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#AlphabetGame

I choose to highlight this favourite as it stayed with me long after I finished it. Such a haunting and moving book. ❤️💔

Another favourite #letterS is The Sense Of An Ending, Julian Barnes. Elegantly and melancholy told, a brilliant examination of memory.

My attempt at mountain pose while holding my kindle... harder than it seems 😋

This book was so interesting with its insight into Tibetan nomads, sky burials, the conflict between the Chinese and Tibetans, and one woman‘s search for a husband she refuses to believe is dead. This is a semi-fictionalised versions of true events. While some people haven‘t liked the ending, I liked the possibilities it left.

#PosedByTheBook #Mountain #JumpStart2021

#PosedByTheBook #Mountain #JumpStart2021

#PosedByTheBook #TBRCrew #Mountains

The image is from a google search, and is of the Simila Mountain in Tibet (the book is mainly set in Tibet)

Starting my #PosedByTheBook pick today.
This is one of the #TBRCrew reading challenges, combining yoga poses with books. This month is #Mountains 🏔

I am really excited for this one, based on a true story! And I am sucker for a map in any book 🤣

Translated story about a woman searching for her husband in Tibet. Amazing story, though I think it‘s probably better in the native Chinese. This was my LAST book for the #litsyAtoZ challenge, for the letter X. I‘m done! @BookishMarginalia

This is my LAST book for the #litsyAtoZ challenge for 2019. This is the toughest letter in the challenge, in my opinion, but I'm excited because this looks like a good read! @booksishmarginalia

Thought I'd fail miserably at #pinkbooks, but what do you know? #SpringIntoReading

Today I realized I've got a short U-authored novel on La TBR (BREADCRUMBS by Anne Ursu), so I've got a fighting chance of completing my 2018 A to Z Authors list after all. I promptly borrowed SKY BURIAL by Xinran, X being the other letter I was missing, and dug right in alongside a bowl of red curry tofu & sausage and a bottle of Tsingtao.

Almost done with #LitsyAtoZ minus a few outliers...

I have chosen the tagged book for this prompt for my #popsugarchallenge

Very good. Even though this is a very short book it is powerful as it is one women's quest to find her lost husband and what she learns along the way. Recommend.

Also thank you to @Libby1 as you bought it for me for the Christmas swap last year.

#Vintage

Two books I loved set in the #mountains , one in Iceland‘s landscape, the other in Tibet. ❤️💔
Interestingly, note the titles. 🙂

#AugustIsATrip

"No one likes crying, but tears water our souls."
~Xinran,
Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet
I have yet to read this one but I LOVE this cover so much!
Have you read it?
#penguindropcaps #skyburial #bookworm#booklover #bookish #prettybooks #bookcover

Oh, Tibet, I‘ve fallen utterly in love with you!

This is a must read if you truly enjoy learning about the cultures and beliefs of other country.

#nowreading Sky Burial by Xinran #asianlit

Eh. This is written very simply, like a middle school book. The set up is intriguing, but the anticlimax was stupid. Who martyrs themselves for demons in this day and age?
#litsyatoz #x #catsoflitsy had to get in every pic I took.

Abby the Tabby: Two husbands!? You couldn‘t even handle one.
Me: Don‘t remind me. Those Tibetan women must be tough as nails!
#litsyAtoZ #x

Nonfiction book that seems impossible to believe about a Chinese woman‘s incredible search across Tibet for her missing husband. There is some discussion of the Dalai Lama and his role. This satisfies my Litsy A to Z letter “X”! On to “Z” and looks like I will complete the challenge!

It‘s so pink, I could die!
#litsyatoz #x #almostthere

Only have X and Z to finish Litsy A to Z. This is #letterX . Not sure who you are, but thank you Litsy friend for your recommendation! Interesting easy read.

I‘ve decided to use one of my beautiful new bookmarks from @DeborahSmall for my next read. I absolutely love this one as it‘s so me! 😂

#HumpDayPost
1. I've been wanting this edition of this book all year, but alas, I have no money.
2. I don't eat M&M's, so idk.
3. Hard to say... Harry Potter, probably.
4. A teacher, then an astronaut, but then the Columbia disaster happened ON MY BIRTHDAY and EVERYONE DIED, so back to teacher. ?
5. I don't have a "lucky number," but I grew up with OCD, and I had/still have a lot of compulsions based on 5's, and 8's if I was extra stressed.

Some very helpful littens helped me choose these books for my reading challenges. They all look so good. #bookmail

Sunday morning and starting my last book for #LitsyAtoZ. #letterX
Thanks for the recommendation @erzascarletbookgasm

#uncommonoctober day 18 - X marks the spot

Xinran certainly marks this spot!

#uncannyoctober day 18: #xmarksthespot
Because I'm claiming the comfy chair today!

