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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #880 on: November 05, 2020, 01:57:13 AM »
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Re-reading a high school classic, at least where I come from. It's mainly about Okonkwo, a powerful man in an African tribe with a short temper and a violent streak. He is obsessed with being rich, strong, manly, and powerful because he hated what his father - a gentle but lazy man who depended on others for food - has become. The first part of the book is about life in the tribe. In the second part, a group of missionaries find their village and begin to 'convert' people while people like Okonkwo struggle to cling to the old ways.

Awesome thread btw! I've listed down several new books I'd like to read  :twothumbs

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #881 on: November 16, 2020, 03:29:33 PM »
Blood Orange (Harriet Tyce)




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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #882 on: November 30, 2020, 03:16:06 PM »
Shuggie Bain (Douglas Stuart)


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #883 on: December 22, 2020, 01:49:30 AM »
The Beggar & The Hare (Tuomas Kyrö)


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #884 on: January 01, 2021, 03:01:41 AM »
The Road to Wanting (Wendy Law-Yone)


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #885 on: January 22, 2021, 05:50:15 PM »
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Tales from the Cafe (Toshikazu Kawaguchi)
[Translated from the Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot]


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #886 on: February 03, 2021, 03:59:41 PM »
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Ocean Vuong)


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #887 on: February 14, 2021, 08:22:58 AM »
Interior Chinatown (Charles Yu)


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #888 on: February 28, 2021, 02:36:14 PM »
Out (Natsuo Kirin)

[Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder]

Note: I realised that I had read this book before, but the cover was so different than the previous edition, that I bought it, thinking this was a new title for me.


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #889 on: March 01, 2021, 03:58:40 PM »
^Decided against above book again.

Instead

Braised Pork (An Yu)



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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #890 on: March 22, 2021, 03:16:53 PM »
How Much of These Hills is Gold (C Pam Zhang)


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #891 on: April 06, 2021, 12:41:03 PM »
Bullet Train (Kotaro Isaka)
[Translated from the Japanese by Sam Malissa]


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #892 on: April 24, 2021, 03:08:39 PM »
The Sentinel (Lee Child and Andrew Child)


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #893 on: April 30, 2021, 05:40:01 AM »
The First Heretic, continuing my long journey through the Horus Heresy.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #894 on: May 10, 2021, 03:18:51 PM »
The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa)
[Translated From the Japanese by Stephen Snyder]


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #895 on: June 01, 2021, 04:33:27 PM »
The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
[Translated by Ken Liu]


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #896 on: June 08, 2021, 05:11:41 AM »
Been reading Master of Mankind, while listening to The Infinite and the Divine. Not enough time in the day for all these Warhammer books.

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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #897 on: July 18, 2021, 11:36:32 AM »
Earthlings (Sayaka Murata)
[Translated from the Japanese by Ginny Tapley Takemori]


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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #898 on: July 24, 2021, 12:51:28 PM »
Klara and the Sun (Kazuo Ishiguro)




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Re: What are you reading?
« Reply #899 on: August 16, 2021, 05:53:12 PM »
White Ivy (Susie Yang)


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