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Excellent book. I'm reading Kawabata's 'The Snow Country' this winter. My 10-year-old daughter and I have been reading all things Japan lately. (She picked up the interest from her teacher who had spent time in Japan.) We're reading a lot of Lafcadio Hearn together.rustyblade wrote:Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go
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I'm on a Japanese Literature kick also. I picked up Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki the other day.jthomas60506 wrote:Excellent book. I'm reading Kawabata's 'The Snow Country' this winter. My 10-year-old daughter and I have been reading all things Japan lately. (She picked up the interest from her teacher who had spent time in Japan.) We're reading a lot of Lafcadio Hearn together.rustyblade wrote:Yasunari Kawabata - The Master of Go
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Thumbs up on anything Jeeves.
It ain't a kid's comic book, that's for sure. But a masterpiece of the genre. Another clever idea by Moore is "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen." Don't go by (or buy) the movie, which was awful.rustyblade wrote:Also just picked up the graphic novel "Watchmen" by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. I've never read a graphic novel before, or even read that many comics, but I'm looking forward to this change of gears.
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I'm now reading Alone, the second installment in William Manchester's planned triptych on the life of Winston Churchill, titled The Last Lion. I've read many Churchill books, and this series is the best, IMO. Unfortunately, Manchester died before writing the third book. This one only takes the reader up to 1940.
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+1. That was the last book I read before picking up Winter Solstice (my annual Christmas read) and then moving onto Tony Blair's "A Journey ...." which I am still enjoying immensely. It reads in such an open and folksy way, I am convinced that he didn't use much of a ghost writer. It is just like listening to him talk.Kyle76 wrote:I'm now reading Alone, the second installment in William Manchester's planned triptych on the life of Winston Churchill, titled The Last Lion. I've read many Churchill books, and this series is the best, IMO. Unfortunately, Manchester died before writing the third book. This one only takes the reader up to 1940.
Interesting how people's taste vary, Wendell. I'm labouring through "A Journey" after having put it aside for a few weeks. I keep getting bogged down by the minutiae. As we like to say on SMF, YMWV.jww wrote:+1. That was the last book I read before picking up Winter Solstice (my annual Christmas read) and then moving onto Tony Blair's "A Journey ...." which I am still enjoying immensely. It reads in such an open and folksy way, I am convinced that he didn't use much of a ghost writer. It is just like listening to him talk.Kyle76 wrote:I'm now reading Alone, the second installment in William Manchester's planned triptych on the life of Winston Churchill, titled The Last Lion. I've read many Churchill books, and this series is the best, IMO. Unfortunately, Manchester died before writing the third book. This one only takes the reader up to 1940.