The Kingdom | 
#riotGrams feb 7th: my local library. I'm very lucky/privileged to have grown up with a great library system and schools with great libraries and librarians. I LOVED that my library used Overdrive for ebooks & I used it a lot. Now that they switched over to Axis360 I can only use it for audiobooks bc it doesn't support paper white readers so I'm a half-sad panda.
so-soThis was an odd book. The plot seemed disjointed to me. A little too much going on, yet a very cliche spy novel. It kept me reading til the end though, which I suppose counts for something.
#LitsyReadingChallenge #LRC15 #translated #24in48
Now I can really get into it! #24in48
I'm also using this for the #LitsyReadingChallenge for my #LRC15 pick - #translated from another language (Japanese)
I need to get my nails done today too, so we will continue this #readathon at the salon! #24in48
Update: I read the first sentence and was then told it was my turn! Unfortunately did not get far at all in this one. This will be my afternoon read!
When your library hold comes in and then you decide you haven't read nearly enough graphic novels in your life...
pick"I whispered to the moon in my head, I'll show you my madness."
Not as good as its sister novel The Thief, but an interesting read nonetheless. Again, Nakamura takes the reader on an introspective journey into life and the human condition via the Japanese criminal underground, the plot being an imperfect stage in which the characters are confronted by the meaninglessness of their existence. A talented author, can't wait to read more!
#japan
#noir
"Even when the moon shrinks and disappears, it shows itself again gradually. When ancient people saw that eternal cycle of death and recovery, they prayed to the moon for their own rebirth. Rebirth. Will I be reborn? ... If I were reborn, what would I become?"
Sometimes it saddens me that I have to steal whatever time I can get to read a little. It might be better to give up reading during the work week ?
"I kept staring at the moon. I'm not sure if its light was good or evil. I thought it might not be either. The moon just shines with the light of chaos. Mysteriously. Brightly. That must not be either good or evil. Just as the rules of this world are not all good."
Waiting for my coffee to be ready ?
"The obscene neon. The light that makes fun of the world. Night makes people's desires take on physical form. Night forgives people for letting loose the desires they keep buried inside"
#socksunday
#kittenlitten
#catsoflitsy
so-soAt 200 pages it's more of a long short story. The plot was somewhat predictable ( hookers! doublecross! fake passports!) But at the end it's noted this is Nakamura's 10th book and was to be read alongside "The thief" ( his other book) for cross over characters.
Seeing all those great cookbook selections made me hungry! 😋 happy reads and happy eats!
Well so much for attempting a #nobuynovember 😅 but totally worth it! Feeling happy 😊
It's getting mysterious....Japanese hooker hired for blackmail gets entangled in an unplanned shakedown.
When you can't sleep.....loving the story so far- the prostitute who generates blackmail for her real clients gets into trouble.
so-soI'm still not sure what happened in this story. We get involved in the underbelly of a mob-like crime ring, our protagonist somehow escapes death at every corner, and nothing is as it seems. And yet I couldn't put the thing down. A quick and entertaining read.
