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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @BookBreak
    @BookBreak  4 года назад +1

    Want to travel to China next? Here are our best Chinese books: ruclips.net/video/buA3rcItq4k/видео.html

  • @StudioLindsay
    @StudioLindsay 4 года назад +26

    Before the Coffee Gets Cold is one of my favorite reads of this year so far!

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  4 года назад

      Wasn't it gorgeous?!

  • @nl3064
    @nl3064 10 месяцев назад +2

    Maybe no one cares, but mine are,
    Almost Transparent Blue (Ryu Murakami)
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (H. Murakami)
    after the quake (H. Murakami)
    Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (K. Oē)
    Life For Sale (Y. Mishima)
    The Decagon House Murders (Y. Ayatsuji)
    The Decay of the Angel (Y. Mishima)

  • @davidsigler9690
    @davidsigler9690 2 года назад +2

    Love Japanese Literature; lived there for two years.

  • @HaleyShealy15
    @HaleyShealy15 5 лет назад +11

    I've been living in Japan for about 6 months and have become enthralled in the literature. Recently I read Norweigan Wood for the first time and felt like I was thrown off the deep end into despair! I also loved Banana Yoshimoto's Amrita and Tsushima Yuko's Territory of Light!

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад

      How amazing - what's it like living there?

  • @BenRogersWPG
    @BenRogersWPG 3 года назад +2

    3:20 read Before the Coffee Gets Cold because of your recommendation. Loved it! Thank you for this!

  • @ronaele2012
    @ronaele2012 5 лет назад +15

    Yukio Mishima is one of my all time favourite authors, Tanizaki is absolutely wonderful too!

    • @morisoba2550
      @morisoba2550 4 года назад

      I'm from Japan. Mishima isn't necessarily my favorite author, but 午後の曳航( The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea )and 豊穣の海( The Sea of Fertility Tetralogy )are good.

  • @nikolettapr
    @nikolettapr 5 лет назад +5

    Amazing subject!!!! Great video and recommendations!!!! Convenience store woman is in my tbr, also just ordered before the coffee gets cold ;)

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад

      Yay I hope you love them both!

  • @jennyfunnell9838
    @jennyfunnell9838 5 лет назад +5

    This is brilliant. I want to read all these books.

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад +1

      They're really brilliant! Before the Coffee Gets Cold was my favourite.

  • @urban0443
    @urban0443 4 года назад +4

    This video is great. I really want to read all of those videos.

  • @claireoulton2462
    @claireoulton2462 5 лет назад +2

    I have been missing out on many of these. Now going to put that right. Going to start with The Guest Cat.

  • @scrapbooksandreads
    @scrapbooksandreads 5 лет назад +4

    Great video. I have an entire shelf of Japanese literature in my home library. One of my favourite books (not including any authors you mentioned) is The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue. A beautiful novel about a man and how his choices impacted the three most important women in his life.

  • @fionashaw8646
    @fionashaw8646 5 лет назад +4

    Murakami is my dreamboat I am obsessed with him 😍 but looks like I'm going to need to branch out!!! I love the before the coffee gets cold premise, sounds so great!

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад

      Fi it's so dreamy I cried in bed reading it and I almost NEVER cry at books

  • @simonebittencourt8251
    @simonebittencourt8251 4 года назад +3

    Thank you so very much for the video and the recommendations. Your reviews are so elaborated and compelling that I feel like reading everything you talk about. You are SO captivating... You do deserve all the compliments!!! Bravo!!!

  • @jaidepoppy
    @jaidepoppy 5 лет назад +4

    The Marie Kondo manga book sounds amazing!! I’m just starting Kaizen, and am so so ready for it as it sounds awesome. Xo

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад

      The manga book is adorable I loved it!

  • @A.Pheno-Menon
    @A.Pheno-Menon 9 месяцев назад

    Lovely and interesting video from Japan. It is really remarkable of you to visit different places and connect with the literature from that place to gain a better understanding and to get a glimpse of each country's culture and History. Best wishes and greetings from India. Liked the video and subscribed to your channel.

  • @MaryAmongStories
    @MaryAmongStories 5 лет назад +6

    YEEESS I NEEDED THIS 💜

  • @umang7658
    @umang7658 3 года назад +5

    We love Murakami in this household...but let me tell you many japanese authors are as talented so give them a try y'all.

  • @ASuitcaseFullofBooks
    @ASuitcaseFullofBooks 5 лет назад +2

    I've been looking for Japanese literature recs because I'll be doing a stop in Tokyo in November. Someone just recommended Convenience Store Women to me as well as Strange Weather in Tokyo. I can't wait to check out the Jimbocho Book Town in Tokyo and see what books I can find there!

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад

      Oh have so much fun! Sounds like an amazing trip

  • @sally-annmannering
    @sally-annmannering 5 лет назад +1

    I bought the audio books of the first two parts of shogun ages ago as I’m so interested in that story but the length of the audios is very daunting and has put me off starting them 🙂

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад +1

      You need to wait till you have a really long car journey or something!

  • @thefastestgrammarteacherwo355
    @thefastestgrammarteacherwo355 3 года назад +1

    Your review is awesome I feel you should review THE KINGS GRAMMMAR

  • @jemimashort5167
    @jemimashort5167 5 лет назад +2

    I loved convenience store woman! Recommended it to loads of people. I also have some Murakami on my shelf waiting to be read, best get on it!

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад

      Yes do it! It's definitely a reading experience unlike any other...

  • @nicholasoulton8489
    @nicholasoulton8489 5 лет назад +1

    Super impressed by the pronunciation of these names - not a single hesitation! And for Western writers writing about Japan, how about Lafcadio Hearn? I've heard a lot about him - not least because he is my great, great, great uncle or some such thing - but have to admit to not yet having read a single word he wrote. But apparently he is tip top.

  • @imyfujita
    @imyfujita 3 года назад +1

    Vessel of Sorrow This is a Japanese literature!
    The author was reputed to be a Dostoevsky of Japan.
    A highly prized Japanese après-guerre novel published in 1962.

  • @marisadavies7946
    @marisadavies7946 5 лет назад +2

    Loved Convenience Store Woman! Need to give those cat books a read.

    • @BookBreak
      @BookBreak  5 лет назад

      Can't go wrong with a book about cats!

  • @alexandrahamlet2888
    @alexandrahamlet2888 5 лет назад +2

    私はこのビデオを本当に楽しんだ

  • @alexellis6669
    @alexellis6669 5 лет назад +1

    🙌
    My socks are feeling much more appreciated (and looking more organized) these days!

  • @dragonlord.kingslayer8697
    @dragonlord.kingslayer8697 4 года назад +3

    have you read musashi?

  • @osonhodeleon
    @osonhodeleon 2 года назад

    I love japanese books.

  • @DrSachin2476
    @DrSachin2476 2 года назад

    You missed IKIGAI