From today‘s Outdoor Reading With Schnauzers session. I think novella-length is my sweet spot with Yukio Mishima. I got tired of SPRING SNOW, a novel, a fair ways before it ended and none of the shorter pieces in this collection wowed me, but I really enjoyed both the novellas included here.
Ah, friends, I‘ve just endured a spotty reading week where I got stuck on a sports romance, then fought my way through to the end of SPRING SNOW. It was good enough that I wanted to finish it, but not so gripping that I wanted to read it straight through, so I read another chunk every time I finished something else. I‘d say it‘s worth reading on the whole, but the last 75 pages were a real slog and I dunno if I‘ll continue the quartet.
I‘m doing the get-book-read-book thing with SPRING SNOW, which I found in a Little Free Library yesterday. It‘s off to a great start. Lots of immersive emotions and subtle details that bring this moment in time to life.
I bought the beer because I loved another rice lager earlier this year, but alas, it‘s WAY too mint-forward. Oh well. Someday, somehow, I‘ll find another rice lager to adore
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Writer, actor, martial artist, and political commentator, Yukio Mishima was arguably the most famous person in Japan at the time of his death.
In this insightful and empathetic look at the writer, Stokes guides the reader through the milestones of Mishima's eclectic career and delves into the artist's major works and themes.
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¡Qué ironía! En un período en que el cáliz sin futuro de la catástrofe estaba a rebosar, yo había superado las pruebas para beber de él. Me había ido lejos, y cuando, tras un prolongado adiestramiento, había vuelto pertrechado con todas las aptitudes necesarias, fue para encontrar el cáliz vacío, fríamente visible su fondo; y yo con más de cuarenta años. Por si eso fuera poco, el único líquido que podía apagar mi sed era el que otros habían apurad
so-soAn interesting fictionalized look into the author's experience as an actor, but wow. What a twat.
so-soA family believe that they are extraterrestrials and that they all come from different plants. But they want peace on earth. At the same time there‘s another trio who believes that they are also extraterrestrials but they want to exterminate humans.
I never got along with this novel and feel that it kept me at a distance. I don‘t think I got what the author was trying to tell but that might be because I don‘t know enough about Japan and its
so-soThe Sound of Waves is a lovely romance from Japanese legend Yukio Mishima. It takes place on a small rural island whose lives and scenery are dominated by the fish trade. The setting is lovingly rendered is sparse detail. However, this is a romance written by a man in the 50s. Descriptions of women range from passable to cringe-worthy, and there are monstrous crimes attempted which are treated as momentary lapses in character. (TW, SA)
