Just wanted to say-- thank you for introducing me to Mieko Kawakami (hands down some of my faves this year) and loads more i plan on reading!! HNY Willow
I adore your channel. Thanks for all these recommendations. I wish you a wonderful 2022, filled with the best books - that hopefully you're gonna tell us all about :)
I just read Quicksand by Tanizaki and I also just realized that one of the books I read for my Asian Civ class in college - Naomi - was also by Tanizaki! Definitely want to read more by him!
My god, "All the Lovers in the Night" is such a good title. I love it already. Anyways, happy new year, Willow! Sorry I'm a bit late, things have been pretty hectic lately.
Thank you so much. Before I casually subscribed to this channel I knew nothing about japanese literature (only Murakami but I'm not a big fan). During the last month I've read 4 books you recommended: Decagon House Murders, Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings and Aosawa Murders. Very good novels! I'm looking forward to reading other books you recommended. The best is The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda. An hidden gem! What a read! Greetings from Italy!
Thank you for this video so I can add exciting new of books to my TBR list. I'm reading Kamusari Tales Told at Night at the moment and it's delightful. Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight sounds great, I've just recently read The Aosawa Murders and I really enjoyed the structure and writing of that book, so very much looking forward to this book.
I read the Aosawa Murders in mid-2021 and it was great! I love the way the mystery gradually unfolded and the setting was very vivid. Definitely most excited for Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
Thank you for what looks like another exciting reading year. Thanks to you I’ve read many of these authors and many are on my TBR. I’m glad you keep mentioning short story collection as before read many on TBR. I will say you need to read “the Aosawa Murders”. I’m not a “ mystery reader” per say But what a great book. It needs more love, you won’t be disappointed. Have a great year.
Have a great new year and thx for those Japanese books. I put some of them on my TBR. Mieko Kawakami, Sayaka Murata and Riku Onda. I am also eagerly waiting for French/Korean Elisa Shua Dusapin's "The Pachinko Parlour" that comes in August.
Ooh, I really liked The Last Children of Tokyo, and I've been meaning to get to Memoirs of a Polar Bear for ages, so I'm very excited to hear there's more Yoko Tawada coming our way!
Happy New Year Willow. 🍀🍀🍀 On your recommendation I have bought several Japanese novels - so far I have really enjoyed what I have read, however, I still have quite a list to read! So I have created (just for me) J. J. - Japanese June!!!! Role on June! By the by your hair looks great 😊
Happy New Year, Willow! 💜 I hope 2022 is magical for you 😊 thank you so much for this video - I didn’t know Riku Onda had a new book coming out *immediately adds to wishlist* I read The Aosawa Murders last year and I really enjoyed it - it was tense, claustrophobic and magnetising. It definitely made an impression on me and I hope it does on you too. Diary of a Void also sounds very intriguing so I will check this out too ☺️ btw…I think I counted nine 😇
Can you do a review of Some Prefer Nettles (because I'm curious and selfish I need you to hype this book up for me lol) and some Soseki (because he's my fave Japanese author and I'm selfish)? I just love your enthusiasm and one can tell watching your reviews that you really savour your reading experience, we can almost taste it. You also don't do massive numbers of books in wrap-ups like other booktubers (which are so unrelatable to non-booktuber readers). I also love your literary fiction interests!
You really keep sparking my interest and motivate me to read, Willow. how?! anyways, happy new year! you‘re looking lovely in this video and it‘s so sweet seeing you talk to cats hihihi :)
I actually have an article about it on my blog. It was written by a guest writer and it's spectacular. I've personally not read it yet, but I did write my own article about Girl On The Shore :)
Happy new year!! thank you for making videos like these videos c: i think i can safely say that you were my biggest reading influence of 2021 so i cannot wait to discover more wonderful stories thanks to you ✨💐
HNY Willow! So many books to look forward to this year!! Heaven destroyed me last year, so I NEED all the lovers in the night STAT! It's got me yelling and using all the !!!! 😅
So many of these sound good, but I think I’m going to need to read Scattered All Over The Earth, purely to find out how Denmark escapes Japan’s underwater fate. It’s a tiny peninsula and a bunch of islands with no mountains. This has to be intentional, right? Yoko Tawada, I need answers!!! 😂
Thank you for the video! I really appreciate your knowledge about Japanese authors. I normally read the Japanese language version of the books that have been translated into English (because I feel like I can guarantee they will be good!). I loved Breast and Eggs and Convenience Store Woman and have just ordered Heaven 😇 By the way I know that Kawakami's book, 'Miss Ice Cream Sandwich' has been translated into English. If you haven't read it, I read the original Japanese one but I can certainly recommend it 😍 Territory of Light and Scattered All Over the Earth sound great. Thanks for the recommendations🤗
I absolutely loved Ms Ice Sandwich! It was my first Kawakami. I want to read it again actually. It's such a warming and short book. I hope to get to the level where I can read a short novel in Japanese one day :)
Yes!!! It's a shame as the Japanese book contains an extra story called 'If you take the strawberries out of strawberry jam'. I wish they had translated that too as I liked it just as much as Miss Ice Cream Sandwich!
