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The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Have placed this hold since July but I just had my copy last week!!!! This lead me to a huge expectation towards this book. This book told you about two French sisters who lived in the second world war, looking for the guide to make thing works and hold their own values highly; even somehow it was far away from the ethnic purposed them to be. It's about a book that showed you different kind of thinking that came from gap years and generation (Vianne and her rebel sister, Isabelle) and pictured how desperate Jewish on the Nazi's dictator before and on Holocaust. I read this book on May 2023 so it was before the Ceasefire from Israel to Gaza- that I wonder the Holocaust survivor made it into the gas chamber and do it again to other people, which is so sickening and triggering.
The language! I thought it would be a whole hard phrases to understand but voila, it's kinda like a YA historical fiction. I found many common dictions that make this book easy like a flowing wind. It's like a diary that has written by a 18 years old girl about finding her identity and value in the middle of chaos and war from east to the west. The ethnocentric from each parties of Jews and Nazis really studied in this book (that I wonder how they survive to live in that era) but I love how the writer wrote the story goes on ways.
The Nightingale is a book about survival, family love, and war. You will find many exact events that Kristin stated on this book that came from deep research. The body language of the army at that time... and how they can easily mocking or even, hurting each other that came from purely hatred and evil that made them do it. The story is full of tenses and mystery, the emotional rollercoaster driven through each page as I turned into one by one. I honestly expected a bit more (since a recall how long I've been waiting for this book) but it's still worthy to read and definitely has special spot for readers who love historical fiction.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
“In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are. Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.”
“She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.”
Have placed this hold since July but I just had my copy last week!!!! This lead me to a huge expectation towards this book. This book told you about two French sisters who lived in the second world war, looking for the guide to make thing works and hold their own values highly; even somehow it was far away from the ethnic purposed them to be. It's about a book that showed you different kind of thinking that came from gap years and generation (Vianne and her rebel sister, Isabelle) and pictured how desperate Jewish on the Nazi's dictator before and on Holocaust. I read this book on May 2023 so it was before the Ceasefire from Israel to Gaza- that I wonder the Holocaust survivor made it into the gas chamber and do it again to other people, which is so sickening and triggering.
The language! I thought it would be a whole hard phrases to understand but voila, it's kinda like a YA historical fiction. I found many common dictions that make this book easy like a flowing wind. It's like a diary that has written by a 18 years old girl about finding her identity and value in the middle of chaos and war from east to the west. The ethnocentric from each parties of Jews and Nazis really studied in this book (that I wonder how they survive to live in that era) but I love how the writer wrote the story goes on ways.
The Nightingale is a book about survival, family love, and war. You will find many exact events that Kristin stated on this book that came from deep research. The body language of the army at that time... and how they can easily mocking or even, hurting each other that came from purely hatred and evil that made them do it. The story is full of tenses and mystery, the emotional rollercoaster driven through each page as I turned into one by one. I honestly expected a bit more (since a recall how long I've been waiting for this book) but it's still worthy to read and definitely has special spot for readers who love historical fiction.
Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren
medium-paced
0.0
The author is pro-Israel lol. Be wise on picking your next read.
Minor Detail by Adania Shibli
Found this book from my book club (thank you for those who gave it free access to the world!) because I believe everyone at least needed to have this knowledge for what is happening in the world right now. While the time of Palestine force by Israeli in 1946, there were lot of young Palestinian women were raped, killed, by soldiers in the Negev desert. Years later, a Palestian writer risked her life to find this truth and figure out what behind it— as they called it as ‘minor detail’. Like the title itself, this book offered a lot of details on the tragedy, it’s quite bluntly disgusting and creepy for my preference.
This book will have two different part of time, but you wouldn’t feel confused since it has no short part that jump to another one in the right time. With only 141 pages, the author made it astonishing frightened. I can sense how crumble the sky above to make them remember all of these… Still wonder how this book suddenly took off from Frankfurt Book Fair and I get it now. Beside literary, I think this book is core historical/political fiction. The language usage is also easy to understand— it’s like a young adult novel with blunt creepy plot and tragedy (if that makes sense). I believe everyone needed to spare their time for a bit to have their inner-sense with this book at least once in a life time.
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
“Solitude is so forgiving of trespassed borders;”
“There are some who consider this way of seeing, which is to say, focusing intently on the most minor details—like dust on the desk or fly shit on a painting, as the only way to arrive at the truth and definitive proof of its existence.”
