FiveFingerBookChallenge

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century | Alice Wong

The #fivefingerbookchallenge seemed like a fun way to chat up books I haven‘t yet mentioned on Litsy.

👍🏻 Book I loved: The Three Cornered World, AKA Kusamakura. Natsume Soseki has been my favorite author for years, and this is tied with The Gate as my favorite of his books. I hope to reread both this year.
☝🏻 Book I recommend: Disability Visibility. I want the whole world to read this collection!
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tenar 🖕🏻 Book I disliked: The Dispossessed. I lived & breathed for the first three Le Guin novels I read, then I bailed on this one! Dare I try again?
💍 Character I‘d marry: Can I pick a real person? Reading her letters in 84, Charing Cross Road, I was smitten with Helene Hanff‘s generosity, humor, and passion for books.
🤙🏻 Book I pinky-promise to read: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. I have this copy on display but haven‘t even read it! (edited) 4y

LeahBergen Hanff!! 💗💗 4y

meghathecloud Which one of Soseki's works would you say will be a good one to start with? I'm considering reading Kokoro soon. 4y

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tenar @meghathecloud I think it‘d be hard to start wrong with Soseki, so you have choices to suit your mood! Kokoro is dark and deeply Japanese, Sanshiro is a lighter ‘coming of age‘, Kusamakura is near-plotless contemplation on art, and I Am a Cat vol.1 is social satire from a cat‘s POV! I started with Kokoro like most readers, but I fell in love when I read Sanshiro next. Delightfully, all are well under 300 pages. I‘m excited for you! 4y

meghathecloud Thank you! I think I'll go with either Kokoro or I Am a Cat as it sounds right up my alley. 4y

tenar @meghathecloud Sure thing! I Am a Cat was first a short story, then serialized, so each chapter is rather self-contained and easy to dip in and out of, whereas I think I read Kokoro nearly straight through. Hope you enjoy! 4y

tenar @LeahBergen Such a charmer! Have you read any of her other work? I was looking next to try

The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street

LeahBergen Oh, yes! Definitely read that one. I also really enjoyed

Q's Legacy

tenar @LeahBergen I hadn‘t even seen that one, delightful! Like a Charing Cross trilogy. Thank you, I can‘t wait to hear more from Hanff! 4y

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Ast_Arslan

Shadow of the Wind | Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#fivefingerbookchallenge

1) A book I love: The heart's invisible furies
2) A book I love to recommend: Beautiful Malice
3) A book I didn't like: Peeps
4) Character Crush: Lestat de Lioncourt ❤
5) I promise to read: Tagged book

Too nice to not to play!
If you want, just join the challenge!

TheNeverendingTBR Really want to read this one too! 💫

Shadow of the Wind

Ast_Arslan @TheNeverendingTBR thanks! Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who hasn't read it yet 😅🤣 I'm not alone 🤣 4y

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Johanna414

Graceling | Kristin Cashore

Saw this #fivefingerbookchallenge going around and thought it looked fun!
Book I loved - Graceling (rereading it now!)
Book I love to recommend - Daughter of Smoke & Bone
Book I didn't like - Legend (I think it's her writing style, I haven't liked any of hers that I've tried)
Character crush - Mr. Darcy, always!!
I promise I'll read soon - Piranesi

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asterese

A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story | Qais Akbar Omar

This looked interesting. 😃 #fivefingerbookchallenge

👏 A book I love: Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
👉 A book I love to recommend: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
👎 A book I didn't like: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (definitely not his best)
💍 A character I'd like to marry: Rhun Korza from The Order of the Sanguines series by James Rollins and Rebecca Cantrell
🤞 A book I pinky promise to read soon: A Fort of Nine Towers by Qais Akbar Omar

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Vansa

Destination Casablanca: Spies, Soldiers, and Refugees in World War II Morocco | Meredith Hindley

#fivefingerbookchallenge @RaeLovesToRead @KarenUK
👉Book I love-Destination Casablanca
😍 Recommended book-moving and devastating, Mother of 1984.Deals with the aftermath of the police killing of a Naxalite.
🤷🏾‍♀️I didn't like Dunbar,shockingly,who better than St.Aubyn for a lear retelling.Couldn't pull it off
❤️Henry Tilney is my book husband!This was an excellent retelling
🤞Simon Winchester's books are all on my tbr!
Such a fun prompt!

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Caroline2

The Corset | Laura Purcell

#fivefingerbookchallenge @KarenUK @RaeLovesToRead

😍 A book I love: Fingersmith
👍 A book I love to recommend: The Corset
👎 A book I didn‘t like: Frankenstein (bailed 3 times!)
💍 A character I‘d like to marry: Lancelot ❤️
🤞 A book I pinky promise to read soon: Milkman.

