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This is it. The haul I‘ll take with me to Japan (please let that global outage be done with 🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽). My man hates it I still do want to bring books instead of an e-reader but that‘s a pity for him. I need my books with me!

What do you think of my choices??

This novella title is not in Litsy database. At the art museum, two scantily clad lovers are found early one morning asleep on the floor; the young woman almost afloat in yards of frothy wedding dress fabric…they told the arresting police that the door was open during the night and they walked right in…

BTW the tagged book is one of my favorite Allende books.
#LitsyLove
#ReadAway2024

This is a soft pick for me as times there were a couple of slow points but overall I did enjoy the story, characters and I am a fan of this authors writing voice. It's currently free with KU.

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Sweeping, rich, & sentimental - what is, at its heart, a love story is also so much more.
Allende travels around the world through many time periods of her characters‘ lives and does so much without it feeling like she‘s doing too much. It was beautifully & impressively done. My first read of Allende‘s work but certainly won‘t be my last.
Joanna Gleason is lovely reading the audiobook, too, so I recommend listening if you can.

When Irina Bazili began working at Lark House in 2010, she was twenty-three years old but already had few illusions about life.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

This was chosen by my book club and I was hesitant. But I was pleasantly surprised. A story of love and life and death with really remarkable character development.

I LOVED this book 💞

#Loveathan #ForbiddenLove

Some of the books I‘ve loved with memorable hats

#NationalHatDay #JanuaryJazz @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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The book concerned itself with too many characters and it tried to describe all of the different phases of their lives no matter how irrelevant they were to the core of the story. It muddled Alma and Ichimei‘s relationship. Until the end, I couldn‘t appreciate their relationship. There was also too much narration and very little dialogue. Everything is described exactly leaving little room for one‘s imagination.

#bookreview #review

Caught up at last! #alphabetgame #letterJ

This is the only book starting with J which I read in the recent past. I had to scroll through my goodreads list to get this 🤪

#Alphabetgame #letterJ

#Movie2BookRecs @klou
Prompt: Letters to Juliet

Good story line and narration but I could not enjoy the development of few characters. The main plot of the story was good but I felt author included too many things at once.started this book in December for #authoramonth finally it‘s done. I think I should try other books by this author. 3🌟

It was cover love that drew me to this book. And true to the cover, Alma always wore red lipstick. I enjoyed the story of a Jewish woman who fled Poland for San Francisco to live with relatives and survive the War. She is now in her 80‘s. We learn about her love for a Japanese gardener who was sent to an Internment Camp. Another young character,Irina has also escaped her country. Politics and Love are the major themes. #authoramonth
@Soubhiville

Out of all the Allende books I‘ve managed to read this month, this was my favorite. I love the love stories of Alma and Ichimei and Irina and Seth. Such a beautiful story that takes a look at the Japanese-American internment, racism, and anti-miscegenation. A beautifully written story that pulled me in. #AuthorAMonth #BookSpinBingo

I loved this! It had a certain mysterious aura and magic, and the characters were rich. A tender love affair that had to be hidden from the world and 3 generations, from 1939 to the present day…it will sweep you up and draw you in

#authoramonth2021 @Soubhiville
#bookspinbingo @TheAromaofBooks

This book is in my book stacks, but for the life of me, I just can‘t locate it. Had planned to finally read for #authoramonth. So glad, it was available on Libby! @Soubhiville

One of my favorite books of the year. This won‘t be the last Isabel Allende that I read.

#AuthorAMonth

@Soubhiville

If not for #AuthorAMonth I would not have found this author. I am enjoying this book so much.

@Soubhiville

Excellent story, excellent storytelling, loved it!

