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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.
G.G. Rowley’s Followers (139)
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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 (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies) (Volume 70)
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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
"The author is Japanese but has lived in Australia for 20 years. Her book has been translated from Japanese and covers the story of the friendship of a two women (and a third later on) living in a coastal town somewhere on the South East coast of Aust"
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"Powerful exploration of the relationship between Russian imperialism and misogyny that highlights the West’s lack of awareness of Russia’s colonial past and present. Oksanen combines reflections from her Finnish-Estonian family history and own experi"
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G.G.
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25 other people
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Bob Newman's review
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A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing Up in Warsaw (National Book Award Winner):
"childhood in a bygone time
In his inimitable style, Singer wrote a series of short stories about growing up in Warsaw before, during and just after World War I. Perhaps they were aimed at younger readers, perhaps not. They don't deal with much mystery" Read more of this review » |
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"Last night, German late night host Jan Böhmermann explained why and how US-American democracy is dying - with English subtitles, so people like the dum-dums commenting under my Melania review that the orange menace is not a fascist, like, at all, can"
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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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G.G.
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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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G.G.
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A delightful book that's not just for younger readers. My husband loved clouds: he enjoyed looking at photographs posted on the website of the Cloud Appreciation Society as well as the clouds he could see from his spot on the sofa at home; and he was ...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
16 total votes
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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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― 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!
