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- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE -
Hiroshima City of Doom by Ōta Yōko: 4/5

“In any situation, human beings are always impatient to find a place to call their own, it seemed. Even when the sky is their only roof, they prefer not to be jumbled together but instead want to take possession of a seat that is unambiguously theirs.”

- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE -
Hiroshima City of Doom by Ōta Yōko: 4/5

Short story mais longa do que o normal e que apesar de ter uma narrativa mais real, não deixa de ser interessante.

- DISASTERS, NATURAL AND MAN-MADE -
The Great Earthquake and General Kim by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke: 1/5

Já percebi que não gosto da escrita deste homem. “Olhem para mim eu falo do japão e dos imperadores e dos generais e dos homens e da pátria, sou um cidadão com tanto orgulho no meu país e em ser homem la la la”. Homem chato fogo, ele que aprenda com o meu Mishiminha Yukio <3

- DREAD -
Kudan by Uchida Hyakken: 1/5

boring

- DREAD -
Filling Up with Sugar by Sawanishi Yūten

“A vague and childish thought had crossed Yukiko's mind long ago when she first learned that an illness existed in which the cells of the body turn to sugar: Filling up with sugar - what a lovely way to die!”

- DREAD -
Filling Up with Sugar by Sawanishi Yūten

“The vagina was the first part of her mother's body that turned to sugar probably because it was the one organ for which her mother no longer had any use.”

- DREAD -
Filling Up with Sugar by Sawanishi Yūten: 4.5/5

Apesar de não me ter tocado como outras short stories, sem dúvida que nunca me vou esquecer desta. Ter de tratar de uma mãe que lentamente se irá transformar em açúcar é um conceito muito marcante, acho que nunca vi algo do género retratado noutro livro.

— DREAD —
Hell Screen by Akutagawa Ryūnosuke: 3.5/5

Consigo perceber a fama deste escritor mas penso que a escrita/plot dele não fazem o meu género. Transpira vibes de homem cis hetero branco que odeia mulheres.

- MODERN LIFE AND OTHER NONSENSE-
Shoulder-Top Secretary by Hoshi Shin’ichi: : 3.5/5

amei o conceito mas não amei a escrita. fiquei com curiosidade de ler mais obras do autor.

- MODERN LIFE AND OTHER NO SENSE -
Dreams of Love, Etc by Kawakami Mieko: 4/5

assim que li o nome terry e bianca eu vi logo que a história ia virar lgbt. gostei moderadamente. entre um 3.5 e 4.

- MODERN LIFE AND OTHER NONSENSE -
Factory Town by Betsuyaku Minoru: 5/5

história curtinha mas com muito conteúdo. amei o conceito de vender a solução para o problema que a própria pessoa criou.

- MODERN LIFE AND OTHER NONSENSE -
Mr. English by Genji Keita: 1/5

boring

- MODERN LIFE AND OTHER NO SENSE -
closet LLB by uno kōji: 1/5

boring.

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
cambridge circus by shibata motoyuki: 3/5

ideia interessante mas não achei nada de especial.

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
the 1963/1982 girl from ipanema by haruki murakami: 10000/5

4 páginas que resumem a essência da escrita do murakami. não vou colocar nenhuma frase em específico porque não consigo escolher nenhuma específico. se pudesse colocava aqui a short story completa.

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
unforgettable people by kunikida doppo

+ ”Don't we all receive this life of ours in a place between heaven and earth, only to return, hand in hand, along the same eternal track, to that infinite heaven? And when this feeling strikes me, I find myself in tears, for in truth there is then no self, no other. I am touched by thoughts of each and every one.”

- NATURE AND MEMORY
unforgettable people by kunikida

“But more than anything else, images of these people I have described to you come streaming into my mind. No, I see not the people themselves: I see them as figures within a much larger scene. They are part of their surroundings, part of a moment. I remember these people and from deep within me the thought wells up: How am I different from anyone else?” +

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
unforgettable people by kunikida doppo

“But then there are others - complete strangers - to whom we are bound by neither love nor duty. Forgetting them would imply neither neglect of duty nor want of compassion. Yet these are the very ones we cannot forget.”

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
unforgettable people by kunikida doppo

"An unforgettable person is not of necessity one whom we dare not forget. (…) We can't simply call parents and children or friends or the teachers and others to whom we are obligated "unforgettable people". These are people "Whom we dare not forget" +

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
unforgettable people by kunikida doopo

“No, it's really no good; said Otsu. 'It's like the pencil sketches you artists do - nothing that other people can appreciate. But he made no attempt to retrieve the document. Akiyama glanced at a few pages. "Sketches have their own special interest as sketches. I think I'd like to read this.”

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
unforgettable people by kunikida doopo: 4.5/5

amei o conceito “unforgettable people” e a forma como o autor o descreveu, mas não gostei das descrições das ditas unforgettable people.

-NATURE AND MEMORY
the tale of the house of physics

“More than a few times I was forced to ponder how someone who wrote such a beautiful novel could be such a jerk. A writer's character, however, lies outside the part of the field that an editor can be expected to cover. When a writer of mine wrote a book that delighted its readers, I was able to love it unconditionally, however nasty its author might be (…)”

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
the tale of the house of physics by Ogawa Yōko: 4.5/5

gostei muito desta história, senti o carinho e preocupação do narrador com a senhora da house of physics.

- NATURE AND MEMORY -
Peaches by Jay Rubin

“Was this one of those "beautiful recollections', a pack of lies put through a sentimental tinting job until it comes out 'like a little story? It might well have been.”

— NATURE AND MEMORY ——
Peaches by Jay Rubin

“I know all too well that memory cannot be trusted, and I have surely heard this said by others. But I am constantly being shocked anew at how wildly deceptive memory can be. It beguiles us at every turn. I was taken by surprise again not too long ago.”

—— NATURE AND MEMORY ——
Peaches by Jay Rubin: 3.5/5

gostei de sentir a incerteza do narrador em relação às suas próprias memórias mas o plot podia ter sido mais interessante.