![]() ![]() ![]() A comparison of the Tokyo Vice book and TV series.I don’t usually rush after the hyped books, but I was intrigued by Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus and the ‘acceptable’ picture of female anger that it presented.Kawakami Mieko: All the Lovers in the Night, Miura Shion: The Great Passage, Miyashita Natsu: The Forest of Wool and Steel, Lee Wei-Jing: The Mermaid’s Tale in one post on loneliness, alienation and finding connection through a passion for something.Onda Riku: Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight and Matsumoto Seicho: Tokyo Express.Here are the books that I have reviewed this month (I am putting the Japanese author names in the Japanese order – surname first): Nine books in translation, three non-fiction books, ten by women writers, four that could fit under the crime fiction label. 18 books this month, of which 7 fit with the January in Japan challenge (although one of the seven was not written by a Japanese author, but was a non-fiction book about the Japanese criminal world). ![]() I’ve mostly snuggled in my burrow and read – even more than usual, now that I’ve decided not to worry about reviewing every book. Hasn’t this been the longest month ever? Cold, dark, busy at work, but not quite as miserable as the months preceding it because at least we have all been healthy. ![]()
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