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@faeriegirl great haul, enjoy

@Cissy63, I hear ya on your nails bearing the brunt of renovations and cleaning. Ugh. You’ll have a beautiful home and with some extra TLC, which it sounds like you are already doing, a lovely set of healthy nails in due time. Bubble Bath is an absolutely gorgeous shade of pink on you! 😍💗

Thank you.

Thank you @ather!

Your flowers are gorgeous, @sister13 ! 🌷🌷🌷 I hope they survived the snow.

My favorite is either 62 or 59!!

   

Historical fiction. Post-World War II. Japan. From (well, mostly from) the perspective of "the illegitimate child of a Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover"* (from Goodreads) As with Carrie Sun's Private Equity A Memoir, this is the author's first book. It took me longer to get through this one, partly because of not having a lot of time to read, partly because there were certain sections where I needed to go back to determine which character was narrating a particular section, and in some instances, where I just needed to go back and re-read a section over again. The beginning caught my attention and made me wonder where the story would end up going. Sections of the book are from the point of view of other characters and that has its pros and cons. There are also a couple of parts in this book that didn't settle well with me - some very pointed, direct, and clear in their unsavoriness, and others that were even more discomforting because of what the narrative suggested rather than what the protagonist actually said about those matters. Setting those aside, there are passages within the novel that made me think on them well after I finished the book, including the ending, as well as quotes weaved throughout the novel that demonstrate a really lovely writing style on the part of the author. Notable Quotes:Spoiler"All this time, she'd asked God for a gift. She hadn't realized that she'd been living in one all along. A sweet little bubble, filled with a combination of dreams, hope, and blatant stupidity. It wasn't a cage, as she had thought it was. It was a shield." "We do things that we never thought we were capable of in order to protect what we love." "The ocean seemed never-ending. But somehow, somewhere it did end.Perhaps it was the same with her grief.Though she could not see it.""All this time, she'd asked God for a gift. She hadn't realized that she'd been living in one all along. A sweet little bubble, filled with a combination of dreams, hope, and blatant stupidity. It wasn't a cage, as she had thought it was. It was a shield." "We do things that we never thought we were capable of in order to protect what we love." "The ocean seemed never-ending. But somehow, somewhere it did end.Perhaps it was the same with her grief.Though she could not see it."

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