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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…
Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit – Behind the Legend, a Man Bruce Thomas doesn’t build the myth in this biography – he dismantles it, revealing a man who was as obsessed and brilliant as he was contradictory and fallible. The book follows Lee’s entire life, from his street-fighting days in Hong Kong to the philosophy of…
The Gift of Not Belonging “The Gift of Not Belonging” by Rami Kaminski introduces the otrovert as a personality type equal in standing to introverts and extroverts – a person who can fit into any social group, yet never feels a genuine inner need to belong. The book, divided into four parts, guides the reader…
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 Diary of a CEO “The Diary of a CEO” by Steven Bartlett, author of one of the world’s most popular podcasts, presents 33 laws divided into four categories: Self, Story, Philosophy, and Team The book combines Bartlett’s business experiences, insights from podcast guests, and relevant research, providing concrete guidelines for solving business and life…
Blood of Elves (The Witcher – Book 3) “When you know something, it ceases to be a nightmare. When you know how to fight against something, the danger is no longer so great.” And after two (introductory) story collections (“The Last Wish” and “Sword of Destiny”), it’s time for Geralt’s adventures to continue further…
The Last Wish (The Witcher – Book 1) “People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives, starve an old woman, when they kill a trapped fox with an axe or riddle the last existing unicorn with arrows, they like to think…
The Greatest Gift “A person is loved because a person is loved. Love needs no reasons” – Paulo Coelho Although the translated edition only recently appeared here, Paulo Coelho’s “The Supreme Gift” is his (quite) older work, published in 1991 (“The Alchemist,” for example, came out three years earlier). This work is, in a…
Do you know what common thread runs through names like Norman Vincent Peale, Tony Robbins, or the now-cult documentary/book “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne, as well as dozens of other successful individuals in the world of business, motivation, and whatnot? They all share one thing in common: a small, blue booklet that you’ve probably…