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Book Around the Corner is a blog that features posts about reading. For example, one post is about Reading Proust at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and another post is about George Orwell's Bookworm Month in November 2023.
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
I was happy to see that Cathy from 746 Books hosts her 20 Books Of Summer event again this year. I know I could pick 10 or 15 books instead of 20 but I’m going to challenge myself a bit, even if reading isn’t a competition. Picking the 20 books is already a lot of ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (1948) French title: Pays de neige. Translated by Bunkichi Fujimori. Sometimes people ask whether you’d buy a book for its cover. My answer is always yes and Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata is the perfect example of it. I was drawn to the cover, a part of a 1858 painting ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
The summer holiday are coming soon, with lazy reading hours, waiting time in airports or train stations, train or plane travels and all kinds of noisy reading environments. That’s what my Beach and Public Transports category is for: help you locate page turners that help pass the time and don’t need a lot of concentration ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
Novelist as a Vocation by Murakami Haruki (2015) French title: Profession romancier. Translated by Hélène Morita. In Novelist as a Vocation, published in 2015, Haruki Murakami writes about his experience as a novelist. The book is composed of eleven chapters, the first six had been previously published in Monkey Business and the five others are ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
The blogging event Novellas in November hosted by Cathy and Rebecca has a perfect timing, I was in the mood to read several novellas in a row. One has been on the shelf for almost a decade (Yikes!), two arrived recently with my Kube subscription and one was an impulse purchase during my last trip ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
As mentioned in my previous billet B Is For Bleak: the bleak fest continues in Oktober, I tried to mitigate the effect of bleak reads and plays with comfort books. The first one was The Stationery Shop by Ogawa Ito. (2016. translated by Myriam Dartois-Ako). I had already read another of her novels, The Restaurant ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa (2008) French title: Le restaurant de l’amour retrouvé. Translated from the Japanese by Myriam Dartois-Ako. The Restaurant of Love Regained by Ito Ogawa is a celebration of food and its healing powers. Rinko works as a cook in the city and when she comes home, she is ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
The Weight of Secrets by Aki Shimazaki (1999-2004) Original French title: Le poids des secrets. Aki Shimazaki was born in 1961 in Japan. She emigrated to Canada in 1981, first living in Vancouver and Toronto before moving to Montreal in 1991. In 1995, she started to learn French and in 1999, she published her first ..read more
Book Around the Corner » Japanese Literature
6M ago
I Am a Cat by Natsume Sōseki (1905) French title: Je suis un chat. Translated by Jean Cholley. Disclaimer: I read I Am a Cat in French and will use the French transcription of Japanese names. It may be different from the one in English translation. I translated the quotes from the French and let ..read more