Let me start of by saying this is my first book review, outside of a school assignment. I feel these may be slightly confessional? The act of writing something every week, reflecting on something that I have read, that ideally will resonate with me personally somehow and those personal reflections will creep into the review. Maybe you will get to know me better. Maybe I will get to know myself better. First confession, I am a huge Japanophile. I love Japanese culture, food, fabric, innovation… […]
A Tale for the Time Being
A Tale for the Time Being is a novel about Zen Buddhism, quantum physics, writers and readers, writer’s block and reader’s block, hate and love. It moves fluidly through the past and present and involves some dynamic and admirable female protagonists. Small wonder it was nominated for the 2013 Man Booker Prize (and should have won instead of The Luminaries). The narration moves back and forth between Ruth, a present-day middle-aged writer living on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia, and Nao, […]