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Book Review: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Tietsu

God, I hate short story collections. They are damn near impossible to review. Unless you have somehow managed to find one written in a single year long cluster there it virtually no way to engage it properly. It’s like having … Continue reading →

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Book Review: United States of Japan by Peter Tieryas

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Tietsu

Look, I saw a book with a giant mech on it and proclaimed itself about United States of Japan. This was worth a laugh, an ‘ah, how silly’, because indeed it was silly. But then something changed. I saw an endorsement … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Neuromancer by William Gibson

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Tietsu

I’ve tried reading this book something like four time over the last two years, but something about it always kept me from feeling comfortable about finishing it, about casting it aside and with it settling upon a judgment that I … Continue reading →

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Book Review: People Who Eat Darkness: The Fate of Lucie Blackman by Richard Lloyd Parry

Posted on December 6, 2016 by Tietsu

This is a book that is less concerned with the plot than it is its characters. I like this. The plot will move when it’s ready. It has to, especially in non-fiction, but characters take time, require an understanding and … Continue reading →

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Pieces from the Novel #1: Neon Soul

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Tietsu

Watching the cabs fold into the horizon of the city, something squeezes me, knocking against the comfortable fog of the alcohol. I feel it, an uneasy melancholy begging to be let out, to be thought, considered, felt. I steel myself against … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Hiroshima by John Hersey

Posted on October 13, 2016 by Tietsu

This is an excellent book to start with if you are curious about the bombing of Hiroshima and have little historical context for it. As it stands though the book falls a bit flat on a historical narrative and instead … Continue reading →

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