Collection of somewhat dark short stories (and I'm not sure 'Toddler-Hunting' is even the oddest), but when you get past the shock value there's lots to reflect on concerning topics such as marriage, childhood, illness, and death, but particularly through the lens of a woman in Japan in the sixties and the choices available, or not.
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Tokyo Ueno Station by Miri Yu
Born in Fukushima in 1933, the same year as the Emperor, Kazu’s life is tied by a series of coincidences …
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Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
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Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
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The Price is Wrong by Brett Christophers
What if our understanding of capitalism and climate is back to front? What if the problem is not that transitioning …
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The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean
Truth is found between the stories we're fed and the stories we hunger for.
Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives …
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We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
A memoir of hope, faith and love, Samra Habib's story starts with growing up as part of a threatened minority …
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by 青山美智子
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what …
And then I realized that it was fear -- fear that no-one would ever truly understand me and love every part of me. The only relationships I'd ever known felt like bargaining and settling: bargaining for space to be free, settling for a partner who didn't wonder what I was up to. I wanted someone to see all of me, the good and the bad. I was in such a rush to prove that I'd come out of childhood unscathed, in order to prevent causing others any worry and concern, that I'd forgotten to examine whether I truly had.
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We Have Always Been Here by Samra Habib
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What You Are Looking For Is in the Library by 青山美智子
What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what …