I noticed the #JanuaryinJapan reading challenge on Instagram, and it motivated me to read more translations! This month, I‘ve read Sweet Bean Paste, All the Lovers in the Night, The Kamogawa Food Detectives & Before the Coffee gets Cold.
Any suggestions for my 1st #HarukiMurakami novel? I‘ve heard his work is VERY misogynistic.
Two books I‘m planning to read and review this month! #JanuaryInJapan
The North Light
Nails and Eyes
https://youtu.be/afwXg4sOY9U
#JanuaryInJapan
Intro
Weekly Highlights
Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land by Taylor Brorby
August Is a Wicked Month by Edna O‘Brien
Clothes-Pegs by Susan Scarlett
The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi, Mildred Tahara (Translator)
We Are Coming Home: Repatriation and the Restoration of Blackfoot Cultural Confidence by Gerald T. Conaty (Editor)
This year‘s reading is off to a great start! #BookReport
Sweet Bean Paste and Diary of a Void #JanuaryInJapan
In the Winter Woods #DiverseCozy
A Botanist‘s Guide to Parties and Poisons - The audiobook was great and I‘m looking forward to reading the next book in the series when it comes out later this year
https://youtu.be/fjmHml3VhBs
#JanuaryInJapan
Intro
Weekly Highlights
Boat Number Five by Monika Kompaníková, Janet Livingstone (Translation)
Chatterton Square by E.H. Young
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
One Hundred Saturdays: Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World by Michael Frank
Greenland: A Novel by David Santos Donaldson
https://youtu.be/0_vLx6NM7Gs
#indiecember
#JanuaryInJapan
Intro
Weekly Highlights
Cocoon by Zhang Yueran, Jeremy Tiang (Translator)
Tinkers by Paul Harding
The Sea Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain
Lucien and Olivia by André Narbonne
#BookReport
Finished four books this week!
📚 The Inugami Curse #JanuaryinJapan
📚 The Beadworkers
📚 Ida B. the Queen
📚 Avidly Reads Poetry #NetGalley #arc
I like short story collections lately—I‘ve already read two this year: Terminal Boredom and The Beadworkers. Every story in The Beadworkers was great, and I especially liked Beading Lesson.
https://youtu.be/VDFIECxwuvk
#InvisibleCitiesProject
#JanuaryInJapan
Intro
Highlights
Daura: A Novel by Anukrti Upadhyay
Manikanetish by Naomi Fontaine, Luise von Flotow (Translator)
Ueno Station by Miri Yū, Morgan Giles (Translator)
Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura, Mark Ealey (Translator)
#BookReport Some great books to start the year!
#JanuaryInJapan
Terminal Boredom
Heaven
The Last Rose of Shanghai
The Subtweet 🎧
Body and Soul Food
Bull Shit Jobs 🎧
https://youtu.be/8Q3by8TXiKg
#InvisibleCitiesProject
#JanuaryInJapan
Intro
Channel shout-out: Lindy‘s Magpie Reads
Highlights
Kin by Miljenko Jergović, Russell Scott Valentino (Translator)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Manikanetish by Naomi Fontaine, Luise von Flotow (Translator)
To the Slaughterhouse by Jean Giono, Norman Glass (Translation)
Children of the New World by Assia Djebar, Marjolijn De Jager (Translation)
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