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CillainWonderland

CillainWonderland

Joined May 2016

Book Lover/ Aspiring Librarian/ Writer/Booktuber YouTube.com/user/castleinmysky
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Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront
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Psycho by Robert Bloch
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The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice
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I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin
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Coraline by Neil Gaiman
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City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
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The Court Dancer: A Novel | Kyung-Sook Shin
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Shanghai Girls | Lisa See
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I can't put this book down! 📚

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"In fact, everything is better in real life. Reality is beautiful; imagination is dangerous-it'll let you down if you're not careful."

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"People only work well when they are desperate, I think. When they have no other option for happiness.”

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"Once in her life, she would like to enjoy what other people had. Just once, she would like to experience life as a person of comfort and wealth, a happy person. And then she would never wish for anything again; she would become a poor person forever. She would accept it. After all, it was her destiny in life to be poor, as it was other people‘s destiny to be rich. It had always been this way; she‘d been foolish to think she could change her fate"

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Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."

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Anna Karenina | Leo Tolstoy

"But women, my boy, they're the pivot everything turns upon..."

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Night Film: A Novel | Marisha Pessl
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Did not see the twists coming! I devoured this book. If you love mystery, movies, horror films- give this a shot!

Minervasbutler Loved it! 7y
CillainWonderland @Minervasbutler Yes! What was your favorite aspect of it? The horror movie aspect of it was one of my favorite parts! 7y
Minervasbutler Mine too! 7y
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Snow Like Ashes | Sara Raasch
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It had a kind of slow start for me, but I'm so glad I stuck with it! It's really good the further you go!

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Night Film: A Novel | Marisha Pessl
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There's nothing like a great mystery on a sick day. Laying on the couch and reading Night Film on my Kindle App. #currentlyreading #nightfilm #mystery

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Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel | Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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Eventually I want to do a video review of this for my YouTube channel, but in the meantime- this book has touched me deeply and given me a better understanding of Buddhism and Japan. It, also, gave me a mirror into my own soul and experiences, helping me see a new strength within myself. Plus the story is just amazing. If you love travel or strong female leads- this would be the first book I'd recommend.

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Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel | Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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"The entire world seemed to concentrate for a moment inside my body, a frail host for the emotions that were possible."

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Listening to this on the way to meet my boyfriend

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Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel | Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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"'A young woman can never have too many flowers,' he said, and I thought to myself how easy it seemed to be for men to have ideas as to what a young woman should or should not have."

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Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel | Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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"...Fudō looks angry because he hates illusions. He gets mad at all the little demons running around the world who make us sick and stupid. That's the wonderful thing about Asia. So much angry art. People like to think that Buddhism is about inner calm. The truth is, sometimes it is necessary to be angry. Intolerant."

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Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel | Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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"Amsterdam was a real city, as real as Tokyo. But everything was so different, and so interesting, it was difficult not to feel as though I had fallen into a storybook and was watching characters come to life."

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Picking Bones from Ash: A Novel | Marie Mutsuki Mockett
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This book has such a rich engrossing rhythm and characters! +_+ Must keep reading!

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Snow Like Ashes | Sara Raasch
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Re-read and new read! So excited to read Snow Like Ashes for the first time

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Crimson Bound | Rosamund Hodge
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I was in tears by the end of this book. Rosamund Hodge does it again. All the stars. All the recommends.

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Audition | Ryu Murakami
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I enjoyed this book immensely! It's a very slow burn suspense that can be read in a day or two. Looking forward to checking out more work by Ryu Murakami in the future!

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Audition | Ryu Murakami

“Nice person, bad person—that‘s not the level this girl is at. I can see you‘re crazy about her and probably won‘t be able to hear this, Ao-chan, but I think you‘d be better off staying away from someone like her. I can‘t read her exactly, but I can tell you she‘s either a saint or a monster. Maybe both extremes at once, but not somewhere in between.”

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Audition | Ryu Murakami
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"She knows what‘s most important to her and she knows how to get it, but she doesn‘t let on what it is. I‘m pretty sure it‘s not money, or success, or a normal happy life, or a strong man, or some weird religion, but that‘s about all I can tell you. She‘s like smoke: you think you‘re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her there‘s nothing there."

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Crimson Bound | Rosamund Hodge
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Crimson Bound | Rosamund Hodge
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"And then she felt it again: the sudden, sharp awareness of wanting to touch him, of the space between them as an open wound..." (pg 231)

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Crimson Bound | Rosamund Hodge
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Morning reading 🌹

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Audition | Ryu Murakami
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"Sometimes things happen that no one hopes for.[...]No one is to blame, but you‘re left with a wound you can‘t heal on your own and can‘t believe you‘ll ever learn to accept, so you struggle to escape the pain. Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory."

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Audition | Ryu Murakami
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The death of someone close to you, he realized at that moment, was something you came to accept one concrete fact at a time.

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Crimson Bound | Rosamund Hodge
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Loving this so far 👑Also Hello after so long. I took a small break from Litsy, but I'm happy to be back and posting again.

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Audition | Ryu Murakami

A person without self-confidence is incapable of being independent, and people who are dependent on their partners always create unhappiness. Always.

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The Vampire Lestat | Anne Rice
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The Vampire Lestat | Anne Rice

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Psycho | Robert Bloch
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Loving it so far! A huge fan of Bates Motel and the original film!

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I'll Be Right There | Kyung-Sook Shin
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"Do fear and love share the same root?"

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I'll Be Right There | Kyung-Sook Shin
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💖💚💛💙💜

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Coraline | Neil Gaiman
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"We have teeth and we have tails
We have tails we have eyes
We were here before you fell
You will be here when we rise."

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Coraline | Neil Gaiman
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Only a chapter in and I already have chills. Im looking forward to hearing her story.

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City of Glass | Cassandra Clare

I'm sorry I sort of fell out of updating here! Went through a bit of a reading slump! I'm back now starting with this book! I've been wanting to finish this one for a while actually!

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My second attempt at Stephen King ends the same way. His writing is....ugly-there's really no other way for me to describe it. He's also extremely repetitive. Not for me.

MrBook That is a common critique, and I have to agree that his prose holds little aesthetic merit. 8y
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Confessions | Kanae Minato
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I loved it. It was weird (in a good way) and kept me guessing the whole way through.

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You | Caroline Kepnes
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Thus far horrifying but intriguing

Jellybeanbon I enjoyed this one. The sequel is okayish. 8y
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Confessions | Kanae Minato

There is something very wrong with this school.

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Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn

"It's a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters."

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Gone Girl | Gillian Flynn

"I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a loved one dies, we know the words to say...We are all working from the same dog-eared script."

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My Year of Meats | Ruth L. Ozeki
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There's absolutely nothing wrong with the writing or the style of the book. I just...didn't enjoy it the way I did "a tale for the time being." I'm going to be reading her only other book I haven't read "All Over Creation" in the next couple of weeks, so maybe that one will be more my thing?

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Confessions | Kanae Minato

This book has no chill and I love it so far...

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Written in the Stars | Aisha Saeed
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This book broke my heart and sewed it back together. I thought I had picked up an interesting YA novel but I wasn't necessarily looking for more than that. But what I found in this book was a new perspective and a greater compassion for my fellow women. Read this book. This story needed to be told.

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Written in the Stars | Aisha Saeed

This book is breaking my heart. All I want to do is protect Naila.

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Written in the Stars | Aisha Saeed

"Maybe, I think, if I don‘t look up, if I simply look down and never look up again for the rest of my life, the feelings buried within will never rise to the surface. I can accept the numbness instead of the madness that could follow."