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#JuneofArc @ozma.of.oz another terrible disappointment. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5696508763

This was excellent. It starts with a woman giving birth in a Beijing hospital on the night of the Tiananmen square massacre. Then it moves backwards and forwards from there, as we learn about the mother as a young woman and then her daughter brought up in the US. It's about families, and time, and physics, and grief, and things unsaid. Lovely writing.

I should be working on the train, but the internet is so ropey, there's only one thing I can do instead...😉

Got my reading sweatpants on. Gotta be comfy, right?

My Wigtown book haul. Two of them for my nieces, so they totally don't count.

Potential #readingasia2021 #China ebook on sale. @Librarybelle @BarbaraBB

December 13: Our Humans by Mengiste Jin. Story published in the Bare Life Review

I have no idea of what I just read. We meet a woman who works at the Preservation Department. Here she meets Duowen. Years later, she‘s on the train when she meets a young girl. The train has stopped and the girl knows the way to the next station. On their way, she sees a lot of memories of her past some includes Duowen.

Audiocrafting! While finishing this one up, I built the next pieces of my tiny bookstore kit. In the foreground are paper boxes, a paper suitcase, and a paper bin, covered with cloth, filled with paper rolls. Background: chair, table, and bowl of apples. I‘ve just made my first tiny book and have a LOT more to go. But it‘s fun and diverting!

1. Always. I have bought many books with great covers.
2. Powell‘s Indespensable
3. Well the news really stresses me out since 2016, so usually my husband
4. All three. Depends on the day and what is going on.
5. @Trashcanman

#friyayintro

Between pick and so-so here. This was an elegant story about a young woman trying to understand her parents after her mother‘s death. She returns to China to also try to find her father. The author plays a bit with time and perspective, but these aspects weren‘t as fully developed as I would have liked. Actually, a lot of the book could have been fleshed out more, but I really liked the writing and the concept for the story. 3.5⭐️

I won a giveaway!!

Woohoo 🎉 🎉 Thank you SO MUCH @LibraryThing 💗I haven‘t won a book in FOREVER ‼️This one sounds really good:

“Combining the emotional resonance of Home Fire with the ambition and innovation of Asymmetry, a lyrical and thought-provoking debut novel that explores the complex web of grief, memory, time, physics, history, and selfhood in the immigrant experience, and the complicated bond between daughters and mothers.”