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"Force kids to eat stuff they hate and you end up with adults so dull and stupid they don't know what they like (…)"

“As a child he had assumed the goal of medicine was to keep bodies alive forever; he had never considered the pain of not being able to die.”

o conceito é interessante mas está a ser um livro muito morno…

livros de 2021:
1. normal people - sally rooney
2. kafka à beira mar - haruki murakami
3. the picture of dorian gray - oscar wilde
4. never let me go - kazuo ishiguro
5. shadow and bone
6. siege and storm
7. run and rising
8. the penguin book of japanese short stories

- JAOAN AND THE WEST -
Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki: 4/5

Excerto com o tamanho perfeito, amei amei amei.

“Tokyo is bigger than Kumamoto. And Japan
is bigger than Tokyo. And even bigger than Japan…” He paused and looked at Sanshirò, who was listening intently now. 'Even bigger than Japan is the inside of your head. Don't ever surrender yourself - not to Japan, not to anything.”

- JAPAN AND THE WEST -
Behind the Prison by Nagai Kafū: 3/5

Uma ideia ou outra muito interessantes mas no geral, como um todo, achei fraquito.

- JAPAN AND THE WEST -
The Story of Tomoda and Mutsunaga by Tanizaki Jun’ichirō: 3.5/5

não foi mau, a história foi interessante e a escrita foi boa mas pronto, depois de ler certas short stories neste livro esta não me surpreendeu muito.

"- ‘Hey, Dad, what world are we in? Is it some world in between? ‘ - I didn't know what to say.
I repeated the boy's words in my mind: Some world in between…”

- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE-
Weather-Watching Hill by Saeki Kazumi: 4.5/5

“Dad, look at how pretty the stars are. Honestly, all I could think was; who cares about stars at a time like this? But I looked up and the sky was bright with them. (…) I will never forget the beauty of the stars that night, when the whole city was blacked out. Those stars and the waxing moon were all we had.”

- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE-
Weather-Watching Hill by Saeki Kazumi: 4.5/5

“With a pang, it occurred to me - there are some things you don't notice until they're gone.”

- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE-
Weather-Watching Hill by Saeki Kazumi: 4.5/5

amei esta short story, amei o Beppu.

“Not that I really feel alive, though. More like I'm just pretending.”

“They had spun in the air because their world had become a living hell, because they wanted to become anything else besides what they were, as if they believed that to spin was to be reborn. If that joy was what this young man meant by “purity”, she understood what he was saying perfectly.”