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| | Lake of Heaven is a tale of the people, culture, and environment of a Japanese mountain village that is sunk to build a dam. As Gary Snyder comments, the story becomes a parable for the larger wor...
| | readjapaneseliterature.com
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| | There are comforting reads and there are comfort reads. All readers have days when they want to crawl into something familiar. But especially since the early days of the Coronavirus pandemic, some readers have sought out "comfort reads" as a genre in-and-of itself. A subset of these readers have found their niche in Japanese literature-and...
| | jamesg.blog
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| | One flat white, please. I sometimes order food, too; a warm croissant or fruit. I sit down at a table and take out my book from my backpack, the book I packed the previous day. Sometimes, I have two, if I am on the cusp of finishing one of them. I recline back in the chair in which I am sitting, open to the last page I was reading. This page is denoted by a "handmade" bookmark: the part of a letter envelope affixed with postage stamps from a recent magazine I received in the post.
| | www.theintrepidreader.com
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| Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Historical Fiction Reading Challenge! I am very excited to get the challenge underway for this year! I am...