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Book cover for The Decagon House Murders

And then there were…

The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji

April 5, 2021 by Rooooomie Leave a Comment

I’m not really into classic detective fiction. While I definitely enjoy a mystery and a puzzle (ooh, and a murder!) in whatever I read, I’ve not once had the urge to pick up a Sherlock Holmes novel, and only vaguely know about Agatha Christie’s famous stories. In fact, while The Decagon House Murders is loosely based on Christie’s And Then There Were None, I only knew about the latter’s infamously racist original title, nothing about the story itself. Decagon is, as I learned, a prime example […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: CBR13, detective, Japan, mystery, Yukito Ayatsuji

Rooooomie's CBR13 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: CBR13, detective, Japan, mystery, Yukito Ayatsuji ·
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When a cog is broken, you throw it away.

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

April 2, 2021 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Keiko Furukura has been different her entire life, and she’s always to understand why she makes people uncomfortable. As a child, she found a dead bird and she brought it to her mother, who responded with sympathy and an offer to bury it. Keiko instead wanted to eat it. One day at school, two boys were fighting. Horrified, one of the girls screamed for someone to break them up, so Keiko grabbed a shovel and hit one of them over the head. And that was […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexual, convenience store woman, hikikomori, incel, Japan, Sayaka Murata

ingres77's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexual, convenience store woman, hikikomori, incel, Japan, Sayaka Murata ·
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lovely, stinking, brutal, sunburned, magical, and filthy.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

March 28, 2021 by andtheIToldYouSos Leave a Comment

Jacob de Zoet is a young man of meager means. He has hitched his hopes to the Dust East India Company- he’ll spend several trading seasons on Dejima- about as far away from home and his fiancée as he can physically be. What is Dejima? Why, I’m glad you asked! The year is 1799, and Japan is very strict in regards to foreign interference and influence. Following disasters interactions with the Spanish and Portuguese decades earlier, Japan is a closed empire. Dejima, a man-made island […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: 19th century, class, colonialism, cult, culture clash, David Mitchell, Dutch East India Company, Edo Japan, historical fiction, Japan, magical realism, trade

Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: 19th century, class, colonialism, cult, culture clash, David Mitchell, Dutch East India Company, Edo Japan, historical fiction, Japan, magical realism, trade ·
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Manga and Me

Asadora! V01 by Naoki Urasawa

March 2, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I started the book Asadora! V01 thinking there was going to be some big excitement on every page (meaning our main character would be a Pippi Longstocking type of gal getting in and out of mischief with their friends). Instead, Naoki Urasawa gives us one very large, devastating moment, and the rest of the book is what we do to survive. We try and survive every day (Asa is one of 12 children), what we do to save face (a side story of a boy […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, History, Mystery, Young Adult Tagged With: 1950s, Japan, kidnapping, Missing children/girls, Naoki Urasawa, Storms, typhoon

BlackRaven's CBR13 Review No:102 · Genres: Fiction, Graphic Novel/Comic, History, Mystery, Young Adult · Tags: 1950s, Japan, kidnapping, Missing children/girls, Naoki Urasawa, Storms, typhoon ·
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Not a book for me.

Memorial by Bryan Washington

February 22, 2021 by narfna 1 Comment

I really need to stop ordering the lit-fic option from Book of the Month. It so very rarely ends well. The premise here is that Mike and Benson are a couple. Mike is a chef and Benson is a daycare worker. Mike’s father is dying of cancer, and so he decides one day to go to Japan to mend their relationship, leaving Benson alone in their one bedroom apartment with his visiting mother, who only arrived that morning, also from Japan. Also, their relationship is […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: BIPOC, Bryan washington, Japan, LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary, memorial, narfna, Texas

narfna's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: BIPOC, Bryan washington, Japan, LGBTQIA, lit-fic, literary, memorial, narfna, Texas ·
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