Sluggish Reader | Jan 2022 Wrap-up with Philip, Istina, Korede, Olga, Hitomi, Ellis, Raif, Kazu, Iona, Lydia, Masha @SluggishReader | Uploaded February 2022 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
== Timestamps ==
0:00 Hello, welcome &c
1:35 The Gift of Rain
7:26 Faces in the Water
13:16 My Sister, the Serial Killer
16:52 Follow Your Heart
20:40 The Nakano Thrift Shop
25:22 Tin Man
29:33 Madonna in a Fur Coat
34:09 Before the Coffee Gets Cold
38:02 I Am China
43:27 The Testaments
48:10 All Russians Love Birch Trees
54:04 Ending and "February plans"

My armchair space-time travel itinerary:
✈️ 1940s Penang, Malaya
✈️ Some mental health hospitals in New Zealand in the 1st half of 20th century
✈️ Lagos, Nigeria
✈️ 1990s Opicina, Italy
✈️ Tokyo, Japan
✈️ 1980s - 90s Oxford, UK
✈️ 1940s Ankara, Turkey and 1920s Berlin, Germany
✈️ Tokyo again
✈️ London, Beijing, New York, Bern, Paris, Crete... I was going places lol
✈️ Gilead
✈️ Frankfurt, Germany and Tel Aviv, Israel

== Books mentioned ==
The Gift of Rain - Tan Twan Eng
goodreads.com/book/show/2015233.The_Gift_Of_Rain
My video: youtu.be/3JEfLxjCi4E

Faces in the Water - Janet Frame
goodreads.com/book/show/39926880-faces-in-the-water
My video: youtu.be/RoqSmY3w7UE

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite
goodreads.com/book/show/45679318-my-sister-the-serial-killer
My video: youtu.be/zReQln4CvgE

Follow Your Heart - Susanna Tamaro (trans. Avril Bardoni)
goodreads.com/book/show/316944.Follow_Your_Heart
My video: youtu.be/Jerk_3vwG9s

The Nakano Thrift Shop - Hiromi Kawakami (trans. Allison Markin Powell)
goodreads.com/book/show/29203644-the-nakano-thrift-shop
My video: youtu.be/1Bm2bu5siyM

Tin Man - Sarah Winman
goodreads.com/book/show/31117613-tin-man

Madonna in a Fur Coat - Sabahattin Ali (trans. Maureen Freely & Alexander Dawe)
goodreads.com/book/show/32509890-madonna-in-a-fur-coat
My video: youtu.be/oDI0X_MbIJo

Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi (trans. Geoffrey Trousselot)
goodreads.com/book/show/44421460-before-the-coffee-gets-cold

I Am China - Xiaolu Guo
goodreads.com/book/show/20758072-i-am-china
My video: youtu.be/F-RqmEAnmkM

The Testaments - Margaret Atwood
goodreads.com/book/show/54245898-the-testaments
My video: youtu.be/tu--w0pRUnw

All Russians Love Birch Trees - Olga Grjasnowa (trans. Eva Bacon)
goodreads.com/book/show/17797405-all-russians-love-birch-trees

~ Feb Plans ~
Fall on Your Knees - Ann-Marie MacDonald
goodreads.com/book/show/150471.Fall_on_Your_Knees

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters
goodreads.com/book/show/36375742-tipping-the-velvet

Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
goodreads.com/book/show/35051839-pachinko

Kristin Lavransdatter - Sigrid Undset (trans. Charles Archer & J. S. Scott)
goodreads.com/book/show/651253.Kristin_Lavransdatter

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