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Finally finished my #spinbingo list I‘m going for black as I always will #blackout

All ready for #spinbingo!

I know about the horrors in #Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. And everyone should hear the awful truth of child soldiers like Arn‘s, who now lives in the US. I just wonder why the whole book had to be written in pidgin English… because it‘s YA? Because McCormick thinks it adds an extra layer? The National Book Award jury apparently didn‘t mind but I found it annoying and it only distracted me from Arn‘s important story.

#ReadingAsia2021 🇰🇭

#weeklyforecast 41/21

I have a lot of books going on. I am parallel reading Sovietistan, Summerwater (last week‘s forecast) and The Woman Upstairs. Then I have these three lined up too. The Laurence is for the #Manawakans buddyread, the tagged one is for #ReadingAsia2021.

#weekendreads on the porch! Love this spring weather!

A book about traveling the #highwaytohell via the Khmer Rouge. I read this many years ago, and it is a book that has left a lasting impression. #marchintothe70s

#LiveToTell #AugustGrrrl

This took me a while to get into, partly because I began it trying to read between songs at a grade school music concert. Those are the worst! I'm so glad I kept at it. This book is powerful and sad, but important.

Children and war, the two should not even be in a sentence together; in life they are, more often than is written about, I fear. Eerie and brutal in its innocent honesty, the narrative voice of the child Arn, as he is taken, controlled and moulded, and finally rescued, from the horror that was the Khmer Rouge.