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GatheringBooks
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#JuneSpecials Day 24: #Canada is one of the countries featured in the #ReadTheWorld2025 challenge with @PaperbackPirate ‘s review of tagged book. I have actually posted a half yearly progress round up of participants‘ sharing on GatheringBooks here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-rsI - tagging @BarbaraBB @Kristy_K - everyone is welcome to join us - we still have (barely) half a year left to read more of the world. Let‘s do it! 📚📚📚🌍✈️🚢🚞

PaperbackPirate Thank you for sharing! I need to update my challenge because I‘ve added a few more countries! 📚 2d
Eggs Well done! I see that the tagged book is on my stack to read… 2d
BarbaraBB Love your update and that I‘ve been able to contribute! I‘ll share another two months update soon too! 2d
Kristy_K I love the update! Thank you for sharing! 16h
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PaperbackPirate
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I checked off my first 2 countries in one book for #ReadtheWorld2025 :
Japan and Canada! This book really transported me to both places!

My goal is to get to 10 this year to beat last year.

Thanks for hosting @GatheringBooks !

GatheringBooks 2 countries in January alone! Awesome! 💕💕 5mo
mhillis Such a good book!! 5mo
PaperbackPirate It will definitely be on my favorites list at the end of the year @mhillis ! 🐈 5mo
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monkeygirlsmama
Ghosts of the Tsunami | Richard Lloyd Parry
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Mehso-so

3.5⭐

I wanted to like this book more than I did. The narrator for the #audiobook had an incredibly soothing and easy to listen to voice. The firsthand accounts of the loss, devastation, resiliency, and strength were powerful. The book just felt too drawn out. If the author had condensed things a bit, which I fully believe he could have done without sacrificing the integrity of his work, then I think this would have easily been a 4-4.5 star read.

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PaperbackPirate
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🎉 #JumpStart2025 gave me a good push this year! I read almost 8 more hours and 92 more pages than last January.
⌚️My favorite this month was A Tale for the Time Being, but I liked all my reads this month.
🙌 Thanks for the challenge @Lizpixie !

#bookly #booklyapp

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PaperbackPirate
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Pickpick

I just finished this and it was so good! Told in 3 timelines by 3 narrators we meet Nao from Japan in the past and Ruth living in Canada in the present. Connected by flotsam their stories come together. I enjoyed both of their voices so much, and the metaphysical aspect.
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🎅🏽 My Secret Santa at work picked this for me
📚 Reading for the #keywordreadingchallenge : time
📸 Taken at Ja Ramen with their cool wallpaper
#JumpStart2025

LoverOfLearning Love this cover! 4mo
PaperbackPirate I agree @LoverOfLearning ! My goal is to make a scrapbook page inspired by the cover. 😍 4mo
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Eggs
Wave | Sonali Deraniyagala
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“…the reality of being here eludes me, I can‘t focus, I am dazed. And I want to stay this way. If I have too much clarity, I will be undone, I fear.”

The powerful story of Sonia Deraniygala, who lost her husband and kids in the Sri Lanka tsunami of 2004

#Waves
#SummerSouls

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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dabbe
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#weeklyfavorites
@Read4Life

Took me a while to read, but it was worth it. 💚

Read4life It wasn‘t for me. Glad you enjoyed it, though. 💙 13mo
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peanutnine
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Pickpick

Finished last month for #AuthorAMonth
This was so enthralling, I couldn't stop listening. I loved the interconnected stories of Ruth & Nao and the subtle magical realism throughout. The characters were so well crafted and the story slow & gentle yet compelling. 5⭐
@Soubhiville

lil1inblue This was such a beautiful book. 💙 13mo
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