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Sunday Post hosted by Caffeinated Book Reviewer (details)
Actually did some in-store book shopping this week. I saw so many wonderful new releases that were tempting...
Bought:
by Katie Kitamura
-Sports
Amazon | Goodreads
HAD to pick this up after Katie's author event I attended. Her brother was there whose hands are pictured on this book cover.
by Han Kang
Powells | Amazon | Goodreads
by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
-Literary, Historical
Amazon | Goodreads
GOT these two for a face-to-face book group I recently joined.
For Review:
by Katy Evans
-New Adult, Romance
courtesy of Romance Read-of-the-Month Club -Thanks!
BarnesNoble | Goodreads
by Meia Geddes
-Poetry
courtesy of author -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
JUST in time for April's National Poetry Month.
by Jane Austen
narrated by Alison Larkin
-Audiobook, Classic, Romance
courtesy of narrator -Thanks!
Website
LOOKING forward to this latest Jane Austen audiobook by Alison. This will be the 4th out of Jane's six novels that Alison has presented in audio.
FYI: For every Jane Austen audiobook download bought via the link below, $5.00 will be donated to the Jane Austen Literacy Foundation, a non profit dedicated to helping communities in literacy crisis in honor of Jane Austen. (details)
Author event:
Booksmith in San Francisco hosted an event with Min Jin Lee to celebrate the release of her latest, Pachinko. Found out that the beginnings of this novel started in 1989 when Min was 19 years old. Part of the inspiration for the story was from a missionary's lecture that included a sad story of a 13 year old Korean boy who committed suicide due to racism in Japan.
by Min Jin Lee
-Historical, Japan, Korea
Amazon | Goodreads
Green Apple Books on the Park in San Francisco hosted an event with Katie Kitamura in conversation with City Lights Buyer Paul Yamazaki about her novel, A Separation. She mentions how the story gets into how we are mysterious to each other as we are mysterious to ourselves.
by Katie Kitamura
-Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads
OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related
JOINED a face-to-face book group at Book Passage, Corte Madera (details). The theme includes books that received literary prizes.
AND watched: in theatre
Ennemis Entreniers
La Femme et le TGV
Silent Nights
Sing
Timecode
ALL of these were special in their own way and different ways. I enjoyed them all. Kinda leaning towards Silent Nights. It will be interesting to see which wins.
Blind Vaysha
Borrowed Time
Pear Cider and Cigarettes
Pearl
Piper
ANOTHER varied bunch of goodness. Pear Cider and Cigarettes tops my list.
Currently flipping through: from the library
Tiny Built Things
by Rebecca Roke
-Architecture
Amazon | Goodreads
The most wide-ranging, comprehensive and inclusive book on small-scale architecture ever published
An inspiring, surprising and fun collection of 300 works of small-scale architecture including demountable, portable, transportable and inflatable structures as well as pavilions, installations, sheds, cabins, pods, capsules and tree houses.
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