This is one of those books that is so completely character driven that you can't put it down, because you have become totally invested in their lives. There are three main stories that overlap and take place at this magical coffee shop hidden at the end of an alley. I say magical, because the coffee …
Continue reading Days at the Torunka Cafe, Satoshi Yagisawa, (2022), translated by Eric Ozawa (2025)
When it’s over, I want to say: all my lifeI was a bride married to amazement.I was the bridegroom, talking the world into my arms.When it’s over, I don’t want to wonderIf I have made of my life something particular, and real.I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened,Or full of argument.I don’t want …
Continue reading Mary Oliver, September 10, 1935-January 17, 2019
Jane Crofut; The Crofut Farm; Grover’s Corners; Sutton County; New Hampshire; United States of America; Continent of North America; Western Hemisphere; the Earth; the Solar System; the Universe; the Mind of God I have always found Thornton Wilder’s, Our Town fascinating. From the bare stage void of props and the only furniture benches, chairs and …
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