It’s so interesting yet strange to realize your true home is not where you expected it to be. I always imagined I’d live in New England, where I grew up but Japan grabbed hold of me! By the way, I read Disorientation. It was darker than I expected but definitely glad to have read it!
I was surprised by the way Japan grabbed me! Disorientation was very dark. Much American literary fiction can be dark and a bit preachy... but I was also glad to have read it xoxo
Especially love: I think if I was a book, I would be a polyphonic novel set in multiple locations —places where I have lived for long stretches of time or visited repeatedly, cities I have spent time in or fallen in love with at first sight. But I also think there would be at least one setting where I had never been in real life—only knowing it through reading. And that would be my favorite, where the writing really popped.
OH, MY! This is such a beautiful stream of thoughts, images, sounds. The tone of the piece as a whole is one of such sweetness with the vigor of longing embedded in the sounds beyond the words. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! On so many levels, Leanne.
Thank you so much, Sally! I wanted to add this quote that I think Naguib Mahfouz said that "home is the place where you stop wanting to run away from..." I think I really felt that in Japan!! And I possibly could feel it on the Big Island too. I also have Hongo's poetry anthology Coral Road and am reading the poems slowly, slowly xoxo
It’s so interesting yet strange to realize your true home is not where you expected it to be. I always imagined I’d live in New England, where I grew up but Japan grabbed hold of me! By the way, I read Disorientation. It was darker than I expected but definitely glad to have read it!
I was surprised by the way Japan grabbed me! Disorientation was very dark. Much American literary fiction can be dark and a bit preachy... but I was also glad to have read it xoxo
I love the way your mind works!
Especially love: I think if I was a book, I would be a polyphonic novel set in multiple locations —places where I have lived for long stretches of time or visited repeatedly, cities I have spent time in or fallen in love with at first sight. But I also think there would be at least one setting where I had never been in real life—only knowing it through reading. And that would be my favorite, where the writing really popped.
Thank you!!!!
OH, MY! This is such a beautiful stream of thoughts, images, sounds. The tone of the piece as a whole is one of such sweetness with the vigor of longing embedded in the sounds beyond the words. Gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous! On so many levels, Leanne.
Thank you so much, Sally! I wanted to add this quote that I think Naguib Mahfouz said that "home is the place where you stop wanting to run away from..." I think I really felt that in Japan!! And I possibly could feel it on the Big Island too. I also have Hongo's poetry anthology Coral Road and am reading the poems slowly, slowly xoxo
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