Thanks to #Litsy ... I have expanded on my usual taste and chosen books out of my norm. I read this just to complete #LetterX for my #LitsyAtoZ challenge. I loved it. Hard to believe this is nonfiction... such a powerful book. What an incredible story that I would have been unlikely to pick up otherwise. #1000Reasons

I had a productive Sunday. I started and finished Sky Burial which I found to be a straight forward read that was more a story of how someone acclimated to a new culture rather than the “love story” between two characters. Finished up Sekret - fun, fast paced YA novel kitty with psychic teenage spies Hi in Communist Russia. I DNFed My Favorite Thing is Monsters, finding it just too big and heavy for me at the moment. Good reading weekend though!

This book is an unforgettable and remarkable portrait of a woman and a land. A newly married Chinese woman who travelled to Tibet in search of her missing husband and remained in the land for thirty years, amidst cultural differences and political developments. A tale of loss love and survival.
Day 19 #quest #fallintobooks

The novelized biography of a Chinese woman who spent 30 years in Tibet, looking for her husband who was killed while serving in the army. Novelized because the author could not locate Shu Wen again, and was never able to have her read the manuscript in any way. #litsyAtoZ #X #192019 #2004

I'm reading this for #litsyAtoZ, not the #1001books list. But hey there are two of the 1001 books mentioned!

Next up! This is fictionalized travel/biography--I'm reading it as my current fiction book. #litsyAtoZ letter X.

I saw these Penguin Drop Caps on Book Outlet the other day and just HAD to get them - what beauties and what a steal!

What a lovely little book! I felt transported to Tibet in the last century and loved learning about the culture and lives of its people. What an astounding journey Wen went on, I feel honored to have gone along. My heart is happy that this book exists! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

X for #LitsyAtoZ ! Only have 3 more to read!

When newly-wed doctor Shu Wen hears of her husband's death, she won't believe it, and joins the People's Liberation Army on a Journey to Tibet to find him. This is the story of someone who takes the phrase #dontstopbelieving to the extreme, and in doing so finds a new way of life and belief system amongst the nomadic people of Tibet. #rockinmay

My favorite book by an Asian or Pacific Islander author is Sky Burial by Xinran. I read it to fulfill an "X" for an A-Z author challenge years ago and it was fantastic.
I'm looking forward to reading Pachinko for @LitsyFeministBookClub in May. ??Here's hoping I win a copy!

This extraordinary little book is the novelization of the journey of Shu Wen, who wandered through Tibet for 30 years in search of her husband. It has a marvelous sense of place and delves deeply into the life of rural Tibetans. Without LitsyAtoZ, I'm not sure I would have read this, and I'm so glad I did.

I can't imagine any way this could *possibly* go wrong. 💩😲

This is in Tibet in the 1950s.

So my hold for Speaking American came in (thanks @Eyelit !) and I'm in a spat with the BF (I guess I shouldn't have called out the passive aggressive crap--it didn't go so well), so I grabbed whatever I wanted at the library. The tagged book is the only X author there, so that'll be my LitsyAtoZ, plus some lighter reads to boost my mood.

Weekend TBR: Letter Y and Letter X for #LitsyAtoZ and some fun book protectors. Winnie is ready! Aloha Friday 🌺😎💃🐶#DogsofLitsy

#day21 #riotgrams @bookriot #coolspines My collection is growing!

When newly-wed doctor Shu Wen hears of her husband's death, she won't believe it, and joins the People's Liberation Army to travel to Tibet and find him. 30 years later she tells her story to Xinran.

A beautiful tale of life amongst the nomads of Tibet, taking on a new way of life, language and religion, and following a 'quest' over decades. It feels like a legend - the jolts & corners have been smoothed out so you may need to suspend disbelief.

This was beautiful story. A Chinese woman spends 30 years traveling through Tibet in search of her husband who went missing there after being sent to Tibet as a military doctor in the 50s. I learned so much about Tibet and its people and their way of life. So glad I found this gem for my letter X in the #litsyatoz challenge. It also ticks off a few other challenge books on my lists as well. Highly recommend.

#WhereIRead this is one of my favorite reading spots. The bathtub. Full of lovely bubbles with a hot cup of tea on the side. #riotgrams

#ReadJanuary Day 28 - Books by Asian Writers

Kali and I wish everyone a very happy Lunar New Year! 🎊🎆

#KittenLitten #booksbyasianauthors #lunarnewyear

I never would have discovered this book without the #litsyatoz challenge. X was the only letter missing from my own shelves so I grabbed this one from the library. It is a slim 200 pages about a Chinese woman who heads to Tibet in 1958 in search of her Army doctor husband. They had only been married for 100 days but Shu Wen cannot accept the notice of his death she has received with its lack of details. Her journey takes her 30 years.