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• Get Some Love Therapy with Saki Kawashiro’s The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favorite Recipe Funeral Committee

  While February is a time of love, it doesn’t always mean we see the happy side of that love. There are many tricky and complex feelings surrounding Valentine’s Day for many, and I felt that a story about love from a different perspective would be much appreciated by readers sick of hearing about Valentine’s Day.…

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  February 18, 2026

  Contemporary Fiction, Foreign Lit, Romance

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• Marie Kondo’s Letter from Japan is the Perfect Non-Fiction Read

  Marie Kondo is a global celebrity at this point, with her book, The Life-Changing Magic of Cleaning, a worldwide sensation, and her sweet, gentle persona a pleasure to watch. When I heard that she had published an introspective non-fiction book, I knew I needed to read it for myself. So Letter from Japan ended up on my…

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  January 28, 2026

  Non Fiction

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• A Therapeutic Read in Satoshi Yagisawa’s Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

  Forgive me, friends, but my December has been a bit muddled as of late. As such, I haven’t found the right time to read Ursula K. Le Guin’s fourth Earthsea Cycle novel Tehanu, but instead have picked up Days at the Morisaki Bookshop as a short, but soul-touching read to get some good healing vibes…

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  December 19, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Foreign Lit, Poetry and Short Stories

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• All Aboard Seichō Matsumoto’s Japanese Classic Tokyo Express

  Get your tickets ready for this foreign crime fiction tale. Tokyo Express by Seichō Matsumoto is a riveting novel laced with that crime noir feel and historical setting. It is a short yet well-plotted read that delivers red herrings and dead-ends until the very end. In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of…

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  September 22, 2025

  Classic Fiction, Crime Fiction, Foreign Lit, Historical Fiction

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• You Must Stop At Mai Mochizuki’s The Full Moon Coffee Shop

  The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki is an adorably informative short read that will leave you feeling gooey in the heart and enlightened in the mind. I wasn’t sure what exactly I would get from this novel, but I knew I needed to pick it up – after all, who could say no…

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  July 7, 2025

  Contemporary Fiction, Foreign Lit

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• Banana Yoshimoto’s Dead-End Memories – A Collection of Human Experiences

  I’m new to the realm of short story compilations, so opening up Banana Yoshimoto’s Dead-End Memories did not seem like it would be that big of a deal. I have been pleasantly proved wrong as the short stories have snuck up on me while I read them, starting off on a casual note before diving…

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  November 7, 2024

  Contemporary Fiction, Poetry and Short Stories

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