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totefairie
Manacled | SenLinYu
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squirrelbrain
The Remembered Soldier | Anjet Daanje
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Another 4 books on the National Book Awards longlist. I had no idea the tagged book was such a chunkster until it arrived!

I also have 2 on order from eBay but they‘re not arriving for a few weeks yet.

I‘m reading The Antidote in print - it‘s too early to say what I think yet. I‘m also listening to The Sisters on audio and, goodness me, it‘s long! 😬

AnneCecilie The Sisters is amazing and worth its length 3w
squirrelbrain I‘m quite a long way through it @annececilie and usually I don‘t mind a lot of detail but it‘s just starting to grate on me a little bit. 😬 3w
AnneCecilie @squirrelbrain I love details and have also read several of his previous novels and enjoyed them. 3w
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Hooked_on_books I‘m also listening to The Sisters on audio! I‘m at the 60% mark and so far I‘m a little underwhelmed. I really feel like the first half didn‘t know whether to center the narrator or the sisters and ended up a little disjointed. I don‘t know that I would have made it through in print. And I didn‘t know the tagged was so chunky, either! 😱 3w
squirrelbrain I‘m probably around the same point as you @Hooked_on_books - I‘m struggling with knowing / understanding the timescales as it seems to jump about all over the place. Funnily enough a blurb on the bag of the tagged book says ‘not a moment too long‘ (or wtef)! 😜 3w
BarbaraBB The Dutch one is a chunkster but she‘s such a good writer. You‘ll probably fly through it! 3w
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totefairie
Manacled | SenLinYu
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Mattsbookaday
The Remembered Soldier | Anjet Daanje
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Pickpick

The Remembered Soldier, by Anjet Daanje (2019, transl. 2025)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Premise: A former soldier experiencing severe amnesia and PTSD struggles to recover his memories and life after he is brought home from an asylum by a woman who identifies him as her husband.

Review: This is a stunning, deeply moving literary love story that will reward patient readers. ⬇️

Mattsbookaday I say patient because it‘s well over 500 pages long, and it employs long, run-on sentences and paragraphs. But the pay-off is beyond worth any annoyance. This will almost certainly be among my top reads of the year.

Bookish Pair: The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa (2005, transl. 2009)
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BarbaraBB Great review. I loved The Housekeeper and Daanjes other book (which hasn‘t been published in English yet) so this is a must read for me! (edited) 1mo
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Blueberry
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Eggs I can relate…my partner has less than 5 minutes short term memory now, but can recall events from 50 years ago 2mo
Blueberry @Eggs I'm sorry to hear that. It's challenging. I've had Cptsd with dissociation for about 5 yrs which makes my immediate memory bad...like what am I saying right now. But I believe I'm getting better. Prayers for you and me. 2mo
Eggs @Blueberry Sorry to hear that 😟 dear. I pray for healing for you 🧡 2mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
What Alice Forgot | Liane Moriarty
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Eggs Do you recommend this one? 2mo
TheBookgeekFrau @Eggs Yes. It's nothing you expect it to be; and the way Moriarty rolls it out makes unputdownable 2mo
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NovelNancyM
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I truly enjoyed this book except for the last paragraph which didn't seem to fit with the conclusion. I'd rate it a 4.95 if I could. A beautiful story about memory loss, friendship, love, mathematical formulas, and Japan.

BarbaraBB I loved this too 3mo
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Jari-chan
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Mehso-so

Ogawa writes beautifully and sometimes even dream-like. But I do prefer her newer books to her older ones. I knew that this one wasn't going to my favorite. As a person with dyscalculia I just let the characters go on about maths and how to solve this and that. I would have loved to learn more about the professor's condition and how he deals with it.

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Jari-chan
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