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It's called Kintsugi , or Kintsukuroi , literally golden (“kin”) and repair (“tsugi”). Kintsugi is the process of repairing ceramics traditionally with lacquer and gold, leaving a gold seam where the cracks were. The technique consists in joining fragments and giving them a new, more refined aspect.
The characters of the book all needed each other and were all broken. In finding each other they filled the brokenness with the love needed making the...read more
The characters of the book all needed each other and were all broken. In finding each other they filled the brokenness with the love needed making the...read more
Easy, enjoyable, quick read. In my book club we shared the thought that there were too many characters and storylines. There were a few things that were way too coincidental. It was descriptive, which I appreciate. We were trying to figure out the meaning of the dogs throughout? Is it because the author loves her dogs or did the canines represent fidelity? Peardew's death was never explained and oh so unrealistic. It was a cute book just not stun...read more
I enjoyed reading this book very much. I enjoyed the two seemingly-unconnected stories running alongside each other which kept me guessing as to how they would come together in the end. And they did, in a lovely way. I wasn’t keen on the introduction of a few supernatural elements towards the end of the story - I wasn’t sure why it was necessary- but, having finished it, I can see that some were crucial to the underlying plot.
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