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    Book review: Convenience Store Woman

    These days I find it a privilege to be able to finish reading a book. Convenience Store Woman is only 94 pages though, perfect for when you’ve got nothing to do but roll over your bed for the rest of the night. At first, I thought this is going to…

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    You Can Wind Down From Time To Time

    After a few months of staring at my bookshelf wondering if it somehow just became a decoration in my room to make me feel and look smart, I finally finished reading a book! Apop has graciously provided us with books we can turn to when the whole world appears to…

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    Book review: The Nakano Thrift Shop

    There might be spoilers ahead. It wasn’t until I updated my Goodreads reading challenge that I realized it took me almost an entire month to finish reading this book. The Nakano Thrift Shop is a slow read, a book that I’d likely curl up with on a rainy Sunday afternoon,…

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    Weekend read: Some Days You Can’t Save Them All

    If hospital walls could speak, what kind of stories could they tell me, I would often wonder during the lonely afternoons I spent in the ICU many years ago. I figured it must be fascinating to hear stories of triumph over death, and of course heartbreaking to hear tales of…

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    Book review: Broken Bard, The Path of the Pacifist

    Psychology, factions, secret societies, and maybe even conspiracy theories – these are just some of the things you can expect from this action-packed suspense, written by Filipino author Christian Khiel Pineda Unto. Broken Bard is the first installment of the Requiem series featuring the psychology student/journalist Sky Colburn. What is…

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    Book review: Strange Weather In Tokyo

    I didn’t plan on reading this book – but after reading Before The Coffee Gets Cold, I figured I need more dose of Japanese literature. I loved Strange Weather In Tokyo just as much, despite the time I took to finish reading it (I really miss the times when I…