Month: November 2023
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“The Premonition” by Banana Yoshimoto
“The Premonition” by Banana Yoshimoto was written in 1988 but has only been translated into English by Asa Yoneda. It’s a short novel, a coming-of-age story of nineteen-year-old Yayoi, who has a premonition that something significant happened in her childhood. She feels her loving parents may not be her biological parents and is strangely drawn…
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“The Upstairs Delicatessen” by Dwight Garner
Dear reader, consider yourself to be warned – while reading “The Upstairs Delicatessen,” you’ll undoubtedly, at some point, head to the kitchen to eat either a slice of cheese or a piece of chocolate or even feel strangely invigorated to make yourself a pasta dish or whip up a favorite cake. This excellent book by…
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“The Wonderful World of James Herriot” by James Herriot
I’m a big fan of two British series, “All Creatures Great and Small,” the older one from 1978 and the new, beautiful 2020 remake (with the fourth season coming in January 2024.) Of course, when I saw an audiobook, “The Wonderful World of James Herriot,” a collection of original stories, I immediately wanted to listen…
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