haruki murakami | haruki murakami
Sep.15.2012
There are certain types of readers for whom 1Q84, the latest novel written by Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami , is not for. I am just going to list the types because if you find yourselves among these types you will not like this book. You will read it, complain that this...
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Aug.17.2012
Last weekend, when my language partner and I chatted about world affairs, I discovered this fun term in the dictionary:
井蛙の見 (せいあのけん: narrow perspective) well + frog + to see
Kensuke-san called it a difficult expression, one that he hadn't heard. Nevertheless, he immediately...
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Jan.31.2012
In my last JOK Notebook entry I presented 樹雨 (きさめ: precipitation resulting from thick fog condensing on leaves). That word begins with 樹 (888: tree, timber tree, stand of trees), a kanji I've recently encountered an eerie number of times.
For instance, I've been...
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Dec.07.2011
The "winner" of the Literary Review's Bad Sex Award was announced on Tuesday. The recipient of this mean-spirited slap in the face was David Guterson for scenes in his novel Ed King. I haven't read the book, but I did read an "offending" passage on the Guardian online and I have to say, it seemed...
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Sep.26.2010
I have a new book coming out in the UK next spring. So it’s time to start looking around to see what new web gadgets and gismos authors are expected to shell out for from their meager advances to keep their “web profile” current.It’s a new arms race. Just as the Soviets bankrupted their (morally...
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