@peoplelikebooks Yeah I feel the same way about it as you did. I love Yoko Ogawa and have read most of her books that have been translated in English (I think). I loved the housekeeper and the professor. Hotel Iris is a little intense and Diving Pool are three anxiety inducing short stories but it was great.
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@peoplelikebooks Did you like this? Have you read any of her other novels?
realityasylumreads finished reading Hyperion (Hyperion, #1) by Dan Simmons

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M. E. O'brien, Eman Abdelhadi
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In …
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Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, …
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She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor
Najeeba knows.
She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men and …
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@throatmuppet@ramblingreaders.org A Country of Ghost is my favorite of hers!
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At Great and No Distance at All by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Sci-Fi story suite that stretches the mind & thinks deeply into distances inner and outer. Republishing of 3 Le …
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realityasylumreads finished reading Recursion by Blake Crouch

Recursion by Blake Crouch
Memory makes reality.
That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon …









