Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum
16 Nov, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Translation
Life just seems better with a Haruki Murakami story stuck in my ears ...
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20th Century Boys (vol. 17) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller
30 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Check out the earnest determination on an oh-so-young Kenji's face as he announces, "Justice never dies." Four decades later, his surviving renegade friends are desperately trying to keep his prophetic, childhood words alive: "I'm saving this world from evil, no matter what happens!!" Two of the...
A Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami, translated by Alfred Birnbaum
21 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Translation
As most Haruki Murakami fans as well aware, the countdown to the pub date of his latest 1Q84 ends after this weekend ...
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
18 Oct, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Japanese, Translation
In less than a week, you can be holding 1Q84, Haruki Murakami's long-awaited spectacular title finally available in English, which hits shelves on October 25. You might choose to hold out until November 8 when the audible version is scheduled for release. All 944 pages (on paper...
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel [in Library Journal]
15 Sep, by in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Fiction, Japanese, Repost, Translation
*STARRED REVIEW At the core of 1Q84 is a spectacular love story about a girl and boy who briefly held hands when they were both 10. That said, with the fiercely imaginative Murakami as author, the story’s exposition is gloriously labyrinthine: Welcome “into this enigma-filled world...
The Millennium Trilogy: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest by Stieg Larsson, translated by Reg Keeland
10 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Audio, European, Fiction, Swedish, Translation
I'm probably one of the last readers on earth to have managed to avoid this international (posthumous) publishing phenomenon. I might as well confess right now that I never finished the Harry Potter series, either (made it through the first three with gritted teeth, but...
20th Century Boys (vol. 16) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller
03 Sep, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Back when Kenji and the gang were young enough to be concerned about little more than just having fun, an equally young Fukube was trying very, very hard to be included. When sharing his extensive, pristine manga collection doesn't get him invited to "secret headquarters,"...
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
20 Aug, by in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers
Heidi is not your average soon-to-be-13-year-old: "One thing I knew for a fact, from the time I knew anything at all, was that I didn't have a father. What I had was Mama and Bernadette, and as far as I was concerned, that was plenty."...
20th Century Boys (vol. 15) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller
17 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
The Pope is on his way to Japan in time for the opening ceremony of the 2015 World Expo ...
The Great House by Nicole Krauss
14 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Jewish
Within minutes of finishing Nicole Krauss' The History of Love, I felt so bereft without Alma Singer and Leo Gorsky, that I immediately clicked my iPod to The Great House. [Thank goodness the hubby keeps my gadgets well-stocked!] How pleased I was to discover that, of the sizable...
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
07 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Jewish
Here's how I finally came to read The History of Love ...
20th Century Boys (vol. 13) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller
04 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
The announcement is over a week old, but better late than never, especially when it's such well-deserved fabulous news: ...
I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Young-ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim
20 May, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Korean, Translation
In densely populated Seoul, a mysterious man makes a lucrative living by helping "clients" commit suicide. He’s not exactly Dr. Death Kevorkian offering physically depleted bodies reprieve; instead he has a special talent for finding lost, disconnected souls ready to leave behind their unfulfilling existence...
The Keep by Jennifer Egan
11 May, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
My contrary self is taking me through Jennifer Egan's oeuvre backwards, having started earlier this year with her latest, A Visit from the Goon Squad, just before she deservedly won both the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award and 2011 Pulitzer for fiction. First things first about Egan's...
The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
09 May, by in Adult Readers, Audio, Fiction, Nonethnic-specific
Confession: Every once in a while, I do actually read mass-market bestsellers. I'll even admit this is my second Dan Brown – had to see what all the hubbub about The Da Vinci Code was about! Am still rolling my eyes over that one (egads! as if names...
Peeled by Joan Bauer
12 Feb, by in Audio, Fiction, Middle Grade Readers, Nonethnic-specific, Young Adult Readers
Sleepy little Banesville, New York is famous for its delicious apples ...
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
17 Jan, by in Absolute Favorites, Adult Readers, Audio, Black/African American, Nonfiction
From the age of 16 when she took a biology class at a community college (making up for a failed high school freshman year because "she never showed up"), award-winning science writer Rebecca Skloot has seemingly spent the majority of her life preparing to write...
20th Century Boys (vol. 12) by Naoki Urasawa, with the cooperation of Takashi Nagasaki, English adaptation by Akemi Wegmüller
31 Dec, by in Adult Readers, Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
It's New Year's Eve 2014 ...
MAOH: Juvenile Remix (vol. 1) original story by Kotaro Isaka, story and art by Megumi Osuga, translated by Stephen Paul
26 Nov, by in Fiction, Graphic Title/Manga/Manwha, Japanese, Translation, Young Adult Readers
Ando, now in 11th grade, is more or less going through the motions of fitting in: "If I said I didn't feel empty inside for putting up an act ...