Last year I had the honor of attending the Boston Globe–Horn Book Awards ceremony in Massachusetts, not as an award recipient but as an accompanist — as the translator for Kazumi Yumoto’s The Friends,...

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August was, without a doubt, the best reading month I've had this year. I read so many books and I enjoyed all of them. There's little more a reader can ask ...

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I'm a bit late with the July reading log, but that's just how it goes sometimes. Better late than never when it comes to these things anyway. July was an ext...

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June felt like a very fulfilling reading month even though I didn't actually read that much. I'm not sure if that's because the book I just finished—notably ...

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Another month gone by, another reading to write. A funny fact (I guess?) about these reading logs is that I actually copy and paste the format from the previ...

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I'm back with another review of an ARC I very graciously received through NetGalley. As always, I'm a bit late with the review since the book is now out and ...

You open the chest to find a treasure beyond your wildest dreams! A comic book font, designed for both mixed-case and all caps, and, above all, free t...

I got a review copy of this book from NetGalley quite awhile ago on somewhat of a whim. I've never read any of the works by any of the authors who make an ap...

I'm not actually sure it's worth writing a full reading log this month since I haven't really been doing much reading, but I haven't written one since Novemb...

「私たちはつながっている」三浦美和子 秋田市在住でフリーの記者としてジェンダーやセクシュアリティ、人権について発信している三浦美和子さんの新連載『私

It's been a few weeks since I first wrote the review for this book and my browser ate it. A painful reminder to always copy and paste the text somewhere else...

Join Kiki, the beloved young witch, and her clever cat Jiji in the enchanting sequel to the modern classic! This new translation will reveal more to the story that inspired the Hayao Miyazaki film, Ki...

The most repeated phrase in The End of August, in Japanese, is すっすっはっは (su-su-ha-ha), an onomatopeoic representation of the sound of breathing in rhythm, as one does when running. Not in-out-in-out…

I don't even know how to start this review, which I feel like doesn't happen very often—especially not one I loved as much as this. Yet here we are. I'm at a...