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Akemi G.

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I indie-published WHY WE ARE BORN in 2014. It has been selling steadily primarily by word of mouth, and I cannot thank enough.
"I consider this book required reading for any metaphysical seeker. Pretty big praise, but well-deserved because she takes concepts that are huge and often confusing to the average Joe or Jane and makes them understandable and relatable to real life."
~ Pathways magazine


My next goal is to entertain you with fiction; novels that shake your common sense and are loving in a strange way.

What you find on GR is Akemi as a person who likes to read, among other things. I think it's awkward when an author comments to the reviews of their own books, so I restrain myself from doing so; in other words, I seldom use GR for my m
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Average rating: 4.24 · 277 ratings · 28 reviews · 9 distinct worksSimilar authors
Why We Are Born: Rememberin...

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I Remember You (Book One)

really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2014
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I Remember You: a novel (Bo...

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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 2 editions
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The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd
The Cartographers
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I love the opening of this novel, and the author has clearly done their homework of studying the material—old maps. (I like maps) I’m intrigued with the genre of mystery with fantasy elements, and I like it that the first pages are written in strictl ...more
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A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero
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The Wall: it’s about immigrants, but it’s also about friendship—how fragile it is even when both parties like each other and mean well.
The Street Sweep: Interesting to see how NGO workers are seen by locals. This is also about friendship, and I don’
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I’ve never reviewed cookbooks because I’m not sure how to: should I test at least several recipes and see how good they are, how much should I appreciate pretty pictures, or the stories behind the dishes … and typically we don’t read cookbooks from c ...more
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Our Skin by Megan Madison
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This book first asks what color your skin is and the people around you. I think this is fine—children observe and notice anyway—although I think it asks the question a bit too many times. It explains about melanin. Then it moves to the issue of race, ...more
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Considering there are many adults who take offense when they hear “No,” this book might need to be a required reading for us all.
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I love the opening of this novel. A Vietnamese live-in cook working for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Paris, who receives a letter from home for the first time in five years, just when the two Americans are heading back to their home country. ...more
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This novel was recommended to me as a social fiction. I’ve been trying to believe it’s good, but my unease is growing; neither of the two main characters sound particularly intelligent. They seem to be more of snobs—snobs in hiding. And when I realiz ...more
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This was a great fun to read! Many mysteries force the characters do things that don’t make sense in order to keep the readers thrilled and interested. This novel betrays reader’s expectations over and over and over, and yet it all makes perfect sens ...more
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Parker Pyne Investigates by Agatha Christie
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Review for each of the 14 stories is under their respective title. There are basically two types of stories here: in the first kind, Parker Pyne plays con to save his client from their unhappiness, and in the other, he plays the detective—sometimes u ...more
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“Few words have been misunderstood more than “love,” perhaps with the exception of “God”
Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

“Synchronicity happens when we align with the flow of the universe rather than insisting the universe flow our way.”
Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

“Life is never against you because you are the one who is creating it.”
Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

“Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poems

“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love”
John Lennon
tags: love

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde

“The sky is not my limit...I am.”
T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein

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Jeffrey Keeten Thanks for the friend request Akemi! I'm looking forward to watching your feed and finding more Japanese novels I should have on my TBR!


Dolors Thank you very much for your friend request, Akemi. I am ecstatic to see your love and understanding of Japanese lit. I am still a neophyte in it but I have great enthusiasm and I bet we will have wonderful discussions about books, life and other interesting matters. I notice you mentioned Shakespeare as one of your fav writers. Another match. I have "The Tale of the Genji" spotted out and your response encourages me to tackle it sooner than later.


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