“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.“ While I’m not one to be against reviewing autobiographical works, there is always an underlying feeling of uneasiness. Imagine this feeling when No Longer Human…
I won’t tell you whether it has a happy ending or a tragic ending…neither you nor I nor anyone can ever really know whether a story is happy or tragic. There is a melancholy that permeates through this entire book. It toes the line between alienation and friendship, hope and…
“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of. So that’s why I need to be cured. Unless I’m cured, normal people will expurgate me.” Convenience Store Woman is one of the books whose titles reflect the contents of…
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee — international bestseller, book club favorite, proclaimed the best book of the year 2017. This book has consistently received stellar reviews and has even become an AppleTV drama. Reading this, I really wanted to enjoy it as much as others seemed to have. But it…