"I am haunted by all the things— big things and little things, Splendid Things and Squalid Things— that threaten to slip through the cracks, untold, out of history." You know when you start a book and it speaks to your own experiences or thoughts at a particular point in time? If I had to pick a b...
I can't decide on a star rating for this. I loved Nao's segments so much - they were quirky in the best possible sense of the word. The tale of her losing and finding herself (and her family) will stay with me for a long time.However, while I understand the function of the author self-insert chapt...
I can't decide on a star rating for this. I loved Nao's segments so much - they were quirky in the best possible sense of the word. The tale of her losing and finding herself (and her family) will stay with me for a long time.However, while I understand the function of the author self-insert chapt...
“Do you think Nao is alive?” Ruth asked. “Hard to say. Is death even possible in a universe of many worlds? Is suicide? For every world in which you kill yourself, there’ll be another in which you don’t, in which you go on living. Many worlds seems to guarantee a kind of immortality . . .” She grew ...
It's normal to review a novel after you've finished reading it. Then you hold the whole book in your mind and decide what it meant to you: what you liked about it, what you didn't like about it, how it made you feel, what it made you think about and whether it was worth your time. It's a tried and t...
This was one of the best books that I've read all year. We have Nao who lives in Japan and who has decided that before she dies, she wants to write about her 104 year old great grandmother in her diary. We have Ruth who lives in Canada and when she is walking along the beach one day, she finds a H...
I picked up this book, not because I'm super into the Japanese culture but, because it was recommended to me by a friend. I was told I would enjoy this because it has a stream of consciousness feel. Being a fan of Faulkner, Stein, and Morrison, I was all game. I also noticed the ratings on goodreads...
This book is like pistachio ice-cream for me: the fist half is very pleasant, but the aftertaste, the second half of that specific portion which I'm eating is..disagreeable. Ruth's part is the second half.First of all let's start from the chocolate chips on the biscuit: prettier things like Nao's pa...
I'm meeting with my book club today in Belfast to discuss this book....obviously! It's an alternative book club that I started last year to read anything a bit different i.e sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc. All the book clubs I could find near me were only reading contemporary styled literature and I wa...
I loved this book and I want to thank Rachel for loaning me her signed copy because I had a snow, ice and coffee accident as I was carrying this to work one morning and now it's not as pretty as it was when she loaned it to me! :( Buy this title at Powells Books.
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