Author: 5t4n5
The Secret Life of the Owl — John Lewis-Stempel
The Wildlife Garden — John Lewis-Stempel
The Wild Life — John Lewis-Stempel
The Maid — Yasutaka Tsutsui
We have a young woman who can read minds who works as a live in maid so that she doesn’t have to stay in any single place very long so that no one will guess her secret.
Thus begins our journey with Nanase as she works for and lives with 8 different Japanese families and ventures through their thoughts and discovers all their private truths.
As a lover of Japanese fiction i found this very interesting, and i can imagine that it must have been quite controversial in Japan when published and probably still is. Tsutsui essentially strips away the public veneer of polite and controlled Japanese people and society and suggests that there’s something very different lurking underneath: what are their private thoughts and lives really like, can we really take people at face value?
My first book by Tsutsui and i’m looking forward to reading a few more soon, which are already queued up on my Kindle.
Yasutaka’s Page
#japan #yasutakatsutsui
A Wild Winter Swan — Gregory Maguire
Hiddensee — Gregory Maguire
Mythic Quest — Season 2
Season 2 has finally appeared and the most important thing is that all the cast seemed to have survived intact from covid — which is obviously the best thing ever.
Basically, if you enjoyed Season 1, then you’ll love this as it’s pretty much more of the same continuing on from where we left off. If you didn’t enjoy Season 1 then you need psychiatric help rather quickly.
Anyways, super duper, love this series and can’t wait for Season 3 which will be made whenever it gets made but is most probably going to get made at some point as soon as Rob has finished working on another show.
