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A newly acquired 1958 Folio Society edition of short stories originally published in 1686, in which Ihara is credited with creating the Ukiyo "Floating World" genre of Edo Period Japanese literature.
Folio covers are often difficult to photograph: this one is bound in a beautiful watchet-tinted silk ?
The end papers and title pages are beneath, and a detail of one of the woodcut illustrations to the left ❤️

#Two4Tuesday @TheSpineView

1/ always fun putting up the decorations

2/ Tale of Genji, not a snowflake in sight but I'm really looking forward to it as I've been on the waiting list on Libby for, something like over a year, and it just delivered it, a wonderful surprise

3 Stars • The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea is about Noboru Kuroda, a 13-year-old boy in a nihilistic gang, and his mother Fusako, who starts an affair with Ryuji Tsukazaki, a sailor. Initially, Noboru idolizes Ryuji for his adventurous life at sea. Ryuji's decision to settle down and marry Fusako is seen by Noboru and his friends as a betrayal of the sea's romantic ideal. The gang plots against Ryuji, leading to his murder by boys.

https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#view=covers&year=2024

I am always excited to see NPR‘s yearly favorites list. It does tend to explode my TBR.

#WondrousWednesday @Eggs

I hope I'm not too late to play this
2/ City and It's Uncertain Walls - what a brilliant title, just caught my eye, so I'm intrigued
1/ that would be a room with ambient lighting, a fire going on the background, the one that crackles, coffee and a stack of books, yeah, a nice dream 😂 reality where ever I can fit it in

https://outofprint.com/collections/haruki-murakami?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium...

I'm not really a Murakami fan, per se. The only book I've read by him thus far is Norwegian Wood, which I did enjoy! But his newest book apparently deals with a library, and I couldn't resist that! 🤭📚🩷

Now Available! 🥳🎉📚
The City And Its Uncertain Walls- Haruki Murakami

Book Review- https://www.boleybooks.com/?s=Uncertain+walls

#boleybooks #thecityanditsuncertainwalls #harukimurakami #bookbeast #netgalley #bookbuds

Quite different to the other Ogawa books I‘ve read, this was very sweet and whimsical and not very ‘challenging‘ or complicated at all.

Tomoko, aged 12, is sent to live in her Uncle‘s opulent mansion, where she makes friends with her cousin Mina who is one year younger and in delicate health.

It did read like a children‘s book at times and I loved it whilst reading it, but it‘s immediately gone out of my mind since I finished it.