Another year of #ReadingAroundTheWorld! I started 2025 in Kuwait and ended it in Cambodia.

Last book of the year?

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The Stranger by Albert Camus

Reading Around the World: Algeria
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus

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The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan

Reading Around the World: Ireland
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The Longest Day
by Cornelius Ryan

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A thousand splendid sun's cover.

Reading Around the World: Afghanistan
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini

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A blue background with white sparkles in the top left and bottom right corners. The word January is in the middle of the background in white writing. Book covers are dotted around the image, there are 3 in the top row, one in the middle on the right and 3 in the bottom row. In the top left is the book International Relations: A Very Short Introduction by Christian Reus Smit In the top middle is Consolata by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse In the top right is Mr Loverman by Bernadine Evaristo Underneath Mr Loverman is Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schwebiin In the bottom left is Silence is My Mother Tongue by Sulaiman Addonia In the bottom middle is We have to remove this post by Hanna Bervoets In the bottom right is The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang

January Reads (authors in alt text)

International Relations - 3*
Consolata - 3*
Mr Loverman - 4*
Seven Empty Houses - 2.5*
Silence is my Mother Tongue - 3*
The Rainfall Market - 4*
We Had To Remove This Post - 3*

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The cover of We had to remove this post by Hanna Bervoets. The cover shows a sprawling cityscape with skyscrapers in the background and smaller buildings in the foreground. The cover is light pink and purple like a sunset. The title is in white writing in the middle of the cover while the authors name is in light pink under the title at the bottom of the cover.

Started reading We had to remove this post by Hanna Bervoets today, really interesting storyline but very graphic in a factual way.

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An image showing a tablet with the book cover for Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kukov. The cover has a yellow and blue background with a picture of a penguin stood on an iceberg shaped like a skull. To the left of the tablet is a packet of malteasers. Under the tablet is a pink desk mat.

Is there any better way to spend an evening other than with chocolate and a good book?

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The image shows the cover of The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang. The title is in white at the top of the page and the authors name is in gold at the bottom. The cover artwork shows a street, with a tree on the left, a small red building in the middle and a blue building on the right. Behind the red building are sky scrappers that appear to be far away in the distance. The red and blue buildings have lights on which glow orange and yellow, the red building has a blue canopy. On the pavement walking in front of the red building and walking towards the blue building is a girl with brown hair in the style of a bob. She is wearing a yellow coat and a tan backpack she has black boots on and is looking up to the sky. Behind her is a white cat. Across the cover are rain drops, there are puddles on the ground and there are various trees and flowers that are around the building. There are sparks of orange dotted from the tree on the left to where the girl is.

I've just started reading The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang and its just beautifully written. Someone described it as similar to Spirited Away by Studio Ghibli and I totally get that.

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An image showing 4 book covers on top of a winter themed background. The background is blurred and has a white layer over the original picture but you can make out a coffee cup on the left, cinnamon sticks on the right and what looks to be snow in the foreground. The book covers are in the four corners of the picture. In the top left is the graphic novel cover for Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler, the top right is the audiobook cover for Normal Women by Philippa Gregory. The bottom left is the cover for Black Ghosts by Noo Sara-Wiwa and the bottom right is the cover for Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. In the middle of the image is the word December written in cursive in a woody brown colour.

Totally late with this but here's my December reads.

Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler 5*
Normal Women by Philippa Gregory 5*
Black Ghosts by Noo Sara Wiwa 3.5*
Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams 4*

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