Found this book from my book club (thank you for those who gave it free access to the world!) because I believe everyone at least needed to have this knowledge for what is happening in the world right now. While the time of Palestine force by Israeli in 1946, there were lot of young Palestinian women were raped, killed, by soldiers in the Negev desert. Years later, a Palestian writer risked her life to find this truth and figure out what behind it— as they called it as ‘minor detail’. Like the title itself, this book offered a lot of details on the tragedy, it’s quite bluntly disgusting and creepy for my preference.
This book will have two different part of time, but you wouldn’t feel confused since it has no short part that jump to another one in the right time. With only 141 pages, the author made it astonishing frightened. I can sense how crumble the sky above to make them remember all of these… Still wonder how this book suddenly took off from Frankfurt Book Fair and I get it now. Beside literary, I think this book is core historical/political fiction. The language usage is also easy to understand— it’s like a young adult novel with blunt creepy plot and tragedy (if that makes sense). I believe everyone needed to spare their time for a bit to have their inner-sense with this book at least once in a life time.
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
First of furthermore, I expected this book will require lot of historical background—or, to be precise, something passed through like what written in American Prometheus about Oppenheimer. But surprisingly, this book was far from that. I honestly didn’t find the urge about thing that called ‘historical’ along the way, it’s more like a memoir about Elizabeth Zott.. with many scientific things as her background. They even didn’t provide an enough reliable resources for this book set on 1960, it’s more like a modern scientist that had life at that time being said.
The language usage! It’s so humorous and funny, if you walked on the street and found your friend read one of the page from this book, you wouldn’t expect the main character the her whole family was working in laboratory-chemistry-scientific field. It’s like a woman empowerment and how a woman thrive to be mother for her family, her career, and herself. Why do I say so? Because you will find many phrases that showed Zott from her early career until the top. I also love how she made a philosophy chemistry on her class to make (us) easier to understand, or those who have been working on that field finding this book more relatable to close to home.
The inner-connection to find in her pathway, how the fairytale becomes the base-core of humanity. Two signifies the lead hardness, although pencils don’t actually contain lead. They contain graphite, which is a carbon allotrope. Unlike ink, graphite is erasable. People make mistakes, a pencil allows one to clear the mistake and move on. Scientist expect mistakes, and because of it— they embrace failures. Some of the values that I learned so much from this book as how it is applicable for my study and my life.
Lessons In Chemistry, like its title, is a lesson we learned about chemistry in life. This book is a diary, a journey, and little punching bag, and a family. Even though the genre bejng said is out of my expectations, but the story is really valuable for my preference. That I eventually understand if life has never been fair, and yet we continue to operate as if it is—as if once we get a few wrongs straightened out, everything else will fall into place. If you need a historical fiction with its detail events of time, this book probably wouldn’t provide you that extend—otherwise, if you look for the scientifically proven of how life works from the PhD and their family (well, it suddenly remind me of my thesis advisor. As how she told me about her family on our discussion… and I found it so endearing! She is so lovely, I adore her so much) then this book was made for you.
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
“Humans need reassurance, they need to know others survived in hard times. And unlike other species which do a better job of learning from their mistakes, humans require constant threats and reminders to be nice.”
“Chemistry is inseparable from life—by its very definition, chemistry is life. but like your pie, life requires a strong base. In your home, you are that base. It is an enormous responsibility, the most undervalued job in the world that, nonetheless, holds everything together.”
First of furthermore, I expected this book will require lot of historical background—or, to be precise, something passed through like what written in American Prometheus about Oppenheimer. But surprisingly, this book was far from that. I honestly didn’t find the urge about thing that called ‘historical’ along the way, it’s more like a memoir about Elizabeth Zott.. with many scientific things as her background. They even didn’t provide an enough reliable resources for this book set on 1960, it’s more like a modern scientist that had life at that time being said.
The language usage! It’s so humorous and funny, if you walked on the street and found your friend read one of the page from this book, you wouldn’t expect the main character the her whole family was working in laboratory-chemistry-scientific field. It’s like a woman empowerment and how a woman thrive to be mother for her family, her career, and herself. Why do I say so? Because you will find many phrases that showed Zott from her early career until the top. I also love how she made a philosophy chemistry on her class to make (us) easier to understand, or those who have been working on that field finding this book more relatable to close to home.
