pickI know I'm late to the party with this one, but, wow, it really lives up to the hype! I can definitely see myself rereading it someday.
Leftcoastzen I remember it was really good ! Glad you enjoyed it ! 2h
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pickI know I'm late to the party with this one, but, wow, it really lives up to the hype! I can definitely see myself rereading it someday.
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pickI liked this book. It told a different story about WWII that I didn't know about. The people in this book were great. I rated this book a 3 out of 5 stars.
pickI had read and loved both The Housekeeper and the Professor and The Memory Police. This one is quite different from those. It‘s more easygoing. Tomoka is sent to her cousin‘s family for a year when she is 12. The book covers her relationship with her cousin, Mina, and their lives together for that year. Mina has a hippo that she rides to school. I wanted more of the hippo. 😊 Continued with Wake Up and Open Your Eyes on my #audiowalk.
These are my current long reads, and I‘m enjoying each of them in their own way.
I got a lot from my previous read of #Genji, so I thought I would reread for the #Reading1001 yearlong read this year by listening to the Washburn translation. It‘s interesting how I‘ve forgotten so many details, but then hear sections that immediately seem so familiar.
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pickI liked the story & there are a lot of interesting ideas & observations. Unfortunately, a lot of it is repetitive & overly detailed. The central point about the position & perception of women in Japan is a good & important one, but it was made over & over with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer & the regular doses of food porn left me cold. A light pick read for my IRL book group.
pickIf you go into this book expecting a murder mystery, you'll be disappointed, but as a contemporary look at Japan's expectations of women, it's quite good.
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pickMy return trip to Kyoto and the Kamogawa Diner was a delight! I‘m a vegetarian but all of the dishes are described so mouthwateringly. Cosy in all the right ways! I love how Nagare & Koishi work together as food detectives - they have a beautiful father-daughter dynamic.
pickWhile not a perfect novel (it can feel a bit stilted and awkward in style at times, perhaps a translation thing?) this feels quite special.
As a young boy in Tokyo, Rei witnesses his father's arrest and the destruction of his beloved violin. Coming of age in France, he devotes his life to the reconstruction of his father's treasured instrument. A quiet story about beauty in the face of destructive, oppressive elements, I'm glad to have read it.
