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I may be WAY behind on reviews, but at least my #10BeforetheEnd is on track! Five books complete, with a little over five weeks to go. 🎉 These 10 books will also complete the remaining years I need for the #192025 challenge. 😊

This book is a tribute to modern Tokyo and I adored it.

Mizuko is a stay-at-home mother who keeps thinking of how different her life could have been had she made other choices. Yet she loves her children more than anything so she guesses it‘s fine. Until she meets Kyoshi and shows him her Tokyo.

I loved it all, especially while reading it in Japan.

📸 Shimanami Kaido, Japan

#10BeforeTheEnd #7

A rather disappointing end to the series. (Assuming it is the end. Shinn has been revisiting her previous series of late.)

Full review here: https://willaful.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/tbr-challenge-whispering-wood-by-sharo...

#10BeforeTheEnd @ChaoticMissAdventures

“You may say that it was the book, but it's how you read a book that is most valuable, rather than any power it might have itself.”

Five different characters all at different stages in their lives; almost short stories but with some of the characters showing up in each chapter. I‘m being drawn to books like this at the moment. Really enjoyed it 🩷 #10beforetheend

Here are my Latest #10BeforeTheEnd news:
I am reading Jami's Mejnun & Leila in between library holds.
Next is Black Suits You so Well by Ahlam Mosteghanemi for #FoodAndLit #Algeria which should reach my library this week.
The 4 titles that are ticked and underlined twice are read.
We'll see whether I reach my full goal: I'm only 50% confident because I forgot to factor in library holds coming through & other distractions 😁
@ChaoticMissAdventures

This book was so much fun!

A medieval retelling of Legally Blonde was something I never knew I needed! I‘m a huge Legally Blonde fan but I never realized that it could be retold in such a unique way. As a retelling, it worked very well. The original characters were translated very well. Clía, the female lead, definitely gave Elle Woods vibes.

Full review: https://oddandbookish.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/review-the-princess-knight/

#WeeklyForecast

#10BeforeTheEnd this week is Peepshow
#Bookspin The Frozen River
And a couple of small nonfictions one very local about the Oregon cheese industry and one about the amazing Nina Simone

#10BeforeTheEnd
4 weeks in

I am right on track - wishing I was a bit ahead. Going to tackle Peepshow (from the Women's Prize Long list this last year) next.

Soothingly completely unrelated to anything I'm normally interested in. Has black-and-white images which helps illustrate the features of the churches it talks about.

Some poor editing (sentences don't make sense, spelling mistakes), it jumped out at me quite a bit. Did also jump around a bit, sometimes mentioning a new term randomly, only defining it a few pages (or chapters) later.

Making good progress on #10BeforeTheEnd.

Happy Birthday @MatchlessMarie! I'll probably read more today but am unlikely to finish anything else. Thanksgiving madness is here!

My #37By37 goal was four books, which I met, as well as a short story and two graphic novels. And am several stories into Table for Two, one of my #10BeforeTheEnd books.