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京都の小川珈琲
お店の真ん中にある植栽が芽吹いてて素敵でした
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Lily Maymac 🌸💋🍒🌸 Coffee break
#lilymaymac#beautiful#sexy#babes#models#instagram models#fashion#selfie#august 2023#japan#tokyo#setagaya#sunday 13#shimokitazawa#ogawa coffee#coffee laboratory#sexy smile#pink hair#annpn#bday girl#vacation
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The Patio Light - Keiko Ogawa
Japanese , b. 1974 -
Oil on canvas , 89 x 130 cm.
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I'm bored, I haven't slept, its 5 am, its poll time
#god i should sleep its 6 am now#the yoko ogawa quote is from The Diving Pool (collection of novellas)#its the last line of Dormitory#my dog was not harmed because he did not drink the coffee#also my mom figured out it was vocaloids in the next message she sent me#polls#poll#please vote im curious what people think of these#im giving yall 1 week
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hello, can you recommend me books that will wreck my heart and soul to pieces? I need words to destroy me and then fill the void within 🥺
books that will destroy you:
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
War of the Foxes by Richard Siken
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Fish in Exile by Vi Khi Nao
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
God Of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi
books to fill the void:
Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
amalgamation of both:
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Letters to Milena by Franz Kafka
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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hi, hello, heard you were too shy to approach, so: what's your favorite song at the moment? any book recomendations?
hey! yes I was 🤭 thank you for reaching out instead! ^=^
so one of my favourite artists (Jeff Satur) released his debut album yesterday!! I've been listening to it on repeat. I'm especially obsessed with Fade, and I love it in all the three language versions, I guess you could say that's my fav song atm! what about you? do you have any artist/song recommendations?
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as for books, I think it depends on what you're interested in reading. my favourite story of all time is Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint- its perfect if you're into intricate fantasy isekais with some solid worldbuilding and angst. that being said, it's a webnovel and it's 551 chapters long (and technically it's still ongoing with side-stories being published regularly). but putting that aside, here are some of my favs based on the genre
mystical realism: Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi, The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune , If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang (this one is YA and more romance-focused)
crime/mystery: The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji, The Truly Devious Trilogy by Maureen Johnson, 13 Minutes (the last two are YA)
literary fiction(less plot more vibes): The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa, Normal People by Sally Rooney, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
psychological (slow spiral into madness): Bunny by Mona Awad, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
comedy (not sure if this is what it would fall into but it made me laugh a lot): Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, The Mystery of Henri Pick by David Foenkinos
mythology or mythology-heavy: Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (this is written with a much younger audience in mind but god. it's so good. oh and it's Chinese Mythology based btw), Circe by Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
i am realizing now in hindsight that this list is a lot more comprehensive than what you had in mind 😅 either way, lmk what you think if you do pick up any of these books (or if you already have read any)!!
#besties.txt#is it a post by me if it isn't extremely verbose and extensive for no reason whoops#send in recs too! I would love to explore beyond my usual comfort settings. for both music and books!#answered
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well, it is star trek update time. last night we watched ds9's "whispers" and tng's "lower decks."
whispers (ds9):
this episode was really really really really good but it sent me into an absolute existential FIT
i don't usually like episodes where they string us along and don't give us enough clues to figure the thing out for ourselves. and that's what this did because really WHO could predict that. however the ending did gut punch me so i forgive them except i never want them to do that to me ever again
red herring with the coffee. he ordered it so many times i was sure there was something in his coffee
i feel so bad for the replicant. i feel SO BAD FOR HIM. also, did you know this is the only time in trek they use the word replicant
action hero obrien, even under false pretenses, was very very very good. he literally can kick ass and he's smart as hell too like he's so cool???
