Happy new year, Homo sapiens! Welcome 2023! I hope you all had a joyous holiday!
Welcome to this year’s first WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
As usual, just answer the three W questions:
Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
As usual, just answer the three W questions:
Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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The Porcelain Doll – 4 stars
The Book of Mother – 3 stars
The Forest of Stolen Girls – 3.5 stars
So far, both An Unlasting Home and The Overnight Guest are very interesting reads. Hope to finish both this week.
Interesting titles for my next reads, don’t you think? I’m very curious already.
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What did you recently finish reading?
What are you currently reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?
The Violin Conspiracy – 5 stars
The Paris Apartment – 3 stars
Every Heart a Doorway – 3.5 stars
At Night All Blood is Black is bloody and brutal. I’m halfway through it.
Daughter of the Moon Goddess is becoming so predictable, like I’ve already heard a story the same as this before. I hope there’s more excitement and surprises and twists in it.
Ariadne, so far, is so-so.
And so far so good with The Ride of a Lifetime.
The Golden Couple and The Leviathan are both recommendations so I’m looking forward to reading both.
Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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Hello there, homo sapiens! I hope everyone’s safe and well.
I’m doing my May reading wrap-up today (how time flies!) and this might be my last blog post for the meantime.
I managed to read nine books this month, two books short compared to April but I’m still glad with it because May has been a busy month at work.
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Reading Next
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How was your reading week? Feel free to share!
Welcome to another WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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How was your reading week? What did you enjoy most? Any recommendations? What are you going to read next? Feel free to share!
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What books have you read this week? Discovered new favorites? Feel free to share!
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This was a quick, amusing read. I finished it in one sitting. 3-stars.
I’m close to finishing this book and I am really liking it.
I was meaning to read Home Going for quite some time now so I hope to get started soon as well as Before We Were Yours.
How was your reading week? Any new favorites? Feel free to share!
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How was your reading week? Have you read any of these books? Feel free to share!
Happy reading and keep safe, Homo sapiens!
Welcome to another WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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Happy reading and keep safe, Homo sapiens!
Welcome to another WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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Have you read any of these books? What have you been reading this past week? I’d be delighted if you share your WWWs, too. Leave a link or share your lists on the comments section so I can check them all out!
Welcome to this week’s WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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At the moment, I haven’t decided yet what to read next. Actually, I might take a break from reading, maybe for a week or two. Why? I dunno. I just feel I have to but we’ll see.
Anyways, happy reading and keep safe, Homo sapiens!
Welcome to this month’s final WWW Wednesday hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
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Happy new year, Homo sapiens! Welcome to our first WWW Wednesday of 2021 hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words. I hope you all enjoyed the holidays and I hope the new year started well with everyone!
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Currently Reading
Have you read any of these books? What have you been reading this past week? I’d be delighted if you share your WWWs, too. Leave a link or share your lists on the comments section so I can check them all out!
Whoa! It’s December already! Christmas is just around the corner and I so hope to have a very merry Christmas this year as this might just be my last one here.
Anyhow, same as last week, it was a slow reading week again. Let’s get started, shall we?
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Transcendent Kingdom started really slow for my taste that I almost abandoned it but I’m glad I didn’t. It was an interesting read that tackled mental illness, addiction and the forever argument between faith and science. 4-stars.
I have just started with my current read, In Order to Live, and I have really high hopes with this book. I don’t get to read non-fiction/memoir very often so I’m excited with this one.
Have you read any of these books? What have you been reading this past week? I’d be delighted if you share your WWWs, too. Leave a link or share your lists on the comments section so I can check them all out!
It’s Wednesday once again, how time flies! I had very little time to read this past week, well, you know, sometimes life just interferes with my reading. 😉
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I didn’t like My Dark Vanessa as much as I was expecting to like it given the reviews I’ve read before I started reading this book. I don’t normally read reviews before reading a book but I’ve been seeing this on my feeds for some time and saw many 5-star reviews. I don’t know. It does have a lot of very important things to tell us, it’s definitely not the content that I’m having issues with, that’s for sure. Maybe I didn’t like the way it was written and because I find it unnecessarily long.
I’ve read more than half of What the Wind Knows and it is a beautiful story so I hope to finish it this week.
I don’t always get to follow my scheduled books to read next but I’m in the mood to start with these three.
