My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/10 Author: Toshikazu KawaguchiGenres: Japanese contemporary fiction, magical realism, grief and lossOriginally Published: September 24, 2024Number of pages: 240Series: 6th book of the series This is the last translated book, at least for now, of Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, and yes, I read all…
Before Your Memory Fades moves the action to Café Donna Donna, a sister café in Hakodate owned by Yukari Tokita – the mother of Nagare, who runs the original Funiculi Funicula café in Tokyo. Yukari has left, somewhat suddenly, for America – we later learn it’s for two reasons: she’s searching for the father of one of the café’s young customers, and separately, searching for a bone-marrow donor for someone dear to the story.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 7/10, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary is a story about expectations and the illusions that ultimately destroy us. It feels surprisingly contemporary, even though it was written in the 19th century.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 7/10 Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw is a play you’ll enjoy as if you were sitting in a theater, watching it live. The book is written in such a way that you can vividly imagine the characters and even sense the emotions they’re expressing.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5/10 The book begins with the story of Constance and Hilda, the daughters of Sir Malcolm, and their carefree youth—the time when they were 18 or 19 years old. It describes their relationships with the young men they met during those years. But when World War I broke out, those young men were sent to the front lines, and many of them never came back.
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 9/10 Author: Marie CorelliGenre: Detective, Mystic novelPublication: 1895Number of pages: 374 Can the devil be a positive character? This is the question I kept asking myself while reading Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan. It seems like the novel is at the…
My Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 10/10 Author: Fyodor DostoyevskiGenres: NovelOriginally Published: 1869Number of pages: 932 Dostoevsky’s The Idiot is one of my most favorite novels, telling the story of a perfect and innocent man living in our non-perfect and definitely non-innocent society. The book touches on themes…