Kitchen is two stories. The first is the novella Kitchen which is a delightful surprise and the second is a long short story called moonlight shadow.Banana Yoshimoto wrote Kitchen when she was only 24 and Moonlight Shadow was written prior to that. Moonlight shadow reads like talented juvenalia an...
#booksiboughtonsummervacationcuzijustcantresistthetemptationduh no.72.5 starsLike- This time, I'm really glad that Yoshimoto didn't follow her usual plot: the-daily-life-of-a-traumatized-young-woman-and-then-she-falls-in-love-with-an-equally-traumatized-and-strange-person.- The descriptions of the s...
This book felt like a continuation of Yoshimoto's other novel, Kitchen. The surrealism has it pros and cons. However, I thought that I couldn't finish it myself because the pace was really slow. There's really nothing too special about this book, like most of Yoshimoto's book: just a young woman, tr...
This book is somewhat mystical and very introspective. None-the-less, it's quite good. It's written from the perspective of Chihiro, a mural painter. She likes to spend time looking out her window. Eventually she notices that a young may across the way also spends rather a lot of time looking out of...
I loved this book so much. I guess the timing was perfect when I picked this up. ‘The Lake’ is about Chihiro and Nakajima and their grieve which bring them together may be for the lifetime to stay put with each other. This book was slow but I loved the pace as it gave me more time to enjoy Yoshimot...
How can such sort stories be filled with so much emotions? This was the first thought that came to mind when I finished reading Kitchen and indeed this book was an emotional rollercoaster. Both of the stories were deeply touching and heartfelt, although they were short and concise. Kitchen, the fi...
Kitchen was hyped quite a bit when I got my first bookstore job about 20 years ago. It remained one of those books I kept in the back of my mind to read, and this year's reading challenges gave me the incentive. Kitchen is actually two short novellas:Kitchen details the story of an orphaned young wo...
Zgrzyt. Liczyłam na coś miłego, sympatycznego i wesołego, coś co pozwoli odpocząć moim szarym komórkom, a tu takie małe nieporozumienie. Stworzona atmosfera lekko mnie przytłaczała, zresztą ciągle przewijający się wątek śmierci nie mógł być ani banalny ani wesoły. Sama nie wiem dlaczego wydawało mi ...
Un libro corto, ma piacevolissimo da leggere.. L'ho trovato molto dolce, ad un certo punto mi stavo per commuovere! In poche parole: m'è piaciuto veramente molto :)
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