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Taipei Story
R.F. Kuang
Post from the Atmosphere forum
It's amazing how much the quality of an audiobook can add or take away from the reading experience. This audiobook rocks, I feel like im in the room with these people
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Atmosphere
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Not a bad read at all. I still enjoyed the familial relationships present in Laura Dave's books and thought the overall plot was good. What brought the strength of the story down from the first books was partially the multiple perspectives on top of the multiple flashbacks. I felt that it broke the tension we had when Hannah was our only narrator and adding multiple flashbacks broke up the story too much for me. I ended up feeling more disconnected from the characters this time around. I didn't feel much other than simple contentment when finishing this book as opposed to the last book where I was truly almost crying.
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The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave
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Biography of X
Catherine Lacey
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A uniquely phenomenal book. I am not usually one to sit with what it means to be a "time being" or thing about different worlds, especially in what is certainly not a fantasy book. I dont quite have the words to describe the reading experience but it made me remember what a privilege it is to sit down and experience a truly wonderful book made such care and craft. The Zen Buddist ideals running throughout the book were so wonderfully passed along from teenaged Nao as she remembers learning from her great grandmother who she refers to as "Old Jiko" throughout the books which i just love. I don't know if this book and its themes would have been as accessible if the narration choices had been slightly different. Im so happy, and also so sad; this book does that to you.!
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A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth Ozeki
Post from the The First Time I Saw Him forum
Im not sure about going from one pov in the first book to multiple (i think 4?) povs in this one. It sort of breaks the tension :/
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The First Time I Saw Him
Laura Dave
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The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave