This is the remix (of everything I’ve ever read)

Dec 9, 2016

Natsume Soseki — Kokoro (tr. Edwin McClellan)

My book club buddy made us all read it because he was dating a Japanese girl and wanted to learn more about her culture (I hope one day someone reads Prus for me, that would be real love). Anyway, they’ve been married for a while now, so that should…

An urge to close the shop

I read this book a long time ago, so this will be a difficult review to write. I suppose I was waiting for a heatwave to hit London so I can be in the right mood to write this and a heatwave is something you will wait for for a long time in the UK. But I did spend half of this week…

Too prone to enchantment

I haven’t seen snow for at least three years now and I don’t know when I’m going to see it again. Before I moved to London, I would see snow in regular intervals - as part four of the comforting routine of seasons.