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I read for many reasons, including to learn more about how the world is, to imagine how it could be, and to get lost in stories.

I like memoirs, sci-fi, history & historiography, poetry, investigative reporting, graphic novels & comics, fantasy, nature, how-tos and a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. Especially if they are well-written, insightful, funny, motivating, weird or immersive.

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reviewed Record of a Night Too Brief by Hiromi Kawakami

Hiromi Kawakami: Record of a Night Too Brief (2017)

"One morning, a woman treads on a snake. She comes home that evening and realises …

Review of 'Record of a Night Too Brief' on 'Goodreads'

I started reading this book at the beginning of a long train ride. While turning the pages, I drifted off to sleep. As I watched the trees float by outside the train window, I had a series of dreams.

A girl, reiterated. The two of us saw many things. We went to the festival and stepped into the fireworks. Then goshiki told me the story of my 2 brothers, which I had forgotten. Family traditions change, don't they? Finally, the snake in myself reared up and we debated about labor and self and routine and surrender and care and struggle and symbols. The snake both was me and was not me.

I suddenly awoke. I was at my destination with no memory of disembarking from the train. The wind through the trees was speaking to me, whispering kuna-nira.