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Why do I bother reading anything other than T Kingfisher? She simply does it the best.

It’s got all sad… this was not the turn I was expecting. Ngl it’s kind of slow. It feels a bit like wading through right now. Although there is a lot I like in the perspective shifts.

So… many… characters…! I am struggling to keep track of them at page 35… this is not a good sign.

Page 37: the exact page where I fell completely in love with this book

Loving the visual sections
Blue Moon - Hiromi Kawakami trans. Lucy North
Oh no, this was amazing! Do I have to give Hiromi Kawakami another go? I had given up…
Spider Lilies - Hiroko Oyamada trans. Juliet Winters Carpenter
Unsettling, not in a bad way. Did what a lot of stories try to do but I think… a little more successfully than most?

Variations on a theme by mister donut - David Mitchell
No
Linked - Ruth ozeki
Yes
Final fantasy III - Tao Lin
Sure
Primal mountain - Yuji Hamada
Absolutely

A Clean Marriage - Murata Sayaka (trans. Ginny Tapley Takemori)
Ahhhh Murata-san… strange as always. None of this is as deep as it is made out to be.

What can I say, I was curious

I’ve been absolutely won over - thought this might be my final try of Virgina Woolf but… I think it might be the exact opposite.

In Dreams:
“This?” I say whimsically, “Why, this story is the colour of Sapporo…”

Forster’s language and storytelling is wonderful - I think I need to read everything he has every written

Seirai Yūichi - Insects
So good. One of my favourites.

Akutagawa - Hell Screen
I liked the style and the drama. The simplicity of the story allowed these elements to be fully brought out.

Closet LLB - Uno Kōji
My favourite story in here for a while. If it had been any longer, Otsukotsu would have become annoying, but it was short and sweet. Genuinely funny.

Cambridge circus - Shibata Motoyuki
Very sweet, I enjoyed this one

The 1963/1982 girl from Ipanema - Murakami Haruki
It was short

Unforgettable people - Kunikida Doppo
The most okay story i have read in a while

The take of the house of physics - Ogawa Yōko
Writers writing about writers…

Abe Akira - Peaches
Why. It was so close to being a story about memory which I could recommend and refer to - about how we create memory and try to justify them to ourselves. And war memory. Why did he have to include weird sexual bits about his mother? I think ‘translated by Jay Rubin’ is quickly becoming a big red flag for me 🚩

[for my adoring public aka Terry]
Enchi Fumiko - a bond for two lifetimes
For a feminist icon, Enchi is not all that feminist or iconic in this one. Very bored of stories about lecherous men…