Bite to eat before work and a bit of reading.
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Bite to eat before work and a bit of reading.
Starting this one today. Not really sure I'm feeling emotionally secure enough for "sad, but beautiful" in my current perimenopausal state, but hey-ho...
so-soUnder the Eye of the Little Bird, by Hiromi Kawakami (2016, transl. 2024)
⭐️⭐️⭐️💫
Premise: A novel in linked short stories about the distant fate of humanity.
Review: This will no doubt work for a lot of readers, but despite the fact that I can recognize that it‘s very well done, it was not for me. Told in short stories, all at different moments in the future,, this is meant to keep the reader off guard. Cont.
panAs a die hard Murakami fan I had to fight my way through this book. It pains me to admit that it‘s extremely dull and it was hard work persisting. I have no idea how it was published because nothing about it is engaging. A huge disappointment #murakami
pickI loved that 📕 by one of Japan‘s most famous female writers. The co-existence of four women (wife servants concubines etc) in a bourgeois family during the Meiji area. The interactions are observed and described with minutiae giving the main characters a deep humanity. Very beautiful and delicately written. The ending was a stark contrast (no spoilers).
so-soI did not really like or understand this book. And I am not a huge fan of this much age gap
pickIncredible.
An atmospheric imagining of the world, say, 10,000 years or so from now.
At first you will be completely baffled, but I dare you not to get drawn in.
This is a majestic parade of ideas told with such gorgeous simplicity and yet never failing to be entirely compelling.
Cast a spell on me.
Read it.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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so-soschoolgirl focuses on a single day in a young girl's life and captures her inner thoughts in which she struggles with conflicting feelings and expectations. I found this one was an easier read than the
other 3. I felt similarities between her not wanting to grow into a woman (adult). I certainly wish I could go back to being a young girl again. So many responsibilities as an adult is quite tiring.
