I read Breasts and Eggs as part of Meredith’s Japanese Literature Reading Challenge. This was my first experience reading anything written by Mieko Kawakami,…
This is the second book I read for the Japanese literature reading challenge hosted by Dolce Belleza. I finished this book in January but…
It’s been some time since I participated in the annual Japanese literature reading challenge hosted by Dolce Bellezza. The last few years’ reading has…
Gosh! What a year 2021 has been! If 2020 was terrible, 2021 topped it and how in the crapfest scale. It was a year…
9 In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all,…
I am in the midst of reading A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki (part of the Japanese literature and the Man…
Welcome to Mailbox Monday, a meme started by Marcia of To Be Continued and hosted by Gina of Book Dragon’s Lair this month. Ooh,…
In a place like no other, on an island shaped like a teardrop, two sisters are born into a family of the oracle. Kamikuu,…
Welcome to this week’s Mailbox Monday which is hosted this month by The Reading Fever. Random House publications sent me a varied selection of…
9 Malaya, 1951. Yun Ling Teoh, the scarred lone survivor of a brutal Japanese wartime camp, seeks solace among the jungle-fringed tea plantations of Cameron…