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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.
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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
"Did you enjoy The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut? Do you like novels that feel like AI constructed Wikipedia entries but dumbed down enough to make them very easy to read? Do you like to be spoonfed profound thoughts wrapped up in romantic ideas about li"
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"An understated story of friendship among women immigrants to Australia, who meet in an ESL class in their country town. They consist of an African refugee supporting her two sons cutting meat and fish at the local supermarket, a young mother from Jap"
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"I am going to admit straight out that I skimmed some of this book. Although it was beautiful and mystical and full of gorgeous descriptions it was also overwhelming - like too much frosting on a cake.
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"This is a beautifully written story of a magical trip through Australia's Top End. It evokes the time and place perfectly with detailed descriptions of the flora and fauna. There are brutal elements to the story but also moments of redemption with a "
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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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The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 1580–1877 (New Cambridge History of Japan, 2)
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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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kagami wrote: "Oh G.G., my condolences for your loss.
Thank you for your beautiful description of the book." Thank you Kagami-san! ...more " |
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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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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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“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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“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!
