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Miss Burma
Miss Burma | Charmaine Craig
20 posts | 11 read | 31 to read
Set against the vibrant backdrop of Burma from the 1940s to the 1960s, Miss Burma is a powerful and epic novel that follows one prominent Burmese family struggling to overcome war and political repression while trying to build a meaningful life
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Denzel.Que
Miss Burma | Charmaine Craig
Mehso-so

Meh. Only reason I'm not totally against it is because of its historical value. Other than that, I felt like that the intention and emotion is very forced.

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Cinfhen
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Pickpick

This was an epic story based on the true experiences of the author‘s grandparents and mother. It was quite brutal in certain parts and really difficult to read/listen. I was unaware of the still ongoing conflict between the Karen people of Southeast Asia and Burmese government now #Myanmar. This book highlights their struggle for independence while also educating on the atrocities committed by British, Japanese and US governments. 👇🏼

Cinfhen The author included SO MUCH DETAIL, that this book felt endless at times. It‘s an heartbreaking story but one I‘m glad I discovered through #ReadingAsia21 It‘s free on #AudiblePlus 3y
rockpools I‘ve had this on my tbr for YEARS and it keeps getting bumped for other things. I am actually going to have to read it now - thanks for your review 😊 3y
Cinfhen It‘s rough @rockpools and I think it‘s going to be a long read BUT I learned so much and the story is really incredible. These people become a part of you. 3y
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Cathythoughts Excellent review 👍🏻❤️ 3y
Cinfhen Thanks so much @Cathythoughts 3y
Megabooks I need to read this because we have a lot of Karen refugees in my town. 3y
Cinfhen Oh wow!!! I didn‘t realize that @Megabooks they seem to be a very peaceful and spiritual people / their plight is so sad 😞 3y
Librarybelle Great review! 3y
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Cinfhen
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Cinfhen SO. MUCH. TRAGEDY. and based on the author‘s grandparents & mother 😱😱 3y
BarbaraBB I‘m glad to see the hashtag #MyseryPorn again 🤣, it‘s a perfect warning! 3y
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Cinfhen
Miss Burma | Charmaine Craig
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#NotBookRelated but wanted to share that both my transatlantic flight & my current domestic flight has had a female pilot 👩‍✈️ ❣️🙌🏻 #GoLadies

AmyG 🙌🏻 3y
Librariana In the wise words of animated character Linda Belcher (of Bob's Burgers fame), "Alright girls! Go girls!" Woo! ? 3y
Soubhiville Yay! 👊🙌 3y
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emilyhaldi So jealous of your trip to Miami!!! How long will you be there?? Enjoy 😎 3y
Chrissyreadit 🙌👏🙌🎉 3y
julesG Yessss! 3y
Kalalalatja Woohoo! And Yay for you being able to go on your trip 🙌 3y
JennyM Safe trip and enjoy 😘 3y
EvieBee Yaaas! 3y
Cinfhen @EvieBee YOUR‘E BACK!!?!?!!!! Yay!!!!!! Hi!!!!!! 3y
EvieBee @Cinfhen Hi sweetiekins!! 💕💕 3y
TrishB Cool 😎 3y
Cinfhen I know @Librariana HOW AWESOME is this?? I was so proud of United Airlines today @AmyG @Soubhiville @Chrissyreadit @julesG @Kalalalatja @JennyM 3y
Cinfhen Soooo cool @TrishB 3y
Cinfhen So nice to know you‘re back @EvieBee you were missed xx 3y
Cinfhen I‘m so psyched to be with the family @emilyhaldi after last year‘s saddest Passover EVER we‘re ALL gonna be TOGETHER this year (Gd Willing) 3y
Crazeedi @Cinfhen have a lovely passover with your family! Have you arrived in the states? Bet you're exhausted!! Take care and enjoy your family 3y
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Cinfhen
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Current read / VERY INTERESTING read by author who has a lovely cadence & tone. Burma in the 1940‘s leading up to past WWII #ReadingAsia21 I‘m learning SO MUCH

BarbaraBB I love it when that happens. Sounds very interesting. 3y
Librarybelle Yay! Echoing @BarbaraBB on this one! 3y
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EvaPriest
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Bailedbailed

I‘m 5.5 hours into the audio book with 7.5 to go. Trying to hang on, but may bail. I absolutely love being transported to Burma, and seeing it all through the eyes of Kim, a Karin woman, and Benny, her white, Indian Jewish husband, a wartime entrepreneur. But I‘m frustrated. Benny falls so abruptly into [spoiler] promiscuous adultery that he seems a different character. The story is also sagging in the middle. But I do love the author‘s narration.

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MrBook
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It‘s been so crazy at the library in such a good way! I‘ve been having to spend something like 2 hours every day just replenishing my displays 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🕺 I can fill one up, and an hour later I wind up having to find more replacements 😆!

Anyway, 2 books for the #SouthernLit Display, 2FH is for #BeachReads, and the bottom 4 are for #HistoricalFiction.

Read any of these?!

