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G.G.’s 2024 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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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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The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan
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2010
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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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Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
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2000
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G.G.
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Alwynne's review
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The Samurai Detectives (The Samurai Detectives, #1):
"Set in Japan in the 1770s, initially published in the 1970s, this is the first in Shōtarō Ikenami’s hugely successful series. It originally appeared in serial form and was later adapted for TV and as manga. An interesting mix of episodic and characte"
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"I generally dislike coming-of-age stories. Too much happiness. But not with Elena Ferrante. No matter who her characters are, rest assured that in time any inkling of personal satisfaction will be sundered by way of family dysfunction and personal fa"
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G.G.
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27 other people
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Bob Newman's review
of
Syria: a Short History: Being a Condensation of the Author's 'History of Syria Including Lebanon and Palestine':
"A Syrious Work
I bought this book many years ago, as an undergraduate, but never got around to reading it till now. That's a shame because I could have learned what I should have learned long ago. By `Syria', the author means the area known by that na" Read more of this review » |
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"M G Vassanji was born in Kenya and has lived in Tanzania and now resides in Canada. This is a diaspora novel. It starts following a family in Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania and follows the family to Canada. The Lalani family are Asian in origin. Vassanji "
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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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Bob wrote: "Hello Gaye,
Just opened your site for the first time in quite a while. I'm sorry to hear of your husband's death. Of course I didn't know ...more " |
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Van C. Gessel's excellent translation of 女の一生〈2部〉サチ子の場合 Onna no isshō 2: Sachiko no baai (A Woman's Life, Part II: Sachiko) by Shūsaku Endō. The Japanese novel was originally published in 1982; this translation in 2020. In fact the novel is as much a ...more |
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G.G.
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The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 1580–1877
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Missing date of first publication
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Might I trouble a librarian to add a date of first publication to the entry for The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern Japan in As
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Completely agree with you kagami! It's flat, monotonous, and totally unlikely. Your review skewers it perfectly.
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Really like your comparison between the “mie” pose on the kabuki stage and the seeming paralysis of Tsushima’s female characters. There may even be a
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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?”
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“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]”
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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!
