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DNF. I tried about 75 pages of this over the last week and it is not doing anything for me for the following reasons: 1. This is a slow-build of a novel at a time when I am not in the mood for a slow-paced, potentially over-written story. 2. Although the story is set in Penang and I have an i...
He touched the envelope on the table. ‘You mentioned that you worked as a researcher for the War Crimes Tribunal.’ ‘I wanted to ensure that those who were responsible were punished. I wanted to see that justice was done.’ ‘You think I am a fool? It was not all about justice.’ ‘It was the only way ...
Honestly, this is a difficult one for me to write about. I know it won't be some people's cup of tea - it's slow-paced, a little confusing at times, set in a first-person PoV, and isn't afraid of exposition. But I loved it. It was just a good read that I thoroughly enjoyed from cover to cover, esp...
Another Booker prize winner I couldn't get into. :(
This was an amazing story, drenched in beauty, but an incomplete beauty, full of sorrow, but a sorrow with many questions, with unresolved anger. It tells the story a history of the main character, as she looks back to WWII and the ensuing fight for Malaysia, between the British and communists, and...
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