Despite appearances, I am very much alive and this blog is still active…sort of. The reason I haven’t been posting any reviews is because I haven’t been reading any novels lately. 2018 was a wonderful and busy year for me, so busy, in fact, that since August, I haven’t finished a single book. Sad, but…
According to WordPress, today is the 7th anniversary of my blog! Wow, 7 years is a pretty long time, and sometimes I can’t believe I’ve kept this blog up for that long. Lately, more and more I’ve been thinking if I should quit blogging. Sometimes it feels like a chore, and to be honest, I’ve…
The Hyaku-nin-isshu is a collection of 100 poems by 100 different individuals compiled by Fujiwara no Teika during the 11th century. The poems follow the tanka form of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables per line and are mostly about love or nature, written when only members of the nobility were allowed, or known, to write poetry. In fact, several…
Hey guys, if you haven’t already!, download and try out Litsy, an app every book lover will love! Litsy is like a cross between goodreads and instagram. You can upload pictures of books and write blurbs, quotes, and short reviews. You can also upload books you’re currently reading, as well as books you want to…
When Ernest Hemingway was 19 years old, he signed up as a volunteer with the American Red Cross which was looking for ambulance drivers to send to the Italian front during World War I. Having just graduated from high school, it was his first time to travel abroad. He was hungry for adventure and eager…
I’ve read a few novels written by Japanese writers, and though most of them are pretty strange, Kobo Abe‘s The Woman in the Dunes really takes the cake! Published in 1962, The Woman in the Dunes, or Suna no Onna (Sand Woman) in Japanese, tells the strange and horrifying tale of a man who goes…
Seeing as it’s already February, you probably thought you’d seen the last of these “Annual Reading Overviews” everyone feels compelled to post at the end/start of the year. Sorry, but you have to put up with one more! I just don’t feel like I can move on with my new reading year without making an…
I’ve been a bit remiss in updating my blog partly because of the Holidays and partly because a lot of things have happened in my life lately. However, a big part of it also has to do with laziness. I realized that I did not post a December Book Loot earlier this month either but…
I first heard about Bibliotherapy a few months back in an article that showed up on my Facebook news feed. According to the article, Bibliotherapy is the practice of soothing emotional, mental, and possibly physical (?) ailments through books. Bibliotherapists (yes, it’s a real job), listen to their patients’ problems then prescribe certain books –…
If there’s one thing I learned from my years of blogging about books, it’s that there are some books that are pretty easy to describe, books that I can talk about effortlessly, and books that are hard to classify – books that no matter how I try, I can’t do its plot any justice, and…
The Misanthropologist 