#LitsyLovesLibraries #MrBooksDisplays

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Tanisha_A
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It really doesn't help when a lot of books from your TBR go on discount at once. 🤨 Got my hands on -
1. Miss Burma
2. The Heart's Invisible Furies
3. Milkman
4. Born a Crime
5. Eileen
6. Normal People
#Kindlebookhaul #minibookhaulformymegagreedysoul

Cathythoughts Very nice indeed .... I just got Miss Burma for myself too ♥️♥️ 5y
Cathythoughts I hope you love Normal People &Eileen & Milkman ... I really did 👍🏻 (edited) 5y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks #2 💙💙💙 5y
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TrishB Great choices 👍🏻 5y
ephemeralwaltz Great list! 5y
batsy Score! 5y
RohitSawant Niice! 5y
Tanisha_A @Cathythoughts Aha! I look forward to all of them. Think I'll read Normal People as soon as i finish my current read. And, after reading My Year of R&R, i was pretty quick in buying Eileen. 💙 5y
Tanisha_A @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I have heard good things consistently. Hope i make time for it soon. 🥰 5y
Tanisha_A @TrishB @ephemeralwaltz @batsy @rohit-sawant Now only to find time to get to them. 😉 5y
minkyb Sweet! 5y
Tanisha_A @minkyb 😊 Very excited to get started with Normal People tonight. 5y
zsuzsanna_reads Milkman is so amazing. ♥️ 5y
Tanisha_A @zsuzsanna_reads Ooh, i should pick that up next. 😊 5y
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rachelwill
Miss Burma | Charmaine Craig
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Mehso-so

Book 30: Took me a while to trundle through. Perhaps overly long with giant leaps through time to tick the multigenerational box while telling this family story. But it's a period of history I didn't know much about so stuck with it for that.

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RealLifeReading
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Mehso-so

I found this both very interesting and very difficult to read. I loved how it‘s centered on the Karen people of Burma but it‘s very intense - full of complicated and dark history of colonialism, the war in Southeast Asia and the Karen people‘s long struggle for independence. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

GatheringBooks read a graphic depiction of this, esp child soldiers in this book 6y
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mrozzz
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You ever subconsciously find & stick to a “theme” while book shopping? 🧐

Serendipity!! I used a B&N coupon to get these paperbacks— and after the fact I noticed each happen to have been nominated for National Book Awards. One is a winner, one a finalist, one on the long list. Awesome. 🤘🏻 #bookhaul

tammysue Awesome haul, Mel! 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I have the two on the left on my TBR! 6y
emilyhaldi Kiss Burma has been on my list forever 6y
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mrozzz Thanks!! @whatshesreadingnow 😏 Couldn‘t help myself. 6y
mrozzz @BarbaraTheBibliophage they look GREAT!! 6y
mrozzz @emilyhaldi Yes! I‘ve wanted to read it since I saw the NBA longlist. 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage I know! You and I have been on a similar buying/reading trajectory lately. 👏🏻👏🏻 6y
mrozzz Ha! I love that @BarbaraTheBibliophage 😄 6y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Me toooo!! 😍 6y
Trashcanman The Hitchens book is great, so is the God Delusion by Dawkins. 6y
mrozzz Good to hear!! @Trashcanman 6y
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rmaclean4
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Spending the evening with Miss Burma. Took the first 50 pages to get into this novel, but I am all in now. I know so little about the history of this part of the world.

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rmaclean4
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Working on reading The Women's Prize long list!

Readerann Uh-oh. I believe that list is going to add to my already ridiculously long TBR 😏. 6y
UrsulaMonarch 👏👏👏 6y
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rmaclean4
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Picked up a couple more for the Womens Prize for fiction longlist. #womensprizelonglist

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EllieDottie
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Is anyone else really excited for this long list????

Booksnchill Sight by Jessie Greengrass is next up for me after I finish The Idiot! Loved this list except I wanted to see Ali Smith 6y
JanuarieTimewalker13 Yes!!! I haven‘t read even one yet but I will!! Especially The Trick To Time!! 6y
peacegypsy @EllieDottie What list are you referring to and where can I find it? Many thanks! 6y
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AnneCecilie Yes, I think there are a lot of good ones here. 6y
EllieDottie @peacegypsy it‘s the womens prize for fiction! https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk 6y
peacegypsy @EllieDottie Thank you! 😊 6y
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BooksForEmpathy
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Avocado toast + Book! I love having this week off 😍. Happy Wednesday!

Johanna414 Enjoy! I hope you have a relaxing week and get lots of reading time in! 6y
2BR02B Looks delish! 6y
emilyhaldi How are you liking this book? It peaked my interest a while ago!! 6y
Dragon Avocado 🥑 yummy! 6y
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Currey
Miss Burma | Charmaine Craig
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A rich stew of political intrigue and multi-ethnic relations in Myanmar, a place whose history I am attempting to understand. It is an investigation of betrayal and estrangement between the family members portrayed, but also in the larger political sense. I was taken by many of the characters but Khin, a main character, acted in a cold and cruel way while the author told us of her loving and loyalty. This was disturbing but largely a great read.

rockpools Hadn't heard of this one - sounds really good! 6y
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emilyhaldi
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Here are some of the books that are #trendingnow after being named as #manbooker or #nationalbookaward nominees 🏆 I narrowed the list down to the 6 that I am interested in reading 🤗

#awesomeautumnbooks

Hazel0303 I really liked Home Fire 7y
BarbaraBB What @Hazel0303 says! 7y
Reviewsbylola I haven't read any of them so I will rely on your reviews before I add them to my TBR. 7y
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Mdargusch I haven't heard of any of these. 😳 7y
emilyhaldi @Mdargusch get familiar with this one bc it's an Oct #botm pick!!!! 7y
Mdargusch Oh right. I did see that! 7y
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abbylibrarian
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Came home from covering lunch breaks at the library with some treats! Not pictured: the DQ Blizzard because I ate it already! 😂📚 #librarylife #libraryhaul

EvieBee What a lovely haul! The Cooking Gene looks so good! 7y
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Redwritinghood
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Received in the mail today, another LitHub giveaway win. Looks like it will be a good read. #bookmail

ramyasbookshelf I've been eyeing this one! Will you be reading it soon? I'd like to see what you think of it before getting it. 7y
Redwritinghood @ramyasbookshelf Maybe not that soon. I'm doing a couple of buddy reads this month and probably won't have time until later. 7y
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