"tell keiko i love her" JESUS CHRIST. anyway!!!!!!!!
lower decks (tng):
this episode was ALSO pretty good...i really loved especially the dual poker games
i also love the waiter in ten forward who got to go to BOTH poker games, king, but where tf is guinan?? i miss her sm
riker is your worst nightmare. alexa play poker face
worf was also very good in this...he loves and supports his little guys so much. siskocore.
picard was as usual the devil incarnate. i cant believe he yelled at this girl just to see if she could take the pressure of a dangerous mission because he had RACIALLY PROFILED HER and then he, who has been tortured by cardassians, let an ensign SEVEN MONTHS INTO HER FIRST ASSIGNMENT do this covert ops shit. AND THEN SHE DIED!!!! i hope he feels bad forever
i liked her so much :( which i know is the point, but
i kind of wish that unlikable guy who was trying to suck up to riker had died instead because that would be a gut punch in a different way
ALSO NURSE OGAWA'S MAN RUNNING AROUND ON HER?? and then beverly is like oh thank god he proposed GIRL that doesn't mean you didn't see him talking to another woman! just bc you let picard do that shit does NOT mean you don't let alyssa know what you saw!!! smh
i'm still not looking forward to the show lower decks...the art style is so fucking ugly and reminds me so much of family guy, the unfunniest show ever to air on television. as in, even south park was funnier. but maybe if the plots are a little like this it will make it slightly easier to tolerate
EDITED TO ADD: i nearly forgot to mention, the vulcan this episode was CHANNELING mister leonard nimoy. i recognized so many of his little acting tics. absolutely delightful.
TONIGHT: ds9's "paradise" and tng's "thine own self" which i know has AMNESIA!!!!!! i've been in bed since i got home from work but i got out of it specifically for this reason. it better be good
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Books of 2023
Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie
Die Dorfschullehrerin (Duology) by Eva Völler
Die rätselhaften Honjin-Morde by Seishi Yokomizo
The Man who died Twice by Richard Osman
Die Abenteur des Apollo (Series) by Rick Riordan
The Age of Darkness: Das Ende der Welt by Katy Rose Pool
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Before the Coffee gets Cold. Tales form the Café by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
The Paris Bookseller by Kerri Maher
Ariadne by Jennifer Saint
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
Three Act Tragedy by Agatha Christie
The Bullet that missed by Richard Osman
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
Before your Memory fades by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Heart of the Sun Warrior by Sue Lynn Tan
Victory City by Salman Rushdie
The Penelopiad by Margret Atwood
He who drowned the World by Shelley Parker-Chan
Audio Books
Der grillende Killer by Chang Kuo-Li
Butter by Asako Yuzuki
Die Tribute von Panem X: Das Lied von Vogel und Schlange by Suzanne Collins
Der Pfirsichgarten by Melissa Fu
Wie viel von diesen Hügeln ist Gold by C Pam Zhang
Die Drei ??? und die rätselhaften Bilder by William Arden
Die Tage in der Buchhandlung Morisaki by Satoshi Yagisawa
Mortal Engines (Quadrology) by Philip Reeve
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
#fyi all book titles are named in the language I consumed them in#Tho the audio books were all in German but some just keep their english title#books of 2023#studyinglaurel#bookblr
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OC Interview
So, Valerie Mai Ogawa? [visibly bristles] That's what my birth certificate says. It's just V.
Who or what is Ixaphia? This an interview or an interrogation. It's my net handle, and don't ask what it means. Thirteen year old me thought it looked cool. Did you ever play Interstellar Commander 3 MP?
Uh, no.
Gender/orientation? Cis fem/she her/straight
Nationality/ethnicity? ハーフ. Was born in NC. Dad's Japanese if the last name didn't give it away. Mom's American.
Oh, you speak Japanese? Very poorly.
Height? 5'7...170cm?
Star sign? Gonna be real, choom. Starting to regret agreeing to do this...Cancer. Born on the 4th of July...
Favorite fruit? Grapes. Haven't had any since I was a kid.
Favorite season? Fall. I own a lot of sweaters.
