MatildaOk, #bookstodon campers, what #books are we #reading right now? Any good #recommendations? cc @bookstodon
tardisgrl@owlislost @bookstodon I’m about half-way through “The Painter” by Peter Heller, which was on my TBR shelf for years. After that I’m planning to read “The Old Woman with the Knife” by Gu Byeong-Mo (had to really fight autocorrect to spell the author’s name!) #AmReading
@tardisgrl Oh wow. For fiction I have been primarily reading Korean or Korean American authors lately so I’m very excited about this book! I had not heard of it before. Are you liking The Painter? Beautiful cover.
@owlislost I am! Was a big fan of “The Dog Stars;” think I bought this shortly after reading that one and got distracted (by about 6 years 😅) Can’t remember where I heard about Woman/Knife. I read a lot of Japanese lit; this will be my first foray into Korean lit. This is the author’s first novel translated into English. Hopefully there will be more!
@tardisgrl I’d be interested in Japanese lit recs. I have a book in my stacks The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa
@owlislost I liked that one! Here are some I read in the past year and really enjoyed:
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura
Malice by Keigo Higashino
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
And couple of great books that take place in Japan, written by western writers:
The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley
The Phone Booth at the End of the World by Laura Imai Messina
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
If Cats Disappeared From the World by Genki Kawamura
Malice by Keigo Higashino
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami
And couple of great books that take place in Japan, written by western writers:
The Cat and the City by Nick Bradley
The Phone Booth at the End of the World by Laura Imai Messina
@tardisgrl Thank you!