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 [...]
13.Jul.2008 Japanese Literature Challenge 2
Update 30 Jan 2009 My wrap-up post here. Dolce Bellezza is running the second Japanese Literature challenge. Yay! I’ve been waiting for this one, since I missed the first one. The rule is to read 3 Japanese Literature between 30 July 2008 and 30 January 2009. Bellezza has some books to recommend on her site. [...]
04.Jul.2008 The Updated 1001 Books
So apparently they changed the 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. They took out and added not only a few books, but 284 books! That’s a whole lot of changes! Almost a third? So now we have the 2006 version and 2008 version. I wonder if they will change the list every [...]
