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bookishbitch
Witch Hat Atelier 13 | Kamome Shirahama
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I'm actually behind in reading the series. That isn't stopping me from buying them as the new ones get released, however.

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lil1inblue
Haiku: Haiku | Reginald Horace Blyth
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JenlovesJT47 These are all excellent! 💛🐝🖤🤗 2d
TheSpineView Wow! Excellent set of haikus! 💛🐝💛 2d
dabbe So many different emotions here! All describe the human spirit! 💛🐝🖤 2d
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lil1inblue @JenlovesJT47 Thanks! 🥰 1d
lil1inblue @TheSpineView Thank you! 🤗 1d
lil1inblue @dabbe Funny all the feelings we get over just a few days, right? 💛🐝💛 1d
AnnCrystal 👏🏼🐝👌🏼☯️✊❄️🎶🙏🏼🐝💝. 1d
dabbe @lil1inblue In the best ways possible. 😍 1d
bellabella Nice! 1d
Reggie Top right makes me sad. Right bottom-sometimes I wish I could just sleep through Mondays until Tuesday‘s here, lol. Nice haikus. 1d
lil1inblue @AnnCrystal 😍 💛 🐝 💛 17h
lil1inblue @dabbe 🤗 💕 17h
lil1inblue @bellabella 💓 💓 💓 17h
lil1inblue @Reggie Top right makes me sad, too. Yesterday was certainly a Monday I would have slept through! Thanks! 💛 17h
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Bookwomble
Goodnight Tokyo | Atsuhiro Yoshida
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"The clock struck 1:00 A.M."

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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Bookwomble
Goodnight Tokyo | Atsuhiro Yoshida
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From the blurb, this sounds like it has vibes of one of my favourite TV shows, Midnight Diner. It's set in a taxi rather than a café, but the episodic stories of Tokyo's late-night/early-morning denizens resonates. Fingers crossed 🤞

sarahbarnes This one caught my eye recently too! 3w
Cathythoughts I really enjoyed this one 👍🏻❤️ 3w
Bookwomble @sarahbarnes @Cathythoughts I'm enjoying it so far 😊 3w
sarahbarnes Good to know and that @Cathythoughts liked it too! 3w
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pdxannie
Kitchen | Banana Yoshimoto
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This book contains 2 stories: Kitchen & Moonlight Shadow. I loved them both. Yoshimoto writes about losing loved ones, that unbearable pain that consumes us, unlike anyone I‘ve ever read before. These stories are beautiful and melancholy and they make my chest tremble as I let it ache for all those I‘ve loved and lost. Contender for best 2025 read.

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xicanti
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And my 34th consecutive Readathon kicks off with this second book about food detectives in Kyoto. I wish I could be happier about it, but my cold is still going strong AND it‘s spread to my eyes, which I didn‘t know could happen. I won‘t inflict the physical details on you, but it‘s basically my personal nightmare and it‘s left me depressed. Gonna try to distract myself with books today. #deweyapril #readathon

thegirlwiththelibrarybag Sounds miserable! Hopefully the food detectives bring you some respite! 4w
BookmarkTavern Hope you feel better soon! 4w
xicanti @thegirlwiththelibrarybag thanks! They‘ve helped a bit so far. 4w
xicanti @BookmarkTavern thank you! 4w
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FeatherV
Kamogawa Food Detectives | Hisashi Kashiwai
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This book is so cute! I‘m so glad I picked it up at the library the other day. Koishi and her Dad run a hard to find restaurant and detective agency. You describe a dish associated with a memory that you want to taste again and they will make it for you, make it taste the same as it did in that memory.

Highly, highly recommend if you need something cozy to read.

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shortsarahrose
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It‘s a pretty nice spring day. Starting a new book from my #AuldLangSpine list to try to get out of a bit of a reading slump. The barista excitedly told me she just finished this one as she was bringing me my dirty chai (also having overnight oats with apples and peanut butter).

5feet.of.fury That cover is so cuuute 😻 1mo
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ChaoticMissAdventures
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I think I am going to bail on this for now. I have read 30 pages and it isn't pulling me in. I know so many enjoyed it, but it is due back at the library tomorrow and so many people are waiting. There is no way I am going to push through it all today. And obviously I have plenty to read from the library.

BarbaraBB It took awhile to get into the book, I agree 1mo
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Arvena
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Warm, bitter-sweet, cozy.