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\"\"Fifty Words for Rain<\/a> – Asha Lemmie\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Sue’s comment: I really liked this!<\/div>\n
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“Kyoto, Japan, 1948.\u00a0\u201cDo not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

Such is eight-year-old Noriko \u201cNori\u201d Kamiza\u2019s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic of her grandparents\u2019 imperial estate. And she will not resist the scalding chemical baths she receives daily to lighten her skin.<\/p>\n

The child of a married Japanese aristocrat and her African American GI lover, Nori is an outsider from birth. Her grandparents take her in, only to conceal her, fearful of a stain on the royal pedigree that they are desperate to uphold in a changing Japan. Obedient to a fault, Nori accepts her solitary life, despite her natural intellect and curiosity. But when chance brings her older half-brother, Akira, to the estate that is his inheritance and destiny, Nori finds in him an unlikely ally with whom she forms a powerful bond\u2014a bond their formidable grandparents cannot allow and that will irrevocably change the lives they were always meant to lead. Because now that Nori has glimpsed a world in which perhaps there is a place for her after all, she is ready to fight to be a part of it\u2014a battle that just might cost her everything.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\"\"The Girl With The Louding Voice<\/a> – Abi Dare\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Sue’s comment: Very good, similar theme to Lemie’s s book.<\/div>\n
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“The unforgettable, inspiring story of a teenage girl growing up in a rural Nigerian village who longs to get an education so that she can find her \u201clouding voice\u201d and speak up for herself,\u00a0The Girl with the Louding Voice<\/i>\u00a0is a simultaneously heartbreaking and triumphant tale about the power of fighting for your dreams.\u00a0 Despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacles in her path, Adunni never loses sight of her goal of escaping the life of poverty she was born into so that she can build the future she chooses for herself \u2013 and help other girls like her do the same.\u00a0 Her spirited determination to find joy and hope in even the most difficult circumstances imaginable will \u201cbreak your heart and then put it back together again\u201d (Jenna Bush Hager on\u00a0The Today Show<\/i>) even as Adunni shows us how one courageous young girl can inspire us all to reach for our dreams\u2026and maybe even change the world.”<\/div>\n
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\"\"The Guest List<\/a> – Lucy Foley<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Sue’s comment: A quick read, suspenseful.<\/div>\n
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“The bride\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The plus one\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The best man\u00a0\u2013 The wedding planner\u00a0\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The bridesmaid\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The body<\/span>On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It\u2019s a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has been expertly planned and will be expertly executed.<\/p>\n

But perfection is for plans, and people are all too human. As the champagne is popped and the festivities begin, resentments and petty jealousies begin to mingle with the reminiscences and well wishes. The groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride\u2019s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast.<\/p>\n

And then someone turns up dead. Who didn\u2019t wish the happy couple well? And perhaps more important, why?”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Fifty Words for Rain – Asha Lemmie\u00a0 Sue’s comment: I really liked this! “Kyoto, Japan, 1948.\u00a0\u201cDo not question. Do not fight. Do not resist.\u201d Such is eight-year-old Noriko \u201cNori\u201d Kamiza\u2019s first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with only these final words. She will not fight her confinement to the attic…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":143781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-staff-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Fifty-Words-for-Rain.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Bp2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143780"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143785,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143780\/revisions\/143785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}