valkyrie_221B
Valkyrie (ES|ENG|CAT|FR) 🇪🇸| I love too many genres to choose a favourite (it's Japanese lit) | Try to stop me from adding books to my TBR, I dare you | #notwithoutmybook
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valkyrie_221B commented on valkyrie_221B's review of Kitchen
Oh my gosh, what a fantastic read... From the title alone, I thought this would be a short, nice story with that healing touch some Japanese and Korean novels have, but it's much more than that. The writing style was slow and beautiful, and the story itself was compelling through the subject of grief, loneliness and acceptance. Overall, it felt like a nice break and a soft blanket on my soul.
However, it cannot all be perfect 😔 I loved Eriko, her vitality and that energy that said "I want to live!", so it saddened me that her being trans was a matter of laughter and lack of acceptance throughout the story. Now, I know that in Japanese media (for example, the videogame franchise "Yakuza" or the anime/manga "Shin Chan") it's fairly common to depict trans people as a matter of laughter, so I wasn't overly shocked.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
Stieg Larsson
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Oh my gosh, what a fantastic read... From the title alone, I thought this would be a short, nice story with that healing touch some Japanese and Korean novels have, but it's much more than that. The writing style was slow and beautiful, and the story itself was compelling through the subject of grief, loneliness and acceptance. Overall, it felt like a nice break and a soft blanket on my soul.
However, it cannot all be perfect 😔 I loved Eriko, her vitality and that energy that said "I want to live!", so it saddened me that her being trans was a matter of laughter and lack of acceptance throughout the story. Now, I know that in Japanese media (for example, the videogame franchise "Yakuza" or the anime/manga "Shin Chan") it's fairly common to depict trans people as a matter of laughter, so I wasn't overly shocked.
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Make me cry while I'm in my kitchen reflecting about life, why don't you 😭
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Kitchen
Banana Yoshimoto
0valkyrie_221B commented on a post
My gosh, it was a beautiful little story... How the seemingly random subject of liking kitchens ties beautifully with how humans create relationships and how important these are to help against loneliness... 🥺🥺🥺
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My gosh, it was a beautiful little story... How the seemingly random subject of liking kitchens ties beautifully with how humans create relationships and how important these are to help against loneliness... 🥺🥺🥺
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If a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is
Oof, that hits so close to home... 😢
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If a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is
Oof, that hits so close to home... 😢
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Stieg Larsson
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Stieg Larsson
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
Stieg Larsson
0valkyrie_221B commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
Like the title suggests, I just wanted to write a silly little post about the latest update on my Kindle Paperwhite 😂
Up until now, I've been reading ebooks in MOBI format, because I thought that was the only format that worked properly on the Kindle. With this format, I could check the number of pages in the book, the position on the book and whatnot.
Now a couple of days ago, an automatic update took place, and now the Kindle doesn't work with the MOBI format anymore, I can't check the page number 😭😭😭
I'm a little annoyed and even sad, because most of my ebooks are in a format that doesn't work anymore, after all the effort I made to organise everything in shelves 🤣 😭
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valkyrie_221B commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
I used to be a big jrpg girly so I really like to imagine Raybearer as a turn based rpg similar to the persona franchise
ALSO GIDEON WOULD BE AMAZING
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Like the title suggests, I just wanted to write a silly little post about the latest update on my Kindle Paperwhite 😂
Up until now, I've been reading ebooks in MOBI format, because I thought that was the only format that worked properly on the Kindle. With this format, I could check the number of pages in the book, the position on the book and whatnot.
Now a couple of days ago, an automatic update took place, and now the Kindle doesn't work with the MOBI format anymore, I can't check the page number 😭😭😭
I'm a little annoyed and even sad, because most of my ebooks are in a format that doesn't work anymore, after all the effort I made to organise everything in shelves 🤣 😭
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