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In Through the Window by Dr. Lintao Lu is a business memoir of a man from a village in China reaching into the boardrooms of the global HVAC…
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In Through the Window by Dr. Lintao Lu is a business memoir of a man from a village in China reaching into the boardrooms of the global HVAC…

Wonderful Half by Ari Ryn is a contemporary YA fiction set in 2000s Japan. It’s Ari’s debut novel, and I received an ARC copy from him. Although I…

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A writer and marketer by trade, I’ve been a voracious reader since I was five. I write down what I really thought, including the parts that didn’t work for me. Book Blabber has been my reading journal since 2022. I’m constantly on the lookout for fresh voices in indie and self-published books.