Status Updates From Bloesems over Uta-Jima

I had to force myself to put this book down so I can sleep.

My dad as the youngest of 4 boys was considered being adopted out like this after his mother died after the war.

Just as I felt towards Moby Dick I just finished reading, sea life is a whole other world. The technicalities of this lifestyle is so impressive as an outsider and ignorant person of it. Reminds me of Old Man and the Sea as well and makes me think about my grandfather who was a fisherman.

“The strange unrest was still with him this morning. But the vast ocean stretched away from the prow, where he was standing, and gradually the sight of it filled his body with the entregue of familiar…” must be nice to see the sea in daily life. It is an important element of the island country and is often incorporated in their arts and literature.

Too bad dialects can’t be translated.

“At the mere sound of the name his cheeks flushed and his heart pounded.”

The language is very vivid. I really love Japanese lit.