Belgrade Botanical Garden: Saturday reading❤️

This is a quiet romantic story, but is in no way a romance novel. It‘s a beautifully told story about the love between and the long lives of a Polish Jewish girl escaping the Nazis and a Japanese boy, who for years is detained in a WWII concentration camp; a forbidden love in California. Told mainly from the perspective of an immigrant girl from #Moldova, she has her own painful story to tell. Excellent narration. #readingeurope2020 ⬇️

Last elf card coming together. #readingeurope2020 #Moldova #crushtherush #readyourway #wintergames #merryreaders @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @TheSpineView @Clwojick @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Next one. #readingeurope2020 #Moldova crushtherush #readyourway #wintergames #merryreaders @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @TheSpineView @Clwojick @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

More audiocrafting tonight. Someday I‘ll finish Christmas cards. Maybe by Christmas. #readingeurope #Moldova. #crushtherush #readyourway #wintergames #merryreaders @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @TheSpineView @Clwojick @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Audiocrafting Christmas cards this afternoon. #crushtherush #readyourway #wintergames #merryreaders @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @TheSpineView @Clwojick

Moving on to a new card design so more stamping and lots of coloring. This book to which I am audiocrafting is very good. #crushtherush #readyourway #wintergames #merryreaders @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @TheSpineView @Clwojick #readingeurope2020 #Moldova @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Audiocrafting again tonight to the tagged book. #crushtherush #readyourway #wintergames #merryreaders @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @TheSpineView @Clwojick #readingeurope2020 #Moldova @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

Blue poinsettias being made now for these cards. Audiocrafting to the tagged book. #readingeurope2020 #Moldova #crushtherush #readyourway #wintergames #merryreaders @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @TheSpineView @Clwojick @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

#ReadingEurope2020 @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB #Moldova

I'll admit through the first part of this book I was only halfway invested. Around midway the story picked up and I was fully engaged from there until the end. The relationships in this story are so bittersweet. Allende writes beautiful, believable characters who are heartbreaking and hopeful all at once.

I am intrigued now to read more by this author.

Second of 2 posts of my updates to my #readingeurope2020 since I bought a few more books this weekend. The ones in ink I‘ve finished. In pencil, those are the books I‘ve lined up to read for the challenge. No book listed? I have no idea what to read for those countries, except well, Wales. I have a lot of options for Wales.

#IsabelAllende
#AugustAuthors

#TBR 📚📚📚

Book ideas for #Moldova for #readingeurope2020

Some of these books appear to only involve characters from Moldova and are not about or set in Moldova, such as the tagged book. I‘m still counting them, personally, given limited availability about book ideas for some countries.

It was a very well written book and an extremely pleasant reading.

#SouthAmericanAuthor
#BiblioMAYnia

Currently reading from my tbr.

Damn. No one writes bittersweet relationships that last decades like Isabel Allende. I was meant to be gardening this afternoon but instead I read for six hours and couldn‘t put this book down until there was nothing left. Even though set predominantly in California, this one felt more like her earlier epics set in Chile than her other recent work has.

A little detached? It had good bones but never quite delivered...

Historical fiction, early 1900s, CA and UT Japanese concentration camps

"Love and friendship don't age"

What a beautiful romance! I loved that one of the main characters is Japanese and how the book addresses that culture too.

#OAmanteJapones #IsabelAllende #TheJapaneseLover #book #bookaholic #booklovers #ler #leitura #leitora #reading #instabook #instaread #instabooks #bookstagram #litsy #booklover #readingabook #amreading #books #Sha2020

Te Araroa kilometers tramped: 1911.1 of 3005.3

Days on trail: 81

Books completed on trail: 36

My first Allende read. A multifaceted story with a cast of interesting characters. The way the author revealed secrets and truths kept me hooked. #libby

Thank you so much @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks!😯 No, I haven't read it yet. Meant to once but the library needed it back before I could😁.
You are so sweet. Things have been so crazy around here. It's so nice to get this sweet surprise! 🥰

How does one live in the present when the past was defined by war, abuse, and loss? And how does one build a brighter future? In this novel, the characters are dealing with these questions and finding their answers through the many forms love takes. #audiobook

Starting my fourth book of my vacation on the plane home. Can I finish it before we land? I am up for the challenge!

This in an epic tale: historical & romance, involving a romance from WWII to modern era. It is both heartbreaking and realistic. Ichimei and Alma are the star crossed lovers of their time. This feels like it could be real. In the modern era we have Irina, the Moldovan immigrant who becomes close to Alma and is entrusted with her secrets all the while Irina‘s skin crawling childhood secrets come to light as well. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #mbcreadathon