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David’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at David’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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David Joiner
Goodreads Author
Born
in Cincinnati, The United States
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Yasunari Kawabata, Natsume Soseki, Junichiro Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima,
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February 2012
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Kanazawa
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Lotusland
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The Heron Catchers
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Stray Cat City
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* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Japan Writers Panel, MinkaCon 2025
I've just uploaded a YouTube video of MinkaCon 2025 in Aichi prefecture. In the video, I read from The Heron Catchers, followed by readings by my fellow panelists Everett Kennedy Brown and Azby Brown.
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2247...
https://www.goodreads.com/videos/2247...
David’s Recent Updates
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Wonderful review, Richard. I’m really glad you liked it and learned so much about Vietnam through it.
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"Readers like myself who know very little about life in Vietnam after its reunification in 1975 will learn a great deal about the country’s sociopolitical dynamics in following Tiep’s ‘…search for personal liberation and individual love.’ Among these "
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"A really odd little book -- the introduction tries to take a stab at what it actually is, modern fable, fairy tale, allegory, parody of contemporary Japanese society? But I don't think it's any of these things. A most-likely mad man relates his tale "
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"Very poignant striking prose but the mix of folklore and contemporary stories was either not translated well or just the author being very vague and chaotic. Short stories are hard to pull off well as they have to evoke a certain feeling in a few sho"
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| Having read this while traveling through Vietnam, and specifically while being in Saigon, I found these essays fascinating for the insights they offered on southern Vietnamese life and culture and refreshing for their focus on aspects of the region t ...more | |
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