#Yoko Ogawa

[monkeyslunch]

Playing with halftones

#Yoko Ogawa #halftone #when we were young

[therefugeofbooks]

I'm spending my last few days off just chilling out, taking long naps, staying in my comfy PJs all day, and catching up on some good reads.

#it could be like this forever 😭 #dont want to go back to work 😭😭 #booklr #books #book photography #my journal #yoko ogawa #o museu do silêncio #read in 2024 #the refuge of books

[soracities]

But I thought about them, wondering whether they were able to eat dinner at a proper table, with all the dishes and glasses they needed, whether they slept in comfortable beds...[if] the little boy’s fingernails [had] grown out inside those sky-blue gloves...

Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (trans. Stephen Snyder)

#q #lit #quotes #prose #yoko ogawa #the memory police #devotionals #reading #japanese lit #m #x

[a-book-scarfing-goblin]

A Blue Haul

#book haul #new books #yoko ogawa #olga tokarczuk #katherine arden #bookish #booklr #books #bookworm #books and reading #bookblr #literature #reading #bibliophile

[samireads]

March wrap up. I was coming off the SKZ high from last month and I went to Japan… this was the result 🫣

#2023 reads #March 2023 #violets #kyung sook shin #I want to die but I want to eat tteokbokki #baek se hee #sweet bean paste #durian sukegawa #the memory police #yoko ogawa #strange weather in tokyo #hiromi kawakami #the vegetarian #hang kang #books #reading #bookblr #bookstagram #Japanese lit #korean lit #literature #tbr

[whilereadingandwalking]

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yōko Ogawa, translated by Stephen Snyder, is a sweet story about a woman who begins working for a mathematician whose memory refreshes every 80 minutes. She and her young son quickly forge a genuine close bond with the professor, a genius who is simply struggling at a point in his life. It's a beautiful, quick read about the beauty of numbers, forging unlikely connections, and Japanese baseball.

Content warnings for dementia, chronic illness, grief, blood, panic attacks

#the housekeeper and the professor #yoko ogawa #yōko agawa #books in translation #the memory police #women in translation #my book reviews

[derangedrhythms]

It was a beautiful death.

Yoko Ogawa, Revenge; from ‘The Man Who Sold Braces’, tr. Stephen Snyder

#yoko ogawa #revenge #the man who sold braces #prose #death

[bigcats-birds-and-books]

Books of 2023. THE MEMORY POLICE by Yoko Ogawa.

#books of 2023 #the memory police #yoko ogawa #books #book photography #a review popped up somewhere that made me think this could count as driscoll-adjacent #giving it a shot to see!! #also yeah i know it wasn't on my Ambitions TBR Stack leaf me aloooone #babel was supposed to take me more than twelve (12) days to read lmao #i'm gonna do this one and then start split tooth i think #i did also get another migrations box in the mail today and i MIGHT fuck around and read some of those sooner rather than later #again: we'll see!!

[ragazzoarcano]

“Qualcuno, da qualche parte, sta aspettando quel qualcosa che possiamo scrivergli solo noi.”

— Yoko Ogawa

#qualcuno #aspettare #scrivere #solo noi #solo tu #frasi e citazioni #parole #frasi #frasi tumblr #yoko ogawa

[bracketsoffear]

The Memory Police (Yoko Ogawa) "The story is set in an alternate Japan where people's memories of certain things and concepts (e.g. birds, hats, winter, books, seasons, even their sense of self) are slowly taken away from their collective minds for 'their safety' by the titular Memory Police, a government force of sorts. This forced forgetting goes to the point where they can't physically perceive that concept; birds are weird creatures because no one remembers what a bird is like, and it's always winter because no one remembers what spring is. The story even ends with the unnamed protagonist (along with several others) eventually fading away from existence (read: forgetting) as memories of certain body parts and finally the concept of the human body is taken away by the Memory Police. It's like if the vase from MAG 38 formed and entire task force to do its job.

