This was a purchase based entirely on the cover and title
Kerrbearlib It‘s perfect! Love it! now
This was a purchase based entirely on the cover and title
pickA boy has an innocent crush on a grocery clerk. He buys sandwiches daily just to see her, until classmates call her a “freak,” mentioning botched facial surgery. Shaken, he stops visiting, though he keeps drawing her. Lonely and unsure, he‘s nudged by his friend Tutti to face his feelings and seek the quiet connection he misses. A cute novella.
📸 Onomichi, Japan
pickThis book is wild. An architect has won a competition for designing a tower in Tokyo for prisoners, for whom we need to feel sympathy, cause aren‘t we all human beings? She feels conflicted about this, consults AI and a younger boyfriend and it‘s all pretty meta but so Japanese and I devoured it!
Thank you Helen, for sending me this one!
📸Teshima Art Island, Japan
pickIt seems some people didn‘t like it because it was long and rambling! I loved it because of that and thought it was a really good story and reflection on Asian geo-politics.
I‘m reading a book set in Ashiya, a coastal town in Japan.
It‘s weird to keep reading almost-but-not-quite my name!
These are the books I'm hoping to read for the #ChristmasCrimeChallenge! @Ruthiella @RaeLovesToRead
1. The Black Wolf
2. A Colder Kind of Death
3. The Ghost of Blackwood Hall
4. The Honjin Murders
5. The Return of Campion
6. Cat's Paws and Curses
7. Murder on the Canadian
8. A Kiss Before Dying
9. The Iron Hand of Mars
#HaikuADay #HaikuHive
Skipped yesterday‘s haiku but I‘ll go ahead & post today‘s which is inspired by this picture & it being Wednesday & Hump Day 🐪 & me thinking how even if I‘m excited for the upcoming weekend, the 2 long days to get there will be exhausting. 😵💫
Hump Day Dunes
Getting over the
Midweek hump, descending fast
Like climbing sand dunes
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BOOKER ANNOUNCEMENT SOON!!!! Who do you think will win???
Here are my (brief) thoughts:
https://youtube.com/shorts/XHApzXfK7vA?si=7p6eGoxMp4E_QmQL
This is #pebblecat being adorable! She is another kitty friend of mine! #catsoflitsy
pickI found this one all the more affecting and absorbing for NOT romanticising its characters.
It's formed by layers of unresolved resentment and suboptimal family dynamics, and its very imperfection is what chipped away at my heart.
Flashlight is about family, history, migration, change, identity, Korea, America, and Japan. It's about what we take for granted and how we don't always value what is most important to us.
Quietly touching ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickThis is a really interesting and odd little book. Amane lives in a near future Japan where conception takes place solely by artificial insemination and sex is no longer considered civilised. The family unit is also being revolutionised as living alone may just be more convenient. Its a fascinating concept and as Amane is one of very few still having sex she deeply questions her morality. ⬇️