Favorite flower? Orchids.
Do you have a favorite smell? Cloves. Like in tea or those little cigarettes with the black papers. Used to roll my own before I quit, was a relaxing little ritual. Airhypos are more efficient, but it's just not the same, yanno?
Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate? Coffee. Milk no sugar.
How much do you sleep? Sleep when I'm dead.
Dogs or cats? I don't trust anyone who doesn't like cats.
Do you have a dream trip? Dream right? I wanna see space. A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Number of blankets you sleep with? What is this for again? As many as I need to stay warm.
Lastly, random fact. I collect foxes. Figurines. Prints. Whatever.
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yayyy i got tagged by @whenthesunn :D
rules: answer + tag nine people you want to get to know better and/or catch up with
favourite colour: powder pink....deep sea blue. deep green....i could never pick just One favourite colour.
last song i listened: at the time of posting this im listening to. erm. uhm. yeah.
last film i watched: ........straight story (2006) (A WORLD WHERE GAY IS A NORM & STRAIGHT A MINORITY-)
currently reading: finished the memory police by yoko ogawa today! and i was thinking of starting cujo tomorrow.
currently watching: iq 160 </3. i have to be obsessed with a random silly greek tv show at all times, its good for me.
currently craving: tortillas.....tahini too.
coffee or tea: i love tea and hate coffee.
tagging: uhhhhh @callixton @andromedaholic @maple13 @fandomchaosposts @amaliatheartist @anisecandy @loukoumadess @just-a-little-bit-of-sugar @alalumin
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(some of) my top books of 2022: prose edition
Last year I made a post with some of my favorite books, using first lines and bullet points. This year I read about twice as many books, so this certainly won’t cover all of them, but it’s a selection -- and I’ll make a separate post for the poetry.
1. Almond by Won-Pyung Sohn (trans. Sandy Joosun Lee)
I won’t tell you whether it has a happy ending or a tragic ending.
Because, first of all, every story becomes boring once the ending is spoiled.
Second of all, not telling you will make you more engaged in this one.
you should read it if you like:
coming of age novels
thinking about what makes humans human
delicate character development
2. The Lonely Londoners by Sam Selvon
One grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about London, with a fog sleeping restlessly over the city and the lights showing in the blur as if is not London at all but some strange place on another planet, Moses Aloetta hop on a number 46 bus at the corner of Chepstow Road and Westbourne Grove to go to Waterloo to meet a fellar who was coming from Trinidad on the boat-train.
you should read it if you like:
novels about city life
vibrant prose
thinking about the immigrant experience
3. The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder)
I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first -- among all the things that have vanished from the island.
you should read it if you like:
stories of loss and memory
elegant allegory
books that leave you with a haunted, desolate feeling
[note: this was my first book of the year, and i kind of worry that’s why 2022 went the way it did...]
4. The Stone Face by William Gardner Smith
He leaned forward on the edge of his seat, his chin in his palms and his elbows on his knees, rocking imperceptibly to the movement of the train. It was evening, and in the fading light beyond the window the flat green-and-brown French farmland hurried by. He found his lips almost forming a prayer; not in words, not to a God, but in an emotion reaching out to the earth, the sky, to the world in general.
you should read it if you like:
books that face head on the question of our duty and responsibility to fight for a more just world
nuanced, empathetic explorations of people and relationships
powerful, vivid prose
5. The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson (trans. Thomas Teal)
It was an ordinary dark winter morning, and snow was still falling. No window in the village showed a light. Katri screened the lamp so she wouldn't wake her brother while she made coffee and put the Thermos beside his bed.
you should read it if you like:
quiet, understated books
seeing unexpected human connection
books that inhabit nature and the seasons
6. Faithful Place by Tana French
In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they've zipped past you: the moment when you decided whether to talk to that girl, slow down on that blind bend, stop and find that condom. I was lucky, I guess you could call it. I got to see one of mine face-to-face, and recognize it for what it was.
