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Names for Light: A Family History by Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

israology's review

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5.0

4.75

lnd428's review

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emotional reflective

4.25

suzyreadsbooks's review

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no issue with the book, it’s just been over a month since I’ve last picked it up. I think I need to start over at this point. Taking it off my current reads for now but will return to it

jstor's review

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emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

3.5

kate_st's review

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emotional informative reflective sad

3.0

I like the idea of an externalized memory archive that you lay out and let go, but I felt I’d read most of these thoughts and themes before, without much specificity to enrich it. And there’s some repetition in there as well. So in a way I don’t know much more about this person’s story, personally. But nonetheless it’s a mostly interesting and quick read with familial life and afterlife centered in order to preserve it in the experience of diaspora. 

hollykaustin's review

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challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

kgraham10's review

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2.0

Quote from the book about the authors own writing style: “She writes in the same way she got through recess, by creating arbitrary goals, and x uses to move from one place to another, moving in circles, the movement itself an approximation of living, a mimicry of life.”

feeling_myshelf's review

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challenging reflective fast-paced

4.0

rebeccavalley's review

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emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

vherrera's review

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4.0

3.75 rounded up. Meandering and lyrical, a quick read