Japanese Literature Challenge 2021

Japanese Literature Challenge
(self-challenge)
April to December 2021

After The Quake
by Haruki Murakami
translated by Jay Rubin
Short Stories, Japan | Goodreads | my rating: 4
one with an interesting frog character

Spring Snow
by Yukio Mishima
translated by Michael Gallagher
Literary, Historical, Japan | Goodreads | my rating: tba

The Summer of the Ubume
by Natsuhiko Kyogoku
translated by Alexander O. Smith, Elye J. Alexander
Horror, Ghosts, Japan | Goodreads | my rating: tba

Where the Wild Ladies Are
by Aoko Matsuda
translated by Polly Barton
Short Stories, Feminism, Japan | Published: 2020 | Goodreads | my rating: 4
non-traditional female routes, sad and dark alternatives

The Woman in the Purple Skirt
by Natsuko Imamura
translated by Lucy North
Literary, Japan | Published: 2021 | Goodreads | my rating: 4
strange, living vicariously, stalker-ish

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* also reading picks for:
Japanese Literature Challenge Jan-Mar (here)
Japanese Mystery Readalong Book Club (here)
TW Book Club (here)
Japanese Readathon: 2021 | April | June | July | August

Lovely Books and Things - 4.4.21

Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update

Linking up with:
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)

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HAPPY THINGS:

1. Calamari Israeli Couscous at lokma
2. Booktubers - Books and Bao (here); with cindy (here)
3. Easter decorations in Bernal Heights

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Library: audiobook

Where the Wild Ladies Are
by Aoko Matsuda
translated by Polly Barton
Short Stories, Feminism, Japan | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

Library:

The Old Capital
by Yasunari Kawabata
translated by J. Martin Holman and Vanja Lantz
Classic, Historical, Japan | Published: 2006 (first 1962) | Goodreads

Borrowed: from friend/family

The Unreal and the Real:
Selected Stories Volume I
Where on Earth
by Ursula K. LeGuin
Short Stories, SciFi, Speculative Fiction | Published: 2012 | Goodreads

The Unreal and the Real:
Selected Stories Volume II
Outer Space, Inner Lands
by Ursula K. LeGuin
Short Stories, SciFi, Speculative Fiction | Published: 2012 | Goodreads

Freebies: from Free Little Library

The Silent Patient
by Alex Michaelides
Mystery, Thriller | Published: 2019 | Goodreads

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AND watched: Netflix

The Trial of the Chicago (2020)
Director/Writer: Aaron Sorkin
Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen
Drama, History, Thriller | imdb | my rating: 5
The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

AND watched: online

Firebringer (2016)
Directed by Julia Albain, Nick Lang
Music & Lyrics: Meredith Stepien, Mark Swiderski
Based on book by: Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden
Musical | youtube | my rating: 5
Meet Jemilla and her tribe of stone-age pals. Every day, they work hard collecting nuts and berries. Every night, they take cover in their cave, hiding from the most fearsome predator alive... Snarl. When the tribe troublemaker, Zazzalil, goes out during a storm to test her latest invention, she stumbles upon the most important discovery in human history. It's one that will take her on a whirlwind journey from omega to alpha, as she becomes... the Firebringer!

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* comment and TELL me what you have acquired for your shelves recently

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