[insert thesis angst here]
And moving on without much excessive whining/complaining/rationalizing/excuse-making/self-demoralizing...
EDIT: Teehee. Someone wrote an academic article using Sujata Massey's work to talk about Japanese American detectives. My mom and I read Massey's first four books in the Rei Shimura series back in the day. There also seems to be more academic papers about her. I'm kind of surprised.... and completely procrastinating. STOP IT.
EDIT 2: This
website is amazing. It basically has everything I ever wanted to know about Okamoto Kido, including CRITICISMS and stuff about HIS LIFE drawn from journals I could never hope to have access to. Interestingly, Kido also wrote Kaidan stories in the Edo-style...which pretty much guarantees that I will be stealing a certain book from Dani. :p If only this whole thing was a published work and not a website. ;_; Still, AMAZING.