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[Promo] October Review-a-Thon 2025

We are getting closer and closer to October (where is the time going?!) and the [Sign-Up Post] October Review-a-Thon 2025 post is of course still up. Sign-ups will not close until Oct 31, LOL.

This event took place last October, too, and the rules are the same. I'm super excited to see what reviews will be posted!

(It's a low-commitment event: you can drop your sign up at any time, and if you don't manage to post a review on your claimed day(s), there are zero (0) consequences. Just have fun at your desired comfort level!)

Monday 18/08/2025

1) Taking care of myself. Went to the doctor for a quick check-up (my ear hurts) and made a physio appointment for my ankle and my knee. Go me!

2) Probably going to the little fair around the corner with my daughter this afternoon. We're home alone this evening, so we're gonna have a good time. We'll probably end up eating pizza after the fair *grins*

3) Going to spend the evening reading or colouring. Bought a new mandala colour book *grins*

Kill the Villainess, Vol. 3

Kill the Villainess, Vol. 3 by Haegi

Spoilers for the first two volumes ahead.

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Sunday 17/08/2025

1) Enjoyed a nice lie-in this morning simply listening to the birds

2) I returned some library books yesterday and couldn’t resist borrowing new ones. Love all those books ^_^

3) Dinner at my parents’s place and this time it will be cool enough to really enjoy their garden (and the canopied swing!)

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The first secret from this batch will be posted on August 23rd.

RULES:
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3. Link directly to the image.

More details on how to send a secret in!

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Speak Up Saturday 🍃

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Welcome to the weekly roundup post! What are you watching this week? What are you excited about?

Saturday 16/08/2023

1) Lazy day at home (with time te read?)

2) delicious vegetables for dinner with deliberate leftovers for later

3) Clean bedlinen for tonight now the heatwave seems to have passed

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Book review: "Concerning My Daughter"

Title: Concerning My Daughter
Author: Kim Hye-Jin (translation by Jamie Chang)
Genre: Fiction, literary fiction

Today I finished book #11 on the "Women in Translation" rec list: Concerning My Daught by Kim Hye-Jin, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang. This book is about an a widow in her mid-70s who ends up sharing a home with her adult daughter and her daughter's partner. Her contentious relationship with her daughter pits her long-held beliefs and societal viewpoints against her love for her child; simultaneously, she struggles in her job caring for an elderly dementia patient in a nursing home.

The protagonist is a person who values, above all, keeping your head down and doing what's expected of you. She does not believe in standing out; she does not believe in involving yourself in other people's problems; perhaps for these reasons, she believes the only people you can ever count on are family. This is how she's lived her whole life, and she believes it was for the best. However, this mindset puts her directly in conflict with her daughter, a lesbian activist who is fighting for equal employment treatment for queer professors and teachers in the South Korean educational system.

When her daughter, Green, runs out of money to pay rent after a quarrel with the university where she was lecturing, the protagonist allows Green and her partner Lane to move in, despite their fractious relationship.

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Recent Reading: Concerning My Daughter

Today I finished book #11 on the "Women in Translation" rec list: Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin, translated from Korean by Jamie Chang. This book is about an a widow in her mid-70s who ends up sharing a home with her adult daughter and her daughter's partner. Her contentious relationship with her daughter pits her long-held beliefs and societal viewpoints against her love for her child; simultaneously, she struggles in her job caring for an elderly dementia patient in a nursing home.

The Proving Trail

The Proving Trail by Louis L'Amour

The young narrator of this tale leaves his job herding cattle to find his father, and learns that his father was murdered after a night of successful gambling.
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Friday 15/08/2025

1) celebrating Mother's day ^^ Going out for breakfast with hubby's mother

2) I'm going for a quick library visit

3) there is a little fair near our house, so we're gonna spend the afternoon there with our daughter.

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Alien: Earth Trailer

Alien: Earth premiered this week and I've seen nothing but rave reviews. It's on FX/Hulu/Disney+ (Canada, US, UK).

Watch on YouTube

Thursday 14/08/2025

1) tea and homemade ice tea ^^

2) Reading manga

3) one cookie with caramel and sea salt. So delicious

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Sanders' Union Fourth Reader

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Charles Walton Sanders

Despite the titles, this is more recent than his New Fourth Reader. It repeats three or four readings from the earlier works, not all of them from the fourth reader.

Interesting nowadays chiefly for the views of edifying works and science of the time.