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My #FictionalTraveler February pick for #APlaceYouLove is the tagged book. I love Japan & especially Kyoto. Plus, coffee shops are a place I love too! 🌸☕️🏯🇯🇵🐈‍⬛

A quick book while I‘m a bit sick- I‘m halfway through and it‘s very gripping so far ☺️

Tagged book requires a coffee, right? 😉

Mitsou Ando awoke from a dream in which he was sinking into the sea.

Continuing on my mission to read all the Japanese Cat Fiction books - this was a delightful tale of not-quite strangers unexpectedly finding their way to the Full Moon Coffee Shop.

I love an interconnected story and there‘s just something about distinguished cats talking about the age of Aquarius & the astrological houses that is deeply charming.

Love starting new books so now reading the 2nd in the Rings series by Koji Suzuki. Purchased the first 3 books from Kinokuniya Bookstore at Japan Town in San Francisco. Love Japanese mysteries and literature and I loved that bookstore when we lived in Nor-Cal.

One of my new year‘s resolutions is to read a Japanese novel each month. This is my first and it wasn‘t great.
It‘s two short stories. The first is about a couple having sex for 4 days in a so called Love Hotel on the brink of the Iraq War. That one is pretty good although I don‘t get it completely.
The second is about a woman who stays in bed for a whole day, thinking of her home and her husband. That one I didn‘t get at all 🤷🏻‍♀️

Welcome to my newest hyper fixation. I've finally started this behemoth. I've also got another translation on my Kindle that has footnotes and context if needed. I predict it may take me the whole year because I plan to go slow. I've heard it meanders in parts, so I'm ready for it. Wish me luck!

A very erotic portrait of the tail-end of a passionate love affair between a teenage girl and a much older man, both brought into close orbit again, years later, by the man‘s travels to Kyoto to see the city‘s temple bells ring in a New Year. This is Kawabata‘s last (completed) novel and an intensely psychological one at that, the tautness of his doomed love triangle softened by his painterly impressions of a Japan passing through her seasons.

I‘ll read at least one of my #Roll100 picks in January! Looking forward to another year of using random dice rolls to narrow down my abused Hoopla and Libby TBR lists. Thanks @PuddleJumper