30.Nov.2008 Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
I’d like to say that this is probably the last Banana Yoshimoto’s that I would read. I read Lizard a while back and didn’t quite like it. I don’t understand how she got to be so famous outside of Japan (or in), because I think her stories are nothing but ordinary. Ordinary. Ordinary. And the [...]
11.Jul.2008 Lizard by Banana Yoshimoto
The books is titled 蜥蜴 (とかげ, tokage) in Japanese, literally means lizard. This is the second collection of short stories that I read. First was Interpreter of Maladies. Again, I’m still not sure if I like short stories. With Lizard, I didn’t keep looking to see how many pages I had left, like I did [...]