Tag: Japanese Books

HI Readers! November is coming to a close, but it was a good month as I got to read a lot. Just yesterday I finished The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood. This book was making the rounds on Instagram a year ago. I guess...

Hi Readers! I am back with a review after almost a month! I haven’t been reading much because work is super hectic and so all I want to do over weekends is binge-watch something rather than read. Such a sad state of things! But, I am clawing my way...

Hi Readers! January has been super exhausting. I read only two books in the first week and then literally nothing. So, for the Republic Day long weekend, my only plan was to read. So, I read two more books! The first was The Glass Palace, for which I will...

Hi Readers! It is too early in the year to be already reading heart-warming books. I usually read them after I read intense and depressing books. But, I think my 2024 Reader mantra is to pick up the book that calls out to me and to just start reading...

Hi Readers! October is almost at an end. It went by quickly but luckily not as quickly as September. I read Days at the Morisaki Bookshop last week. It was a short book, so I finished it over the weekend. I really enjoy reading books about books, so it...

Hi Readers! September is just flying by in rapt speed! We are already ten days in. When did that even happen? Well, after a super ambitious month of August where I read 12 books, this month is going slow at least reading wise. I have only read one book...

Hi Reader! I read the third book for Women in Translation Month. Yes, I agree that I am kind of on a roll this month. I read Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi, translated from the Japanese by David Boyd and Lucy North and narrated by Nancy Wu....

Hi Readers! June has been a slow month for me reading-wise. But, I did finish two books this weekend. I will write the review of The Authenticity Project by Clare Pooley soon, but I knew I had to write the review of South of the Border, West of the...

Hi Readers! I was completely subsumed in the Stormlight Archive world for the majority of this month. I read the third book in the series, Oathbringer. This was the main reason for delay in all the book reviews. But, I have now caught up with reviews of almost all...

Hi Readers! April has been a fantastic reading month. I read 14 books and I might just read one more before the end of the month. Here’s a short review of a gory yet fun murder mystery novel. Have you ever read a mystery that has so many angles...