#read pachinko

[rbtbc]

June 2023 I will be reading and discussing the following books:

- Empty Vows by Mary Monroe

- Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

- ‘Til the Well Runs Dry by Lauren Francis-Sharma

If you are interested in joining me, please check out the link in bio for all things 'Buddy Reads with Reading Beyond the Book Cover'.

I don't want to read alone. :-)

So join me this month in reading!

#buddyreadswithrbtbc #caribathon #EmptyVows #readpachinko #groupreading #12caribbeanbooksin2023 #readcaribbean #historicalfiction #23histficbookswithme

[princessofbookaholics]

on my asian readathon tbr 🏮

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[smokefalls]

I like it when it’s foggy. When you can’t see into the distance. When there’s no horizon. It gives me a feeling of having time. That it’s all right not to see, not to be aware of what’s in my path.

Elisa Shua Dusapin, The Pachinko Parlour (translated by Aneesa Abbas Higgins)

[grassoftunnel]

[ijustkindalikebooks]

From Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

[akkivee]

Gambling and casinos are extremely illlegal in Japan so I always wonder, in ghe H era, did Chuuohku abolish those laws? How is it possible that Dice is alwaya gambling..?? Or that his casino-like visuals don't paint him as a negative presence amongst civillians?

gambling is still illegal in chuuoku’s japan!!! chapter 7 in the fpmtr➕ manga talks about underground casinos, the government cracking down them and even alludes to some dice mysteries lol

pachinko parlours are a legal grey area in japan tho. it’s like how gacha games are very much so gambling but are a huge profitable industry, a lot of people do it lol. they’re regarded as amusement centres in japan and get around the law that would normally prohibit them giving cash prizes by offering vouchers winners can take to an outside building that they can pretend is unaffiliated with the parlour lmao

a posse stan can correct me on this, but i think dice swore off underground casinos and instead uses the ones that fall in line with government regulations in order to maintain that grey legality. so he’s just a regular old pachinko addict lol here’s a pachinko place he went to and probably the irl place it’s based off of lol

[jedaos]

sword of kaigen has absolutely wrecked me body and soul i know there is a river of tears in every review of this book but i did not know it was quite LITERALLY a river. "you have dimples / i got it from you" was the first cut and then i just bled and sobbed and hurt from there

[litandlifequotes]

History has failed us, but no matter.

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

[kaizsche]

finally got a copy of the book!!!!

[bookfirstlinetourney]

Round 1

My name is Kenji. As I pronounced these words in English I wondered why we have so many ways of saying the same thing in Japanese. Hard-boiled: Ore no na wa Kenji da. Polite: Watashi wa Kenji to moshimasu. Casual: Boku wa Kenji. Gay: Atashi Kenji 'te iu no yo!

-The Miso Soup, Ryu Murakami

The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog's mercury and oak-tree roots.

-Watership Down, Richard Adams

History has failed us. But no matter.

-Pachinko, Min Jin Lee

[rbtbc]

Hello! Happy Memorial Day!

From 6/1-6/30 I will be participating in a group reading/read-a-long hosted by Didi at Brown Girl Reading. The chosen book is Pachinko by Min Jin Lee.

Join in!

[foggieststars]

i'm a simple girl <3 i see a 50% off all books in store sale and i buy 9, which i then must lug around for the rest of the day

[hermitw]

I hope gege takes at least six months off to just rest and do whatever he wants to and recover.

And then I hope that he gets a jjk sequel or prequel series announced (that won't be censored)

But chapters come out once a month

[bloodmaarked]

➫ monthly book round-up: october 2024

books read: 8 [1 DNF] [+33%] average rating: 3.64 [-7%] average speed: 10.9 days [-30%] total pages: 2,067 [-9%] yearly goal progress: 68/50 [136%] best of the month: pachinko, min jin lee worst of the month: storm and fury, jennifer l. armentrout

4.5* reads:

before the coffee gets cold, toshikazu kawaguchi

pachinko, min jin lee

4* reads:

disorientation, elaine hsieh chou

3.5* reads:

the empress of salt and fortune, nghi vo

lord of the flies, william golding

brown girls, daphne palasi andreades

2* reads:

the house of broken bricks, fiona williams

DNFs:

storm and fury, jennifer l. armentrout

currently reading:

back to black, kehinde andrews

autumn chills, agatha christie

[senatortedcruz]

I love reading big popular books a decade after they blow up