The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J Church Human beings get old and die in such a short time. Do we really have free will ? Will there always be another choice? But still I believe that it will make a difference if one is determined to change or to adapt, either is fine enough […]
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The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce Audio book read by Jim Broadbent Different persons lead different lives, bearing different stories with others, troubling by different agony. every time read this book again, it feels good as once it was.
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Under the Visible Life by Kim Echlin Well everybody dies in the end after struggling to break free or convincing oneself not to struggle because of “responsibility”. Katherine, half Canadian and half Chinese -her mother and her struggled through 1950’s hostile – married and had children – the husband got addicted and constantly stay somewhere […]
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Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling Audiobook read by the author The last chapter is about confidence that I couldn’t agree more.
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The History of Bees by Maja Lunde Audio book read by Joy Osmanski, Gibson Frazier and Steve West Fascinating stories, and even more is that all three stories in different time and space intertwined in the end in an unbelievable way. Interesting to find the book of the same name to be found by Tao in […]
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The Force by Don Winslow How did we get here? Like anyplace else. A step at a time. A job that makes you face with the other side of the city and of human beings, and there’s no way to put yourself out of it by “sharing”. Malone is clean and dirty in different stories […]
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My Absolute Darling by Gabriel Tallent Audiobook I an trying not to blame the victims for doing stupid things or being a coward, which they would do possibly blame themselves the same as we do, because it’s much easier to see this way but helps nothing.
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Tears of Rangi by Anne Salmond The way Māori see the world, their stories to explain how the world works, and early histories between Māori and Europeans. It’s amazing to find the similarity between Māori and Chinese culture with all the geological and linguistic insulation between them. The concepts hard be translated into English, like hau, Whakapapa, pō, mārama and all the ancestral […]
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children-Miss Peregrine Series, Book 1, by Ransom Riggs Audiobook read by Jesse Bernstein Well this is not a thriller, despite a really dark, horrific cover, just a fantasy of a bunch of “peculiar” kids .
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Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly The war changed everything. It was just impossible to pretend nothing had happened. The third part that happened after the war, that people would live on and suffer, kinda like what would happen after the “happy marriage” , which is really sad. Maybe we all know what would happen, so […]
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