![]() ![]() Daisy carries a big book in her bag everywhere, is amazingly strong and often looks distracted. Miles is allergic to rowboats and wonders constantly about the afterlife, sometimes speaking in code. Logan lives in Life Is Sweet with his Candymaker parents, who stopped giving factory tours a few years ago. ![]() ![]() Inventing a new candy! What could be a sweeter contest for kids, especially the four regional finalists who live near the famous Life Is Sweet candy factory? Except that only one can win, even if the twelve-year-olds can overcome their differences and become friends… ![]()
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Once in awhile a book comes your way which is so powerful in its message, so inexplicably poetic in its presentation and so wondrous in its understated emotion that you may wonder how come you have not read it yet. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, I was understandably excited when this book was released last year. He’s the Marmite of the literary set: you either love him or you hate him. I’d say that Murakami is a lot like Wes Anderson because you either really buy into his world or you don’t. The short form works well with the Murakami-isms that his fans love without overwhelming them with his quirkiness. It’s been over a decade since Haruki Murakami released his last collection of short stories but it is an area that he always excels in. Long, rambling story short, I finished this book today on my day off. I’ve seen what the people I work with have to go through and, when things have gone wrong, been on the receiving end of their annoyance. 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