The inner-connection to find in her pathway, how the fairytale becomes the base-core of humanity. Two signifies the lead hardness, although pencils don’t actually contain lead. They contain graphite, which is a carbon allotrope. Unlike ink, graphite is erasable. People make mistakes, a pencil allows one to clear the mistake and move on. Scientist expect mistakes, and because of it— they embrace failures. Some of the values that I learned so much from this book as how it is applicable for my study and my life.
Lessons In Chemistry, like its title, is a lesson we learned about chemistry in life. This book is a diary, a journey, and little punching bag, and a family. Even though the genre bejng said is out of my expectations, but the story is really valuable for my preference. That I eventually understand if life has never been fair, and yet we continue to operate as if it is—as if once we get a few wrongs straightened out, everything else will fall into place. If you need a historical fiction with its detail events of time, this book probably wouldn’t provide you that extend—otherwise, if you look for the scientifically proven of how life works from the PhD and their family (well, it suddenly remind me of my thesis advisor. As how she told me about her family on our discussion… and I found it so endearing! She is so lovely, I adore her so much) then this book was made for you.
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Will you ever realized, that the history we learned on our school— it has sort kind of beneficial for some parties to published? Or, somehow, will that ever change or will it remain just like another secret swallowed by the war; surrender by the sea with a lot of agony?
It has been the second book of Ruta Sepetys that laid on my bookshelf (after I Must Betray You) and this prove me to say all of her writings are masterpiece. Basically, a historical fiction already can convince me. I, also, have seeking my surroundings about how they talked about this book and recommended me as ‘at least you need to read it once in your life time’ and voila—I probably just found one of my best reading I had this year.
Writing this review right on Sunday morning since I had my late caffeine intake with my family gathering the other night, so I stayed up all night to finish this book on one sitting that lead me to buried in tears at the end. This story started from four different characters (which is quite new for me, but I just read the other book with five characters so it still makes sense and toleratable). Emilia, a teenage, Polish orphan; Florian, a restoration artist from East Prussia; Joana, a Lithuanian nurse; and Alfred, a Nazi.
At first it came the a realization that I was quite struggling to notice their characteristics and differentiate them. But as time goes by, I found it very well. The story became more interesting after anti-climax (300th pages and above). Also, as this book was categorized as a young adult, the language usage are so light and insightful— which makes the knowledge and message from this book were easily delivered to the readers. Even so, I highlighted many special phrases or quotes that hit close to home. I probably will give a solid five stars if there were more poetic phrases laid in each page— but it’s still great as it comes!
Salt To The Sea is a book about survival, the loss of everything but we still have something to give (I was shivering while writing this, help), and a light of hope. I believe why this book was talked in almost everywhere since that was how the meaningful and uniqueness of the author deliver are beyond this world, are wider than this sea. I highly recommend you to read it for a bit of knowledge (since the main character are from exactly different backgrounds and purposes of life), sense of belonging and how we— well, basically learn to be grateful to live in this era and can see our family everyday.
It has been the second book of Ruta Sepetys that laid on my bookshelf (after I Must Betray You) and this prove me to say all of her writings are masterpiece. Basically, a historical fiction already can convince me. I, also, have seeking my surroundings about how they talked about this book and recommended me as ‘at least you need to read it once in your life time’ and voila—I probably just found one of my best reading I had this year.
Writing this review right on Sunday morning since I had my late caffeine intake with my family gathering the other night, so I stayed up all night to finish this book on one sitting that lead me to buried in tears at the end. This story started from four different characters (which is quite new for me, but I just read the other book with five characters so it still makes sense and toleratable). Emilia, a teenage, Polish orphan; Florian, a restoration artist from East Prussia; Joana, a Lithuanian nurse; and Alfred, a Nazi.
At first it came the a realization that I was quite struggling to notice their characteristics and differentiate them. But as time goes by, I found it very well. The story became more interesting after anti-climax (300th pages and above). Also, as this book was categorized as a young adult, the language usage are so light and insightful— which makes the knowledge and message from this book were easily delivered to the readers. Even so, I highlighted many special phrases or quotes that hit close to home. I probably will give a solid five stars if there were more poetic phrases laid in each page— but it’s still great as it comes!