you should read it if you like:
long-buried secrets
characters haunted by the past
some really messy families
7. The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
There was only one person in the food-stall who knew exactly what that sound was that was rolling in across the plain, along the silver curve of the Irrawaddy, to the western wall of Mandalay's fort.
you should read it if you like:
sprawling multi-generational tales
intricate, atmospheric historical novels
thinking about the complex entanglements of people and events within history
8. I Wonder as I Wander by Langston Hughes
When I was twenty-seven the stock-market crash came. When I was twenty-eight, my personal crash came. Then I guess I woke up. So. when I was almost thirty, I began to make my living from writing. This is the story of a Negro who wanted to make his living from poems and stories.
you should read it if you like:
literary memoirs
a way of approaching things with humor
seeing the 1930s across europe, asia, and the US brought vividly to life
9. Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
It was a Sunday evening in October, and in common with many other young ladies of her class, Katharine Hilbery was pouring out tea. Perhaps a fifth part of her mind was thus occupied, and the remaining parts leapt over the little barrier of day which interposed between Monday morning and this rather subdued moment, and played with the things one does voluntarily and normally in the daylight.
you should read it if you like:
careful psychological studies
stories of 20-somethings figuring out their feelings
prose that flows like butter
10. Noon, 22nd Century by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Когда рыжий песок под гусеницами краулера вдруг осел, Петр Алексеевич Новаго дал задний ход и крикнул Манделю: «Соскакивай!» Краулер задергался, разбрасывая тучи песка и пыли, и стал переворачиваться кормой кверху. [When the orange sand under the crawler’s tracks suddenly subsided, Pyotr Alekseevich Novago backed up and shouted to Mandel: “Hop off!” The crawler shuddered, tossing up clouds of sand and dust, and began to turn stern-up.]
you should read this if you like:
hopeful sci-fi
stories about friendship
thinking about humanity’s first steps towards alien encounter
[note: this is available in english as a pdf online, i’ve checked]
looking back, are there any running themes? perhaps whether humans are by and large good, or when they are capable of goodness. finding connection, sometimes against great odds. an even mix of stories about leaving home and stories about staying there. covers that have people on them?
stayed tuned for pt. 2: poetry edition!