This one has narrative potential too; imagine a statement where someone slowly lose memories of certain things after reading this Leitner, gradually becoming an unreliable narrator as reality slips away from their conscious."

Don't Go to Sleep! (R.L. Stine) "Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small it's practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the guest room. After all, they might have guests. Some day. Or year. Then Matt does it. Late one night. When everyone's in bed. He sneaks into the guest room and falls asleep. Poor Matt. He should have listened to his mom. Because when Matt wakes up, his whole life has changed. For the worse. And every time he falls asleep, he wakes up in a new nightmare… "

Inception, for kids! Whenever Matt falls asleep, he changes reality -- and a group of special agents want to stop him by putting him to sleep, permanently.

#spiral poll #the spiral #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Yoko Ogawa #The Memory Police #Don't Go to Sleep! #goosebumps #R.L. Stine

[caribeandthebooks]

Caribe's Read Around The World TBR - Part 3

Books set in Asian countries <3

#read around the world challenge #read around the world #book tumblr #booklr #bookblr #books #tbr jar #tbr list #if you could see the sun #ann liang #skull water #heinz insu fenkl #crazy rich asians #kevin kwan #the housekeeper and the professor #yoko ogawa #in the shadow of the banyan #vaddey ratner #the coroners lunch #colin cotteril #books set in asia #asian books #reading challenge #diverse reads #diverse books

[klainesheilen]

all these little notes hidden around my university and its library

after a little more than a month, I've finally finished What my bones know by Stephanie Foo. I'd say that the book is one of the main reasons why I was in a reading slump in April. The memoir was a heavy read, because of its trauma talk, but also the insights of her therapy sessions or other ways, like mediating or yoga, that Foo attempt to heal herself from CPTSD. I had to put it down and think about what I just read, how I can see some of her behaviours in my own life. This memoir gave me many things to think about for my own life, for my own healing journey. Five stars. No discussion.

Next read will be The memory police by Yoko Ogawa

#personal #bookblr #books #academia #university #studyblr #library #healing #what my bones know #stephanie foo #book review #book discussion #the memory police #yoko ogawa

[givereadersahug]

The desires of the human heart know no reason or rules.

- Yōko Ogawa, Revenge

#quotes from books #books #yoko ogawa #book: revenge #current read

[soracities]

“The few flowers in the garden other than roses had survived—bellflowers, a couple of spiny cacti, some gentians. They bloomed discreetly, as though embarrassed to have been spared. The breeze seemed to discriminate, choosing only the rose petals to scatter.

A rose garden without roses was a meaningless, desolate place, and it was terribly sad to see the trellises and other signs of all the care that had been lavished on the flowers. The murmur of the river did not reach me here and the rich, soft soil made a pleasant sound underfoot. With my hands thrust in my pockets, I wandered across the hill as though walking through a cemetery of unmarked graves.

In years past, I had carefully studied the stems, leaves, and branches and had read the tags that identified the different varieties, but I realized now that I was already unable to remember what this thing called a rose had looked like.”

Yoko Ogawa, The Memory Police (tr. Stephen Snyder)

#q #lit #quotes #prose #yoko ogawa #the memory police #if i show you the roses will you follow? #reading #japanese lit #m #x

[studywithjennifer]

book 1 of 2024

The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa

date completed: 12/01/2024

rating: 4/5

#i was SOBBING by the end of this #yoko ogawa what have you done to me #the housekeeper and the professor #yoko ogawa #literature #japanese literature #books #books and reading #bookblr #my posts

[booksandteaandstuff]

A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much.

Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

https://bookshop.org/a/12010/9781101911815

#heart #shape #limits #no limits #abundance #yoko ogawa #the memory police #booklr #bookblr #bookish #bookworm #good quotes #good quote #literary quote #literary quotes #novel #book #books and libraries #fiction #science fiction #great quote #great quotes #great lines #great line #reading #booklover