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What are you looking for in your next great read? 🤔
Anyone who reads this blog most likely enjoys classics, but I’m really interested in specific things people are looking for. Creative writing? Complex characters? Sheer escapism? Do let me know! Read more >>
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Shūsaku Endō’s The Golden Country – More Reflections on Silence
The Golden Country: A Play About Christian Martyrs in Japan (1970) is a retelling of Endō’s earlier novel Silence (1966). (You can watch my three-part video review of Silence on YouTube, if you like.) Both stories follow the trials of Father Ferreira, a Portuguese missionary to Japan in the early 1600s. The character of Ferreira… Read more >>
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Journeys End
It’s after 10 p.m. as I write this, and I’m sipping a cup of joe because that’s my idea of living dangerously. This has been such a happy week, following three of the roughest months. Maybe there is something to the idea that it’s always darkest before the dawn (also a lovely song by Tori… Read more >>
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Thou Shalt Not Kill: Sachiko by Shūsaku Endō
I think Sachiko (1982, transl. 2020) has been my first 5-star novel of the year. In some ways, it doesn’t “deserve” it. Clocking in at 464 pages, it’s long and meandering, more “tell” than “show,” without the brilliant brevity of The Sea and Poison or the pithy structure of Silence. But just like those two… Read more >>
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Hi, I’m Marian—I talk about classics, history, and other books on this blog, as well as on YouTube.
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