[caption id="attachment_11909" align="alignleft" width="177"] 『光』by 三浦しをん, 集英社文庫[/caption] I still want to believe that I will pick up this book again and read the remaining 60 pages of 『光』. If you follow my blog, you know that I have loved 三浦しをん （みうらしをん）'s other novel 『舟を編む』, but I cannot say the same for this one. I struggled..
Book Review: 『のほほん絵日記』by Momoko Sakura
This is not the post I planned to write today (I thought I would post in my "currently reading" section), but I heard on Monday that Momoko Sakura had died from cancer on the 15th. I thought it would be appropriate to devote this Wednesday's post to one of her books. Momoko Sakura is well..
Book review: 『ちょっと今から仕事やめてくる』by Emi Kitagawa
As the title suggests, the novel is about quitting one's work. The protagonist, Takashi Aoyama is a young salaryman, who has been working for his company for 6 months. He spends most of his time at work, comes home only to sleep, has no friends, no girlfriend, no free time and only waits for the..
Book Review: 「私のクラスの生徒が、一晩で24人死にました。」by 日向奈くらら
The book 「私のクラスの生徒が、一晩で24人死にました。」by 日向奈くらら (ひむかな・くらら) reminded me how much I like horror stories and thrillers. I have a taste for thrillers and psycho-thrillers with horror elements but I always find that half of the books I read in these areas are disappointing. It was not the case with Himukana's book that I found very entertaining. Strangely..
Book review: 『虚ろな十字架』by Keigo Higashino
「虚ろな十字架」is both a typical Keigo Higashino and a surprising one. Typical in its setting, its characters and the way the story unfolds. From the very beginning, I felt that I was on familiar grounds, reading an author that I appreciate and whose writing style seems to be unchanging throughout the years. The novelty of this..
Book Review 『君たちはどう生きるか』by Genzaburo Yoshino
I have finished reading 『君たちはどう生きるか』, and I did not enjoy reading this book. This being said, I do think that the novel has a lot of qualities and a unique format that makes it interesting, but it just wasn't for me. This book was first published in 1937. It is a novel for children or at..
Book Review: 『ヒーローズ（株）！！！』by Emi Kitagawa
「ヒーローズ（株）！！！」(read: かぶしきがいしゃ) is a novel by 北川恵海（きたがわ・えみ）. It is the second book by Emi Kitagawa, the first one being 「ちょっと今から仕事やめてくる」. It was this last title that drew my attention when I saw it in a bookshop. But I chose 「ヒーローズ（株）！！！」because the wrapper band said: 読んだ後はきっと元気になれます... haha, I let myself be influenced by a commercial catchphrase!..
Book review: 『赤い指』by Keigo Higashino
「赤い指」is the seventh book of the detective Kaga series "加賀恭一郎シリーズ" (かが・きょういちろう) by Keigo Higashino. Before starting the review of this novel, I would like to say a word about the series. The series First, you don't have to read them in order. Even though they follow a chronological order (starting when Kaga is still a..
Book Review: 『放送禁止』by Toshikazu Nagae
I finished reading the three stories of the book 「放送禁止」by 長江俊和 (ながえとしかず), and it was much better than I thought it might be. First of all, I should say that the three short stories in the book are a written adaptation of the TV series of the same name. If you prefer to watch the..
Book review: 『イノセント・デイズ』by Kazumasa Hayami
I have finished reading 「イノセント・デイズ」by 早見和真（はやみ・かずまさ） and loved this novel very much. I found the story interesting, I like the themes encompassed in it, and I appreciated the structure of the novel very much. Some themes of the novel The novel starts with what we call in French a "fait divers" (tragic events like criminal cases that..
Korean resources: monthly listening magazine for Japanese
I always have doubts when I present Korean resources to learn Japanese because I don't know if they can be ordered overseas. I have no experience with it myself, but I think that buying Korean books is more complicated than buying Japanese books. But I hope that it will change someday and that it will..
Book Review: 「ぶたぶたラジオ」by Arimi Yazaki
When I was doing my book haul in Kyoto last December, I took this book only because the cover design was cute: I also fancied that it would be easy to read, and I was right. It took me a week to read it, and I haven't even had time to post about it in my..