Reading

My readlist.

Currently reading

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  Dark Matter and Trojan Horses: A Strategic Design Vocabulary

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  Kaiju No. 8

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  Rashomon and Other Stories

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  The Summer Hikaru Died

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  The Way of the Househusband

Read

• 🇯🇵️ うずまき

  Uzumaki, aka Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror

  

  Eww! Proper gross-out horror. Not for the faint-hearted.

  Trigger warning
  Themes may be triggering for some people; horror.

  • Type: Manga
  • Read: 2024-05-08
  • Rating: ★★★☆☆
  • Origin: 🇯🇵️ Japan️

• 🇯🇵️ コーヒーが冷めないうちに

  Kohi ga Samenai Uchi ni, aka Before the Coffee Gets Cold

  

  A bit slow to get started but ended with tears in my eyes and an acceptance of what control, or lack of, we have over the change of the present.

  • Type: Novel
  • Read: 2024-05-04
  • Rating: ★★★★☆
  • Origin: 🇯🇵️ Japan️

• If Cats Disappeared from the World

  

  Genki Kawamura’s short but very, very sweet story of finding meaning in life and death, sacrifice and resolving conflict. No, you’re crying!

  • Type: Novel
  • Read: 2024-02-25
  • Rating: ★★★★☆
  • Origin: 🇯🇵️ Japan️

• 🇯🇵️ 日本沈没

  Nippon Chinbotsu, aka Japan Sinks

  

  Sakyo Komatsu’s award winning book about a natural disaster that eventually sinks Japan. A bit of a slog. It reminded me of the same satirical theme of Shin Godzilla but told at a glacial pace. It felt like I put it down more than I picked it up. The payoff at the end was worth it brought even more to life by the reality of the 2024 Noto earthquake aftermath.

  • Type: Novel
  • Read: 2024-02-15
  • Rating: ★★★★☆
  • Origin: 🇯🇵️ Japan️

• Pluto: Urasawa x Tezuka

  

  Naoki Urasawa’s sci-fi noir retelling of Osamu Tezuka's Tetsuwan Atom is even more relevant today as humanity come to grips with AI filters into every facet of our digital lives. A moving and gripping story from start to finish.

  • Type: Manga
  • Read: 2023-12-13
  • Rating: ★★★★★
  • Origin: 🇯🇵 Japan️