The Third Shelf Down

...Er... yeah, I took a longer break than I wanted. The Japanese magical realism will wait a bit, today I'll review something else from ...

As I am currently writing a paper on magical realism in Japanese literature, I thought it might be prudent to make a series of it. Magical r...

I have a great respect for Murakami Haruki as a writer. His style may frequently be somewhat less-than-literary, but his novels, almost with...

I'm still cheating a bit and picking books that I like, but think that is necessary every now and then. We all have one place that's...

Ghosts , originally 幽霊 ( yuurei ) in Japanese, is the story of a young man coming to terms with his past in the wake of the end of World War...

Being the bibliophile that I am, I thought it might be a reasonable idea to start putting some reviews out there. Or that seems to be the ba...