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This was a very comforting, sentimental book. I was afraid I wasn't going to like it because it features two topics I'm not normally interested in--cleaning and math, but I had an image in my head based on the depiction of the professor that I adored. Even some of the math held my attention temporarily. It was a solid book.

1st book for the #20in4 #Readathon @Andrew65

1. Favorite spring flower—Tulips
2. Book that gives me that spring feeling—Pictured

This short and beautiful Ogawa novel makes me think of spring not only for its cherry blossom cover, but also because baseball (statistics and cards) plays a big part in the story.

#Two4Tuesday
@TheSpineView

These days I‘m craving something gentle and stable. This novel was perfect. Who knew that math could provide as much reassurance as unconditional love and kindness. Even baseball (for which I generally don‘t care at all) was a comforting addition as a thread that connects people‘s hearts.

This novel is very heart touching and thoughtful.
The story tell about a young housekeeper entrusted to take care of a math professsor who long back got in an accident and so is left with only 80 minute of memory.
Despite the amount of math used in this book which I am absolutely bad at. I never felt out of space and enjoy the drive of the book and the scenario of the emotions .
Atlast I want to say it's not a love story, but a story of love.💕

A touching story about a young housekeeper entrusted to care for a math professor who, after a long ago car accident, is left with only an 80 minute memory. Despite the amount of maths (which I am absolutely abhorrent at) and baseball (which I have absolutely zero interest in) it was a really beautiful story of a lovely relationship between the housekeeper, the professor and her charming young son.

1. The Moscow Puzzles. Gifted to me by a colleague who gets me.

2. The Thursday Murder Club. For a friend who lives mysteries

3. Tagged.

#WondrousWednesday
@Eggs

"...the room was filled by a kind of stillness. Not simply an absence of noise, but an accumulation of layers of silence, untouched by fallen hair or mold, silence that the Professor left behind as he wandered..."

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It‘s a wrap for October #BookspinBingo. Best month ever with 5 Bingos. 🎉

22 books off my TBR. 4 DNF‘S including both my #Bookspin and #Doublespin.

5 🌟
Long Way Down
Night
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Four Hundred Souls

4.5 🌟
Matrix

4🌟
A Dangerous Collaboration
Bait and Witch (not on the bingo board)
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Hamnet
The Guncle
Pride and Premeditation
Belgravia

#BookReport #WeeklyForecast

I 💜💜💜 The Housekeeper and the Professor 5 🌟 and Hamnet was sad but also good. 4 🌟 Several People Typing was meh…probably due to my age more than anything. Ophie‘s Ghost was a good middle grade read…atmospheric but not too spooky. Love Justina Ireland‘s writing. Had to set aside Hood Feminism for now. I can‘t seem to concentrate and I believe there is lots to learn.

#amnesia #conflictedworlds
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

ME:

DAFFY: Yes you CAN finish one more book tonight and hit 20 hours! 💕
#20in4 @Andrew65
#dogsoflitsy

Calling it a night. I think tomorrow I‘m actually gonna make it to 20 hours!
#20in4. @Andrew65

I‘m having a hard time with this one. It seems to me like the author is making time flow as if normal but keeps reminding us that the first meeting of the day is like meeting a stranger.
If the professor‘s memory resets every 80 minutes shouldn‘t there be more constant chaos?

#CuriousCovers Day 16: Deliciously #pink covers in these two novels by female Asian novelists.

Hey #LMPBC ladies, just checking in regarding the last round and where everything is! I still haven't received Katie's selection (Drive Your Plow), or my book back. I know the postal system is backed up, and reading delays happen, just want to update so we're all on the same page!

@StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @KatieB @Read-y_Picker

I read Ogawa‘s book “The Memory Police” earlier this year and I just had to read more from her. In its way, this is also a book about memory. A housekeeper is getting a job at a former professor. And his memory only lasts for 80 minutes, after that you are like a stranger to him again. This book is about the bond they form.

I was doing a bit of investigating for #Booked2021 #Spring last night ( translated into your first language) I read the start of this one💕💕💕loving it & I think it will be a lovely last read of the night book ... it was last night anyway

All finished, will send off later today. #lmpbc @KatieB @TheKidUpstairs @Read-y_Picker

Tender, gentle, patient. A spirit of non-judging, of empathy, of care. About how we can help each other live in our uncertain, ephemeral world.