Have you read any of these books? What have you been reading this past week? I’d be delighted if you share your WWWs, too. Leave a link or share your lists on the comments section so I can check them all out!
Hello, Homo sapiens! Welcome to another WWW Wednesday, hosted by Sam from Taking On A World of Words.
As usual, just answer the three W questions:
Have you read any of these books? What have you been reading this past week? I’d be delighted if you share your WWWs, too. Leave a link or share your lists on the comments section so I can check them all out!
I don’t quite remember how I first got across this book but as many of you know, I have a soft spot for Japanese literature and I haven’t read any from Natsume Sōseki so of course, I shouldn’t pass on this.
Kokoro is a Japanese classic about betrayal, self-isolation, guilt, bitterness and loneliness. It tells the story of the narrator, Soseki, a university student drawn to a far older man whom he calls Sensei and Japan’s transition from the Meiji society to the modern era. Sensei is a lonely man and visits someone’s grave every month. After graduation, Soseki had to go home and look after his ailing father who hopes that his son finds a good job with the help of Sensei. However, when his father’s condition worsened, he received a letter from Sensei which made him leave his father despite his condition. The letter reveals Sensei’s past and his decision to end his life.
Kokoro is not a book everyone will like but if you enjoy reading stories that dig deep into the characters’ lives and with very little action, not to mention slow-paced, but intense, I would gladly recommend this book.
Quotable Quotes:
“No matter how full one’s head might be with the image of greatness, one was useless, I found out, unless one was a worthy man first.”
“The truth is, the only things I would have thought worth saying at the time are those things which I shall say here, and it was then too soon for me to write such a letter.”
“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
“I do not want your admiration now, because I do not want your insults in the future. I bear with my loneliness now, in order to avoid greater loneliness in the years ahead. You see, loneliness is the price we have to pay for being born in this modern age, so full of freedom, independence, and our own egotistical selves.”
“It is not you in particular that I distrust, but the whole of humanity.”
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As I have mentioned last week, I find The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue a bit slow for my taste but I must say, I’m glad I didn’t abandon it. I enjoyed the last third of the book so much so I’m giving it 4-stars. I also read Pigeons from Hell, a short story and it was a good one, too, so another 4-star read.
Both What the Wind Knows and The Turn of the Key are interesting reads, so far, so I hope to enjoy it to the end. I thought I could finish them quite quickly but there’s just too much work to be done these days so I have less time for my reading.
I hope to start with The Ten Thousand Doors of January soon which I have been wanting to read for some time now. The Year of the Witching was a recommendation, while Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 was an unexpected find.
Have you read any of these books? What have you been reading this past week? I’d be delighted if you share your WWWs, too. Leave a link or share your lists on the comments section so I can check them all out!
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The Deal of a Lifetime was a really quick read but moving in many ways, 4-stars.
Sadly, I didn’t find The Makioka Sisters as engrossing as I hoped it to be but I’m still giving it 3.5 stars.
And 3-stars for My Cousin Rachel. I think I was expecting more from it because I very much enjoyed Rebecca but still, I consider it a good read.
I have read 30% or so of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and I’m finding it a bit slow-paced for my taste and I’m starting to lose interest but I’ll try to continue with a few more chapters and see whether I’ll read through the end or abandon it instead.
What the Wind Knows piqued my interest by the title itself so I didn’t have second thoughts getting a copy while The Ten Thousand Doors of January has been on my TBR for months so I hope to start with it as well. The Turn of the Key was a recommendation from a good friend so I hope to get to it this month.
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Hello there! Happy Tuesday and welcome to this week’s edition of Top Ten Tuesday!
Top Ten Tuesday is an original blog meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and is currently being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s given topic is Books I Loved but Never Reviewed.
These 10 books are all in my favorites list but I can’t exactly remember anymore why I wasn’t able to write reviews of them but I intend to do it after rereading each of these books someday.
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I honestly haven’t gotten back to reading City of Djinns so I’m stuck to 65% at the moment. I, however, started reading The Silent Patient and Bridge to Terabithia; the former I read during my mini breaks in the office while I try to read a few pages of the latter before going to sleep.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles and Circe were great reads, 4-stars for both.
I still haven’t decided which of these five titles I should read next so I’m open to suggestions.
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