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#NowReReading2024 N.P. by Banana Yoshimoto via Faber & Faber imbibed at Kojima Coffee care of Arakawa Public Library #Okachimachi #御徒町
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#NowReReading2024 ASLEEP by Banana Yoshimoto via Grove Press care of Arakawa Public Library imbibed at Kuma Coffee #Narasino
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#NowReReading2024 SPEAKING PITTSBURGHESE: THE STORY OF A DIALECT by Barbara Johnstone via Oxford University Press imbibed at Doutor #Otemachi #大手町
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#NowReReading2024 HOW TO SPEAK MIDWESTERN by Edward McClelland via Belt Publishing imbibed at Hitoyasumi (Pause It) #本蓮沼 #Motohasunuma #Midwest
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#NowReading2024 BEYONCÉ IN THE WORLD: MAKING MEANING WITH QUEEN BEY IN TROUBLED TIMES Edited by Christina Baade & Kristen McGee via Wesleyan University Press imbibed at Yama-no-oto (Sound of the Mountain) #Horifune #堀船
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#NowReading2024 WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR IS IN THE LIBRARY by Michiko AOYAMA translated by Alison Watts via Doubleday care of Arakawa Public Library imbibed at Cafe Keyton #KitaSenju #北千住
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#NowReReading2024 OISHINBO: JAPANESE CUISINE by writer Tetsuya KARIYA & artist Akira HANASAKI via VIZ Media imbibed at #Manga #GraphicNovel
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#NowReading2024 HAPPENING by Annie Ernaux translated by Tanya Leslie via Seven Stories Press care of the Arakawa Public Library imbibed at Servo Coffee #Ichigaya #市ヶ谷
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#NowReading2024 MOVING THE CENTRE: THE STRUGGLE FOR CULTURAL FREEDOMS by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o via James Currey/Heinemann imbibed at Caffe Liscio #Otemachi #大手町
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#NowReading2024 ESSAYISM: ON FORM, FEELING, AND NONFICTION by Brian Dillon via The New York Review of Books imbibed at Key's Cafe #Senjuohashi #千住大橋
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#NowReading2024 THE FORTUNE MAN by Nadifa Mohamed via @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social thanks to Arakawa #PublicLibrary imbibed at Flying Scotsman Cafe #Ueno #上野
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#NowReading2024 ELITE CAPTURE: HOW THE POWERFUL TOOK OVER IDENTITY POLITICS (AND EVERYTHING ELSE) by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò via via Haymarket Books brewed with Base Camp Coffee
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#NowReading2024 THE RACIAL GLASS CEILING: SUBORDINATION IN AMERICAN LAW & CULTURE by Roy L Brooks via @yalebooks.bsky.social imbibed at Slow Jet Coffee #Senju #千住
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#NowReading2024 THIS MOURNABLE BODY by Tsitsi Dangarembga via Faber & Faber thanks to Arakawa #PublicLibrary imbibed at Kaede Life Coffee #KitaSenju #北千住
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Great book. I discovered Ernaux last year and read many of her Books in a few months.
@Arnocgt @bookstodon After winning the Nobel, her books are more widely promoted, having read 4 myself and delighted to have come across her work
@ModernDayBartleby @bookstodon Nice! I think these early stories from her are her bests.
@alx @bookstodon I'm rereading all I can find at the various libraries around me to revist them
@ModernDayBartleby @bookstodon Yep, I come back to her kind of cyclically. Some of my favourite are 'Goodbye Tsugumi', 'Asleep', and one never translated in English (to my knowledge) 'L'ultima amante di Hachiko'
@alx @bookstodon ASLEEP is the other one I checked out this week from one of my local libraries
@ModernDayBartleby @bookstodon I have a special soft spot for Asleep as I've read and re-read it through a moment in life were I had troubles sleeping, but it's been like 15 years now since I read it last. Waiting for your impressions.