Just seeing elderly or disabled people being appreciated as full, valuable human beings is enough to get me emotional these days, and the relationship between the housekeeper and the professor healed a little bit of my soul.

I finally read this thanks to @BarbaraBB‘s love of it; I‘m so glad I did!

This novel warmed my heart during yesterday‘s cold rain. I quickly read through this beautiful story blending mathematics and the friendship between a professor, his housekeeper, and her son. From cover to cover, a delight! Thanks so much @BarbaraBB 💜😘 Our friendship means a lot to me.

#japan #readingasia2021 #translatedlit #booked2021

And can everyone ogle this lovely edition? 😍😍

What a gorgeous book, both inside and out!

It tells the story of a professor who only has an 80-minute memory and his relationship with his housekeeper and her son. It was both life-affirming and somewhat sad at the same time, and you get a real sense of Japanese culture. And of course it‘s full of mathematics which gladdens this accountant‘s heart!

Thank you so much for sending it to me @BarbaraBB 😘

#readingasia2021 #japan

@BarbaraBB look what arrived!! Thank you so much! This is on my TBR, and I don‘t own it. Perfect gift! I even did a tribute photo with my mom‘s indoor garden. ❤️❤️❤️ Merry Christmas 📚

Day 8 of #12booksof2020

I thought things couldn‘t get any better after The Memory Police and then I read this one. From page one this book is a lovely experience of a woman and her child taking care of a professor with dementia. Highly recommended!

I received a B&N gift card from my aunt in the mail, so I picked these up. Looking forward to both of them, especially the tagged book. Ogawa's Memory Police is a favorite of the year & both @BarbaraBB & @emilyhaldi have posted rave reviews.

I‘m so lucky to have such lovely Littens as friends!

@rockpools - Rachel, the squirrel is gorgeous - he‘s definitely going in the library!

@BarbaraBB - I‘ve been wanting to read the tagged book as I loved The Memory Police so much. I‘ve never seen this edition though - it‘s beautiful!

@Oryx - I love Peirene books and this one sounds quite Scandi noir - I‘m very much looking forward to it. ⬇️

@Caroline2 - I so wanted to read this ⬇️

A lovely story that expertly contrasts the dependability and truth of math with the fleeting and precarious human life ✨ Definitely making it to my #20best2020 list!! Thanks @BarbaraBB 😘

I‘ve been influenced 😁 @BarbaraBB

The initially and apparently ordinary interaction between an eminent mathematics professor who lives with only 80 minutes of short-term memory since a traumatic brain injury, his housekeeper and her 10-year old son evolves into a deep connection which forever changes the equation of their lives. The professor's brilliance in the magic of maths involuntarily leads to an original and fascinating communication language with his two young friends.

I am using my coffee break to not only dive into this coffee but also a bit into this book, which I understand was also adapted into a movie in Japan in 2006

It arrived @TheKidUpstairs ! It felt like Christmas Day. I‘m so enjoying doing this with all of you! @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego @Read-y_Picker #lmpbc

Such a beautiful book about the basis of friendship. I never knew maths could be as beautiful as this too! My first Yoko Ogawa and I'm in love with her writing! 5/5

#nowreading this for an #asianlit #bookdiscussion coming up. Good start so far!

#SeptemberStats #SeptemberWrapUp

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
The Housekeeper and the Professor
Sisters

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Clap When You Land
The Queen of Bloody Everything
Despised and Rejected
Burnt Sugar
The Tiger‘s Wife

⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
The Eighth Life (for Brilka)
The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
Misery
The Pilgrim Hawk
The Beekeeper of Aleppo
Revenge

⭐️⭐️⭐️
Banana Peels on the Tracks

⭐️⭐️✨
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

This was very much a #blameitonlitsy purchase.
An absolutely adorable book, the descriptions of the Professor‘s explanations of mathematics are just beautiful.