Salt To The Sea is a book about survival, the loss of everything but we still have something to give (I was shivering while writing this, help), and a light of hope. I believe why this book was talked in almost everywhere since that was how the meaningful and uniqueness of the author deliver are beyond this world, are wider than this sea. I highly recommend you to read it for a bit of knowledge (since the main character are from exactly different backgrounds and purposes of life), sense of belonging and how we— well, basically learn to be grateful to live in this era and can see our family everyday.
“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”
Happy Place by Emily Henry
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.25
Decided to add more contemporary romance on my bookshelf ever since, yet I found it to be on the line and finally have my copy for it. First of all, this book has been talked in almost every where, too! So I had a quite high expectation how this book works for me and for others as well. Disclaimer, I need an urge romance trope to learn and get use to of my longing and trauma; so I can get use to it, however, I feel like I found something that this book delivered to me.. It might be healed some parts of me that I never know I needed. It's like, no matter the weather—feet of snow or sun bleeding the thirsty fields dry—when I walk up the steps and put my key into the lock, I feel a lift in my chest, a surety: they will be waiting on the other side, still covered in sawdust and smelling like pine. Before I even see them, my heart starts singing its favorite song. And to called it home.
At first, I thought this book will figure out the inner How You Get That Girl by Taylor Swift trope—to the heartbreak and collect pieces again to get that girl. That's all. But surprisingly, it is more than that... too far if it compared to that. There was a rollercoaster emotion, a hit tip to the toe of healing journey in the part of creating; constant apologize, questioning self-worth, and blinded love to seek from others. They kind of taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don't need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.
Happy Place is a book about how you conceal the difference of real life, dark place, and the happiest place we might reach in the end of the day. It could be a place, a person, or even, a long journey of road to go. That could go as the dark shore and magical realism, or maybe it goes dreamy sweet-alike, and a tore palace to come home. If you need a goofy happy lucky go princess charm and emo boy to reach that romantic estate, this book probably wouldn't provide you that. But if you need a self-development, the stage of grief to gain the acceptance and how we make peace with ourselves and the past, this book probably made for you.
At first, I thought this book will figure out the inner How You Get That Girl by Taylor Swift trope—to the heartbreak and collect pieces again to get that girl. That's all. But surprisingly, it is more than that... too far if it compared to that. There was a rollercoaster emotion, a hit tip to the toe of healing journey in the part of creating; constant apologize, questioning self-worth, and blinded love to seek from others. They kind of taught me a new kind of quiet, the peaceful stillness of knowing one another so well you don't need to fill the space. And a new kind of loud: noise as a celebration, as the overflow of joy at being alive, here, now.
Happy Place is a book about how you conceal the difference of real life, dark place, and the happiest place we might reach in the end of the day. It could be a place, a person, or even, a long journey of road to go. That could go as the dark shore and magical realism, or maybe it goes dreamy sweet-alike, and a tore palace to come home. If you need a goofy happy lucky go princess charm and emo boy to reach that romantic estate, this book probably wouldn't provide you that. But if you need a self-development, the stage of grief to gain the acceptance and how we make peace with ourselves and the past, this book probably made for you.
"Everything feels strange, dreamlike: the time-smoothed wooden stairs soft against my soles, the prickle of cool air as I step out back, the rushing sound of the tide sliding over the rocks beneath the bluff."
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.25
Have been always loving each of Anthony Doerr's masterpieces and this one is one of them! First of furthermost, I might say that he is a hellish brilliant brat how could there were five characters in three different timeline.. And all of them are young (start my journey with Cloud Cuckoo Land as a World War Interstellar adaptation) also his writing is elegant and evocative with deep research. My heart always laid upon it everytime <3
We started at the three different timeline; Constantinople 1439, library heist (present time), and at the exoplanet and ship in the mode decades and centuries later. As I sewing saints and stars and griffins and grapevines into the vestments of hierarchs? Every time I stumbled upon his story I always wonder.. like.. What did he do to know this all? What kind of books that he read to gain sort kind of knowledges and write it accordingly? In this book we also learned about the work of raft from the cave and new words to alpha, beta, and omega-- and how it becomes a sentence. Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds. Some of the diction remind me of Tewkesbuty and Enola conversation.. And I realied that he used many old English phrases in this book so it became quite strange to me. I will learn more about it later!
