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I am loving this series so much!!!! The growth of Mary Russell is perfect. I rated the book a 4 out of 5 stars.

This week‘s library haul, plus Casey‘s head. I‘m so glad they finally bought more of A MAN AND HIS CAT!

I also brought three boxes of books to donate to the Friends of the Library sale. They were leftovers from a pop up LFL I did last weekend. Most of the LFLs around here closed, and it was so much fun watching people get DELIGHTED when they saw a random bookshelf full of freebies. Weirdly, everyone took the huge, heavy nonfiction titles.

I don't get the hype. The translation was clunky, & it's repetitive & overexplained. Every single story involves women sacrificing themselves and their own lives & interests for others.

I guess that's what I get for breaking my guideline by reading a male author who doesn't come very highly recced by people I trust. And for reading SF by a non-SF author.

It did fill the swap shelf prompt in #urc2025 #URC though! @Faranae
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*Cat (Serene) is not allowed on the table
This was the wrong time to read this book. I thought it was well crafted. Chan handled the multiple times and POV well. I was never confused where or who we were dealing with. I appreciate this being an area that is a historical blind spot for me (British Malaya occupied by Japan)
The writing is obviously debut level, a bit chunky, occasionally trying to do too much. But she gets her points across.

WOW - thank you soooo much for this most amazing #FallingForFallSwap pacakge! You can't really see it but there is also a doormat under all these wonderful items!! I love, love, loved that you got one of your kiddos to pick out a book and can't wait to read it! I can't thank you enough for this wonderful #fffs package! You are too generous @DinoMom

@Avanders @Chrissyreadit

Reading…

When a young man‘s girlfriend mysteriously vanishes, he is brokenhearted and determined to find the imaginary town where he suspects she has taken up residence.

Most of my recent manual labour involves cleaning up my parents‘ horrifically messy basement. (It‘s already so much neater, yet a casual observer might think I‘d done nothing.) Today I dug out Jacob, their turtle. He used to have his own bedroom (ie, he lived on the bed in their spare room), which led many, many people to think I had a brother named Jacob.

I also listened to all of another enjoyable Japanese mystery from the 1980s. #audiocleaning

another one done #audiobook #readinglife #readinggoal

I think the mystery genre in novel format just isn't for me 😆 or maybe it's just #Japanese #mystery novels? The pacing is slow and I have mixed feelings about the detectives. Their methods were nice to see, if tedious at times. I did like the revelation, tho it sucked the person in question didn't get away w the crime 😔

New adventure!