No 499 Ring by Koji Suzuki (translated by Robert B.Rohmer & Glynne Whalley) #JLC13
It might come as a surprise, but I am quite the horror fan although my preference is for movies over books. Horror books never quite have the same scare factor for me, but I am a big fan of horror movies, particularly those from Korea and Japan. I saw Hideo Nakata’s seminal adaptation of Ring…
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No 500 Swann by Carol Shields
Carol Shields is one of those authors who never disappoints. The Republic of Love was in my Top Five books of 2016 and I have enjoyed all the work of hers that I have read. Swann is a playful and insightful look at the work of literature and academia as a group of disparate characters…
No 501 Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
Five Star Billionaire is an ambitious, but not wholly successful attempt to evoke the overwhelming scale and pace of modern day life in Shanghai, told through the loosely connected lives of five Malaysian Chinese immigrants. In different chapters, all titled with the recognisable cliché of self-help speak, each character struggles through Shanghai trying to make…
My favourite books of 2019!
The 500s are in sight!
No 506 The Moon’s A Balloon by David Niven
who knows if the moon’s a balloon coming out of a keen city in the sky–filled with pretty people? (and if you and I should get into it if they should take me and take you into their balloon, why then we’d go up higher with all the pretty people EE Cummings, The Moon’s…
Some treats for Non-Fiction November #NonFicNov
October Miscellany
No 507 Now You’re One Of Us by Asa Nonami, translated by Michael Volek & Mitsuko Volek
The Shitos are a family of eight, spanning four generations and living under the one roof. When a young woman, Noriko, marries the Shito son Kazuhito, she is marrying more than just one man; she is marrying in to his family. Every family has its quirks, its particular way of doing things, but in…
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