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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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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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Ron Charles's review
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Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus:
"From where I sit, Pagels was always writing in one way or another about Jesus. But in the preface of her new book, “Miracles and Wonder,” she says, “Only now, after reflecting on the themes, texts, and enigmas of Christian tradition for decades, have"
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"My first reading was the translation by M.A. Screech on Penguin books, which I highly recommend. This collection of the complete works, translated by Donald H. Frame, includes the essays, the travelogue of Montaigne's journey through Germany, Austria"
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"A short, precisely written novel of two mysteriously related halves, thick with ideas and, I imagine, underpinnings in theory and cultural studies. In both halves, the narrator is an actress, carefully observing the gestures and behaviour of those ar"
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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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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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The poll is for a Non-Fiction group read book about Japan. Authors do not need to be Japanese to have been qualified for the nominations
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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
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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]”
― 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!