This was fun! If you fancy joining in, consider yourself tagged. 😉

Freespirit I also loved Fingersmith! 4y

Cathythoughts Fingersmith is brilliant 4y

Lcsmcat Milkman is amazing. Once you let yourself go with its flow, you won‘t want to put it down. 4y

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RaeLovesToRead Yay! Thanks for playing! I have Fingersmith on my TBR and I'm intrigued by The Corset too... Will check it out! 4y

AmyG Fingersmith was great. 4y

Caroline2 @Lcsmcat Good to know. I think it‘s been on my tbr shelf for two years now!! 🙄 4y

Caroline2 @RaeLovesToRead They are both really good Victorian gothic stories. 😉 👍 4y

KarenUK Loved Fingersmith too 💕 4y

Ruthiella I love Fingersmith too! Tho Corset is on my TBR!😍 4y

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TheNeverendingTBR

1984 | George Orwell

#fivefingerbookchallenge 🖐

👍 A book I love = On the Road by Jack Kerouac
👆 A book I love to recommend (Tagged)
🖕🏽 A book I didn't like = Great And Secret Show
💍 Character Crush = Katniss Everdeen
🤞 I promise to read = Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

Thanks for the tag @RaeLovesToRead 💫

If you see this, play along if you have the time! 🙋‍♂️

TheNeverendingTBR @Milara Mindblowing book! 🤯 4y

Cathythoughts Piranesi ✨✨✨✨✨ 4y

RaeLovesToRead Thanks for playing!!! 1984 was really good. Everyone seems to be loving Piranesi so will be good to see what all the fuss is about! 4y

TheNeverendingTBR @Cathythoughts I'm looking forward to seeing what all the fuss is about basically @RaeLovesToRead 💫 4y

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Branwen

Untitled | Anonymous

I was tagged to do the #fivefingerbookchallenge by @DaveGreen7777 ! 😀💕📚

👍 Book I liked: Neverwhere by Neil Bauman

👆 Book I recommend: Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. IT'S SO GOOD!

🖕 Book I didn't like: Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman. Ugh, that ending. 😒

💍 Character I want to marry: GIDEON FROM GIDEON THE NINTH! I LOVE HER! 😍

🤞Book I promise to read: Palace Job by Patrick Weekes. It looks AMAZING! 😲

DaveGreen7777 YAS!!! Hope you enjoy “The Palace Job”! 😁 4y

Branwen @DaveGreen7777 Thank you! I'm sure I will! It looks incredible! 😀 4y

BiblioLitten Priory of the OT was so good! I love Ead and Tanè. 4y

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ChasingOm This is such a cute challenge, @DaveGreen7777! I‘ll try to remember to do it tomorrow. 4y

GingerAntics Oh, love your cover of Neverwhere!!! 4y

Branwen @BiblioLitten SAME! 💖💖💖 @GingerAntics Thank you so much! It's the illustrated edition, and it's really beautiful! 😍 4y

GingerAntics @Branwen oh I didn‘t know there was one. I just discovered the illustrated good omens. Going to look for the illustrated neverwhere right now!!! 4y

Branwen @GingerAntics Yassssss! You need it! It's absolutely perfect! 😃💕📚 4y

GingerAntics @Branwen it‘s in my cart...fingers crossed my contract comes in on January‘s check and it will be here soon. 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻 4y

Branwen @GingerAntics YES! Sending all the good thoughts your way! 🤞💖 4y

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Aims42

A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel | Amor Towles

#FiveFingerBookChallenge - This was a lot of fun @RaeLovesToRead 🤓 I supplemented the titles I borrowed/gave away/haven‘t borrowed or bought yet 😂

❤ A book I love - A Gentleman in Moscow
👍 A book I love to recommend - The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
👎A book I didn't like - The Essex Serpent
💍 A character you'd like to marry - Bertie Wooster 🥰
🤞 A book you pinky promise to read soon - Becoming by Michelle Obama

RaeLovesToRead Love it! I still have to read the Essex serpent! I hope I like it a bit better 😁😁 4y

Aims42 @RaeLovesToRead I hope you enjoy it! I was able to finish it, so it wasn‘t hopeless 😆 4y

janeycanuck Ugh, The Essex Serpent was awful! Most people seem to love it, though. It‘s nice to see someone else who didn‘t! 4y

Aims42 @janeycanuck Yay!!! I‘m with ya! 4y

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