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After her boyfriend announces he’s marrying someone else, twenty-five-year-old Takako quits her job and takes up her eccentric uncle Satoru’s offer of the tiny room above his second-hand bookshop in Tokyo’s Jimbocho district. There, among the stacks of old books, at the Saveur coffee shop and in the company of new friends, she slowly rediscovers…
Uketsu’s “Strange Houses” is an atypical blend of crime, mystery, and horror, told almost entirely through dialogue, theories, and the analysis of unusual house plans The novel reads quickly, holds your attention easily, and draws the reader into an investigation whose dark twists aren’t easily predictable, although the second half demands a bit more concentration…
Maneki-Neko “Maneki-Neko: The Japanese Book of Lucky Destiny” by Nobuo Suzuki is not a typical self-help book, but rather a cultural guide through the Japanese (and broader Asian) perspective on happiness, with the maneki-neko cat as its central metaphor The book is organized as a collection of short chapters on various symbols and rituals of…
The Man in the High Castle “The best way to manipulate people is to tell them what they want to hear.” – Philip K. Dick “The Man in the High Castle” is not at all naive novel, both for reading and generally. This is perhaps the most famous work of Philip K. Dick (whose…
The Cat Who Saved Books “Who doesn’t read, at 70 years will have lived only one life. Who reads, will have lived five thousand years.” – Umberto Eco When did you recently read a warm, emotional and at moments touching book that talks… well, about love for books? About what those books do for…
The Catch “Peace is the time when sons bury fathers, war is the time when fathers bury sons” – Herodotus Kenzaburo Oe is a very interesting figure. He was 23 years old when he received the most prestigious and largest Japanese literary prize – “Akutagawa” (in 1958) for the novella “The Catch,” and in…
The Book of Five Rings “If you wish to control others, you must first control yourself” – Miyamoto Musashi Some books are truly very universal and specific. They change their meaning and reveal new horizons to us as we mature. “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius, “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu, “Tao Te Ching,”…
Battle Royale “A student is not a mandarin” – Kinpachi Sakamoto There’s a probability one part of people aren’t familiar with the term battle royale. For many today this term is probably known because of video games like “PUBG,” “Fortnite” or “Apex Legends.” For some it’s probably known because of the eponymous cult Japanese…
Siddhartha I’ve already (long ago) mentioned that, as we change, grow up and mature, we also discover some new dimension and messages in books and films that were previously hidden from us. However, it also seems there’s some truth that some works simply need to be read as “older,” for you to truly catch (or…
The Archer “The way of the bow is the way of joy and excitement, perfection and mistakes, technique and instinct. But you will only discover this if you continue to shoot your arrows.” – Tetsuya (“The Archer”) You yourselves know what the situation is when it comes to Paulo Coelho… the man simply put…