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Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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I'm a fan of Ruth Rendell as well, one of my favourites is A sight for sore eyes. In the kitchen got very mediocre reviews here in New Zealand earlier this year, I haven't read any of her novels but did see the movie adaption of Brick Lane.
... my favorite mystery writer and this Inspector Wexford book does not disappoint. It kept me guessing until the end.
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali- the chef at a prestigious London hotel restaurant basically throws his life away. I found the book to be somewhat schizophrenic--it didn't ...
Food Writing
1. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
2. Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table by Ruth Reichl
3. The Man Who Ate Everything by Jeffrey Steingarten
4. Is There a Nutmeg in the House? by Elizabeth David
5. The Art of Eati ...
OK, that list was way too long! I've deleted it. If anyone wants the alphabetized list, tell me and I'll send it to you.
Kitchen Confidential
... usually read by the author, who knows exactly where they want to put their emphasis. The audiobook of Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential is pretty much the best thing ever.
I haven't read Kitchen Confidential but I have read Agnes and the Hitman.
I haven't read The Devil Wears Prada,
But I have read Kitchen Confidential .
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... been really busy lately -- I have a lot of good stuff lined up, but not a lot of time to read. I am working my way through Kitchen Confidential , which I have borrowed from Espy. It's oddly fascinating.
... >my 999 so far … in an approximation of preference:
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Stitches by David Small
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
The School of Es ...
Alphabetical Author Challenge
A. Ali, Monica, In the Kitchen 9/09
B. Bolano, Roberto, Natzi Literature in America 10/09
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G. Grossman, V., Life and Fate 11/09
H. Harkaway, Nick, The Gone-Away World 9/09
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I'm reading Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens for my RL book club now, In the Kitchen by Monica Ali as my ER book, and A Grain of Wheat by Ngugi wa Thiong'o just because.
I've also decided to open a new category in Collections of books I've read a fair amount of and abandoned. T ...
... and started it!
The 'B' Shortlist Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson
Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Just finished Short Girls by Bich Minh Nguyen (pretty good stuff) and picked up In the Kitchen by Monica Ali again, which I started a few months ago but decided to put down for a while.
... Nazi Literature in the Americas by Roberto Bolano
79. Gods and Symbols of Ancient Egypt by Manfred Lurker
80. In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
81. Molo'kai by Alan Brennert
82. Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
83. Inspector Wexford by Ruth Rendell
84. X ...
... It's a tell-all about the cruise ship industry, the author was a waiter aboard ship. It's a funny book, rather like Kitchen Confidential . It's available in the Kindle bookstore.
Right now I'm reading Secret Memoirs The Story of Louise Crown Princess by Henry W. Fischer. It's the ...
36) A Nail through the Heart Timothy Hallinan
37) The Serpent's Tale, Ariana Franklin
38) In the Kitchen , Monica Ali
39) Burnt Shadows Kamila Shamsie
40) The Blue Notebook James A. Levine
... excellent books about Chefs, about cooking professionally. Michael Ruhlman lends an insight that is equal to Bourdain and Kitchen Confidential
Border Songs by Jim Lynch
The Spare Room by Helen Garner
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
and, if I hurry to finish, probably Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides.
Bonus: ABC3D by Marion Bataille, which takes two minutes to read (if ...
... and I have his The Man Who Loved China ahead of this in line to be read. This was free in a three for two deal.
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. I love to eat even sometimes in restaurants, and I'm curious about the backstory.
Talbin in Book talk : Books about Food (Jun 25, 2009, 4:47pm)
... experience 50+ years earlier.
Some people like Anthony Bourdain, some don't. I'm in the "like" camp, so I'd recommend Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour.
Julie and Julia was enjoyed by many, and the new movie is getting good pre-reviews. I didn't like this book as well as other ...
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Some of the things I've considered recommending so far include: Motherless Brooklyn, The Coffee Trader, Kitchen Confidential , Water for Elephants and Into Thin Air.
Do these sound about right? Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.
