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gadgetgirl71 · 4 years

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The Cat And The City by Nick Bradley Book Review

This is such a charming, easy to read book. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It’s built up with lots of short stories that actually intertwine with each other. Some of the characters also appear in the other stories. The book also has some of Japan’s modern day cultures in it, like the cat cafes. To old Japanese myths. If you are finding it hard to read and concentrate, this is a book for you as it’s easy to pick up and put down without forgetting what you’ve read.

The story is based in Tokyo and it’s preparation for the opening of the 2020 Olympics. Where we meet a homeless calico cat that meets different people on it’s journey around the city. While it finds food and somewhere safe to sleep.

The cat meets some very interesting characters on it’s journey:

A young girl with piercing green eyes, who gets a huge tattoo of Tokyo on her back. The tattooist who is doing her tattoo becomes obsessed with his work. She didn’t want any people on the map, so the tattooist decided to put a cat into the map on her back. Every time before he starts to work on her tattoo he spends ages looking for the cat as it appears to be moving around.

We also meet some homeless people most of them live in a local park. They have started to notice some of their friends are disappearing. There are roomers going around that the homeless are being rounded up, but they don’t know where they take them. The city officials are trying to tidy up the city for the Olympics, so Tokyo gives a good impression to the world.

We meet some taxi drivers and the people that they come into contact with. From a British woman who has become a translator for a company that also deals with all of the literature for the Olympics.

At one point the calico cat ends up hurt, a young boy and a hermit take care of it, and nurse it back to health. The hermit and the boy build an unlikely friendship during this time. Once the cat becomes well again though it leaves the hermits home and goes back to a life on the street. This part of the book has been produced in the style of a manga comic.

There are lots of other characters that intertwine with each other and the calico cat, which has some impact on the people it comes into contact with. In some instances making things better. The story is about humanity and how all our lives can in some way intertwine with others without us even knowing about it.

Like I’ve already said this is a charming book to read. We learn what its like for different types of people living in a modern day Tokyo. It’s well worth you taking the time to read it. I can’t believe that this is a debut novel and I look forward to seeing what this author writes next.

Pages: 272, Publication Date: 4 June 2020, My Rating: 5 Stars

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lucydorling1980 · 2 years

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I really enjoyed Little Me by @realmattlucas even if he did make me cry. Still I’ll forgive you Matt 😘 loving you on @britishbakeoff every week too #books #kindle #mattlucas #mattlucaslittleme #memoir #greatreads #enjoyableread #lovereading #books #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CWWLx0Vo8J-/?utm_medium=tumblr

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greatpacificbooks · 2 years

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jamscraftcloset · 6 years

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Did You Watch the ‘Castle’ Series Television Show? I did, and so did most of my students. I used this show to motivate them to read. Castle was a real author. I purchased all of his books for my classroom, which was a great hit. Now that I am retired, I want to share them with you. They were used often, but are in excellent shape. Find them tomorrow at JAMsCraftCloset.Com...They will be waiting for you. #castle #castleauthor #author #castletvshow #castletvseries #castlebooks #studentapproved #studentsenjoyed #studentschoice #greatread #enjoyableread #tvseriesbooks #ecommerce #ecommercebusiness #onlineretail #onlinestore #onlineseller #onlineshop #onlineshopping #onlineshop #jamscraftcloset #jamsreadingcloset #onlinebusiness #webstore #shopify #shopsmall #shopifyshop #shopifystore #shopifyseller #shopinstagram #shopifyvintage #shopifyhandmade #smallbiz #smallbusiness #smallbusinesslove

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gregdetisigrowth · 7 years

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Enjoying A Little G K Cherston this evening. Not a light read but a funny one. #gkchesterton #reading #philosophy #leanings #author #writer #philosopher #dramatist #poet #orator #artcritics #biographer #laytheologian #theologian #enjoyableread #book #ebook xxx❤👊🏻

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max-rainet · 3 years

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Searching for Someone 1978 Jim Wortham * Poety Poems Rune American literature

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horrorgoodreads · 4 years

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This full length novel is a chilling and captivating tale told in the aftermath of the Leprechaun Wars. In Part One, while the Emerald Isle lies ravished in famine, young Gwydion of the Clan O'Du... #fantasy #horror #spinechilling #darkfantasy. #suspensethriller #provocativeandintriguingread #satisfying #enjoyableread #inspirational

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kaleidostar-amy · 8 years

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Profoundly inspired, stimulated, and encouraged by these wise words. 11,000 years of wisdom. (On my knees

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gadgetgirl71 · 4 years

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Us Three by Ruth Jones

This is an uplifting, feel good and funny book with some sorrow that you definitely won’t want to put down. I haven’t read anything by Ruth Jones before so I didn’t know what to expect. I enjoyed this book so much, and I think any woman of a certain age will be able to identify with this book. When we all start to step into adulthood, feeling the we can conquer the world and that there are endless possibilities. As we get older though, our lives don’t always turn out as we expected them to when we were younger.

We follow the lives of Lana Lloyd, Judith Harris & Catrin Kelly, who met at primary school. Which is when they all pledged an oath over a Curly Wurly wrapper to be there for each other forever no matter what.

As the girls grow older and just as they are about to finish their A Levels. They all decide to go on a travelling holiday hopping from one Greek Island to another. They put a lot in to planning this holiday and as they are about to leave it looks like Judith wont be able to go. While Catrin and Lana are waiting in the airport lounge Judith turns up with Gareth Lana’s boyfriend. He saw Judith waiting at a bus stop and offered to take her to the airport. The girls were ecstatic as they were all together again.

