Pillow Book | 
pickThe audio book I listened to was not the original but a bbc radio adaptation. I don‘t know how close to the original material my audiobook is but the voices and characters are superb and the little detective stories are amusing and sometimes insightful. Loved it!
Not one that I‘ve read but apparently it‘s one of the classics, alongside ‘The Tale of Genji‘, which I know was a Littenish #buddyread recently. It‘s the dairy of a 10th century court lady...
#pillowtalk
#ayupaugust
*Zayn Malik was born in Bradford in 1993*
I have been thoroughly enjoying this book. It's quite an interesting look into life at the Palace in Heian Japan (11th century).
While browsing at Amazon, I found these pillows. They are called book pillows. Any one knowing or even using these?
Look quite cosy.
Today I'm rummaging through Shonagon's Pillow Book, which is a work that makes me want to be able to read and understand Japanese so badly! A translation is never able to truly evoke the original language and what it intends to tell, yet I love the words which McKinney chose in her work. Some of Shonagon's lists leave me totally perplex, others fascinate me and overall I feel as if she did let us enter her into her mind and memory. What a journey!
I published a list of 100 must-read lesser-known classics on Book Riot today: http://bookriot.com/2016/08/22/100-must-read-lesser-known-classics/
