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#NowReading2021 “Japan’s Quest for Stability in Southeast Asia: Navigating the Turning Points in Postwar Asia” by Taizo Miyagi. Imbibed with a FamiMa latte 🤷♂️On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Inaka: Portraits of Life in Rural Japan” by a whole bunch of writers. Currently on the chapter about tea fields in Shizuoka so had to pour meself some Golden Assam 🫖Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Africa Samurai: The True Story of Yasuke Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan” by Lockley and Girard. Enjoying the audiobook with a can coffee while driving up the Shimabara coast to the airport.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Pastoral” by André Alexis, because it has been a while since I read fiction and the last time I was in Kyoto I read his “Fifteen Dogs” which I loved. (No drink, since I am in bed) 🛌Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Providence was with us: How a Japanese doctor turned the Afghan desert green” by Nakamura Tetsu. Reading in comfort with a tea and chiffon cake at 森の図書室Permalink On twitter.com
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Here are some more pics of Mori no toshoshitsu from my last trip @chadkoh/1368471853660917764Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “The Book of Chanoyu” 「バイリンガル茶の湯BOOK」by Randy Channell Soei 宗栄 Once I am done reading, I will know how to enjoy the book with a proper bowl of matcha! 🍵 😋 😂Permalink On twitter.com
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@zaichishka Your book is on my list too! Someday I will become cultured! 😅Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “The Silk Roads: A New History of the World” by Peter Frankopan. I have wanted to listen to this for a while. Enjoying with some local animal pastries.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “英語対訳で読む禅入門 Introduction to Zen” by Ozeki Sōen and Elizabeth Wills. Picked it up at the library on a lark just to check some vocabulary and actually got into it. Reading with a ceramic filter drip.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Predator at the Chessboard” by Ward Farnsworth, available online at chesstactics.org. Still on my chess kick! ♟ Reading with a nice loose Assam and some baumkuchen picked up in Fukuoka.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “The Irish Buddhist: The Forgotten Monk who Faced Down the British Empire” by all @DhammalokaU. Not imbibing any coffee, for obvious reasons 🛀Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “The Queen’s Gambit” by Walter Tevis. Adored the series and planned on reading the book when it dropped free this month into my Audible account! No coffee, listening while prepping for sleep 😉😴Permalink On twitter.com
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Pretty much devoured this book, just like the show! Thoughts below 👇 goodreads.com/review/show/3680263872Permalink On twitter.com
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Decided to post newly started books here as well as on Goodreads. Using the format I learned from @FilmEssaying, but since cafés are very limited on Iki, I won’t be able to intro you to many cool Japanese coffee joints. Mainly books!Permalink On twitter.com
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Although this is the first new book of the year, I still have a couple unfinished from last year. @sstrangio’s “In the Dragon’s Shadow” and @AntonyJohnston’s “Exphoria Code”Permalink On twitter.com
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Btw, if you haven’t already, add me on Goodreads here goodreads.com/user/show/3079724-chad-kohalykPermalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Every Human Intention: Japan in the New Century” by Dreux Richard, with a nice late night cup of matcha 🍵Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Seeking Śākyamuni: South Asia in the formation of modern Japanese Buddhism” by Richard M. Jaffe. I have been really looking forward to reading this. Currently enjoying a pizza at IchizenPermalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “A Desolation Called Peace” by @ArkadyMartine Loved the first volume! Not enjoying with a coffee, obvs 😜 🛁Permalink On twitter.com
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I need to catch up on my #NowReading2021. In May, with my sudden departure from Japan looming, I started listening to “The Emperor of All Maladies” by Siddhartha Mukherjee. I finished it just 4 days before my dad passed away from metastatic lung cancer goodreads.com/book/show/27214070Permalink On twitter.com
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In June I read an intriguing little book by one of my teacher’s Luong Por Sona called “Life is a near Death Experience.” It helped me put some things into perspective. #NowReading2021 goodreads.com/book/show/58036845Permalink On twitter.com
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Since then things have been pretty hectic, so I have been actually catching up on podcasts (including Dan Carlin’s latest 6 hour delve into the atomic bombings) and not doing as much book reading as I would like.Permalink On twitter.com