While they are on holiday, Catrin falls in love and meets the man she’s going to marry Solomon Blythe. Judith finds out that her step father still has family in Cyprus. When the girls all go to the small village that he grew up in. They end up spending the rest of their time in Cyprus with her extended family. Until it’s time for them to go on to Athens. On their last night in Athens Lana sleeps with an Irish builder she met in a bar, who’s name she can’t remember. Which Catrin and Judith aren’t happy about because means they have to keep a big secret from Gareth.

When they get home from their holiday things don’t go well for Judith. On entering her bedroom she sees that her mother has packed all of he things, along with a note telling her to take her things and that she is no longer welcome there. So she ends staying with the Kelly family until she goes off to university. A few days after staying with the Kelly’s a letter comes through the post from her father telling her that he loves her, but he had to leave and that she needs to look after herself.

The girls just start to settle in to their new collages and university, when Judith has to go back home to look after her mother. Due to this Lana decides that Judith and Gareth should become flat mates. As Judith can’t live with her mother and Lana thinks Gareth could use the company with her being away. Neither of them are particularly happy about this, but they both agree to give it a go.

Lana ends up having a huge shock, when the guy she had one night with in Athens turns up. He has come over from Ireland to work on a big building project. Lana ends up having an affair with him and Gareth ends up finding out. He then finds comfort with Judith and they end up becoming a couple. As they both realise that they have been growing closer and closer together in the time they have been living together.

A little bit down the line Catrin and Solomon get married and Judith and Lana have a spectacular falling out in front of the guests. This falling out lasts for a couple of decades, which always leaves Catrin in the middle. As they both refuse to be in the same place at the same time.

Will Judith and Lana finally start to rebuild their friendship to help Catrin when her life is devastated with loss? Who knows?

Catrin Kelly, Judith Harris, Lana Lloyd! Fell into a muddy ditch and got annoyed, All their clothes they were a-smellin’ So they went back to Coed Celyn Catrin Kelly, Judith Harris, Lana Lloyd!

As I said before I’ve never read anything by Ruth Jones and I’m looking forward to seeing what she writes next.

Pages: 336, Publication Date: 4 May 2020, My Rating: 5 Stars

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gadgetgirl71 · 3 years

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Book Review: The Name of Red by Beena Khan

I really enjoyed this book, and its a genre that I haven’t knowingly come across before: Asian American Literature. I found it very thought provoking. I also loved the two main characters and learning about their culture and how they see their world. It has been subtly written.

Also I’d like to thank the author Beena Khan for letting me have a copy of her debut novel.

One wet and wintery evening a beautiful mysterious woman walks in to Kabir’s bar. Every single man watches her, even some women watch her with jealousy in their eyes. However the woman doesn’t even notice them. All she is interested in is her book and copious amounts of alcohol.

Kabir is so taken with this woman who comes in every night, to drink and read her book. He watches her from afar and he sees how she rebuffs every man that goes up to her trying to strike up a conversation.

One night Kabir leaves a book at her usual spot on the bar with a note in it. For Kabir its the only way he can think of engaging with the woman, without being rejected by her. As he can’t bare to be rejected again.

Over a short period of time books are anonymously exchanged between them. Until she uncovers that it’s Kabir that is leaving the books for her. Before she can rebuff him he shows her part of his bar that is only used for special occasions.

One wall is covered in books, she walks along the wall of books, stopping now and then to read the names of the books. Then she comes across copies of the books they have exchanged with each other. At first she isn’t very happy about the situation but it turns out that Kabir already had these books or more than one copy.

Over time they build a trusting friendship. Where they both help each other heal their pasts that have haunted them. Except tragedy may strike as we find out why red drinks so much.

Pages: 328. Publication Date: 15 May 2020. My Rating: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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gadgetgirl71 · 3 years

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Book Review: Daughters of Night by Laura Shepherd-Robinson

This book was so enjoyable that I couldn’t put it down. The style of writing and everything about it reminds me of one of my favourite classical authors Wilkie Collins. I know that this book is set in the 1780’s and Wilkie Collins books are set in his life time in the 1800’s. There were so many twists and turns to this book I couldn’t workout who the murderer was. Which is really good as with so many books I can work out who the murderer is way before I get to the end of the book. Anyone who likes to read historical crime, mystery fiction they you must read this book.

In 1782 London’s Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens were a place for the rich, a place for their hedonistic pleasures. This is where Caro Corsham finds herself one evening. She has been waiting for her politician husband to return from France as he’s been away for weeks. While she is there she is greeted by some of her husbands friends and acquaintances.

Caro wanders off the main track to a more secluded part of the pleasure gardens. Where she stumbles across a noblewoman who has been mortally wounded. The woman’s last words are “He Knows”. It’s obvious to Caro that she herself has just missed the killer.

The police are quick in taking action to find the killer until they find out that the victim isn’t a noblewoman at all. She is Lucy Loveless a high class lady of the night.

When Caro finds out that the investigation has been dropped, she sets out to find the killer herself as she can’t bare the injustice of the case being dropped. Caro ends up hiring Peregrine Child a thief taker to help with her own investigation. Not realising that the investigation will lead Caro and Child into the unsavoury world of London’s society.

Along the way Caro finds out that ex-clients along with London’s society aren’t happy with her investigating the murder. They try to discredit her, when that doesn’t work they start to harass and threaten her safety.

Word gets around to Caro’s brother who demands that she stop what she’s doing at once. As she is bringing down the families and her husbands reputation. He even goes as far as to cutting off her funds in an attempt to stop her, but in-spite of her lack of funds Caro doesn’t stop. She has to make wright the injustice of what happened to Lucy Loveless.

Will Caro and Child come out of their investigation unscathed and victorious or will they both pay the price for sticking their noses in where they aren’t wanted?

Pages: 448, Publication Date: 18 February 2021, My Rating: 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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