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lizard64wizard

🧶Reading my way through life. 🌱☕️🪴 Gardening(“attempting”😔🥀), crafting🪡🧵, boardgames 🎲, and traveling🛸 (for food 🍜)are my other passions.🎮

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The Decagon House Murders (House Murders, #1)
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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  • A Tale for the Time Being
    lizard64wizard
    Mar 05, 2026
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    Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 3.5Characters: 4.0Plot: 3.5
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    Jiko needs her own book! She was the most interesting character for me. Her stories remind me so much of my mother and her stories of surviving the 100 hour war in Central America and the effects it had on her.

    Neo’s interest in her grandma made me so happy. I didn’t get the luxury of spending time with my grandparents/time beings! And I hope this inspires others to find ways to bond. That although there’s such a contrast between us because of our differences in age etc, that there is still so much we can learn from one another.

    The audibook made this a fun read with these 3 voices sharing their stories and thoughts as life was lifing at different stages of their life and different time frames. This also was insightful for how death can be viewed in Japan. Along with depression, bullying, and the devastating effects of the tsunami.

    Towards the end there were things I questioned the purpose of what happens regarding the diary. I feel that the message about time could have still been done without it. But I suppose some magical realism was added for fun.

    Overall beautiful story!

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    Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of the Century

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