Welcome to Litsy!

So excited to be thinking about #CampLitsy24. I have seen so many great nominations posted today. I tried to stay away from those already nominated.

A big thank you to our camp hosts. @squirrelbrain @Megabooks @BarbaraBB

It‘s been very stormy and rainy here for days! This is on my #TBR !! Have you read it?

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Bereavement. War. Death. Families that teach us love and violence simultaneously. I loved this book to the core. Especially since it tells of what colonisers can do to the colonised so brutally, so factually, that it truly hits you in the face that, yes, this is what happened. To many.

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This to me was just ok

1) Excited for the Women‘s Prize longlist tomorrow and a lunch date Wednesday.
2) Tagged
3) Historical Fiction

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Doing my research tonight to fill in some holes for my challenges this year, I realized this book I‘m rereading works for #Malaysia, coming up in September for #foodandlit. I‘ve been reading it for #Australia #readingOceania. It didn‘t hit me that around half of it occurs in Malaysia! So even though I‘m about 30% into it, I‘m going to put it on hold till September. Since it‘s a reread I think I won‘t have to start at the beginning again.

I read this in the 1980s (can you tell by how beat up the book is?) and loved it. So it‘s time to pull it out again and read it for #Australia #readingOceania @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

In just about any book you will learn something. It might be nothing more than a new word. Or it might be a whole section of a war that you did not know existed. A part that until you get lost in the pages of a book were lost to you. I had no idea just how much WW2 was brought to British-colonized Malaya, now Malaysia. How the Japanese were set to take over with the promise of making it more Asian.
Review:http://tinyurl.com/2p87hkh3

What did you choose? I‘ve been eyeing the tagged since it came out! 📚🎈📚🎈

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This book shifts between two time periods: Malaya is 1935 and in 1945. The story follows a family living through the Japanese occupation of Malaya. The brutal horrors of war on civilian populations are fully described, so this is not a book for sensitive readers. I was somewhat disappointed in the writing. At times I would have preferred more nuance and subtlety.