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Ferrante says : ‘ When I write it‘s as if I were butchering eels, I pay little attention to the unpleasantness of the situation.‘ I loved this book , I love her bluntness , her melodrama, & how she makes that great. I feel I‘ve been in Naples... I‘ve lived in the gritty melodrama of the characters ( great characters 👌🏻) lives.
A pic of our local Cafe .. Napoli ..
For #Translatedintoyour1stLanguage #Booked2021
Thanks Helen , I LOVED this book

Here‘s my #booked2021 first quarter wrap up! I skipped around, as usual, and managed to get through more prompts than I expected, so I‘m quite pleased. 😊 I enjoyed all of them too, except Boca Raton, but at least that one was short. 😅

#SFWrittenByAWoman: The Space Between Worlds
#TranslatedIntoYour1stLanguage: Breasts and Eggs
#HearHere: Just Mercy
#RelatedTo911: The Only Plane in the Sky
#Under150pages: Boca Raton
#LatinxAuthor: Little Eyes

When Jules loses his parents at the age of 11, he and his siblings are sent to boarding school and it‘s as if he loses them too as they are separated by both location and grief. Jules is forever changed as he grows up, tries to find the right path, and reconnects with his brother and sister who will also never be the same. Sad and beautiful, I really loved this. It is a book that will stay with me. #booked2021 #translatedintoyour1stlanguage

Exquisite. It made me feel EVERYTHING and filled me with a warmth I‘ve not experienced for a long time when reading. I was bewitched. And I think if I read it at another time in my life, I would take a different wisdom from it. Beautiful book ✨🌸❤️

#TranslatedIntoYour1stLanguage #Booked2021

Thank you Sue @Suet624 for recommending it. Books like this are rare to find.

This is a sweet story of second chances and, dare I say it, the power of coffee. In an obscure cafe in Tokyo, those who wish to visit a past occurrence can do so...but, there are rules. Lots of rules. And severe consequences if the coffee gets cold...

I enjoyed this one. The characters are entertaining, and I admittedly shed a few tears. Many thanks to @BarbaraBB for sending me this one for #Japan and #ReadingAsia2021 . Also, ⬇️⬇️⬇️

This is a slight, quiet book, where nothing actually happens beyond seafood being eaten. I liked it. Our mc is working the off-season in a small guest-house, in the tourist town of Sokcho. A French cartoonist checks in, & something starts (not a friendship, not a relationship...)

I loved the sense of place- maybe I‘ve always thought of South Korea as Seoul (in the way people think England is London). This is Whitby or Falmouth & felt so familiar.