Snow Country is a melancholic toned story that explores the beauty of nature, transcience, longing in different ways and futile love. Bellazza and I read this for the Japanese Literature Challenge 19 and it was an interesting read to kick off the challenge. I can't say I loved the book; but I have thought about …
Strange Weather in Tokyo By Hiromi Kawakami
I have had the book Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami for quite some time now and decided to prioritize it this month for my Japanese Literature Challenge reading. It was an interesting read; and it's taken me some time to figure out what I thought about it. Here's the description of it from …
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The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon
I read The Story of Mankind mainly because it’s on the Newberry Medal Winners list; and I've decided to try to read all of the Newberry Medal winners. But it counts for my Classics Club Challenge too! Yay! I also thought it was a great way to get a quick very general overview of world …
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Snow Country By Yasunari Kawabata ~ Part Two
I have tried to keep these posts for this book fairly spoiler free, so I don’t want to give away how the book ends and such. As I discuss more of my thoughts on this story today, I will try to do so without giving away any major spoilers for the book. 🙂 At times, …
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Snow Country By Yasunari Kawabata ~ Part One
Let's start with my first impression. As I first started reading Snow Country, I really liked the writing. And that has not changed. It did feel hard to get my footing with the story though. I was getting some of the characters confused. Once I got a bit further on in the story, I had …
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Embarking On A New Learning Adventure
There is something invigorating about reading something and being struck by an idea – something that stands out to us…something we ponder on. And it's equally exciting when we see connections between various books we are reading. I am a student by nature. I love researching/studying and of course reading and annotating. I have read …
Doorstoppers In December 2025 Wrap-Up
I ended up reading two doorstoppers for Doorstopper in December, which comes as a surprise to me. LOL After I finished One Hundred Years of Solitude, I decided I wanted to go ahead and read Pachinko, as it's one of the books on my 25 Books for 2025 list and I still hadn't read it …
A Look at Snow Country and It’s Author
I was first introduced to the author Yasunari Kawabata in Kaggsy's review for Thousand Cranes. I immediately added the book to my TBR and not too long after that I bought it. I saved this book for January and its on my TBR for this month. Kaggsy also briefly mentioned Snow Country in that same …
A Read-Along for Japanese Literature Month
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata is one of the books I listed as an option for Japanese literature to read in January. Dolce Bellezza commented on my Japanese Literature TBR post that she was tempted to re-read it. So she and I decided to buddy read it. I'm so excited! I've not read anything by …
Japanese Literature Challenge 19 List of Possibilities
I look forward to the Japanese Literature Challenge every year. And it has become a tradition for me now in the month of January to read Japanese literature or books set in Japan. The Japanese Literature Challenge itself is only for Japanese works in translation; so I will only count works in translations for that …
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Literary Excursions 