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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 1

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The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun (Novel) Vol. 1

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Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

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Bel Canto

Ann Patchett

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxane Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening—until a band of gun-wielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

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Disappoint Me

Nicola Dinan

After a rough tumble and maybe-serious head injury, a disillusioned trans poet falls for a charming corporate lawyer in a love story that grapples with the explosive ghosts of relationships past, romantic and familial, from the Lambda Award-nominated author of Bellies, Nicola Dinan “Fell down the stairs and woke up a trad wife.” Max is thirty, a published poet and grossly overpaid legal counsel for a tech company. With a lifetime of dysphoria and fuccbois rattling around in her head, Max is plagued with a deep dissatisfaction during what should be the best years of her life. After taking a spill down the stairs at a New Year’s Eve party, she decides to make some changes. First things first: a stab at good old-fashioned heteronormativity. Max thinks she’s found the answer in Vincent, a corporate lawyer and hobby baker, whose trad friendship group may as well speak a foreign language, and whose Chinese parents never pictured their son dating a trans woman. This uncharted territory may have rough terrain, but Vincent cares for Max in a way she’d long given up on as a foolish fantasy. Yet Vincent is carrying his own baggage from his gap year in Thailand a decade prior: an explosive entanglement with a mysterious, gorgeous traveler. Voice-driven, warm, and poignant, Disappoint Me is an exploration of millennial angst, race, trans panic, and the allure of bourgeois domesticity that asks if we are defined by our worst mistakes.

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House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story—of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

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Grave of the Fireflies

Akiyuki Nosaka

Japan Quarterly Oct-Dec, Vol.XXV No.4, 1978 "Grave of the Fireflies (火垂るの墓 Hotaru no Haka) is a 1967 semi-autobiographical novel by Japanese novelist Akiyuki Nosaka. It is based on his experiences before, during, and after the firebombing of Kobe in 1945."

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인투 더 로즈가든 (Into the Rose Garden #1-8)

Winterbaum Winterbaum

* 키워드_오메가버스/후회수/회귀물/피폐 * 외전 Chirpy, on the wolflake ; 레이피엘과 울프레이크 후작에 얽힌 번외편 에이록 테이윈드는 사람을 둘 죽였다. 지방의 작은 영지를 가진 벤다이크 남작가의 차남 클로프 벤다이크, 오로지 그를 얻기 위해서. 하지만 제게 돌아온 건 지독한 증오와 가늠하기 어려운 혐오뿐이었다. “난 네가 너무 싫어. 역겨워. 혐오해. 네가 저지른 짓과 똑같은 비참한 종말을 맞길 바란다.” 언젠가 다시 태어나 갚을 수 있다면, 그때에는 네 연인 근처에도 가지 않을 것이다. 그렇게 다짐한 채 에이록은 눈을 감았다. 그리고 거짓말처럼 다시금 주어진 두 번째 삶. “나는 클로프 벤다이크라고 하오.” 에이록이 클로프를 똑바로 올려다보았다. 조금 난처한 듯 멍한 표정을 짓고, 얼굴만큼이나 하얀 손을 내밀어 클로프의 손을 잡았다. “에이록 테이윈드.”

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Should we pity him or what? Bc the only feeling I have is contempt.

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Tell me about Noir Fiction

Bit of a weird ask, but hear me out. The TLWR is : please tell me what makes a noir a noir. What should I expect? Like, in romance I know I'll get an HEA, in a mystery I know the killer will be caught at the end, in a thriller there's going to be a twist, etc...

I'm reading my first noir fiction (hrcyed made me do it) and I'm realizing I really don't enjoy not knowing what to expect. I'm not into movies so I can't really pull references from those either. I'm one of those people who don't mind spoilers and even sometimes seek them out. I'm one of those people who will go and read the last page of a thriller when the tension gets too much. I enjoy romances because I know for sure, whatever happens during the book, my characters will end up together.

So here's my issue, with the book I'm reading, I have no point of reference on what to expect and I'm realizing it's pretty anxiety inducing. And I can't really soothe that by looking up reviews because there's none on here or on GR. The best I found were 6 reviews on Amazon and all of them pretty much say "a good noir that feels gritty and erotic".

If you like them, or read them, or just know your genres, can you please tell me the beats of a noir? What should I expect? I'm only a quarter of the way through right now and I know to expect "gritty" and "erotic" and so far it's been a lot about the "bad part of town" and racism/antisemetism.

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The Lowland

Jhumpa Lahiri

Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are From Subhash's earliest memories, at every point, his brother was there. In the suburban streets of Calcutta where they wandered before dusk and in the hyacinth-strewn ponds where they played for hours on end, Udayan was always in his older brother's sight. So close in age, they were inseparable in childhood and yet, as the years pass - as U.S tanks roll into Vietnam and riots sweep across India - their brotherly bond can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives. Udayan - charismatic and impulsive - finds himself drawn to the Naxalite movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty. He will give everything, risk all, for what he believes, and in doing so will transform the futures of those dearest to him: his newly married, pregnant wife, his brother and their parents. For all of them, the repercussions of his actions will reverberate across continents and seep through the generations that follow. Epic in its canvas and intimate in its portrayal of lives undone and forged anew, The Lowland is a deeply felt novel of family ties that entangle and fray in ways unforeseen and unrevealed, of ties that ineluctably define who we are. With all the hallmarks of Jhumpa Lahiri's achingly poignant, exquisitely empathetic story-telling, this is her most devastating work of fiction to date.

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Old Fashion Cupcake

Sagan Sagan

Elu meilleur manga boy's love lors des prestigieux Chil-Chil Awards 2021, "Old Fashioned Cupcake" débarque déjà en français ! Sagan sagan, avec une narration toute en cases, propose une romance tout public, entre deux collègues de travail. Déjà une référence ! À 39 ans, Nozue réalise qu'à force de s'être laissé porter par son quotidien, il a fini par s'enfermer dans sa routine : métro, boulot, dodo. Mais à l'approche de la quarantaine, le salarié n'a ni l'envie ni l'énergie d'essayer d'évoluer. C'est Togawa, son subordonné de 29 ans, qui bouscule ses habitudes en lui proposant un jour d'aller grignoter des pâtisseries dans un établissement particulièrement en vogue chez les jeunes filles. D'un goûter à l'autre, Nozue se sent rajeunir... Mais estce vraiment l'effet de ces gourmandises ou plutôt celui de sentiments naissants ?

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I’m really confused on what this book is meant to be about. So far I’m getting more increasingly annoyed with being stuck in Natalie’s head.

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Riverbay Road Men's Dormitory (Novel) Vol. 2

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Jun 09, 2026

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5

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Volume 2 was a bit more melancholy, but I found the characterization more interesting. Each of the men was mostly off on their own, and not all the characters got equal time. But about halfway through, the storylines started converging and it was interesting to see how they came together. We even got some juicy (though almost melodramatic) confrontations. The pacing toward the end was also a little rushed, but it made sense in the context of the story.

One thing I really liked about this series is that the characters may not always do what I want them to, but they do things that make sense for them and I couldn’t help but cheer them on.

At its core this is a found family story, and I found it so warm and cozy.

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