So, Encyclopedia Britannica sees the writing on the wall and stops publishing a printed version . I'm not surprised, and neither is, I...

Kanda, Tokyo I've come to realize, recently, that Amazon is not always the best place to buy books. Not because I've had any prob...

There's an expression in Swedish translated as "I met Lassie"; it signifies an accidental and somewhat pointless encounter wit...

We got up at 04:40 this morning - hopefully 1 - and we've already arrived on Ishigaki island in Okinawa as you read this. We're pro...

I'm still working on The Paper That Will Not Die, and it's draining my enthusiasm for any other kind of writing. Actually, it's ...

Book Done I recently finished "Elephant Time, Mouse Time" that I started last year. Took a little longer to read than I thought. ...

In my copious spare time 1 I'm reading another book after finally getting through "The devotion of suspect X" 2 . This time I...

I'm finally done with "The Devotion of Suspect X", with the murder exposed, guilty parties behind bars and all the rest. It t...

I've finally finished "Reason" by Miyuki Miyabe, after just about a year of reading, mostly on the morning train. To recap, t...

I'm at chapter 10, page 337 of Reason , where Naomi Ishida explains where and why he decided to become an architect. That's just abo...

I started on "Reason", a Japanese crime novel, last December, as I've mentioned previously . It's really addictive - I mu...

There's a weirdly interesting discussion going on about how to shelve books on a few blogs. It started on the arts side, where one sugge...

I've looked for a new book to start on after finishing Harry Potter. My criteria is that it be a Japanese long-form novel; no translatio...

I posted in my old blog long ago about my first attempt to read Harry Potter in Japanese (which of course failed spectacularly); and then, t...