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G.G.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at G.G.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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G.G. Rowley
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Bombala, Australia
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May 2013
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Autobiography of a Geisha
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1957
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An Imperial Concubine's Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
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2012
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4 editions
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The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan
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2010
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3 editions
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In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan
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1712
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3 editions
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Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
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2000
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G.G.’s Recent Updates
"“It had never occurred to me that wild animals could be so predictable in their habits. Seeing a flutter of wings, I would note in passing that there was “a bird” in the garden. I hadn’t thought that it might be the same bird, coming at the same time"
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"It’s March 2020 when grieving dad Evan checks into a dark but spotless Airbnb in a coastal village in Northern Ireland, planning on taking a week away from work and his estranged wife to get his head together. By the end of his first weekend though, "
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"Probably the most famous passage from the book: "Whin yir oan junk, aw ye worry about is scorin. Oaf the gear, ye worry aboot loads ay things. Nae money, cannae git pished. Goat money, drinkin too much. Cannae git a burd, nae chance ay a ride. git a "
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"Mieko Kawakami continues her explorations of the struggles of working-class girls and women. Here the focus is on Hana currently a part-timer at a Tokyo deli. When the novel opens Hana’s in her forties living alone after a failed relationship with an"
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Second reading, during which I found much more to agree with as the first anniversary of my husband's death approaches. On marriage: The most precious gift that marriage gave me was this constant impact of something very close and intimate yet all the...more |
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Call me humorless, but the only haiku-summaries of great books I found amusing as intended were those of books I haven't read. On Newton's Principia Mathematica, for example: "Cherry blossoms fall/with Force equal to Mass times/Acceleration." But The ...more |
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| Kazuko Sugisaki (杉崎和子 in Japanese; see: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/杉崎和子) is a scholar of American literature, especially Anaïs Nin, and the three essays in this short (61pp.) volume were originally published in Anais: an International Journal duri ...more | |
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Could I trouble a librarian to add a date of first publication to the hardcover edition of The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern
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“To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.”
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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
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“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
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“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
― The Warden
― The Warden
“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
― Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
― Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
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Hello, G.G./Gaye! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Born in Australia, living in Japan, a writer/an author, a teacher....what a life! Happy reading, writing, and everything else! Have a great December!
