It is ironic that I read States of Mind while I wasn’t in a very good state of mind. An illness went through the house which was either flu or COVID and one of the symptoms for me was considerable brain fog. I found myself having to reread paragraphs three or four times and with…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – States of Mind
Category: Books
My notes on books I’ve read.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson
Over the past two years I’ve been enjoying books about life in countryside villages, pre-industrial revolution. I asked ChatGPT about other books regarding the simplicity of nature and that is how I must have stumbled upon this book. I had no intention to read a book about the Appalachian trail. I’m not interested in the…… Continue reading A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail – Bill Bryson
Tales of Old Japan – Lafcadio Hearn
I thought I’d have more notes reading this book like I did when I read Lafcadio Hearn’s “Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation.” The books were different in that this book didn’t get into the culture very much and just related tales, which, inherently teach us about Japanese culture but not to the depths of An…… Continue reading Tales of Old Japan – Lafcadio Hearn
Lapham’s Quarterly – Disaster
This is an edition of Lapham’s Quarterly I read sometime in the last decade. It was after I started highlighting passages in books I was reading but before I started recording those highlights here. I’m finally getting around to adding those highlights. Man is so opinionated that he sees only himself as the object of…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – Disaster
Lapham’s Quarterly – Arts & Letters
This is an edition of Lapham’s Quarterly I read sometime in the last decade. It was after I started highlighting passages in books I was reading but before I started recording those highlights here. I’m finally getting around to adding those highlights. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will…… Continue reading Lapham’s Quarterly – Arts & Letters
Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation – Lafcadio Hearn
I’ve always though to read some of Lafcadio Hearn’s works. When you live in Japan for any sort of time and take an interest in the culture you’ll eventually hear of him as being the first “Japanophile.” I’m sure there were others but given his literary works, and that there were few ‘gaijin’ around back…… Continue reading Japan, An Attempt At Interpretation – Lafcadio Hearn
Convenience Store Woman: A Novel
I never really thought about convenience stores in Japan although I’d frequent them when I lived there as well as when I return ever summer. For me, I’ll always get my vitamin drink (D-something, which tastes a bit like medicine) as well as sample the new beers as well as purchase my old favorites. It…… Continue reading Convenience Store Woman: A Novel
A Month in the Country
For the past two years, my favorite books have been about pre-industrial life in the country, mostly England, Spain, Japan and France in that order. This was another book about life in those times and although it is fiction gives me a little more feeling as to what those times must have been like. Here…… Continue reading A Month in the Country