Book Review: Strange Pictures by Uketsu

Strange Pictures by Uketsu
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The book surely has its eerie effect as I read the first chapter late at night. I paused between chapters and digested the chapters as individual mysteries. It started being repetitive to me in Chapter 3 when the timeline or investigation notes are updated (for me too often) as I go along. The strange pictures captured my curiosity, some helped me see the character's thought process and helped with the story telling. I had a hard time with the timeline bar charts though, it's just me as I'm lazy to validate it against the narratives. Overall, a strange good read left me wanted to do another read just to pick up the clues again and tie them all together neatly (like 20%) but it's a luxury I currently cannot afford now. I do look forward to the next one: Strange Houses.

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Humor Me

Hubby's required to participate in their company's earthquack drill even he's wfh.  Captioned this photo that will surely make me smile everytime.

Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow

In certain seasons,

We may be nourished by

The idea of the carrot

More than the carrot itself.

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I am particularly glad and proud of myself for holding out and taking my time to read this book at a pleasurable phase even when I am itching to find out how it will all end.  I went into reading this book having recommended by my sister, gifted to and owned by my nephew devoid of any information about its storyline and unfamiliar with the author.  I have come across gamer MCs (Warcross, Ready Player One) I thoroughly enjoyed the game world development through their eyes.  This book, however, is a first for me to catch a glimpse of game designers and their game culture.

I am curious about the author's book "Elsewhere" hesitantly added to my long list of next reads.  It's interesting to note that there is not one song I could remember being mentioned.  I might have to google to confirm.  In doing so, I stumbled upon and got sidetracked by her essay 

Ah it makes sense that the author devours the english dictionary, hence the words she used that I felt were not forced and seemed to flow naturally.

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I am particularly glad and proud of myself for holding out and taking my time to read this book at a pleasurable phase even when I am itching to find out how it will all end. I dived into reading this book having recommended by my sister, gifted to and owned by my nephew devoid of any information about its storyline and unfamiliar with the author. I have come across gamer MCs (Warcross, Ready Player One) and have thoroughly enjoyed the game world development through their eyes. This book, however, is a first for me to catch a glimpse of gamers as game designers and their game culture.

I am curious about the author's book "Elsewhere" hesitantly added to my long list of next reads. It's interesting to note that there is not one song I could remember being mentioned. I might have to google to confirm. In doing so, I stumbled upon and got sidetracked by her essay Words, words, words.

Ah it makes sense that the author devours the English dictionary, hence choice of words (which enriched my vocab) I felt were not forced and seemed to flow naturally.

Maybe, a 4.5 then if only to come across these words again.

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