Category: books
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro (石黒一雄)
This book is my holiday reading for this Asian trip. We bought it in Zurich in one of our binge of buying English language books. In the beginning, I did not expect to have time in HK or Macau to sit down and read this book, but I brought it with me anyway. The day…
Wrong about Japan by Peter Carey
This is the second of my three summer readings – I have not finished the third and we had to come home. This is a short paperback travelogue based on the author’s travel with his son to Japan to learn more about manga and anime. He interviewed the authors and publishers of several hit mangas…
Eleanor Rigby by Douglas Coupland
This is one of the three books that I read over our vacation at Kemer this September. The choice of leisure books I read these days are mostly governed by availability. I loaned this book from Lausanne’s municipal library which has a surprisingly decent number of English books. They also have the French version of…
The Millennium Trilogy: a tribute and more gossips
Well, I was not planning to devote another blog post to these three books but there seems to be a lot of interest in them. This trilogy is kind of the Harry Porter for grown ups and apparently Lisbeth Salander has become a media/culture figure first in Europe and now in the US. I…