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This was my book for #Nonfiction2025 #HongKong: unfortunately it was pulled from Toronto's audiobook shelf when I was only partway through. It tells the story of four advocates for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong in 2019: the section that I did listen to, about the principled actions of Rev. Chu Yiu-Ming, a Baptist pastor who was over 70 at the time of the actions described in the book, was compelling. I'm sure the remainder is too.

This seems a bit familiar.

The stories in this book were fantastic (not to compare but this book satisfies what I was hoping to read in Bliss Montage). I picked this book up on a whim at Rose City Reads - a used bookstore in NE Portland - and I‘m so grateful that I gave it a chance. I already have the author‘s other books on hold at the library. Well written and thought-invoking stories - the whole lot.

Still trucking along through TURBULENCE alongside sweetie-pie Stormy. It feels very much like assigned reading, which is what I‘m in exactly the right mood for. I carry on not because I‘m invested in the characters but for the window on the rural China of the 1980s and the opportunity to consider the differences between Chinese and Western story structures. I‘ll hopefully finish it tomorrow.

I get it.Brackets are to eliminate not add.WHen the books are this rewarding,you end up with more favourites,not fewer.Reviews for #ReadingBracket2025 #ReadingBracket25 #June25 #July25 #August25
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7702997991
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7559657153
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8210364135
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8202393846
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8202412558

Throwback to yesterday afternoon, when I drank a lovely Cat‘s Got the Cream Ale from Rebellion Brewing Co and began TURBULENCE. So far, the book‘s interesting but not gripping. I keep coming back to how the story often feels like it could be set at any point in the last 2000 years, until someone mentions cadres or telephone poles and it‘s like, oh yeah, we‘re totally in the 1980s.

#2025reads

If I read this this year this would be #AllergicToChunksters, I‘ve had this for a few years but this looked like a difficult read (I knew nothing of Ancient and Imperial China but now know a little more). The story is of civil wars that went on for almost a century at the beginning of the first millennium. ⬇️

Thank you so much for the gorgeous book @Soubhiville I‘ve read two of her others and loved them - so can‘t wait to read this one. It will be my NYE treat. Wishing you a very very Merry Christmas 😘

This is a novel of class and gender in modern China, mainly following a nanny and her young charge with glimpses of the wealthy family sprinkled through. I found it really absorbing but thought the ending was a little lacking. #TOBlonglist

This was a very tough go. Compelling, for sure, but I don't think the mix of what happened to Lindsay alongside her parents at her bedside worked for me.