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同期と一緒に
気が置けない存在は大人になるとできないと思ってたけど 本当、人には恵まれてます
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カウンター、その132 🧐
N9Y BUTCHER'S GRILL NEWYORK 銀座店
https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1301/A130101/13138373/
オールドデリー
https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1301/A130101/13275807/
OGAWA COFFEE LABORATORY 桜新町
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でーびる沖縄 銀座店
https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1301/A130101/13027403/
カウンターではないが…居酒屋すみれ
https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1303/A130301/13135923/
献立家 弥栄
https://tabelog.com/nagano/A2003/A200301/20006032/
東急ハーヴェストクラブ 軽井沢
https://tabelog.com/nagano/A2003/A200301/20023933/
よつや こくている
https://tabelog.com/tokyo/A1309/A130903/13012164/
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10 Books To Read In 2014
I was tagged by @cafebloos 💖💖💖 please tag me in all the book related stuff hehe
1. Conversations on Love by natasha lunn (I’m so close to finishing this)
2. Monstrilio by gerardo samano cordova
3. Natural Beauty by ling ling huang
4. The Stationery Shop by marjan kamali (reread!!! Love this book)
5. Dark Tales by shirley jackson (I’m slowly reading all of her stuff!)
6. Into the riverlands by nghi vo
7. The Memory Police by yoko ogawa
8. Before the Coffee Gets Cold by toshikazu kawaguchi
9. Little Women by louisa may alcott (reread bc I haven’t read it in so long!)
10. Pretty Girls by karin slaughter
I don’t know who all reads, so I’m just tagging a couple mutuals who I think might have some good recs! anyone else who wants to do feel free to say I tagged you!! I want the book recs! @werewolfcafe @pavlovaprin @blossomaes @nosekiss
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for the year end book ask meme - 3, 16, 17. for the opinion one uhh 36
3 What were your top five books of the year?
not ordered, and forgive me for listing six instead of five (my spreadsheet gives 6 books which I gave one of my two highest ratings to and I can't bear to cut one off)
Hav - a book by travel writer Jan Morris about her visit to the island nation of Hav. While Morris was a real life travel writer Hav doesn't exist. Morris invented it to write the book. Sadly the only book of fiction she's written and I've intermittently considered getting into travel writing so I can read more of her. (Also have had a half written post in my drafts for months about why everyone needs to read this)
Pale Fire - a novel by Nabokov about a fictional author who wrote and includes the deranged annotations of his editor. Nabokov is a master of language and the frame here is a lot of fun.
The Silent Cry - A masterpeice by Ōe. It almost felt like it was too quintessentially Ōe, bordering on self-parody, when I first finished reading (a father coping with the birth of his mentally handicapped child, brothers returning to their childhood village, the effects of a peasant revolt by a previous generation on the present...) but that feeling faded. The platonic ideal of an Ōe novel.
Eugene Onegin - I read the Falen translation. I often find long form verse a struggle to get through but this was a joy to read. Nobody told me Pushkin was going to make his foot fetish extremely evident by the end of the first chapter.
A Succession of Bad Days - part of a fascinating self published series of fantasy novels about a polity in a world ruled by individual sorcerers that have amassed power that has managed to carve out a more egalitarian and democratic form of governance.
Trafalgar - picked this up on a whim recently after seeing a tumblr post by, I think, @fipindustries quoting it. A collection of linked short stories about Trafalgar Medrano a spacefaring merchant who spins stories for his friends of his travels over cups of coffee in the cafés of Rosario. I didn't have much in the way of expectations going in but this was brilliant.
16 What is the most over-hyped book you read this year?
It has to be Nettle & Bone, even though I didn't go in with high expectations it did win a Hugo and judging by the number of reviews on Goodreads it might be Kingfisher's most read book.
Cloying, twee and a tedious romantic subplot. It attempts to talk about gender and class but never says anything interesting. Made all the more frustrating with the glints of promise shown on the visit to the goblin market, the flashbacks and Fenris's backstory (which actually gave us a country with characteristics other than generic fairy tale fantasy kingdom with a couple of single word descriptors)
It moved Kingfisher firmly into the 'not for me' category unless something major changes.
17 Did any books surprise you with how good they were?
Claire Keegan's Foster about an Irish girl sent to live with a family in the countryside for the summer. I'd previously read her book Small Things Like These after it was shortlisted for the Booker and was underwhelmed. I decided to give this one ago after hearing the film adaptation got an Oscar nomination. I thought this was much better than Small Things Like These and benefited from Keegan leaving the story speak for itself.
36 - Hotel Iris by Yōko Ogawa. A story about a young woman who lives in the hotel her mother operates who becomes embroiled in a sadomasochistic relationship with an abusive man. I find the use of sadomasochism in literary fiction is often tiresome and this wasn't entirely an exception to that but Ogawa's prose more than made up for that. Somewhat overshadowed by being the next book I read by her after The Memory Policy which is brilliant but it's still a great book.
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🇯🇵 My Favorite Japanese Books So Far
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (trans. Stephen Snyder)
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai (trans. Donald Keene)
Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto (trans. Michael Emmerich)
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (trans. Philip Gabriel)
Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (trans. Alison Watts)
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (trans. Geoffrey Trousselot)
The Guest Cat by Takashi Hiraide (trans. Eric Selland)
#godzilla reads#Japanese books#Japanese literature#reading#translated books#books in translation#booklr#bookworm#bookish#book blog#booklover#book blurb
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