He wrote the forensic report in the most poetic way with: "A trail of corpses left through the void like breadcrumbs from some ghastly faity tale." Also, the tortmen of Rex to choose book seven as he could tell yet a longer tale of all the evils which we have endured by the will of gods. How could it make sense the way you found it!!! He is really a brilliant braat!!! There are lot of moral value as the page turned on too. Like Konstance said as the tale they have to tell is so ludicrous, so incredible, that you’ll never believe a word of it, and yet—“it’s true.”
Overall, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a wide story about the universe, time travel, and history that buried in the heart of the earth.. and how they conceal as one to make this magnificent string for each other. One lack of this book that I keep find is since there are lot of characters in the story, I couldn't dig that deep into their emotion (sorta different with Marie-Laurie and Warner in All The Light We Cannot See.), like, when the chapter is getting excited, Doerr suddenly moved it to another timeline or point of view which somehow makes the readers wanted to punch the air to hold its croase. Haha. However, if you are looking for an astonishing story line that you rarely found it other and how the author can manage it as a beautiful legendary, this book was really made for you.
We started at the three different timeline; Constantinople 1439, library heist (present time), and at the exoplanet and ship in the mode decades and centuries later. As I sewing saints and stars and griffins and grapevines into the vestments of hierarchs? Every time I stumbled upon his story I always wonder.. like.. What did he do to know this all? What kind of books that he read to gain sort kind of knowledges and write it accordingly? In this book we also learned about the work of raft from the cave and new words to alpha, beta, and omega-- and how it becomes a sentence. Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds. Some of the diction remind me of Tewkesbuty and Enola conversation.. And I realied that he used many old English phrases in this book so it became quite strange to me. I will learn more about it later!
He wrote the forensic report in the most poetic way with: "A trail of corpses left through the void like breadcrumbs from some ghastly faity tale." Also, the tortmen of Rex to choose book seven as he could tell yet a longer tale of all the evils which we have endured by the will of gods. How could it make sense the way you found it!!! He is really a brilliant braat!!! There are lot of moral value as the page turned on too. Like Konstance said as the tale they have to tell is so ludicrous, so incredible, that you’ll never believe a word of it, and yet—“it’s true.”
Overall, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a wide story about the universe, time travel, and history that buried in the heart of the earth.. and how they conceal as one to make this magnificent string for each other. One lack of this book that I keep find is since there are lot of characters in the story, I couldn't dig that deep into their emotion (sorta different with Marie-Laurie and Warner in All The Light We Cannot See.), like, when the chapter is getting excited, Doerr suddenly moved it to another timeline or point of view which somehow makes the readers wanted to punch the air to hold its croase. Haha. However, if you are looking for an astonishing story line that you rarely found it other and how the author can manage it as a beautiful legendary, this book was really made for you.
“In a life you accumulate so many memories, your brain constantly winnowing through them, weighing consequence, burying pain, but somehow by the time you’re this age you still end up dragging a monumental sack of memories behind you, a burden as heavy as a continent.”
“Almost overnight, the streets glow with meaning. she reads inscriptions on coins, on cornerstones and tombstones, on lead seals and buttress piers and marble plaques embedded into the defensive walls—each twisting lane of the city a great battered manuscript in its own right.”
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.75
The second book of Agatha Christie that laid on my shelf this month.. and expectedly, much better than the other one that I've read! It's about the secret agents in a little private island to guess who is the murder of all. The author created an easy-plot with different cases to solve which makes this book uniquely amazing!
I have nothing much to say since I read it in the middle of my quite pack schedule so this book wasn't really enjoyable for me.. Like, I expected so much more or maybe my situation wasn't capable to absorb all the story into the jar. But if you love mystery detective cases with several discusssion (sorta look like a werewolf game) this book was made for you.
I have nothing much to say since I read it in the middle of my quite pack schedule so this book wasn't really enjoyable for me.. Like, I expected so much more or maybe my situation wasn't capable to absorb all the story into the jar. But if you love mystery detective cases with several discusssion (sorta look like a werewolf game) this book was made for you.
"The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. The Lord is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. The wicked shall be turned into hell."
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
emotional
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Have put my hold ever since about 10 weeks to get this book from my library.. Uh, how I had a high expectations towards the story. I was really into memoir these days and surprisingly I always found great memoir in each step of angle of people’s lives. But for this, it’s quite… different. I feel like this book was really made for the author herself. How she mentioned every thing about her life, the philosophy of food that she ate, the tradition of her culture and family, and how she package it as the romanticize-hustle life, if that makes sense!