Oh and one more thing:) if you are learning Japanese and want to try reading the same novel in Japanese and English, definitely go for one heavy on dialogue as that makes it so much easier to read 😅when it gets overly descriptive, I get lost with all the kanji and poetic expressions 😅
your channel is truly the gift that keeps on giving
Aw thank you, Jack! 💜
jack and willow collaboration?
@@5hif7yx86 THIS
Collab!!
Yes please , we need a collaboration.
I have been binge watching all your videos and I am an absolute fan now.
Omg that's so flattering, thank you 😭
Thank you so much for recommending these books. My writing has improved exponentially reading books you have recommended.
Just wanted to say-- thank you for introducing me to Mieko Kawakami (hands down some of my faves this year) and loads more i plan on reading!! HNY Willow
You're so very welcome! Happy new year! 💜
I adore your channel. Thanks for all these recommendations. I wish you a wonderful 2022, filled with the best books - that hopefully you're gonna tell us all about :)
Thank you so so much. I'm going to do my best to cover all of these books and more!
I just read Quicksand by Tanizaki and I also just realized that one of the books I read for my Asian Civ class in college - Naomi - was also by Tanizaki! Definitely want to read more by him!
I haven't read either of those! Slowly building a Tanizaki stack.
Thank you so much for the exciting lineup 🥰
You're welcome! Hope something tickles your fancy!
Happy new year!!
Hoping more Yoko Ogawa's books coming in this year.
That would make for a very happy new year indeed!
Thanks for these! Soo looking forward to the new Sayaka Murata. I'm not a huge short story fan so hopefully I won't be disappointed
I hope this one can convince you! Maybe it's my ADHD but I can't get enough of short stories lol
Happy New Year!! Thank you so much to review these new Japanese books 😊
You're welcome! Happy New Year 💜
Awesome books!!I have to buy all of them!!!!!
I hope you can! (Just please don't go broke lol)
Namaste & Hello Willow😁This was an awesome video & fantastic plots. Wishing you a Very Happy New Year 2022. Happy Reading. 👍🤗📚
Aw thank you so much! Happy new year 💜
My god, "All the Lovers in the Night" is such a good title. I love it already.
Anyways, happy new year, Willow! Sorry I'm a bit late, things have been pretty hectic lately.
I'm sorry to hear that things have been hectic, Adam. Here's so a beautiful 2022! 💜
Thank you so much. Before I casually subscribed to this channel I knew nothing about japanese literature (only Murakami but I'm not a big fan). During the last month I've read 4 books you recommended: Decagon House Murders, Convenience Store Woman, Earthlings and Aosawa Murders. Very good novels! I'm looking forward to reading other books you recommended.
The best is The Aosawa Murders by Riku Onda. An hidden gem! What a read!
Greetings from Italy!
Murakami is trash lol. I haven't read The Aosawa Murders yet but I keep meaning to. Thanks for reminding me!
Thank you for this video so I can add exciting new of books to my TBR list. I'm reading Kamusari Tales Told at Night at the moment and it's delightful. Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight sounds great, I've just recently read The Aosawa Murders and I really enjoyed the structure and writing of that book, so very much looking forward to this book.
Yeah I'm particularly excited for Fish Swimming! And I swear I'll get to The Aosawa Murders asap!
So many books to looks forward 😆
Right? It'll be a great year for Japanese lit! And this isn't even all of it.
I read the Aosawa Murders in mid-2021 and it was great! I love the way the mystery gradually unfolded and the setting was very vivid. Definitely most excited for Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight
I'm going to read The Aosawa Murders very soon!
@@WillowTalksBooks I look forward to hearing your thoughts on it 😀
Very thrilled to see Li Kotomi's book coming out in English. She's a really cool author.
Yeah I'm really excited for this one!
Thank you so much for sharing.
I enjoy your video !!!
Keep uploading!!!
I promise I will, thank you! 💜
Thank you for what looks like another exciting reading year. Thanks to you I’ve read many of these authors and many are on my TBR. I’m glad you keep mentioning short story collection as before read many on TBR. I will say you need to read “the Aosawa Murders”. I’m not a “ mystery reader” per say But what a great book. It needs more love, you won’t be disappointed. Have a great year.
I've heard that from a few people now, and since I have become a mystery reader I really do need to read that one!
LOVE your videos. They fill me with SO much excitement and joy. 😄 thank you, willow!
omg thank youuu!! 🥺😭
Have a great new year and thx for those Japanese books. I put some of them on my TBR. Mieko Kawakami, Sayaka Murata and Riku Onda. I am also eagerly waiting for French/Korean Elisa Shua Dusapin's "The Pachinko Parlour" that comes in August.
Absolutely love your channel and book suggestions
How cool that you're friends with a translator! I would barrage a friend like that with constant questions.
Ooh, I really liked The Last Children of Tokyo, and I've been meaning to get to Memoirs of a Polar Bear for ages, so I'm very excited to hear there's more Yoko Tawada coming our way!
Same and same and same lol
i'm so excited for Scattered all over the Earth!