1. The tagged and also “The Cruel Prince“ by Holly Black on audio.
2. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
3. Roast squash (not butternut, proper acorn squash) mmmmmmmm

Thank you for the tag @Helen19 would you like to play @Jari-chan ?
@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads

A single mother becomes the housekeeper of a mathematician who, after an accident, only has an 80 minute memory. Her son comes often with her and the professor explains them mathematic problems. A loving and unique affection develops between them.

Ogawa places the eternity of the numbers against the transience of life. Every little twist and turn has meaning in this book, right down to the last sentence. A clever and deeply moving masterpiece.

I just finished reading my first novel for #womenintranslationmonth2020. Ogawa wrote an elegant, simple story about the relationship between a single parent housekeeper with a 10 year son and a former mathematics professor who is a genius. Solid novel and a great start to Women in Translation Month!

https://marion-hill.com/wisdom-from-kammbia-book-review-53-the-housekeeper-and-t...

Happy August! My favorite month of the year. My birthday month. I have decided to participate with #womenintranslationmonth this August. I'm looking forward to reading these stories from women around the world. I plan to do 1 book a week and post my reviews. I just started reading The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa today.
You can see the rest of my choices here : https://marion-hill.com/women-in-translation-month/

Words to describe this book:
Mathematics
Short term memories
Platonic love
Friendship

This is how you make mathematics sounds poetic. I've never know numbers and equations can be beautiful.

There's a movie adaptation, too. It's titled The Professor's Beloved Equation.

👉🏼 https://www.mathematik-nachhilfe.de/euler-formel-eulersche-identitaet/

Littens, @ju.ca.no – I can‘t believe I really googled this formula with the intention of understanding what it wants to tell me. Well, I tried many search results but no one could enlighten me even the tiniest bit more.

It‘s hopeless.
I stick to what I remember from maths in school. No root can be calculated from negative numbers.
So.

What‘s all the fuss about❓😂

📖 The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
✍️ Harry Harrison
🍿 Hellboy (2004)
🎤 Beth Hart
🎶 Head Like a Hole (Nine Inch Nails)

#ManicMonday #LetterH @JoScho

I second @ju.ca.no 's review. I very much liked the story of friendship and comfort. But I also had no particular interest in the „baseball-plot“ and noticed that most of the explanations of the maths problems weren‘t simple enough for me. Most I still don‘t understand. 🤭

And even if I see why it‘s all told from the housekeeper‘s view I still miss the professor‘s perspective. The effort daily life – alone a single day – is for him came up short.

And now – from “chick-lit” – to something completely different.

Something a bit more challenging.

Did I disclose that I received extra-lessons in maths several times a week through almost my complete secondary-school-career❓🙂

Definitely a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ read for me!! It was a quick read, but I know it will stay with me for years. Highly recommended!! ✨

I freak out‼️ Seriously, I had goosebumps when unpacking this‼️

It made me happy reading the lines @ju.ca.no wrote to me. By the way, the first handwritten lines ✍🏼 I received this year.
Plus: I absolutely am enthralled by those sticky notes. 🥰 It might not look like this, but every item, the envelope, the ink jar, the feather is a small pile of sticky notes. Beautiful. ❤️

Thank you so, so very much‼️🤗

Thanks for the tag, @mabell !
1. The tagged book appears to be the last book in translation I read, and it was quite a while ago. I need to step up my game!
2. Nope, only English. The last book I read had tons of French passages which I didn‘t understand. Does that count?? 😬

#twofortuesday @TheSpineView
Thanks for the tag @HannaPolkadots 😘

1. tagged one :)
2. yes, a lot, as german is my mother tongue, so all english books are in a foreign language for me ;)

How about @Tanisha_A @ephemeralwaltz @Kalalalatja ? Sorry if you‘ve been already tagged :)

Slow and steady progress on this week‘s #EasterExtravaganza readathon. It‘s not too late to join in! :)

An mathematic professor whose memory only lasts 80 minutes because of a car accident many years ago develops a beautiful relationship with his new housekeeper and her son. There are some episodes of mathematics or baseball which I was not very interested in, but the story is beautiful and a bit sad. It‘s slow in the typical japanese way, which i really enjoy. Thank you @MayJasper for the book! @Buechersuechtling I will send it on tuesday🤗

4/5 ⭐️