Books and Puzzles: Water, Wood & Wild Things

Small town theme with this pairing.

book: Water, Wood & Wild Things by Hannah Kirshner

puzzle: Sun Kissed Cabin art by Dominic Davison
Springbok (500 pc)

Lovely Books and Things - 5.9.21

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. Spotting jigsaw puzzles (with @karenpuzzles) in the reality tv show, The Circle.
2. Virtual Jane Con weekend, May 1-2 - see Jane Austen themed presentations (here)
3. Walking up the mosaic steps at Moraga and 16th Avenue and admiring red tailed hawks flying overhead - check out the article, San Francisco’s mosaic staircases turn forgotten places into colorful art: The California city is the hilliest in the U.S., with more than 600 public stairways, some of which are decorated with beautiful mosaics by Sharon McDonnell (here)

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Bought: Book of the Month

The Last Thing He Told Me
by Laura Dave
Thriller, Mystery, Reese Book Club | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

Library:

Stairway Walks in San Francisco
The Joy of Urban Exploring
by Mary Burk, Adah Bakalinsky
Guidbook, San Francisco | Published: 2018 | Goodreads

Freebies: from Free Little Library

The Nasty Bits
Collected Varietal Cuts, Usable Trim, Scraps, and Bones
by Anthony Bourdain
Essays, Food | Published: 2007 | Goodreads

The Bloody Chamber
by Angela Carter
Short Stories, Fairy Tale Retellings, Horror | Published: 2006 | Goodreads

Freebies: from Amazon Kindle (free for a couple days)

Monet and Oscar
by Joe Byrd
Historical, France | Published: 2021 | Goodreads
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Virtual Author event: hosted by TW Book Club
Check out their instagram for future free author events (here)

Water, Wood and Wild Things:
Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
by Hannah Kirshner
Travel, Memoir, Food, Recipes, Japan | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

Virtual Author event: hosted by Booksmith
Check out their calendar for future free author events (here)

A conversation between:

Goodbye, Again
Essays, Reflections, and Illustrations by Jonny Sun
Essays, Memoir | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

The Best Girls
by Min Jin Lee
Short Stories, Horror, South Korea | Published: 2019 | Goodreads

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AND watched: online

Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
Director: Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Paul Briggs, John Ripa
Screenplay: Qui Nguyen, Adele Lim
Story by: Paul Briggs, Don Hall, Adele Lim, Carlos López Estrada, Kiel Murray
Qui Nguyen, John Ripa, Dean Wellins
Stars: Kelly Marie Tran, Awkwafina, Gemma Chan
Animation, Action, Adventure | imdb | my rating: 4
In a realm known as Kumandra, a re-imagined Earth inhabited by an ancient civilization, a warrior named Raya is determined to find the last dragon.

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TW Book Club 2021

TW Book Club
(Tokyo Weekender)
January to December 2021
details | Goodreads
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JANUARY:

The View From Breast Pocket Mountain
by Karen Hill Anton
Memoir, Travel, Japan | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

FEBRUARY:

The Forest of Wool and Steel
by Natsu Miyashita
translated by Philip Gabriel
Literary, Music, Japan | Published: 2019 | Goodreads

MARCH:

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey
by Marie Mutsuki Mockett
Memoir, Travel, Buddhism, Japan | Published: 2016 | Goodreads


APRIL:

Water, Wood and Wild Things:
Learning Craft and Cultivation in a Japanese Mountain Town
by Hannah Kirshner
Travel, Memoir, Food, Recipes, Japan | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

MAY:

Lonely Castle in the Mirror
by Mizuki Tsujimura
translated by Philip Gabriel
Fantasy, YA, Japan | Published: 2021 (first 2017) | Goodreads

JUNE:

Stranger in the Shogun's City
A Japanese Woman and Her World
by Amy Stanley
Biography, Japan | Published: 2020 | Goodreads

JULY:

Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
by Kyōko Nakajima
translated by Ginny Takemori, Ian MacDonald
Short Stories, Japan | Published: 2021 | Goodreads

AUGUST:

Heaven
by Mieko Kawakami
translated by Sam Bett, David Boyd
Literary, Coming of Age, Japan | Published: 2021 (first 2009) | Goodreads | my rating: 5

SEPTEMBER:

So We Look to the Sky
by Misumi Kubo
translated by Polly Barton
Contemporary, Japan | Published: 2021 | Goodreads
OCTOBER:

Touring the Land of the Dead
(and Ninety-Nine Kisses)
by Maki Kashimada
translated by Hadyn Trowell
Short stories, Japan | Published: 2021 | Goodreads | my rating: 4
NOVEMBER:

Farewell, My Orange
by Kei Iwaki
translated by Meredith McKinney
Literary, Australia, Japan | Published: 2018 (first 2013) | Goodreads
DECEMBER:

An I-Novel
by Minae Mizumura
translated by Juliet Winters Carpenter
Literary, Japan | Published: 2021 (first 1995) | Goodreads