Oh, me too!
Happy New Year Willow. 🍀🍀🍀
On your recommendation I have bought several Japanese novels - so far I have really enjoyed what I have read, however, I still have quite a list to read! So I have created (just for me) J. J. - Japanese June!!!!
Role on June!
By the by your hair looks great 😊
Oh that sounds fun! Japanese June, I love it :)
Thank you for making this video !!! I just bought Breast and Eggs on your recommendation. I'll be diving in very soon !
Awesome! I'm itching to reread that book actually. Have fun!
Exciting!! Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Happy New Year, Willow! 💜 I hope 2022 is magical for you 😊 thank you so much for this video - I didn’t know Riku Onda had a new book coming out *immediately adds to wishlist* I read The Aosawa Murders last year and I really enjoyed it - it was tense, claustrophobic and magnetising. It definitely made an impression on me and I hope it does on you too. Diary of a Void also sounds very intriguing so I will check this out too ☺️ btw…I think I counted nine 😇
Oh fantastic, that's given me the push I need to finally read The Aosawa Murders! Thanks 💜
Been waiting for this yay yay thank you! Happy New Year! 🥳
WAIT SAYAKA MURATA WITH HER SHORT STORIES. I’m prepared and not yet prepared at the same time! 😭
Hahahaha! Yeah we all need to hold our breath for that one!
Can you do a review of Some Prefer Nettles (because I'm curious and selfish I need you to hype this book up for me lol) and some Soseki (because he's my fave Japanese author and I'm selfish)? I just love your enthusiasm and one can tell watching your reviews that you really savour your reading experience, we can almost taste it. You also don't do massive numbers of books in wrap-ups like other booktubers (which are so unrelatable to non-booktuber readers). I also love your literary fiction interests!
You really keep sparking my interest and motivate me to read, Willow. how?! anyways, happy new year! you‘re looking lovely in this video and it‘s so sweet seeing you talk to cats hihihi :)
Don't question it, just enjoy it :) Happy New Year! 💜
These books are amazing. I am 7 into the list.
So many great sounding books!!
Right? We have a good year ahead of us!
So many nice books to look forward to! Thank you so much for this video and happy new year!
And thank you for watching! Happy New Year right back 💜
I am reading life ceremony
And it's weird and that's it. Didn't sorted my feelings yet 😅
Haha very understandable!
Can you review the manga ‘ Oyasumi PunPun ‘ ? because that piece of art was heavy as hell.I’d love to hear your take on it (:
I actually have an article about it on my blog. It was written by a guest writer and it's spectacular. I've personally not read it yet, but I did write my own article about Girl On The Shore :)
I'm so waiting for that new Mieko Kawakami.
Me too, with bated breath!
Happy new year!! thank you for making videos like these videos c: i think i can safely say that you were my biggest reading influence of 2021 so i cannot wait to discover more wonderful stories thanks to you ✨💐
Wow, that's really amazing to hear, thank you so so much! I hope I don't disappoint in 2022 :)
@@WillowTalksBooks never!! i put "whisper" from your favorites of last year on my tbr to read ASAP
Thank you for filling my shelves with sweet sweet books
Aww you're so welcome! Enjoy 💜
HNY Willow! So many books to look forward to this year!! Heaven destroyed me last year, so I NEED all the lovers in the night STAT! It's got me yelling and using all the !!!! 😅
Haha yeah Kawakami will do that to you!
Do you have Goodreads account? I want to follow since our taste in books are similar😂
I do not, unfortunately. I deleted mine when I found it too stress-inducing!
So many of these sound good, but I think I’m going to need to read Scattered All Over The Earth, purely to find out how Denmark escapes Japan’s underwater fate. It’s a tiny peninsula and a bunch of islands with no mountains. This has to be intentional, right? Yoko Tawada, I need answers!!! 😂
Facts don't care about your feelings, Tawada!
Thank you for the video! I really appreciate your knowledge about Japanese authors. I normally read the Japanese language version of the books that have been translated into English (because I feel like I can guarantee they will be good!). I loved Breast and Eggs and Convenience Store Woman and have just ordered Heaven 😇 By the way I know that Kawakami's book, 'Miss Ice Cream Sandwich' has been translated into English. If you haven't read it, I read the original Japanese one but I can certainly recommend it 😍 Territory of Light and Scattered All Over the Earth sound great. Thanks for the recommendations🤗
I absolutely loved Ms Ice Sandwich! It was my first Kawakami. I want to read it again actually. It's such a warming and short book. I hope to get to the level where I can read a short novel in Japanese one day :)
Yes!!! It's a shame as the Japanese book contains an extra story called 'If you take the strawberries out of strawberry jam'. I wish they had translated that too as I liked it just as much as Miss Ice Cream Sandwich!
Oh and one more thing:) if you are learning Japanese and want to try reading the same novel in Japanese and English, definitely go for one heavy on dialogue as that makes it so much easier to read 😅when it gets overly descriptive, I get lost with all the kanji and poetic expressions 😅
@@MochinYoja That is SUCH a good tip, thank you!!