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Robotswithpersonality
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Pickpick

Hoo boy. If you survived watching Red Sparrow, I think you can handle reading this book. That being said...
Lee gets full marks in writing quality for managing to
make an eminently readable book despite truly
harrowing subject matter. Recounting events surrounding Korean experience beginning in World War II and the Korean War, the tragic history of a split country is told here primarily by focusing on violence against women 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? and the lengths women have to go to to make better lives for themselves. There are, suprise, surprise, two trickster figures (not mythological, there is NO fantasy element here) present in the narrative, who evoke admiration for their strength and cunning. While I can appreciate murderous vengeance, and am starting to think I need to look up more traditional spy novels, I also have to confirm yet again that I have a rough time 3w
Robotswithpersonality 3/? with books heavily featuring themes of sexual assault and abuse. I think the choice to switch POVS for a couple of the 'lives' encountered added to the storytelling, and I can understand why the lives were not told in order. I can see some readers being baffled at the detour and length of the '7th life' but it adds to the overall story. I would happily read other works told in this format. I would consider reading from this author again, 3w
Robotswithpersonality 4/4 as long as I was forewarned about how dark the premise/content might be.
⚠️child abuse, domestic abuse, SA, slavery, suicide
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Robotswithpersonality
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Today's 'scratched my brain just right' sentence. ☀️

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Rome753
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Next up for reading.

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The_Book_Ninja
The Manchurian Candidate | Richard Condon
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Bailedbailed

Im on a bad run: 2 bails in a row😩 30 pages in, I‘m wondering why the author seems to hate all of his characters. I Googled and it seems Condon liked to “rage” at politics, authority, military. This book is supposed to be satire. Fair enough. For me, it‘s a weird kind of satire, not being any colours of the “amusing” spectrum and it‘s full of obnoxious characters. It‘s verbose and dull. It spawned 2 films, which I haven‘t seen🤷🏻Bailed on p. 81

dabbe I never knew there was a book. I loved the movie with Angela Lansbury, though! #allhailthebail! #betterbooksahead 🙌🏻 1mo
The_Book_Ninja @dabbe I guess I need to watch it to see what happens! 1mo
dabbe @The_Book_Ninja Ooh, it\'s so worth it. 🤩 1mo
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RamsFan1963 @The_Book_Ninja Make sure you see the one with Lansbury, Sinatra and Laurence Harvey. The remake with Denzel Washington & Liev Schreiber isn't good at all. 1mo
The_Book_Ninja @RamsFan1963 I will👍🏼…the story was shaping up well, I just wasn‘t enjoying the writing. 1mo
Bookwomble I've never read the book (and never will given your review), but join in the chorus of approbation for the original movie 😊 1mo
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble Qb:50 to rent. My weekend is set 4w
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja I hope that's a good investment! Having recommended it, I'd caution that I watched it on late night telly when I was about 10 and my dad was at the pub! But it obviously left an impression 😄 And it was Oscar nominated, so... 4w
Bookwomble Did you get around to watching the film? 🎥 3w
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble yes. It‘s a good story. Maybe I should have carried on with the book 🤷🏻 3w
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja Life's too short to stick with books you aren't getting anything from. There's plenty more impatiently waiting for you! Glad you enjoyed the film 😊 3w
The_Book_Ninja @Bookwomble 100% agreed Wombie! I was worried about a slump. But I‘m back on track and enjoying my current reads🙌🏼 3w
Bookwomble @The_Book_Ninja It's a relief when that reading-flow returns 😌 3w
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lil1inblue
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TheSpineView ❤️❤️❤️ 1mo
SamAnne Wow. 1mo
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DebinHawaii
The Manchurian Candidate | Richard Condon
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#ThreeLineThursday #TLT

I did pretty well with my score on this one & I loves me some good movie villains!😱

Favorites (Going with 6)
My Top 2:
-Mrs. John Iselin of The Manchurian Candidate was the perfect amount of cold cruel evil & I‘m a fan of the book & both movie versions (although the original was best).
-Dr. Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs-both book & movie freaked me the heck out in the best way! 😱

Other Favorites: ⬇️

DebinHawaii -The Wicked Witch of the West 🧙
-Alex Forrest 🐰
-Jane Hudson 🤡
-Cruella Di Vil (She has her own song!) 🐶

Anyone want to play? Link to the quiz is on @Dabbe ‘s post. 🤗
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dabbe #yahooyou! Great choices, too. Thanks for playing and sharing! 💛💚💛 2mo
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NovelNancyM
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Mehso-so

An interesting read about North Korea with a clearly unreliable narrator. The plot wasn't always coherent, but compelling enough to want to finish it.

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AnneCecilie
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Pickpick

A woman who works at a home for the elderly, one days decides that she want to talk to the elderly and get their stories. This leads her to a woman who says that she‘s had 3 nationalities in her life; she was born Japanese, lived as North Korean and is dying as a South Korean. Then she says that she will give her 8 words; slave, escape-artist, murderer, terrorist, spy, lover and mother. What the 8 is, you have to read the book to find out.

AnneCecilie I learn some things I didn‘t know about Korean history and it highlighted others. Trigger warnings for rape and violence against women 5mo
Crazeedi Adding, love your description 5mo
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BarbaraBB
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Bailedbailed

There are so many books I‘d rather read than this #womensprize longlisted books in which some short stories are rather artificially sold as a novel. Too far fetched, maybe entertaining but man, why this nomination? There are so many books much, much better than this one. It‘s a fast easy read but I just don‘t bother enough to finish it.

squirrelbrain This did get better as it went along, but I can see why you would bail. 6mo
ChaoticMissAdventures I wish I would have bailed. It was so disjointed, I kept waiting for the stories to build on each other or connect in some way, and they (in my opinion) didn't. I think it had potential but the way it was laid out diminished the impact. 6mo
BarbaraBB @squirrelbrain I was more than halfway through and I did like some stories but I was annoyed by the disjointed chapters, like @ChaoticMissAdventures 6mo
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Deblovestoread You didn‘t miss much. I finished but remember next to nothing. So many better books out there. 6mo
dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 6mo
vivastory I saw a review of this several days ago and was intrigued but after your review & the consensus on the comments I think I'll be sitting out this one 6mo
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Gissy
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5th book read from Women‘s Prize fiction long list. Mixed feelings, again🤷🏽‍♀️Maybe my expectations have been too high because they are books nominated for a prize. A HF based on true events and also based on previous
short stories. Maybe that it‘s why I felt disconnected in some parts.
The narrator in this story is working in a new project at her job, a nursing home in Korea. She will help the residents to write their own obituary⬇️

Gissy (Cont.)The narrator ask the persons to use 3 words in their obituary that describe themselves. Until she knew Ms Mook who will use 8 words, representing stages of her life. Story is about this woman, about the difficulties she lived in Korea at that time and her current life. A sad story. But as I said some parts were like disconnected to me or not well integrated. Maybe I had another idea of what the novel was about 3.75⭐️ 6mo
Gissy April 2024
#ReadAway2024 @DieAReader &Andrew65 @Ghani4Roses
#BookSpinBingo #9 (Women‘s Prize Long List) @TheAromaOfbooks
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DieAReader 🔥You‘re on a roll!!! 6mo
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 6mo
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