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A perfect little novel

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

October 20, 2024 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Growing up in the 1980s and 90s, the son of Boomer parents, I collected baseball cards. It was a hobby my father and I enjoyed together. Like many of his generation, my father amassed a collection of cards that, today, would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. And, like many of his generation, they were all thrown away when he joined the military and moved away from home. Trying to rekindle that magic, as many parents do, he started buying them again when he […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Japan, the housekeeper and the professor, yoko ogawa

ingres77's CBR16 Review No:14 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Japan, the housekeeper and the professor, yoko ogawa ·
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Episode 1-27: It Takes Two to Make a Thing Go Right

July 26, 2018 by prisco Leave a Comment

https://killingmykindle.com/2018/07/26/episode-1-27-it-takes-two-to-make-a-thing-go-right/ SECOND CANNONBALL!! Wherein I review: 104. Missing You by Harlan Coben 105. The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa 106. The Infinite Future by Tim Wirkus 107. We Are Anonymous by Parmy Olson Mswas was giving me the props early, but I finally crossed that second cannonball. We’re halfway there, halfway there, halfway there.  Read my favorite Harlan Coben premise with my least favorite character leading the way.  Finally read something sweet and short, without bloodshed.  I read a book within a book […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Harlan Coben, killing my kindle, Missing You, parmy olson, podcast, the housekeeper and the professor, the infinite future, tim wirkus, we are anonymous, yoko ogawa

prisco's CBR10 Review No:107 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Non-Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Harlan Coben, killing my kindle, Missing You, parmy olson, podcast, the housekeeper and the professor, the infinite future, tim wirkus, we are anonymous, yoko ogawa ·
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Baseball and Brain Injuries!

March 12, 2017 by vel veeter 4 Comments

This is a perfect little book for a high school student. It has a little bit of everything in it: a clear cut sense of right and wrong, exposure to a culture different from mainstream American (I am pretty mainstream American), precocious kids, and lovable and loving older people. It’s like a mix between Memento and A Beautiful Mind and a very one-sided version of Rashomon. Ok, not so much the last one, because instead, there’s not a lot of remembering going on. More so […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: the housekeeper and the professor, yoko ogawa

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:104 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: the housekeeper and the professor, yoko ogawa ·
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Math and Baseball, what more could you want?

August 25, 2016 by Beth Ellen 1 Comment

What a beautiful little story. I’m not sure who reviewed this one on here back for CBRV!, but whoever it was thank you. Enter an audible sale on Cassandra Campbell’s narration, and this was one of many snatched up. Ms. Campbell’s voice is wonderfully soothing for long car rides with the Little so we’ve been enjoying her quite a bit. The Housekeeper and the Professor is the story of, well, it’s right there in the title. Our narrator and housekeeper begin the tale explaining how […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: the housekeeper and the professor, yoko ogawa

Beth Ellen's CBR8 Review No:47 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: the housekeeper and the professor, yoko ogawa ·
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