BOOKS

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for when there's no internet or the battery's out. also before bed: turn off your electronics and read these instead

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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"focusing on the friendship between 2 girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women in china"
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Kafka on the Shore
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"it demonstrates murakami's typical blend of popular culture, mundane detail, magical realism, suspense, humor, an involved plot and potent sexuality"
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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"my first murakami book 💙 a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage and an excavation of the buried secrets of world war II"
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The First Global Village
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"it makes the history of portugal feel like you are reading a historical novel. the background research is phenomenal: how did he find these facts? 👏"
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Norwegian wood
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"a poignant story of a college student’s romantic coming-of-age, it takes you to that distant place of a young man’s first, hopeless and heroic love"
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Le bal des louves
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"isabeau tries to run away from her rapist. it doesn't work and she's eventually thrown to the wolves to die. but this is no ordinary woman... "
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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"this historical fantasy novel explores the sense of smell and its relationship with the emotional meanings that scents have... to the extreme! love it"
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The Hand of Yemanja by Tapia, Claudio
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"an emigrant's tale of a whimsical young woman with the desire for independence and the need to reinvent the world around her. set in latin america"
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Mundo de Sofia, O by Jostein Gaarder
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"the first book i read about the history of philosophy. i remember i even made a little summary on the whole thing. it is super clear and easy to read"
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