A seminar directed by an ex-detective, five students eager to solve old criminal cases, mysteries happening in the campus… If this appeals to you, you must read『継続捜査ゼミ』by Bin Konno!
Book review: 『推理作家（僕）が探偵と暮らすわけ』by Shiki Kuzumi
『推理作家（僕）が探偵と暮らすわけ』by Shiki KUZUMI (久住四季) is a light novel and a detective story. If you like the series Sherlock from the BBC, you will certainly like this novel.
Book Review: 『ボクたちはみんな大人になれなかった』by Moegara
Even twenty years of time cannot erase some names from our memory. In 『ボクたちはみんな大人になれなっかた』, seeing one name appearing on Facebook brings back the past, scene by scene. As the narrator let the memories come back, he gives a personal picture of the ’90s.
Book Review: 『リカーシブル』by Honobu Yonezawa
I have finished 『リカーシブル』by Honobu Yonezawa (米澤穂信), and with it, I have completed both my reading challenge for the year and my goals for the month of December. A novel with various themes 「この街は確かに、どこかおかしい」(p.394) Haruka, her mother and younger brother Satoru have to move back to the mother's native little town. While Haruka, who starts..
Book Review: 『往復書簡』by Kanae Minato
『往復書簡』(おうふくしょかん) is a collection of four epistolary short stories by Kanae Minato (湊かなえ) published by 幻冬舎文庫 (げんとうしゃぶんこ). A journey to the past With the exception of the fourth story, which is very short and a little different than the others, the three main short stories all follow a similar pattern: several people who share a..
Book review: 『手紙』by Keigo Higashino
It took me a long time to read it, but I finally finished the novel 『手紙』by Keigo Higashino (東野圭吾)! Reference: 『手紙』(てがみ), by 東野圭吾 (ひがしのけいご), published by 文春文庫 (ぶんしゅんぶんこ). The story 「差別はね、当然なんだよ」 p317 This novel is not a detective novel, the only murder occurs in the prologue and there won't be any police investigation afterwards. 『手紙』is..
Book review: 『ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖』by En Mikami
(I don't usually post book reviews on Friday, but I will certainly take some holidays at the end of the month, so if I want to publish all my book reviews before the end of the year, I will have to post twice a week!) I have finished 『ビブリア古書堂の事件手帖』by En MIKAMI (三上延) and I loved..
Book Review: 『探偵倶楽部』by Keigo Higashino
There are 5 short detective stories in 『探偵倶楽部』(The Membership Detective Club - たんていくらぶ) by Keigo HIGASHINO (東野圭吾) and I loved every single one of them! The stories all feature the Membership Detective Club, but the detectives are not the protagonists. The stories mainly focus on the people that are involved or find themselves involved in..
Book Review: 『コンビニ人間』by Sayaka Murata
"人間はさー、仕事か、家族か、どちらかで社会に所属するのが義務なんだよ。" (p66) In a society that constantly throws this kind of reminder to your face, how are you supposed to find your place when, at 36, you have neither one nor the other? Through the story of its protagonist Keiko FURUKURA,『コンビニ人間』describes the struggles of those who are "not normal" and won't fit in the society..
Book Review: 『日本語びいき』by Yumi Shimizu
Illustrations by ヨシタケシンスケ 『日本語びいき』 is definitely one of my best books of the year! The author, Yumi Shimizu (清水由美), is teaching Japanese to foreign students and wrote this book for her fellow native Japanese speakers. Through 21 short chapters, she invites her reader to rediscover the Japanese language and let oneself be amazed by patterns..
Book Review: 『未来のミライ』by Mamoru Hosoda
I bought the novelisation of the film 『未来のミライ』by director Mamoru Hosoda to try the collection Tsubasa of the publisher Kadokawa. Tsubasa is a collection of books for children with full furigana and a wide range of genres classified in different levels of difficulty. 『未来のミライ』, which is novelised by Mamoru Hosoda himself, belongs to the level "小学上級から"...
Book review: 『流星の絆』by Keigo Higashino
I would like to congratulate myself on having read a +600 pages book in Japanese! As it was a book by Keigo Higashino, it was not a challenging read. I consider his books to be among the easiest books I have read in Japanese so far: a writing style that I think is easy to..