The last book of 2010 is Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

We are currently reading One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, by A.Solzhenitsyn. This is our first book not related to Japan.

The street of a Thousand Blossoms

We are now reading The street of a Thousand Blossoms, by Gail Tsukiyama.

We will skip a week (national holiday) and we will meet on Oct.18. By then, we will have read Part 1.

PS: sorry about all the update emails!

Rashomon

In September we read Rashomon, by Ryunosuke Akutagawa.

After dark

We started our second year of Book Club with After Dark, by Haruki Murakami.

In Praise of Shadows

The last reading before summer: In Praise of Shadows, by Tanizaki Junichiro.

In the Pool

Then we read this short piece: In the Pool, by Okuda Hideo.

In English, only the first short story was available.

Kinkakuji

Our reading this month: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima.

Silence

Next we read Silence, by Shuzaku Endo.

The Lady and the Monk

Dear Book Clubbers,

We are starting a new book: The Lady and the Monk, by Pico Iyer. Come and pick up your copy at the KIS office from Monday (1.200 yen each, please!).

Next Thursday (Feb.4th) we will wrap up The Makioka sisters and we will start talking about The Lady and the Monk. Let's read 50 pages from the new book.

Izu will bring something to eat and Carol will bring hot chocolate to drink...