The narrative in the book jumps from past and present numerous times, skipping across time with various anecdotes. The language that Michelle offered is like a metaphor diary; so full of adventurous and whole constellations. I felt it like— from the deepest core of my heart that she had a huge dream in even in the small space for her to pursue in her life. I also love how she pictured the faith she had upon her mother to always see her from far and beyond; that I learned it hard way all this time to have faith as that hope comes core value to survive and keep thriving.
The idea of a “the scarcity mentality” mentioned in this book, related to lack of Asian and female representation in the media. Also the beauty standard is an instinct part of the culture and how she manage it to her family— which makes me found interesting to dig more since many people might relate to this course as well. I came to realize that while I struggled to be good, I could excel at being courageous. I began to delight in surprising adults with my refined palate and disgusting my inexperienced peers with what I would discover to be some of nature’s greatest gifts.
Crying in H Mart is a book about family, home-cooking, and love; how you might try to find love in every little thing what mother earth gave to you, how you might see the core meaning of meals that feels so homey.. until it brought memories that laid forever in your heart. It’s all full of loss, grief will be a forever journey to discover… and there will be place to lean and cry, that’s what we called it home.
The narrative in the book jumps from past and present numerous times, skipping across time with various anecdotes. The language that Michelle offered is like a metaphor diary; so full of adventurous and whole constellations. I felt it like— from the deepest core of my heart that she had a huge dream in even in the small space for her to pursue in her life. I also love how she pictured the faith she had upon her mother to always see her from far and beyond; that I learned it hard way all this time to have faith as that hope comes core value to survive and keep thriving.
The idea of a “the scarcity mentality” mentioned in this book, related to lack of Asian and female representation in the media. Also the beauty standard is an instinct part of the culture and how she manage it to her family— which makes me found interesting to dig more since many people might relate to this course as well. I came to realize that while I struggled to be good, I could excel at being courageous. I began to delight in surprising adults with my refined palate and disgusting my inexperienced peers with what I would discover to be some of nature’s greatest gifts.
Crying in H Mart is a book about family, home-cooking, and love; how you might try to find love in every little thing what mother earth gave to you, how you might see the core meaning of meals that feels so homey.. until it brought memories that laid forever in your heart. It’s all full of loss, grief will be a forever journey to discover… and there will be place to lean and cry, that’s what we called it home.
“I had thought fermentation was controlled death. Left alone, a head of cabbage molds and decomposes. It becomes rotten, inedible. But when brined and stored, the course of its decay is altered. Sugars are broken down to produce lactic acid, which protects it from spoiling. Carbon dioxide is released and the brine acidifies. It ages. Its color and texture transmute. Its flavor becomes tarter, more pungent. It exists in time and transforms. So it is not quite controlled death, because it enjoys a new life altogether.”
Hallowe'en Party by Agatha Christie
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
First of further more, I haven’t read any Agatha Christie’s novels before. So basically this is my first book of hers. And I decided to read one together since one of my close friend asked for a reading date! Oh, a little bit information too, there is a movie adaptation for this book while I decided to read this, but I haven’t watched it any.
It took about almost two weeks for me to finish it— which is a bit weird since the writing is on scale categories for young adult in my opinion, and the plot is quite predictable. There isn’t any exact proof or detective mystery I might find in many other mysteries books. As I saw from other reviews, it has lower ranking from other Agatha’s mystery books. Maybe my mind would change after trying to expand my gut to other of her novels!
However, I love how easy and overflowing the story is. Hallowe’en Party is like a mini pocket size you might bring everywhere and can read in the middle of your busy schedule. I got a bit slump while trying to finish it because the plot is so.. flat? If I might say that. But it has adventurous potential on after climax pages.
It took about almost two weeks for me to finish it— which is a bit weird since the writing is on scale categories for young adult in my opinion, and the plot is quite predictable. There isn’t any exact proof or detective mystery I might find in many other mysteries books. As I saw from other reviews, it has lower ranking from other Agatha’s mystery books. Maybe my mind would change after trying to expand my gut to other of her novels!
However, I love how easy and overflowing the story is. Hallowe’en Party is like a mini pocket size you might bring everywhere and can read in the middle of your busy schedule. I got a bit slump while trying to finish it because the plot is so.. flat? If I might say that. But it has adventurous potential on after climax pages.
“You didn’t say a young man was beautiful. If you did say it, you said it apologetically as though you were praising some quality that had been long dead.”