The latest stop on my chapter-by-chapter stroll through 'The Tale of Genji' sees us making a house visit on two sisters, in 'Hanachirusato' - a short chapter, unlike my post... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/10/the…

Fancy a mini-Genji-translation-slam? Of course you do ;) Three writers, one paragraph from 'Hanchirusato' - who does it best? tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/11/the…

I actually read this one a few months back, but my first read was all for me! Now, after a reread, I'm ready to share my thoughts with others, and as you'll see, perhaps it was for the best that I kept them to myself until after the second try... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/we-…

The moment Scott Boland made history! #WIvAUS

ICYMI: my latest review looks at Han Kang's 'We Do Not Part' (translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris): tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/we-…

A slightly different slant on my Genji adventures today, as I review Patrick W. Caddeau's 'Appraising Genji', a look at what nineteenth-century literatus Hiromichi Hagiwara contributed to Genji commentary :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/app…

Today on the blog, a look at Virginia Woolf's final novel 'Between the Acts', one summer day in an English garden... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/bet…

Love's sweet exile, with Genji getting ready to hit the road - part one of my take on Chapter 12 of 'The Tale of Genji, 'Suma': tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/the…

ICYMI: the first of my two posts on Chapter 12 of 'The Tale of Genji', with our friend making preparations for what might prove to be a one-way trip to Suma... tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/24/the…

He left his home in Kyoto, headed for Suma Bay... Join Genji in sittin' on the dock of the bay, wastin' time (even if the tide is doing anything but rollin' away!): tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/the…

ICYMI: Here's the second part of my look at 'Suma', Chapter 12 of 'The Tale of Genji' (my last one until September!). tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/the…

Dads are Superheroes- A Thread🧵 1 ) Dads are always there in every situation❤️🥹

My latest review looks at Elizabeth von Arnim's 'The Enchanted April', a tale of four women, strangers at the start, enjoying a month in a castle, and in the Italian sun :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/the…

A new (yes, *new*) piece of fiction by Japanese writer Shūsaku Endō? That and more in 'Portraits of a Mother' (translated by Van C. Gessel, courtesy of Yale University Press) - see my review here :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/por…

The July wrap-up post is now out, with all the usual stats and review links :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/08/02/jul…

My first review for this year's #WITMonth takes us to South Korea, for a look at Seo Hajin's collection 'A Good Family' (translated by Ally H. Hwang and Amy C. Smith), another selection from the Dalkey Archive Library of Korean Literature :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/08/04/a-g…

Looking for more #WITMonth inspiration? We've collected some links to book bloggers, bookshops, magazines who have compiled lists: tinyurl.com/3sx8bnbh Thank you Annabel Gaskell Foyles Bookshop ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social CLMP Tony Lighthouse - Edinburgh’s Radical Bookshop PEN America The Portobello Bookshop Radz Pandit 📚

Two books, two names, but just one writer - whether it's written O Chŏng-Hŭi or Oh Jung-Hee, what's not in doubt is the quality of the Korean writer's work. On the right, a new arrival, just in time for #WITMonth, 'Chinatown', translated by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton :)

Predictably depressing :(