I started a new short story collection today, and it‘s off to a seriously strong start. Banana Yoshimoto‘s work is so well-observed.
I started a new short story collection today, and it‘s off to a seriously strong start. Banana Yoshimoto‘s work is so well-observed.
A really perfect book to keep me company during covid. I love everything banana yoshimoto writes and this was no exception. Her writing style is so gentle and good natured and beautiful and this was just perfect. I love the quiet kind magic realism and how she writes about food.
Well I‘m off work sick with something that‘s almost certainly covid but I keep testing negative weirdly. I feel like an absolute pile of crap :/ lucky to be warm at my parents reading banana yoshimoto‘s latest collection of short stories though
“I also discovered that sitting in a cafe watching people go by was just like watching a river.
It could only happen in a city with a long history.
The sight of modern-day people streaming past old, weighty buildings of frightening shapes and colors — that was exactly what a river was.
It was how I came to understand that what made a river frightening was the chilling infinitude of time itself.”
I‘ve read several books by this author. This one is a collection of short stories, nothing too memorable. I like her writing style though.