... World Spin
The McSweeney's Joke Book of Book Jokes
The School of Essential Ingredients
The Girl She Used to Be
Kitchen Confidential
The Spare Room
Border Songs
ABC3D
I'm getting In the Kitchen by Monica Ali. woo! thank you LT! :-)
... Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
At Borders for $55
2666 by Robert Bolano
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Bible! by Jonathan Goldstein
Little Stalker by Jennifer Belle
Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
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I just put Kitchen Confidential on my wishlist. Sounds like a very fun read, and I don't mind being yelled at. :-) I won't be garnishing my food for everyday meals, but I do agree with him about fresh herbs. When I do have to use dried, I use Penzeys, which is a mail-order spice company and ...
The reviews of my previous book, Tattoo Machine, compared it with Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. It was on my TBR pile, so I gave it a read.
This is a fun, passionate book about the restaurant industry. Bourdain is profane and opinionated, which made for a highly entertaining book. ...
The reviews of my previous book, Tattoo Machine, compared it with Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. It was on my TBR pile, so I gave it a read.
This is a fun, passionate book about the restaurant industry. Bourdain is profane and opinionated, which made for a highly entertaining ...
I'm reading Kitchen Confidential , which was recommended by someone here. It's a fun read so far.
... it's a hoot, but it's done respectfully. I think you'll enjoy it.
Right now I'm reading Waiter Rant. It's kind of like Kitchen Confidential , only about waiters. Free word of advice, never piss off your waiter!
Finished Kitchen Confidential this weekend as well as Nice to Come Home to. Am still working my way through Atlas Shrugged will probably be at that for a while!
I'm still reading Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand and hope to finish Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain today. Then it's on to The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips.
>81 I have it TBR -- bought Heat and Kitchen Confidential at the same time, a week or so ago. Almost started it the moment I finished Kitchen Confidential, but decided its gentler tone deserved a little space and quiet before jumping in. Looking forward to it!
Book 27: well, I remedied #75 above -- finally read Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential and loved it! (*****)
Though published in 2000, I only heard of it a few years ago and then avoided it -- I wasn’t interested in the exploits of an alcohol/heroin/coke/sex-addicted egotist and wasn ...
... Shrugged I'm trying to finish some half-read stuff. So I've picked up The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips again an Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. I'm promising myself to get through them this time - before I pick up anything else.
I just started Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain, and I've already whizzed through about half of it in one evening! I'm also slogging through Anna Karenina, and I started Jingo by Terry Pratchett last night. School's been getting super busy lately, which is making me feel a little ...
9. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
A fantastic read recommended by my wife. I have always enjoyed Anthony Bourdain's patented snark on his various TV adventures and as fortune would have it, this translates well to the page. ( varielle in What Are You Reading Now? : New Vocabulary (Apr 2, 2009, 12:28pm)
From Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential I picked up commis, meaning a chef's assistant.
I've been reading Anthony Bourdain's first memoir of his life as a chef, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly . The blurb on the jacket says "Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino". I used to date a guy who worked in the restaurant industry in various capacities ...
I'm in NYC with Anthony Bourdain stealing sou chefs from rival restaurants in Kitchen Confidential .
... Water by Ethan Canin
69. Treasures of Time by Penelope Lively
70. The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin
71. In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
72. Document Z by Andrew Croome
September
73. Dancer by Colum NcCann
74. The Other Hand by Chris Cleave
75. Robber ...
You're doing well so far, harpervalley! What did you think of Kitchen Confidential ? That one's been on my TBR for a while.
#7. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
11. Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain (category 9) **
Good old Tony never fails to amuse and entertain. I prefer his observations on No Reservations, because traveling is much more interesting than work, but Kitchen Confidential was a good escape when I was trying to write a paper on the D ...
... evsky
- 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Addition by Toni Jordan
- Crazy as Chocolate by Elisabeth Hyde
- Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
- The River King by Alice Hoffman
- Written Lives by Javier Marias
- Yes Man by Danny Wallace
- 'Death in Venice' by Thoma ...
... Rights, but hopefully that will be informative at the very least. As an antidote, I will soon begin Anthony Bourdain's Kitchen Confidential , the first book in my "Books I'm ashamed to be seen with" category. Tony's snotty attitude sounds like just the ticket right about now.
