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If you go into this book expecting a murder mystery, you'll be disappointed, but as a contemporary look at Japan's expectations of women, it's quite good.

#atozultimatechallenge #c #itemoncover (cow) #y #authorsurname @AudiobookingWithLeah

#52bookclub25 #setinacountrywithanactivevolcano

#aty25 #translatedfromasia @BarbaraBB

#wpnf25

#atozultimatechallenge #m #authorsurname #z #charactername @AudiobookingWithLeah

#aty25 #setundergroundundertheseaorinanunderworld @BarbaraBB

#womensprizefornonfictionlonglist25

This was very interesting, but it will make you angry at some of the ways victims and their families have been treated by the UK justice system. It's very up-to-date as well. For example, Wayne Couzens is mentioned. Next post will be triggers, as there are quite a few.

#atozultimatechallenge #b #behind #s #booktitle

#aty25 #mysteryortruecrime

Would work for #52bookclub25 #redheadedcharacter as well, but I ⬇️

#atozultimatechallenge #f #authorsurname #w #itemoncover (wings) @AudiobookingWithLeah

#52bookclub25 #involvesaheist

#aty25 #involvesartmusicdancingoracting @BarbaraBB

OK, some of the science went over my head! 🤣

#atozultimatechallenge #e #authorsurname #m #itemoncover (muscle) @AudiobookingWithLeah

#aty25 #promptthatdidntmake2025list #relatedtoagameshow - the author is one of the UK Chasers 🤣 #addictedtothechase @BarbaraBB

#atozultimatechallenge #y #authorname
#52bookclub25 #puninthetitle
#aty25 #involvingagroupwithfourplusmembersthatarentfamily @BarbaraBB

Yoshie‘s father dies along with his mistress and Yoshie and her mother have come to terms with both having a death and the circumstances.
And they do, after moving to an old neighborhood in Tokyo, where they live and work and eat. Again, food plays in important role in a Japanese story!
It‘s a very Japanese novel, quiet and melancholic. A light pick.

#ReadTheWorld2025 Book 3 #Japan 🇯🇵#ATY25 #IntriguingTitle

Yes this is an excellent book. 16 years old Gabriel grows up in Chile with his American parents. He is ashamed of his capitalist parents and his imperialist motherland, infiltrating the world with propaganda. He is a Chilean communist and a supporter of Allende‘s socialist politics. He falls in love in the days leading up to the coup against Allende in 1973.
In 3 parts we read about this period in time and its aftermath. And about Gabriel‘s life.

#atozultimatechallenge #b #booktitle #c #colourinthetitle #r #authorsurname @AudiobookingWithLeah

#52bookclub25 #exploressocialclass (changed prompt from includes a heist to this as it's a better fit).

#aty25 #twobooksdifferentgenre #book2 @BarbaraBB

Amsterdam, 1888. Violin maker Vedder learns that a large hotel is to be built on the site of his house. At the same time rural pharmacist Anijs, is concerned about the local peat cutters, who suffer from abject poverty and have no future in the Netherlands. But emigration costs a fortune – exactly the amount that Vedder thinks he can get for the sale of his house to the hotel company. The men become involved in an oppressive adventure. Great HF!