Took a break from Mishima and purchased 'Snow Country' by Yasunari Kawabata. I've been wanting to read some of his works and while I couldn't find anything at the Used Bookstore, they had a new copy @ Barnes and Nobles. Granted it's cheaper online, but I feel its better to just purchase items at the physical store, otherwise what's the point of having Brick n' Mortar Stores anymore?
The book is surprisingly a short read of just 177 pages. I should be able to finish this over the weekend and see what next I'd like to read.
Update 5/28/17
Took a bit longer than I anticipated and finished the novel while in Japan. Figured that would be a more suitable venue to read this book. Overall, it was okay and I got the general context of the story between Shimamura, Komako and Yoko. Very simple list of characters, yet it does provide a good story of their interactions.
However, the English translation from Japanese probably lost some meaning as I didn't quite grasp certain things, especially the reason for the tension between Komako and Yoko. I understood some basic reasoning, but it just didn't quite jive that well with the overall story.
Ironically, me writing this is similar to how Komako was writing her 'reviews' of all the books she read, although for me it's not meaningless, but a way to confirm I read the novel.
The book is surprisingly a short read of just 177 pages. I should be able to finish this over the weekend and see what next I'd like to read.
Update 5/28/17
Took a bit longer than I anticipated and finished the novel while in Japan. Figured that would be a more suitable venue to read this book. Overall, it was okay and I got the general context of the story between Shimamura, Komako and Yoko. Very simple list of characters, yet it does provide a good story of their interactions.
However, the English translation from Japanese probably lost some meaning as I didn't quite grasp certain things, especially the reason for the tension between Komako and Yoko. I understood some basic reasoning, but it just didn't quite jive that well with the overall story.
Ironically, me writing this is similar to how Komako was writing her 'reviews' of all the books she read, although for me it's not meaningless, but a way to confirm I read the novel.
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