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I discovered the tagged book while browsing B&N last week. From what I can tell Takamura's book has left a significant impression on Japanese culture. It is studied in school & there have been several film & tv adaptations. Based upon a high-profile kidnapping case in '84, Kirkus called Lady Joker a “challenging, genre-confounding epic.“ Clocking in at over 600 pages, vol. 1 apparently ends on a cliffhanger. If I love it as much as I suspect I👇

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"She's the adopted daughter of the Angel of Death. Beware of her. Mind her. Death guards her like one of its own"
While most fear her, Sankofa will use her "power" for good. Ending the life of a man riddled with cancer, is her being merciful, and his wife and children are thankful.?

#MayCharacters Day 16: A #merciful character
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Still feel bad and ugly cry bad. Hassan. Kind, sweet Hassan.😭

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Even when he becomes a vampire, Louis tries his best to be always #merciful with other human beings.
His pain and his eternal struggle between his new nature and his human soul are clearly exposed more in the book than in the movie.

Day 16

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NF-True stories of the personal and work lives of PanAm stewardesses. Their mercy and grace was tested during Vietnam wartime flying both new and returning soldiers; but especially in caring for flights full of orphans airlifted from Saigon who were hungry, wounded, and bereft.
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I hadn‘t been participating with #MayCharacters, but I just saw the prompt #merciful and had to share. If you‘ve read this one, you‘ll know that this line can make you shudder.

Am I Not Merciful?

Day 16: If I remember correctly, Poirot is #merciful in the tagged book.

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#MayCharacters Day 16: We need to be #merciful to our lost souls. This story made me think about the things that we value, how they define us, and the ever-pressing need to just sit still every once in awhile – maybe not for years at a time similar to John in this story – but enough for us to catch our breath, and for our lost souls to reunite with us. My review of Tokarczuk‘s first picturebook here: https://wp.me/pDlzr-niU