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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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G.G.’s Recent Updates
"Geraldine Brooks is gifted with the uncanny ability to speak in tongues not her own. David, the second King of Israel, was "the first man in literature whose story is told in detail from early childhood to extreme old age." In this novel, Brooks writ"
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"Teen Adam lives with his small half-brother, stepmum Kate, and naval officer dad – who’s rarely home. Biracial Adam feels like the odd one out in this otherwise picture-perfect, white family, he remembers very little about his Japanese mother or his "
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"This book traces, like The Picture of Dorian Grey, the gradual decay of what we boomers used to think we knew and loved about poor embattled Israel.
It starts with General Moshe Dayan, the army chief of staff at an Israeli soldier’s funeral in April" Read more of this review » |
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"When I was a kid growing up (1960s to 1970s) in a farming/industrial community in the American Midwest, I went to church every week with my family. My father was a retired pastor and occasionally was invited to give the sermon. I attended Sunday scho"
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The Jews of Spain: A History of the Sephardic Experience
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Great review of what sounds like a fascinating book Bob! Also liked your observations about the resentment that "successful minorities" typically arou
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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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“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!
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