I've always been a sucker for old men. I know that sounds strange, and there's really no rational reason for it. They just make me feel safe.One of my late grandmother's favorite me stories is about me and my grandfather. I was about 3 years old when my mother dropped me off at their house, and I wa...
Silly me, at first I thought it was going to be a romance novel, according to the title and the Japanese love-oriented way of writing. The idea conveyed here was way more interesting - a housekeeper who comes to work for a math professor, whose brain was damaged in a car accident, with the consequen...
This was such a comfortable read for me and touched me at many different levels.Firstly, it is a very engaging story, involving just a small number of equally engaging characters. The two main characters are in the title, but they are brought together by their strong feelings for the third character...
A light but enjoyable read that scatters numbers and facts about the brain rather like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23326297). However, in other respects, it's very different, being set in Japan and being primarily about friendship.The epony...
I know nothing of baseball or maths and I prefer to forget about housekeeping so I doubt that I am part of the target audience for this short novel. Whilst I'm sure that a true mathematical understanding would enrich my life I don't really care to have the basics presented to me in a work of fictio...
A perfect little novel. A housekeeper goes to work for a math professor who, due to a previous head injury, can only remember things for 80 minutes. He can remember everything up to his head injury, but everything that happens after that can be remembered only for 80 minutes, and then it disappear...
This is a beautifully written story by a Japanese author. It is about true and genuine love, sweetly and simply written. The housekeeper has a new job with a professor who had been in a car accident in 1975. As a result, he has brain damage. He can only remember 80 minutes of the present. However, h...
How can I possibly put this book into my own words? I can’t begin to imagine I could capture or convey to any of you, how this book made me feel. It took me two days to read and I wish I could have taken more time to read it – but I simply couldn’t put it down. The pages seemed to turn themselves an...
Like most people I was introduced to maths at school, that cocky kid, who took great delight in showing you up, in a bit of light bullying, was quite happy to use weapons (algebra,statistics). But I left school, started work etc & never really met him/her again, there was no reason to.So when I cam...
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