I have been looking forward to this challenge since February, when Tony's reading challenge "January in Japan" ended and it seems I can't stay away from Japanese literature for long, and why would I? It is so different from other types of literature, enchanting and introspective, hesitant and modest, yet strangely powerful.
I am sure I will be reading more than three books for this challenge, but for a start, I decided to spend my summer with the ones mentioned in the collage. I will be expecting Ryu Murakami's book "Almost Transparent Blue" to take me by surprise, just the way the others did; Endo's book "When I Whisle" is listed as his "most unusual" one so, that should be an interesting read and Kawabata' s "Beauty and Sadness" is considered a "beautiful drawing of love and revenge" by Time Magazine. I will definitely write down my thoughts on this one :)
Hello summer! Hello Japanese Literature! Thank you, Bellezza, for hosting this challenge!
4 comments:
Oh, Ally, first let me say how happy i am that you'll be reading with me. Then what lovely books you've selected! I read Ryu Murakami's book Piercing last year, but not the one you have here. I'm not even sure which Kawabata books I have, but I'll look for Beauty and Sadness. Can't wait to share more literature with you!
If you haven't read Kawabata's book, then we could read it together :) Oh, I forgot to mention I will start learning some basic Japanese, as a summer goal and because I think it will be fun, fun and smart :)
Back to wish you happy end of school thoughts. xo
I saw your last comment only now, it was waiting to be moderated, but it did not get into my mail, strange... Yaaay! I am on holiday and even if I still have a few school related issues to solve, it feels good to sleep, read and go to the gym all day long :)
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