thebookhippie
@thespineview
@kristy_k
@jenlovesjt47
@debinhawaii
@bellabella
@julieclair
@anncrystal

AnnCrystal Wow 👏😍🌊💝. 1d

dabbe Magnificent metaphor. 🩵💙🩵 1d

TheSpineView Awesome! 💙 1d

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bellabella .... Shh, I'm listening to the waves 💙 😍 1d

BooksandCoffee4Me I love “the horizon is a whisper” 💛 1d

JenlovesJT47 🌊🌊🌊 💛💛🐝🐝 1d

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iaietta

Memorie di una geisha | Arthur Golden

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5/5 ⭐️
Un racconto davvero coinvolgente che mi ha tenuta incollata alle pagine dall'inizio alla fine

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MaleficentBookDragon

Strange Pictures | Uketsu

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I really enjoyed this book. The picture puzzles were intriguing & the twists compelling. I sped through this book. I would have finished it in one go if I didn‘t have to work. 😁 I hate to use the word “fun” because there are some really bleak moments in this book, but it WAS fun to read.
Didn‘t have the perfect green, and it was a lighter weight so I added an additional round, but I still like this #grannysquare for my #bookblanket #doublespin

TheAromaofBooks

TheBookHippie Ooooh I love the square!!! 2d

BarbaraBB Looking forward to the book, sitting on my shelves already 2d

MemoirsForMe 😍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 2d

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marleed Ooh, I love your squares! 2d

sarahbarnes I have this one stacked already! 2d

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2d

Kitta Love the square! 2d

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RaeLovesToRead

Lonely Castle in the Mirror: The no. 1 Japanese bestseller and Guardian 2021 highlight | Mizuki Tsujimura

Bit late, but let's get back to Book spinning.
I'm off work today feeling absolutely awful.
Was in a reading slump before I started feeling ill 😵😵

willaful Hope you feel better soon. 2d

dabbe Hope you feel better soon. 💙💚💙 2d

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Feel better soon ❤️‍🩹 2d

RaeLovesToRead @willaful @dabbe @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Thank you so much 💕 My body seems to have rallied a little. Just need my brain to catch up now! 2d

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janeycanuck

Before We Say Goodbye: A Novel | Toshikazu Kawaguchi

2025 was supposed to be the year I finally stuck to my 2-out-1-in rule. I‘m currently 28 books behind on the out side of that equation - and that doesn‘t include my BOTM and Aardvark picks that should be showing up soon. Oops.

TEArificbooks I had the same goal. Pretty sure all is lost I won‘t be able to catch up. 3d

TheBookHippie 🤣 3d

Prairiegirl_reading There are sooo many books coming out this year that I want!!! 3d

mcctrish I have a bunch in my book outlet cart waiting for me to commit #imalostcause 3d

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lil1inblue

Haiku | Peter Washington

5/4/25
#haikuaday
@dabbe
@thebookhippie
@thespineview
@kristy_k
@jenlovesjt47
@debinhawaii

JenlovesJT47 💜💜💜 4d

dabbe Oh, you tugged my heartstrings with this one! 💜💚💜 4d

Kristy_K Love. 💜 4d

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lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 🩵💙🩵 4d

lil1inblue @dabbe Aww! 🥰 4d

lil1inblue @Kristy_K 🩵🥰🩵 4d

BooksandCoffee4Me All the emotions ❤️ 2d

DebinHawaii This is so sweet! 💛🐝💛 2d

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swynn

The Great Passage | Shion Miura

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(2011, English translation 2017)

This was a delight. It's an understated story about the relationships and preoccupations of a publishing team as they prepare a new dictionary. The story takes up questions about the relationship between words and the concepts they signify, the value of experience in forming definitions, and the ever-changing nature of language. Thoughtful and charming, and recommended.

rwmg I loved that the book made me feel I could understand the nuances of words they were discussing despite not knowing any Japanese.

Have you read the same author's Kamusari duology about a young man apprenticed to a forester? 3d

swynn @rwm deg Yes! And it was done so smoothly I didn't feel like I was getting a lesson in Japanese, just sharing a conversation about a challenge of dictionary-building.

This is my first by the author. Have you read & would recommend it? 3d

rwmg Yes, I also enjoyed the Kamusari books, which are more a coming-of-age story. I wouldn't rank them quite as highly as The Great Passage, but still very worth reading. (edited) 2d

swynn @rwmg Thanks! I'll add them to the TBR. 2d

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britt_brooke

Butter: Roman | Asako Yuzuki

First time in a Barnes & Noble since our local one closed just over a year ago. 🥺 One perk of going all over the Nashville area for my 11 year old‘s basketball games. This B&N was right by the courts. The two on the left are mine, the rest, his. #raisingreaders

Hooked_on_books I read Where the Red Fern Grows when I was his age and it destroyed me! I was a reader practically from birth, but that book really showed me the power of stories. 5d

britt_brooke @Hooked_on_books His teacher recommended it to him, so he was all about getting it! I‘ve somehow never read it, so I‘m going to soon as well. (edited) 5d

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rockpools

Butter: Roman | Asako Yuzuki

In training for #CampLitsy25 😁.

I‘ve voted (but am pretty confident that the book I REALLY want to read won‘t make the list), and now I‘m heading back to 🧈 🥢 . This was a Christmas present, or I probably wouldn‘t have bothered. So far, I don‘t hate it…. I‘ll get back to you in 300 pages!

Thanks for all your work @Megabooks @BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain - hoping to ‘do‘ camp proper this year!

squirrelbrain Now I need to know which one you *really* want to read! (You can whisper it to me! 🤣) I won‘t say ‘enjoy‘ Butter….but give it a go anyway. 🤣😳😬 5d

BarbaraBB I did like Butter! It‘s very Japanese! And I am curious too about the one you really want to read! 5d

Kitta I read a lot of Japanese novels so the style was sort of familiar to me and the subject matter really interesting. I found myself quite hungry reading it! Not the best book of the year imo but I think I was in the minority who found it enjoyable! 4d

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rockpools @squirrelbrain 😁 It‘s not beyond possibility that you *may* have nominated the one I‘m particularly curious about, Helen. I spent a lot of my childhood Christmases in the DN postcode area, but I don‘t think I‘ve ever done more than change trains in the town itself. (That was me whispering!) 4d

squirrelbrain Ah yes, I know which one you mean now…. 🤐 4d

rockpools @BarbaraBB @Kitta I am actually enjoying the Japaneseness of it. And will be putting 🧈 on my next rice meal! I suspect I‘d have been happy with 300 pages worth of it though. And I‘m off for a middle-aged-health-check in the morning, where I‘m bound to find out that I‘m 2inches shorter and 20kg heavier than Reiko - don‘t think I‘d have survived as a young woman in Japan! The beauty standards are mind-scrambling. Urgh! 4d

rockpools @squirrelbrain I‘m a big fan of books set in places that books are never set in! 4d

BarbaraBB Yes I was shocked by that too, the beauty standards I mean. And the importance of it, wow. Even worse than it is here! 4d

Kitta @rockpools I wanted some fancy butter so much during reading it! And yes I agree the beauty standards are crazy. 3d

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lil1inblue

Haiku | Peter Washington

5/3/25
#haikuaday

@dabbe

@thebookhippie

@thespineview

@kristy_k

@jenlovesjt47

DebinHawaii Wow! That is beautiful! 💙💙💙 5d

TheBookHippie Love!!!!!! 5d

TheSpineView Lovely! 💙🐦 5d

lil1inblue @debinhawaii @thebookhippie @thespineview Thanks! 😍 4d

dabbe Gorgeous! 💙🩵💙 4d

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