This collection of stories was translated by Jennifer Draskau and give a nice glimpse into the lives and thoughts of people in Thailand. Subjects include marriage; gender roles; caring for children; a Chinese abuse victim who cannot understand a life without violence; "one good turn deserves another"; urbanization of rural areas; danger (such as ( Read more... )

On the world news headlines it says that Tony Blair is converting to Catholicism. WUT? Then I read his family already was before, so I guess it makes more sense. I don't know any more than that, though ( Read more... )

The Butcher's Wife is a 1983 book by Taiwanese author Li Ang. She got the idea from a Shanghai news report about a woman who killed her husband. Normally all such women are assumed to have a man on the side, as there is no other reason she could possibly kill her husband; however, this woman was not having an affair, there was no evidence she was, ( Read more... )

Little Ironies: Stories of Singapore is a collection of short stories by Catherine Lim, published in 1978. Lim is Singaporean but grew up in Malaysia ( Read more... )

These two short stories were by Indian writer Amrita Pritam and found online ( Read more... )

This is a 1978 book by Yūko Tsushima, a Japanese writer. It takes place in the present and focuses on one character, Kōko, a thirty-six year old single mother. The point of view is Kōko's only ( Read more... )

One day Pugi's neighbor came to see him. "Give me your donkey so that I can ride to the mill to get my grain ground ( Read more... )

I have finished this book but the Internet has died on me, forcing me to think for myself (horror) as I type this review (seeing how I cannot look at other people's reviews of it, and I really need to type this now while the memory is fresh ( Read more... )

The Wild Geese is a short novel by Mori Ōgai, written in Japanese in 1911 to 1913. It is about requited but unfulfilled love as well as male-female relationships in 1880s Japan. The book is beautifully written, straightforward, so I'll quote parts of it ( Read more... )

Holy carp, I got a 95 on my Japanese art history midterm? I'm not even interested most of the time in that class! I guess I studied right... yes, Kris, half of that 95 is yours. Thanks for helping me study. Takamatsuzuka ( Read more... )