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Two short stories which both use death to tell a story.
The first one was peculiar and set in one night with lots of remembering. Second is the sister of someone who is dying.
Both made me think about end of life and relationships, in a positive way.

"The inside is harder than the outside."

Hardboiled & Hard Luck Banana Yoshimoto 5 stars ⭐
The 3rd read for this year also a Japanese literature.
Well I finished this book in one day, it's simple written but so deep.
📖☔
Yoshimoto‘s voice is clear, assured, and deeply moving, displaying again why she is one of Japan‘s, and the world‘s, most beloved writers. The two stories are sensitive and deep at the same time trying to imply a lesson how to cope with loss and move on.

#MarchMadness Day 6: Two books with #LuckInTheTitle written by female novelists of Japanese ethnicity.

I think I will spend this rainy ☔️ winter afternoon clearing up three short Audible Originals audiobooks. Really odd mixture...

Second book done! #24in48 #24in48readathon

I think this is one of those books you shouldn't rush in a day because it's less about the who-what-when and more to do about reflection. About coming to terms with loss, with past ghosts and moving on. It's a book that holds significance in the simplicity of its words and brevity. A book you give away to a friend than something you read in the phone, the better to smell the pages and meditate upon the texts, if that makes sense.

It's funny when a book sneaks up to you sometimes.

Especially as I've been putting this off all year.

Banana Yoshimoto‘s Hardboiled and Hard Luck is a pair of short stories that capture the current situations of two women. The first tells of a woman staying in a haunted hotel/town and reflecting on the anniversary of her ex‘s passing. The second is about a woman coming to terms with her sister‘s decline after an aneurism puts her in a declining vegetative state. Both women are strange and relatable and haunted. The prose is simple.

Loved this bit

Found these in my camera album from 21 April 2015.

Day21 #SeptemberPhotoChallenge #translatedbooks 'Kitchen' was my first and is my favorite Banana Yoshimoto book, but it and my other favorite translated book "Like Water For Chocolate' seem to be MIA from my bookshelves. So here are a few other books by Yoshimoto. I read many of her books when I was traveling back & forth to Japan for work & like her blending of Japanese & Western cultures & quirky characters. #somethingforsept ?????