In her collection, Akutagawa Prize-winning author Tomoka Shibasaki juggles with specificity and vagueness through almost comically long full sentence titles and unnamed characters who often disappear altogether. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2025/02/22/books/tomoka-shibasaki/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #books #tomokashibasaki #pollybarton #japaneseliterature #translatedfiction
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Finally getting around to reading the last book in the “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
“Before We Forget Kindness” will hopefully transport me back to coziness and heartwarming tales where time travel occurs by pouring and drinking coffee.
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/toshikazu-kawaguchi/28093
Finally getting around to reading the last book in the “Before the Coffee Gets Cold” series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi.
“Before We Forget Kindness” will hopefully transport me back to coziness and heartwarming tales where time travel occurs by pouring and drinking coffee.
Happiness: Japanese cat books
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Sean Bala started reading How Do You Live? by Genzaburō Yoshino
First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino’s How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in …
This book was my wife’s (@dohappybelove@mastodon.social) Christmas present to me this year. This book is Miyazaki’s favorite book and was a tangential inspiration for his film “The Boy and the Heron.” Enjoying it so far - a nice coming of age story with a philosophical bent.
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Found the fifth novel in Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s ‘Before The Coffee Gets Cold’ series. It has the uplifting title ‘Before we forget kindness’. Kindness seems to be something people are forgetting these days.
Looking forward to finishing the series!
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That's the man behind the Grave of the Fireflies, that story is based in his own experience after the bombing in Japan, 1945. My respects...
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Finally finished Nanako Hanada’s The Bookshop Woman. A nonfiction written like fiction.
I was quite taken with the premise of recommending books to strangers, but left disappointed. It was dull and repetitive, and easily forgotten. Since the author didn’t provide many details, it also came across as a little shallow.
In short, not for me. Cool though that she got what she wanted in the end!
Shoji Morimoto's memoir Rental Person Who Does Nothing (translated by Don Knotting) is fascinating to me. He accepts requests, for expenses but no pay, to accompany a person to sign divorce papers or drink a frappucino or attend a concert or just observe them at work. He gives no advice and, of course, does no work! #amreading #books #nonfiction #memoir #writers #translation #work #Japan #JapaneseLiterature
The Kagero Diary
A Woman’s Autobiographical Text From Tenth-Century Japan
Japan is the only country in the world where women writers laid the foundations of classical literature. The Kagerō Diary commands our attention as the first extant work of that rich and brilliant tradition.
Available for free here:
https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41809
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