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Please Enjoy Your Happiness
Please Enjoy Your Happiness: A Memoir | Paul Brinkley-Rogers
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Please Enjoy Your Happiness is a beautifully written coming-of-age memoir based on the English author's summer-long love affair with a remarkable older Japanese woman. Whilst serving as a seaman at the age of nineteen, Brinkley-Rogers met Kaji Yukiko, a sophisticated, highly intellectual Japanese woman, who was on the run from her vicious gangster boyfriend, a member of Japan's brutal crime syndicate the yakuza. Trying to create a perfect experience of purity, she took him under her wing, sharing their love of poetry, cinema and music and many an afternoon at the Mozart Caf. Brinkley-Rogers, now in his seventies, re-reads Yukiko's letters and finally recognizes her as the love of his life, receiving at last the gifts she tried to bestow on him. Reaching across time and continents, Brinkley-Rogers shows us how to reclaim a lost love, inviting us all to celebrate those loves of our lives that never do end.
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Nute
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#NamasteNovember - Spine Poem #1: It was laid out as a top to bottom read, but quickly discovered to be a better read from left to right.

Everyone brave is forgiven.
One day, Love Warrior -
Please enjoy your happiness!

marleed Nice! I have love warrior awaiting my poem2 post! 5y
Megabooks Great one!! 👏🏻 5y
Eggs Another well done spine poem! Love this 5y
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EvieBee
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Alfoster Nice pic! 8y
EvieBee @Alfoster Thank you, Anne! 😊 8y
kspenmoll Lovely photo. The color of your dog is one of my favorites! 8y
EvieBee @kspenmoll Thank you, Katherine! I love that blue too. It was my favorite crayon. 😃 8y
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EvieBee
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Have been so finicky about what to read next! This should do the trick. After finally finishing Anna Karenina (I had been reading it for 4 months), I can finally read whatever I want guilt free.
For those of you that read multiple books at once, do you feel guilty when you neglect a book, or at least feel not as committed to the others? I find this to be true if I'm reading any classics. #bookproblems #currentlyreading #japan

Wilkie Yes, it is the same feeling I had when I was little and I gave one teddy bear more attention than another. I was afraid the other would be sad🐨🐶 8y
EvieBee @Wilkie Aww! I totally remember feeling that way about my toys. 😄 8y
monandez Haha! Yes! I feel that way often because I've usually got 3-4 going at once. 8y
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EvieBee @monandez Me too! A physical, ebook and audio. 🤓👍🏼 8y
LeahBergen This sounds soooo good! 8y
EvieBee @LeahBergen Yes! I collect books set in Japan and the cover didn't disappoint either! 8y
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? "The most romantic memoir you're likely to read in a lifetime." –Elin Hilderbrand

IN A LIFETIME SHE SAID.

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Coming in October, this haunting memoir of a lost first love has our entire team raving. We're just a tad excited about the beautiful cover, too. Mark your calendars ❤️❤️❤️

jennifersmeth So looking forward to this one! 9y
Rhondareads Love the cover 😍Perfect for me. 8y
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