Book recs?
Jun. 27th, 2013 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
esmenetIn about two weeks, I'm going to Japan for fiveish days. My mother has most of our travel stuff planned out, but my #1 plan is to buy a lot of books, haha. However, my knowledge of Japanese books is sadly lacking, so this is me asking for recommendations!
Favorite genres: anything with lots of ladies, literary fiction that isn't just pointless navel-gazing (see Invisible Cities, The Helmet of Horror, etc.), history, myths/folklore, adorable slice-of-life, queer stuff, fiction about domestic stuff and school, the kind of horror where you are 100% on the side of the monsters, and language/linguistics/literary nitpicking.
--In other words, rec me all your favorite Japanese books! And please pass this post around to your friends as well, I need all the suggestions I can get.
(Also: I was going to say 'but no manga', since I basically know what I want on that end, but then I remembered that there are lots of lovely josei manga that never get noticed by uploaders or translators -- I mean, we're damn lucky that someone picked up Gold Rush 21, and even that's probs because of the author's more conventional series -- so if you have any favorite josei one-shots/short series or authors, pass 'em along!)
Favorite genres: anything with lots of ladies, literary fiction that isn't just pointless navel-gazing (see Invisible Cities, The Helmet of Horror, etc.), history, myths/folklore, adorable slice-of-life, queer stuff, fiction about domestic stuff and school, the kind of horror where you are 100% on the side of the monsters, and language/linguistics/literary nitpicking.
--In other words, rec me all your favorite Japanese books! And please pass this post around to your friends as well, I need all the suggestions I can get.
(Also: I was going to say 'but no manga', since I basically know what I want on that end, but then I remembered that there are lots of lovely josei manga that never get noticed by uploaders or translators -- I mean, we're damn lucky that someone picked up Gold Rush 21, and even that's probs because of the author's more conventional series -- so if you have any favorite josei one-shots/short series or authors, pass 'em along!)
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Date: 2013-07-17 12:52 pm (UTC)(For me, nothing will ever compare to Lev Grossman's 'The Magicians' for sheer glum and irritating white-boy navel-gazing impenetrability. Murakami is almost certainly better.)