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 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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One of my favourite books from my #readingaroundtheworldchallenge