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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-10/japan-s-wind-phone-is-a-site-...

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!

#ABookADay2023

An unexpected read which I was engrossed in ☺😚.
Adored the ways in which lives were examined and portrayed, the slightly differing perspectives whilst remaining true to the narrator.
And reading the notes at the end was a real surprise 😁😁

On holiday in Valencia and started this for book club.

Later, Yui realized she had learned another important thing in that place of confinement: that silencing a man was equivalent to erasing him forever. And so it was important to tell stories, to talk to people, to talk about people. To listen to people talking about other people. Even to speak with the dead, if it helped.

It‘s horrible to say, but once they found joy in each other the story lost its strength.

This is a sad and moving story that deals with grief and loss. Based on a true story this phone in Japan is where people go to talk to deceased relatives. After the tsunami in Japan 201, Yui loses her mother and daughter and Takeshi lost his wife to illness and his daughter doesn't take anyway. They meet and a friendship develops. #tbr

When your hubby requests your reading pile to prop up his iPad to watch football 😂🤷🏻‍♀️. Had to chose what I was reading first. Too funny

Chill-out , great to listen to while reading

#spotify #zero7 new music find to listen to while read , chilled wine , #borrowbox find 100 pages left and only started this week quit good for me

Love this hoping to finish it soon

I expected to love this book and be moved, but I wasn‘t. There were moments of wisdom and connection. I liked the characters, but they didn‘t engage me. I liked the chapter organization a lot. To know this is a real place is very cool and that it‘s owners are part of this book is very neat, but somehow they never felt real. The writing was okay, but it never took me on a journey I expected to be profound and gripping. Disappointing. 3/5.

Don‘t usually read on my phone but only way can read my library books 51 pages into this interesting to see how this story goes

It has a beautiful premise, but for me the prose fell a little short. I was expecting something like a blend of Sayaka Murata and Elena Ferrante, but the tone of The Phone Box At The Edge Of The World is closer to Cecilia Ahern or Marian Keyes. It‘s a fine story of losing and finding family, but unfortunately it doesn‘t quite live up to the stories of the real-life Wind Phone. Extended review: https://keepingupwiththepenguins.com/new-releases/