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Falling Chrysanthemum Petals; END

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This series is over! It's a total of 11k words, making it a novelet. I will make an author'c closing commentary for the series at the link below so anyone who read it understood the outside context of this series, if you'd like to read them, anyway. If not, then you can simply skip. Here are the full of chapters below: Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Author's Commentary

Ran out of Fuel: Naomi Ishiguro's "Common Ground" Review

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I am back with another book review. Finished the reading right on the 12th of April, a.k.a today. My days have been slow as of late, spent in reading and writing fiction pieces. Also trying to destress and lighten up from the news. So much bad news nowadays, especially when you return to college and have much freer time compared to a job. To my former co-workers who may be reading this: hey, guys! So, around the same time when Klara and the Sun came out, Kazuo Ishiguro’s daughter published her debut novel: Common Grounds . The book’s blurb offers a story about a long-lost friendship, rekindled. Reviews on the covers are gleaming and shimmering, as they often do. But is it?  About the author Naomi Ishiguro, as mentioned, is Kazuo Ishiguro’s daughter. In belief of her father’s prowess in writing, I decided to check her book out. Definitely not a case of mistaken identity when I typed in “Ishiguro” in the OPAC of the national library and thought this book was by Kazuo Ishiguro. Absolu...