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But I am back on the #NowReading2021 bandwagon. It is 3am and I am suffering from stuffed sinuses, drinking NeoCitron and listening to “A Concise History of Japan” by Brett L Walker while I breathe in steam under a towel. 🤧🧖♂️Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Intimations” by Zadie Smith, with a cup of English Breakfast. The rain has taken most of the wildfire smoke out of the air, so I am enjoying the new #decklifePermalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “The Art of Emptiness” by master potter Sakaida Kakiemon XIV for a @BooksOnAsia review. Enjoying with a pourover in a mug I painted while visiting Kakiemon’s hometown of Arita. Mad respect for pottery artists after (badly) attempting it myself 😅Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism” by Benedict Anderson. A classic of the field. It has a bright cover so…. sunflowers? Also trying out a new Sanpelle flavour.Permalink On twitter.com
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Also #NowReading2021 “Maritime Asia vs. Continental Asia: National Strategies in a Region of Change” by the eminent professor Takashi Shiraishi. I started reading it under my deck sail so I could get more of a shanty feel. I must report that there is no rum 🍹on this deck. 🙅♂️Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Buddhism and Modernity: Sources from Nineteenth-Century Japan” edited by Orion Klautau and Hans Martin Krämer and published by @UHPRESSNEWS. Got my review copy and a nice hand drip. I have been looking forward to this one! Paperback to release in Oct.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Piranesi” by Susanna Clarke. Huge, huge fan of Strange & Norrell, but I waited for the right mood before I picked this up: a little lost and looking for wonders. I know nothing about it, so no spoilers! (BTW this is read by Chiwetel Ejiofor, one of my favs!)Permalink On twitter.com
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Catching up on my #NowReading2021 Zadie Smith’s “Grand Union Stories” The Teaching Company’s lectures on Buddhism by David Eckel (a relisten) “The Shogun’s last Samurai Corps” by Romulus Hillsborough which so far is pretty insane.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 “Monks in Motion: Buddhism and Modernity Across the South China Sea” by @jackmtchia I’ve been waiting to get into this one for a while!Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 Was looking up my fav authors for some writing inspiration and found these short books, one on losing a father & one on fatherhood. Listening as I contemplate the loss of my own father. Really striking how different people react.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 "Finding the Heart Sutra: Guided by a Magician, an Art Collector and Buddhist Sages from Tibet to Japan" by Alex Kerr Started this a few days ago. I have read a number of books on the Heart Sutra. This one is pretty eclectic! LOVE his calligraphy 🖌️Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 Now for a little Halloween-flavoured listening. 🎃 Loved Act 1, which I listened to while walking alone during rainy nights in the Kyoto hills last year. "The Sandman: Act II" by Neil GaimanPermalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 "The Economist's Hour: The Rise of a Discipline, the Failures of Globalization, and the Road to Nationalism" by Binyamin Appelbaum Listened to an interview of his and this book has been on my mind since then. Explains a lot re: our financialized world.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 "Places" by Jakuchō Setouchi This was just released by @UHPRESSNEWS. She is a very powerful personality with a pretty wild life. Looking forward to see how this reads compared to the regular Buddhist fare I read 😅Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 Just finished “The Rise of Modern Japan” a short Great Courses lecture series from @MarkRavina. It’s a really dense history of Japan in the post-war, right up to Covid. Wish it was a series, since I’d love to be caught up on a bunch of countries like this.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 Continuing on the theme of short explainers of national development, I listened to “Korea: A Very Short Introduction” by Michael J Seth which gave me a better sense of the periodization of the two Koreas, especially during the Joseon up to the modern period.Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 Gorgeous winter day so I went for a short walk and listened to Ring by André Alexis. I have been waiting for this! It is the final part of his Quincunx Series (and 3rd in the plot timeline, so now I can finish the series). Big fan!Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 Just finished “Range” by David Epstein, while shovelling my driveway. We’ve had about 25cm. (The screen on the new phone makes it tough to take a good photo! It’s all band-y)Permalink On twitter.com
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#NowReading2021 Just finished “Three Tigers, One Mountain” by Michael Booth. This was my 40th book of the year, completing my Goodreads challenge with just a few days to spare! 🎊 goodreads.com/user_challenges/26033735Permalink On twitter.com
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Capping off the year with a #NowReading2021 roundup post 📚 chadkohalyk.com/2021/12/29/2021-in-books/Permalink On twitter.com