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Coffee Sunday -- More Mishima & SideCar

I wanted to spend more time at that Used Bookstore I found last week and was fun exploring their selection of books.  I picked up a few more works by Yukio Mishima.  The prices are very reasonable and barely $5/each (Amazon wants double for a Used Copy or several times that for Brand New).  I'm not able to find them at my local library so this seems to be the next best thing.

I could only snag Book# 4 of his Tetralogy and will need to stay on the hunt for Book #1 & #2, which kinda makes it fun like a mini-treasure hunt.  I'll be in LA and Vegas in a few months so I'll try find those books there (already scoping out where the major Used Bookstores are in those Cities...)

For Coffee, took the SideCar as I was undecided whether I wanted an Espresso or a Cappuccino.  I love whoever invented this thing as I get the best of both Worlds and somehow the Cappuccino tends to taste sweeter when you can readily compare/contrast it with a bitter Espresso, although this particular one was not bad and quite palatable...with a hint of sweetness (I'm assuming that's an indication of the quality of the coffee beans)?

In any case my goal this year is to read a dozen Novels and try to hit up my four (4) favorite Japanese Authors:
  1. Yukio Mishima
  2. Yasunari Kawabata
  3. Haruki Murakami
  4. Ryunosuke Akutagawa *
* Akutagawa, this one I'm not very familiar with his work, but based on just the title of some of his works sound very interesting..(yeah I know silly, but that's how I fell in love with Russian Novels because of an obscure book called 'Smoke' by Ivan Turgenev).  If nothing else I may just swap for the classic 'Tale of Genji' by Murasaki Shikubu.

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