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This book didn‘t make much sense. Maybe that was the point. We often divulge secrets to complete strangers feeling naked and free and oh so daring. At the same time, we get caught up in an affair so flat and fleeting it just fades away. We move to a new country and call it our home as a foreigner that never makes it so. We feel compelled to set the record straight and to be remembered, thinking it matters, while not being able to articulate why.

Penang, 1939. The young Philip Hutton, half Chinese, half English, meets a Japanese man who will be his Aikido teacher, who shares tons of wisdom and who loves him unconditionally. Philip shows him his homeland and Tan Twan Eng is able to captivate Malaysia‘s smells, images and aromas masterfully. Then Japan invades Malaysia and the story becomes one about divided loyalties, betrayal, courage, cruelty and forgiveness. I loved it.

#WeeklyForecast 25/23

I am going to read two books that I‘ve been very much looking forward to. In fact I already started A Town Called Solace (my first Mary Lawson) and am enjoying it a lot. The tagged book is one I have such high expectations of after loving The Garden of Evening Mists that I have postponed reading it for a long time.

#gift #divinedecember @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

#memorablegift #indeliblemoments @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

A favourite of mine #rain #artfulaugust @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

This is a book that is going to find a place in my list of favourites. The story is one of family, war, fate and regret and is set predominantly on the island of Penang which is a character in its own right. Multi faceted and moving I feel so silly it‘s been on my kindle for so long … loved it (and I am off and running for my #booked2022

First time on a train in nearly two years after flying visit to my parents … hoping to get into this one which is my #booked2022 weather choice. Enjoying so far

#falltreasures #over500pages @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
This is one of my favourite read from a favourite author! Hard to get into it at first but once I got the hang of it, it was a beautiful journey!