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The House of Pomegranate Trees by Hahn Moo-Sook

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Did not finish book.
A bit slow when I read it, I was not in the proper time to truly experience this book. Still want to read it though 
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo

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Did not finish book.
Had to return it to the library 
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Lovely little book. I finally get the references to the rose and the fox in contemporary pop culture and media. 
And it’s a beautiful exploration of what home means, and love and friendship as well as what one’s purpose is. 
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

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About the Kalanithi’s life as he is diagnosed with cancer at the height of his medical career that he had dedicated so much time, strength and passion into, how he grapples with this diagnosis, with his wife, his family.
Beautiful, emotional book that had me crying immediately on the first page. 

Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Adichie at her prime on the importance and the practical implications and applications of feminism, what it means and how to raise our children as feminist. 
Skinship by Yoon Choi

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A short stories on the experience on the Korean American diaspora. 
As with many short stories, some were a hit and some were a miss as they went on topics/ issues that I wasn’t particularly fawning over 
The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor by Eddie Jaku

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Absolutely beautiful little book about Jaku’s experience as a young man coming into his adulthood at the same time as the Nazis’ consolidation of power. A short concise book of his experience under Hitler’s rule and the atrocities, but also ultimately a book about family, and love and hope and the light at the end of the tunnel and happiness.
I loved that even while working to this message of hope, he doesn’t hide his frustration and anger as he experienced all this this, nor does he imply that in happiness he has somehow understood. 
In love with this book, this story and my eternal friend Eddie Jaku. 
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2. by Junji Ito

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challenging dark mysterious fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
😧 scary 
The spirals get worse and worse, scarier and more intricate 
Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop by Hwang Bo-Reum

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For coffee and book lovers trying to find their path and purpose and navigating life 
An absolute love. 
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1 by Junji Ito

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challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
My first horror manga and it absolutely scared me, those short shallow breaths over spirals???
@throneofpages owes me damages for therapy 😪