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I haven't done any reviews in aaaaaaages so I'll try to get caught up with my book challenges for the year. I'm not mobile enough to take creative pictures, so they all have to be on top of my microwave that has been moved for ease of access to my table. :)

This was creeeeepyyyyy! If you love movies like The Blair Witch Project and Trollhunter, this book is for you. The rural Swedish setting and sense of tension are so well done.

This is the second Harry Hole novel and the only one I hadn't read yet. Maybe one day I'll read them in order. Harry has been called to Bangkok to solve the murder of the Norwegian Ambassador. This was a fairly dark novel but also really engrossing.
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Read this when I was looking for something fast and easy, which it was. I like the main characters, the pacing, the mystery, and the location. After a year in my house and yard, take me away to just about anywhere! Now I want a vacation home by the sea. But without the murders, TYVM.

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This was a strange little book and I‘m still trying to decide if I liked it or not. I worked part time for most of my twenties and Shiraha reminded me a lot of an old coworker. A lot of it hit close to home for me. 😵

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Reviews are up for One Two Three and Arsenic and Adobo. The Maidens will be up today. The other two soon!

#ARC One Two Three | The Maidens | The Woman They Could Not Silence
#readingasia #laos The Spirit Catches You ... #palestine The Book of Longings #iraq And Then All Hell ...
#booked2021 #translatedintoyourfirstlanguage Still Waters (total spur of the moment pick!)

My #doublespin book for May -- I wasn't sure if I would make it, but I muddled through. I think my biggest issue was that I wasn't sure WHAT I was reading. Supposedly, it's a novel, but it did not feel like it at all. I think I kept reading because I wanted to make sense of it, but I never did. Oh well!

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Not what I expected-this is kind of like a cross between 1984 and Fahrenheit 451. Intricately plotted, there‘s a clever story in a story, as the protagonist is a novel writer, and I loved the way the two stories intertwined. The switches between main story and novel are tricky to catch initially on audio, so just a heads up there. #japan for #readingasia2021 and #translatedintoyourfirstlanguage for #booked2021

A very accessible view into how growing up in #iran was during the Islamic revolution.
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A novella reminiscent of ferrante as it tells a story of a yng woman in 1930's turin Ginia,16, living in a house with her br, settled with friends + a job who drifts into friendship with older amelia, an artists model, and comes under the spell of a's male friend Guido, a soldier + artist. A tale of loss of innocence with in a changing italy.

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