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‘Doesn’t she get bored reading the same novel?’
Miki is so funny, because to wonder if a GHOST is getting bored of reading the same book over and over is such an innocent question 😅

‘Fear.shame. They were needles stitching thread between her lips.’

Wait, what?! Nooo. That changed to quickly and not in a good way!!! I don’t like it when this happens 😭

“You’re like a room full of books. Every time I see you, I discover something new.” Nasir, you really never know what to say do you?😂😭

Okay, well that cheesiness (aka kissing), came out of nowhere, but I’m here for it 😂

“The stars faded in envy of her radiance. There truly was nothing-no one-more beautiful.” Cuuuutee

It has been a couple of years since I read We Hunt the Flames, so getting back on track to what has happened so far is a little challenging. The names are being mentioned and I’m getting some recollection of what happened. I can see some scenes in my mind.

All I needed was to live my life, and keep believing in the hope I’d seen today. - this page has a cute little illustration of a crescent moon surrounded by stars🌙 if I didn’t have a fav page in a book before, I do now.

‘Alarmingly, I appeared to have plotted to make meeting Yamashita a birthday present to myself…’

Loool. It’s the little things in life Nanako :)

‘It was hard to do good when it would be shadowed forever by his wrongs.’

Well, after 3 years, I’ve started the second book. I saw it in a local book shop and my motive for buying it was due to how inexpensive it was. I did, however want to continue the series, so here we go.

As I walked to Shibiya Station with Mr Fifty Million, the throng of people around me seemed more colourful, more vibrant.

The Rule Of Lost Love - ‘The quiet in the air held too much meaning for two strangers making small talk.’

Currently on the chapter ‘The rules of the best friend’. I can’t not stop buying Japanese fiction. I don’t know what it is but it has a different energy and even if the story is close to home, so to speak, I feel so far away and get lost in the story 😍

‘..different to a child’s concept of denial, which is about not confessing to an adult. Adult denial was about not confessing to yourself.’

OH. MY. GOOD. LORD. I was not expecting that!!!! Oh dear lord. Picoult that was very clever. But so close to the end!? I feel for Brian. These last few chapters are going to be very intense.

“I wonder if this is what it’s like for the moon when she pulls the tide and changes the shape of the world.”

‘We tend to forget we were all young once. And that there was a time when we had beginnings, instead of endings’

I’m a little irritated already. I think opening with constant memories of how this used to be like that, and that used to be like this, is creating a barrier between the reader and the story. I wasn’t there so I feel like I can’t connect to what’s being said..

Can’t seem to get out of the Murakami Orbit. Starting another one of his many exceptional and extraordinary pieces of fiction.

At this point, I’m thinking Tamaru and Ushikawa should team up and become a duo. They would make great investigators/henchmen 🤣 and their own spin off would be thrilling.

‘The appeal of this tired but now ubiquitous phrase probably lies in its suggestion that life is largely a matter of style. Find something else to say about life.’ – Christopher Lasch

‘Once you let go, you never know when you will get ahold of it again. He knew full well there were more painful things than this in the world – a thought that helped him endure his own suffering.’ How depressing for Ushikawa.

Oh hells I can’t actually believe what I’ve read. I can’t believe how this story has unfolded. I’m just. In shock. In awe. In disbelief. In love. I’m filtering between so many different emotions. What. A. Ride.

WHAT THE HELLS!!!! I was not expecting that entrance. Where? What? Why? HOW?!

All I want to write at this point is, I hope Aiz dies. I hope she physically gets her heart ripped out and she lives in hell forever never to be seen again.

Wow this scene, this whole chapter even, is dark and frightening and really has me shook! 😳

“You seek to understand the vibes that make the world.” Loli Temba said, “but not your own pain, nor that of others. You’d be better served understanding the latter.” Wow I love this. Very powerful.