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Kamogawa Food Detectives | Hisashi Kashiwai
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Pickpick

This book is so cute! I‘m so glad I picked it up at the library the other day. Koishi and her Dad run a hard to find restaurant and detective agency. You describe a dish associated with a memory that you want to taste again and they will make it for you, make it taste the same as it did in that memory.

Highly, highly recommend if you need something cozy to read.

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shortsarahrose
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It‘s a pretty nice spring day. Starting a new book from my #AuldLangSpine list to try to get out of a bit of a reading slump. The barista excitedly told me she just finished this one as she was bringing me my dirty chai (also having overnight oats with apples and peanut butter).

5feet.of.fury That cover is so cuuute 😻 4d
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I think I am going to bail on this for now. I have read 30 pages and it isn't pulling me in. I know so many enjoyed it, but it is due back at the library tomorrow and so many people are waiting. There is no way I am going to push through it all today. And obviously I have plenty to read from the library.

BarbaraBB It took awhile to get into the book, I agree 2w
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Arvena
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Pickpick

Warm, bitter-sweet, cozy.

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BarbaraBB
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At first I didn‘t know what to make of this book. Were it loosely connected stories, all set in a fantasy setting? YA maybe? And then I got it and I got the message. A book that packs a punch in a quite unexpected way(to me) and well deserves its place on the #InternationalBooker shortlist!

sarahbarnes Glad you liked it too! I agree I‘m glad it‘s on the shortlist. 2w
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sarahbarnes
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Well, I‘ve only read the tagged from the Booker Intl shortlist so far although I‘m on the list at the library for the others except for Small Boat, which isn‘t available.

BarbaraBB I really want to read Small Boat! But it‘s not out here yet either. 2w
sarahbarnes @BarbaraBB I‘m excited to try the others on the list and hoping my holds start coming in soon! I was trying to figure out if I could order a copy of Small Boat somewhere. 2w
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Cortg
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Heartwarming stories aren‘t normally my jam but toss them in with time travel, and a coffee shop in Japan and I‘m in! I‘m not 100% sure I‘ll keep going with the others in the series but I have enjoyed the first two books.

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Cortg
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I‘ve been rearranging rooms in my house and purging stuff. I created a little reading nook and it makes my heart happy when I walk into the family room. I have not read a single book on this bookshelf 😂

Ruthiella Nice! 🤩 1mo
dabbe 🤩🤩🤩 1mo
BarbaraBB Lovely spot 🥰 1mo
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BookmarkTavern Beautiful! 🤩 1mo
Cortg Thank you! @BookmarkTavern 1mo
peanutnine Lovely corner! I have that exact chair except in brown 😅 4w
Cortg @peanutnine I have wanted this chair for years! Maybe even a decade 😆 4w
peanutnine It's deceptively comfy! ☺️ 4w
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Karisimo
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Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 1mo
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Graywacke
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Dystopian feel, with pared down prose and a lot mystery. Eventually we figure out we're in some future with a much smaller population of humanity. And we're within an unnatural system where no one seems to understand the controls. [The Giver] was always on my mind. This is is a bit of a puzzle to put together.

I liked it. I liked the pared down prose and curiosity build-up.

#booker #IB2025 No. 3

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