Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, written by Satoshi Yagisawa and translated into English by Eric Ozawa, Takako feels like she…
What You Are Looking for is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama, and translated by Alison Watts, is a book…
I got Keigo Higashino's The Devotion of Suspect X through Osusume Books. (Thank you!) Osusume Books promises to send carefully…
Diary of a Void, by Emi Yagi and translated into English by David Boyd and Lucy North, tells a bizarre…
How Do You Live? is a classic Japanese middle-grades novel written by Genzaburo Yoshino and translated into English by Bruno…
At first, I wasn't interested in reading Before The Coffee Gets Cold because every description I read sounded so twee…
Another interruption in my book talk, because I discovered a new TV show. Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories is a TV…
View this post on Instagram Just got my first novel from Japanese fiction curators @osusumebookscom! It came with…
Lisa See’s newest novel, The Island of Sea Woman, takes place on Korea’s Jeju Island, where women divers support themselves…
I knew from the Books and Bao review of Convenience Store Woman that the main character would be a bit odd,…
White Chrysanthemum tells the story of two sisters in Japanese-occupied Korea. When the story opens, their family is living on…