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I thought I would have enjoyed this one more than i did 🤷‍♀️ my #doublespin for April @TheAromaofBooks

This book had been on my list for a long time and I thank Litsy for bumping it back up on my TBR. It was even better than I expected it to be. I‘m excited to read her other books including the new one just coming out. And, I‘m also excited about this New Yorker profile of Murata written by one of my favorite writers, Elif Batuman: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/04/14/sayaka-muratas-alien-eye

“The sensation that the world is slowly dying feels good.”

I take such pleasure in a historical fiction novel as expertly written as this. And I really love a multigenerational drama. So this story of one family during Japan's occupation of Korea and beyond was wonderful perfection. I can't wait to read more of Lee's work.

This book is so cute! I‘m so glad I picked it up at the library the other day. Koishi and her Dad run a hard to find restaurant and detective agency. You describe a dish associated with a memory that you want to taste again and they will make it for you, make it taste the same as it did in that memory.

Highly, highly recommend if you need something cozy to read.

Very unsettling mystery! And a fast read. I would have done the whole thing in one go if I hadn't made the mistake of starting it just before midnight. As it was I still read half the book before going nervously to bed 😅

I have the sushi cover, and I just have to say that it has absolutely nothing to do with the book. At all. Unlike the other one which features clues from the story.

This book has been described to me as cerebral crime/horror, and I sincerely hope that it's dark and unwholesome and full of fiendish puzzles.

#Eastercrime

It‘s a pretty nice spring day. Starting a new book from my #AuldLangSpine list to try to get out of a bit of a reading slump. The barista excitedly told me she just finished this one as she was bringing me my dirty chai (also having overnight oats with apples and peanut butter).

Ebook on sale today. I loved this book