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Ah, friends, I‘ve just endured a spotty reading week where I got stuck on a sports romance, then fought my way through to the end of SPRING SNOW. It was good enough that I wanted to finish it, but not so gripping that I wanted to read it straight through, so I read another chunk every time I finished something else. I‘d say it‘s worth reading on the whole, but the last 75 pages were a real slog and I dunno if I‘ll continue the quartet.

I‘m doing the get-book-read-book thing with SPRING SNOW, which I found in a Little Free Library yesterday. It‘s off to a great start. Lots of immersive emotions and subtle details that bring this moment in time to life.

I bought the beer because I loved another rice lager earlier this year, but alas, it‘s WAY too mint-forward. Oh well. Someday, somehow, I‘ll find another rice lager to adore

Oh, man. It was 80° here last Thursday and today we woke up to this! We leave on our Mexico trip this coming Friday and it can't get here soon enough! My most difficult task right now is trying to decide which 📚 to bring along with me. 🤔

I have been reading this book called spring snow and it is interesting. The book is set in 1912, Tokyo and it is about a noble boy named Kiyoaki who is a very handsome boy and is part of the Matsugaes who is a prestigious family. He lives in a time when Japan is slowly becoming more westernized and is losing its identity. Kiyoaki is expected to get married to another noble girl named Satoko and that is where their tragic love story begins.

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 125
#BooksToRead #TBRPile #TBRMountain

1. Sunny with a high of 78
2. My nails
3. Just starting the tagged book
@MoonWitch94

I‘m going to early 20th century Japan for my #staycationintime swap! I‘m excited to read the book and the chopsticks are so pretty!! And the Japanese snacks look interesting and will share them with my son!! 😀
Thanks so much for all of it @bookandcat - it‘s all really great and I love it all! ❤️
And thanks to @Chrissyreadit for organizing the swap - it was so much and one of my faves to do so hope you plan it again someday!

I couldn't even tag the book since it doesn't seem it was published in English! I'm venturing into hating myself by reading a Japanese author in Italian. The title is The House of Dolls.

Yukio Mishima is a fascinating character, and either the last or one of the last people to die by seppuku (切腹 or 腹切り, harakiri) during an attempted political coup (officially called the Mishima Incident 三島事件).

Boyfriend and I are reorganizing his library and getting his catalogue on Libib so he can remember which books he already owns

Oh how I love Springtime in the Rockies (said with just a hint of sarcasm). I‘m not going to complain too much because we desperately need the moisture. #springsnow #coloradolife

Hello spring! Wish this could be a reading day, but snow is no excuse for those of us who work from home.

I‘ve never heard of this book before, but it‘s perfect for today‘s weather in NJ as we‘re dealing yet ANOTHER impending nor‘easter! #marchinbooks #welcomespring #springhassprung #magicalmarch #spring #readingresoultions

This book is about a boy named Honda and his best friend Kiyoaki, son of the marquis. Kioyaki falls in love with Satoko, a girl he has known all his life, but their relationship is complicated en based on a lot of misunderstandings.
The story is anything but an ordinary love story; the choice of words, emotions, the scenery, dialogues: everything breathes the Japanese culture. Subdued, serene, intelligent; I look forward to part 2. #1001books

"Dreams, memories, the sacred--they are all alike in that they are beyond our grasp. Once we are even marginally separated from what we can touch, the object is sanctified; it acquires the beauty of the unattainable, the quality of the miraculous. Everything, really, has this quality of sacredness, but we can desecrate it at a touch. How strange man is! His touch defiles and yet he contains the source of miracles."

And today the other three in the series arrived at the same time (though in three separate packages). Every year I try to tackle something long and/or with multiple volumes off the 1001 books list. This is it for 2017.

#bookmail #1001books

Translated from Japanese and Norwegian. Best I could do! #translated #notinenglish #japanese #norwegian

Costa Rican Book Fair. I am so broke

"He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes." - Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow

Life is throwing more crap at me than I can deal with right now, so I'm in full on escape reality mode.

Reading book 1 of Sea of Fertility, and loving it. Japanese literature ftw