pickHisataro has mysteriously fallen into time loops—which always last 8 days—throughout his life, the most recent occasion on the day his grandfather is murdered. This gives him the chance to prevent the crime before it even happens but when the smallest action seemingly changes the timeline each time, how is he supposed to figure out the culprit and stop them in time. Story requires some suspension of disbelief but I was entertained.
Where I work my way through The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter https://www.suzs-space.com/the-setting-sun-by-osamu-dazai-translated-by-juliet-w...
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January‘s pick is a Japanese fabulist tale of a mysterious restaurant where the customers can have a final meal with a lost loved one. A beautiful examination of grief and closure, with delicious recipes!
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Today I finished an audio reread of The Tale of Genji. I did not listen nearly as carefully as I read the first time a few years ago, but I found it interesting how some scenes were so familiar from the previous read. It is still a beautifully written but infuriating story.
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View from the passenger‘s seat on my way home yesterday. #beautybreak
pickGiven its themes of endings, decline, decadence, and life-weariness, and its post-war setting, Dazai's novel cannot fail to be sad. Terminal illness, omens of death, addiction, emotional cruelty and suicide feature prominently, and Dazai died by suicide the year after its initial 1947 publication. But...
Despite her brother's dismissal of the old order as failed, and the new generation as dying on the vine, there is a scintilla of hope in ⬇️
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