January Reading

 Given we were in Japan, my reading for the month was predominately set in Japan. I had a book set in Korea lined up as well, but I didn't get to it.

I really enjoyed Convenience Store Woman, and I will admit, it made me really see the convenience stores differently (noticing the shop lay out and offerings). I loved that the author actually worked in a convenience store for 18 years before becoming a successful author.  Easy & enjoyable book.

I really loved this book. Not the topic, which is very uncomfortable, but I read the book with urgency, almost in one day (and wanted to keep reading it when not on trains or planes). Really enjoyed it though it's a little horrifying. It was great knowing all the locations (suburbwise, not the clubs they visited!). It's not going to be for everyone - I usually share my books with my mum but this one I don't think will be for her. Graphic sex and violence warning, which while that's not usually for me, the way that it's written really hooked me into the uneasiness of the main character.

I had planned to but more Ryu Murakami because I thought In the Miso was such a great book but the first book I saw at the street library when I went to the supermarket was indeed the book I planned to buy, so I've just started this one.

This book was recommended by someone on the linkys, and as we'd been there, I thought I'd give it a read. A friend posted a facebook link about Svalbard and his friend who lived there made a comment. I pointed out I was the woman on the dog sled attacked by the polar bear and she gave me an update on the fall out, knowing immediately the story as it was such big news at the time. When I said I was reading the Ritter book, she showed me her photos of when she visited the hut. For those listening to the audio, if you google Ritter and Polar Night, you get all the photos both inside and out, and some of Ritter herself. A great description of life in the smallest of spaces in the harshest of environments in a very isolated place. 

That's been my January reading. What about you?

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