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Adventures in reading

BookerTalk August 17, 2023August 17, 2023 4 Comments Booker prize, Honre de Balzac, Japanese authors, Nuala O'Connor

What I’m Reading : Episode 53, August 2023

What I just finished reading Yesterday I finished Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa which was a substitute

Sample Sunday is an opportunity to check all the books on my shelves and decide what to keep

BookerTalk July 23, 2023July 23, 2023 8 Comments Australian authors, Japanese authors, Sample Sunday, TBR, Virago Modern Classics

Sample Sunday: The journey to V

I’m almost at the end of my alphabetical trawl through my virtual and physical TBR, trying to decide which to

Japanese authors

BookerTalk April 16, 2022 16 Comments Booker prize, Japanese authors, Mieko Kawakami

Heaven by Mieko Kawakami — how to survive in a cruel world

Shortlisted for the 2022 International Booker Prize, Mieko Kawakami’s Heaven is compelling and disturbing in equal measures. The issue is

BookerTalk April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 18 Comments crime fiction, Japanese authors, Welsh authors

Can You Ever Have Too Many Books?

Six new books that have joined my bookcases this week: from Japanese crime fiction to race and identity in the American south.

BookerTalk January 31, 2021December 23, 2021 17 Comments Book Reviews, Japanese authors, Shion Miura

The Great Passage by Shiona Miura: a voyage through words

Until I read The Great Passage my understanding of the complexities involved in writing and publishing a dictionary was next

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