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G.G.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at G.G.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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G.G. Rowley
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Bombala, Australia
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Autobiography of a Geisha
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1957
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10 editions
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An Imperial Concubine's Tale: Scandal, Shipwreck, and Salvation in Seventeenth-Century Japan
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2012
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The Female as Subject: Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan
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2010
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3 editions
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In the Shelter of the Pine: A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan
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1712
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3 editions
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Yosano Akiko and The Tale of Genji
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2000
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G.G.’s Recent Updates
"Rereading. Superb."
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"This is the first Munro book of short stories I've read. I've been wanting to read her work because of her fame. Neither disappointed nor elated by reading her stories, I felt foreign.
I've been to Canada only a few times and I've known a few Canadia" Read more of this review » |
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"Charles V is a remarkably interesting character, and this book contains a lot of hunting accidents and illnesses (including not being able to chew because of the Habsburg jaw) but also diligent writing out arguments and hosting meetings with his advi"
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"Pictures excellent: Text just fair
The Publications Division of the Government of India first put this book out in 1954, seventy-one years ago, but it was revised and reprinted in 1972. That’s the volume I have. It has been re-released twice more sinc" Read more of this review » |
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| Kazuko Sugisaki (杉崎和子 in Japanese; see: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/杉崎和子) is a scholar of American literature, especially Anaïs Nin, and the three essays in this short (61pp.) volume were originally published in Anais: an International Journal duri ...more | |
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Could I trouble a librarian to add a date of first publication to the hardcover edition of The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern
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Bob wrote: "Hello Gaye,
Just opened your site for the first time in quite a while. I'm sorry to hear of your husband's death. Of course I didn't know ...more " |
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Van C. Gessel's excellent translation of 女の一生〈2部〉サチ子の場合 Onna no isshō 2: Sachiko no baai (A Woman's Life, Part II: Sachiko) by Shūsaku Endō. The Japanese novel was originally published in 1982; this translation in 2020. In fact the novel is as much a ...more |
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The poll is for a Non-Fiction group read book about Japan. Authors do not need to be Japanese to have been qualified for the nominations
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“To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.”
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“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
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“Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort.”
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“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil?”
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“Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark ... In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed."
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
― Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
[Still in Melbourne January 1987]”
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Hello, G.G./Gaye! Thank you for contacting me! Congratulations on your books! Born in Australia, living in Japan, a writer/an author, a teacher....what a life! Happy reading, writing, and everything else! Have a great December!
