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Denis wants to read The ways of my grandmothers by Beverly Hungry Wolf
Denis wants to read The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy …
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Denis wants to read Gilgamesh by Stephen Mitchell
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Denis wants to read The annals of imperial Rome by P. Cornelius Tacitus (Penguin classics)
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Denis wants to read A plague upon humanity by Daniel Barenblatt
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Denis wants to read Endgame 1758 by A. J. B. Johnston
Denis wants to read Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World by Margaret Olwen Macmillan
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Denis started reading Nine parts of desire by Geraldine Brooks
With a New Afterword. As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine …
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Denis started reading Nine parts of desire by Geraldine Brooks
With a New Afterword. As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine …
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Denis reviewed On the narrow road to the deep north by Lesley Downer
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5 stars
This book become a revelation for me. It's a captivating journey into Japanese history, geography, religion, culture, poetry, reaching to deep roots of Japanese social background told by a Westerner for a Westerner. I love it. Watch the Kwaidan movie before reading the book to pitch the story of Yoshitsune if you haven't watched it yet.
Denis reviewed On the narrow road to the deep north by Lesley Downer
Revelation
5 stars
This book become a revelation for me. It's a captivating journey into Japanese history, geography, religion, culture, poetry, reaching to deep roots of Japanese social background told by a Westerner for a Westerner. I love it. Watch the Kwaidan movie before reading the book to pitch the story of Yoshitsune if you haven't watched it yet.
Fourth. Weather fine', Sora recorded in his diary. 'At mid-day we were invited to the main temple to dine on "cut soba"." Mount Haguro's fat brown buckwheat noodles were famous, served not in spaghetti-like strands but chopped into small pieces, with bush clover chopsticks to eat them with.
— On the narrow road to the deep north by Lesley Downer (Page 201)
Interesting about buckwheat noodles - want to try
Denis commented on On the narrow road to the deep north by Lesley Downer
I bought it in the thrift store for only 4 CAD. A bargain for such a great reading.
Denis started reading On the narrow road to the deep North by Lesley Downer
On the narrow road to the deep North by Lesley Downer
In 1689 Matsuo Basho, Japan’s greatest poet, set out on his last and longest journey, to the remote northern provinces. …