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[Songbird76]

I finished the christmas tree farm and then moved on to a non-fiction book about a distant Jane Austen relative who grew up in the house where Jane spent her last few years and where she did most of her writing. It was interesting, but not a whole lot about Jane herself, which was a little disappointing.

I'm having a rough time and need some comfort reading, so I just finished Sense and Sensibility last night and I'm going to start Pride and Prejudice.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

My most recent read was “Magic Hour” by Kristin Hannah

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Set in the 2000s, this book is about a small town in Washington state, just outside of Olympic National Forest. One day, a young girl walks out of the forest - she is severely malnourished, and cannot/will not speak. The town sheriff enlists the help of her younger sister, a disgraced child psychologist, to try to help the little girl and figure out who she is. This was my fourth Kristin Hannah book in 2024 - she has quickly become one of my favorite authors. If you have enjoyed any of her other books, I’d highly recommend reading this one as well.

I read that one a while back. She's also one of my favorites, though I still have the read the Women.

 

[k8einwdw]

My most recent reads:



“The House in the Cerulean Sea” is about Linus, who is a caseworker for the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. He gets an highly classified assignment to spend a month observing and reporting back on an orphanage that houses some of the most unusual/potentially dangerous magical children, including a female garden gnome, a forest sprite, a dragon, a boy that has the ability to turn into a dog, and…the child of Satan himself. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about this one, as I’m not normally a fan of fantasy, but I really loved it. It is a heartwarming story about acceptance and found family.



“Pachinko” is about four generations of a Korean family living in Japan, and takes place from the 1930s all the way through the 1980s. This one was…long. And sad - it felt like the entire plot was just one bad thing after another happening to the family. Like many Korean families living in Japan in the 20th century, they faced discrimination from native Japanese. Even after WW2 and the Korean War were over, and even after the younger generations of the family rose above their circumstances and achieved education and wealth, they still faced that same discrimination. I can normally finish a book in under a week, but this one took me two. It’s a good book, and well written - just tough to read.

 

[Songbird76]

My most recent reads:

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“The House in the Cerulean Sea” is about Linus, who is a caseworker for the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. He gets an highly classified assignment to spend a month observing and reporting back on an orphanage that houses some of the most unusual/potentially dangerous magical children, including a female garden gnome, a forest sprite, a dragon, a boy that has the ability to turn into a dog, and…the child of Satan himself. I wasn’t sure how I would feel about this one, as I’m not normally a fan of fantasy, but I really loved it. It is a heartwarming story about acceptance and found family.

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“Pachinko” is about four generations of a Korean family living in Japan, and takes place from the 1930s all the way through the 1980s. This one was…long. And sad - it felt like the entire plot was just one bad thing after another happening to the family. Like many Korean families living in Japan in the 20th century, they faced discrimination from native Japanese. Even after WW2 and the Korean War were over, and even after the younger generations of the family rose above their circumstances and achieved education and wealth, they still faced that same discrimination. I can normally finish a book in under a week, but this one took me two. It’s a good book, and well written - just tough to read.

I LOVE TJ Klune. House in the Cerulean Sea is so good! I need to read the sequel. Have you read u Under the Whispering Door? I sobbed for that last 100 pages, I swear, but it was so so good. In the Lives of Puppets was cute, but not as good as his others I've read.