pick“…the world never turned out the way you wanted it to. It simply turned. And you hung on.”
Kindred spirits, friends and lovers; from 1944 Europe through the following 30 years. A story of love, birth, death, art and writing, and remembrances.
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pick“Dusk is the most dangerous time, according to Bao's nanny; the blurred gap between day and night when creatures who resemble humans appear. They exist on the very edge of society, at the tipping point of madness where dreams and nightmares come true.”
Manchuria 1908. Beautiful writing - fox spirits, family relationships, eldest sons, grief and redemption.
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pan½✨
The most positive thing I can express about this one is that I'm relieved it's finally over.
The sole reason I pushed myself to finish it was that it fulfills my letter Z for my #LitsyAtoZ . Under normal circumstances, I would have given up at the 5% mark.
I'm not even going to waste my time writing a review.
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pickThis was good and weird even for dark academia and once you think you know how it's going to end it does a complete 180. Jamie lies her way into an expensive private school so she can figure out who killed her cousin.
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pickA very interesting compilation of some lesser known serial killers.
Short, sweet and to the point.
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pick“Grief was like spring, maybe. You thought you were getting out from under it and then it came roaring back. And getting out from under it felt like forgetting, and forgetting felt like treason.”
Quindlen‘s gentle and authentic prose uncovers the range of realizations in a family‘s grief after losing a mom and wife 😔
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pick“There were three kinds of karma: the accumulated karma from all our past lives; the karma we created in this life; and the karma we stored to ripen in our future lives.”
The beauty and cruelty of women‘s lives in 1950s Jaipur. Has anyone read the entire trilogy? Should I?
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