Reading and other stuff
I've been pretty swamped with work the last couple of weeks, as well as finishing my 
yuletide story, so there hasn't been a lot of time to read, but I did manage to finish Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda before it went back to Libby. I found it odd, but in a very enjoyable and easy to read way. It's a series of very short ghost stories (vignettes, really), all set in the modern day but inspired by traditional Japanese tales -- there's a section at the back of the book summarizing the original stories that inspired the book. All of the ghosts are female, none are malevolent, and the people interacting with them are generally pretty chill about it. There's no real plot, either to most of the stories or to the book as a whole, but a loose connecting thread does appear as the book progresses. The translation is smooth and readable, and I'd be totally happy to read a hundred more stories in this world. This entry was originally posted at https://marinarusalka.dreamwidth.org/671644.html. You may comment there using OpenID.
yuletide story, so there hasn't been a lot of time to read, but I did manage to finish Where the Wild Ladies Are by Aoko Matsuda before it went back to Libby. I found it odd, but in a very enjoyable and easy to read way. It's a series of very short ghost stories (vignettes, really), all set in the modern day but inspired by traditional Japanese tales -- there's a section at the back of the book summarizing the original stories that inspired the book. All of the ghosts are female, none are malevolent, and the people interacting with them are generally pretty chill about it. There's no real plot, either to most of the stories or to the book as a whole, but a loose connecting thread does appear as the book progresses. The translation is smooth and readable, and I'd be totally happy to read a hundred more stories in this world. This entry was originally posted at https://marinarusalka.dreamwidth.org/671644.html. You may comment there using OpenID.