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KillerQueen

Jun 25, 2026

The Library of Heartbeats

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0Audiobook: 4.0

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This book had no business breaking my heart the way it did. I was not expecting to feel so many feelings while reading this!! Omg

This book was so beautifully written. Its a slow paced reflection on human connection and grief with flowery prose so definitely not for everyone but absolutely perfect for me!❤️

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The Library of Heartbeats

Laura Imai Messina

From the international bestselling author of The Phone Box at the Edge of the World: a powerful, moving novel of grief, hope, friendship and love based around a real archive on an island in Japan, where people travel to record their heartbeats. To find what you have lost, you must listen to your heart . . . On the peaceful Japanese island of Teshima there is a library of heartbeats, a place where the heartbeats of visitors from all around the world are collected. In this small, isolated building, the heartbeats of people who are still alive or have already passed away continue to echo. Several miles away, in the ancient city of Kamakura, two lonely souls Shuichi, a forty-year-old illustrator, who returns to his home-town to fix up the house of his recently deceased mother, and eight-year-old Kenta, a child who wanders like a shadow around Shuichi's house. Day by day, the trust between Shuichi and Kenta grows until they discover they share a bond that will tie them together for life. Their journey will lead them to Teshima and to the library of heartbeats . . .

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Laura Imai Messina

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Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m. There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit. We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer. Understood? Then let's begin . . . Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others . . . The most inventive debut of the year twists together a mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave listeners guessing until the very last second.

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives (Kamogawa Food Detectives, #1)

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Obsessed!!

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The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that’s not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are ‘food detectives’. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person’s treasured memories – dishes that may well hold the keys to their forgotten past and future happiness. The restaurant of lost recipes provides a link to vanished moments, creating a present full of possibility. A bestseller in Japan, The Kamogawa Food Detectives is a celebration of good company and the power of a delicious meal.

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KillerQueen

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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

5.0

Enjoyment: 5.0Quality: 5.0Characters: 5.0Plot: 5.0

I got so consumed by reading that near the end I completely forgot to journal my thoughts in the forum I was just so focused on reading and finishing the book.

But wow. I loved this.

From the very first chapters Clarke caught me off guard with his ape-men and prehistoric times. I'm so glad I went into this blind because I never quite knew how it would continue but I genuinely am so impressed.

When i first picked up the book and saw how it started I was like ?? Did it pick up the wrong book?

It felt like such a weird choice and I was very weary of how the rest of the book would play out, but this ended up being one of ku favourite parts of the book. It's definitely skyrocketed to the top of my favourite book openings I've ever read! Seeing such a unique perspective and the first steps towards humanity was just fascinating. Especially when what followed was a man taking a routine flights to the moon!!

And the ending?? Just gorgeous. Everything about this book brought me joy and I can already tell this wont be tje only time I'll be reading it

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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)

Arthur C. Clarke

On the Moon, an enigma is uncovered. So great are the implications of this discovery that for the first time men are sent out deep into our solar system. But long before their destination is reached, things begin to go horribly, inexplicably wrong... One of the greatest-selling science fiction novels of our time, this classic book will grip you to the very end.

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