... thoroughly entertaining! He did state rather emphatically that had he had it to do over again, he would not have written Kitchen Confidential . I believe is exact words were--"I'll never live it down and that's not really me--at least not now."
... the remaining charity shops that I didn't hit last time, bar one because I got sidetracked trying on T-shirts. I bought Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain from the Red Cross, and a new-looking if slightly shelf-worn copy of The River King by Alice Hoffman from Help the Aged. Mum did ...
... years. You get a wide range of authors and there's probably something there for everyone's taste.
I assume you've read Kitchen Confidential , which is my favorite of the Bourdain books, so far. I also tried Steingarten's It Must've Been Something I Ate which I enjoyed, but not as much as ...
This category has been changed to Books from the library
Books I own but haven´t read
1.Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain read (June 5th)
2.Naive Super by Erlend Loe read (June 7th)
3.Kiinalaisia lemmentarinoita by Meng-tsu Ling read (June 11th)
4.Like Water for Choco ...
Just finished reading The End of the Affair by Graham Greene. Fantastic book. Am thinking of getting into Kitchen Confidential next after reading Waiter Rant at the end of last year and really enjoying it.
List 8: Art of Living
8.1 Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - finished
8.2 The Best of Elizabeth David
8.3 Chez Nous: Home Cooking from the South of France
... >review )
42) Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant (review )
43) In The Kitchen by Monica Ali (review )
44) American Adulterer by Jed Mercurio (moneybeets in 999 Challenge : Moneybeets' 999 Challenge (Dec 27, 2008, 7:12pm)
... Tony Bourdain's books to feature prominently.)
1. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
2. The Shining, Stephen King
3. Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain (completed 1/31/09) **
4. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling (reread 5/01/09) ***
5. Heart-Shaped Box, Joe Hill ...
... Jon Krakauer
Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney
Manliness by Harvey Mansfield
Donnie Brasco by Joe Pistone
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Faith, Reason, and the War Against Jihadism by George Weigel
Against Depression by Peter Kramer
... remember last name)
No, not the cake bible, the Holy Bible Though if you must include a food book,. I suppose Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. I think he teaches you not to order fish in a restaurant on Monday and never to order steak well done. Sorry, Tony, but I still ...
... shopping, never mind, maybe I could count my reading as research for pressies :-)
Ok, this is my list so far for Dec.
Kitchen Confidential another bookring finished and passed on, yay! An entertaining read.
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel. Just beautiful. number 195 on the 100 ...
... the Fifth: BOOKS ABOUT FOOD
'Cause I love food.
1. In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollen
2. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
3. Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
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... Phlebas and The Player of Games
The Good Fairies of New York
The Secret of Lost Things A RL book group read
Kitchen Confidential
Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
Forest Mage
So far I haven't really looked at my Clunkers for this year, though the books listed below were ...
... Waldman (****)
Direct Red (surgical training) by Gabriel Weston (****)
Homer's Odyssey (pet) by Gwen Cooper (****)
Kitchen Confidential (restaurant cheffing) by Anthony Bourdain (*****)
Lucky Girl (international adoption) by Mei-Ling Hopgood (***)
Spiced (restaurant cooking) by Dal ...
... Odyssey by Gwen Cooper (****) (See review)
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (*****)
Lucky Girl by Mei-Ling Hopgood (***) See review)
An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Kitchen Confidential
Basically, I just didn't like the people/characters involved.
Saga by Conor Kostick (can't get the touchstone to work on that one)
I really liked Epic, but its sequel ...
Welcome, andusir06! From your library I would choose Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain. I've read about it... there have got to be some great stories!
Today I sent Kitchen Confidential to Canada, The Longman Anthology (Middle Ages & Early Modern - 2 volumes) to the Philippines, & an old copy of Omni magazine to New York, all courtesy of BookMooch.
Today I got:
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
and
Miracle by Deborah Smith
63. Mockingbird a portrait of Harper Lee
64. No Reservations
65. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
I choose Kitchen Confidential from p.brownlow's library. I love Anthony Bourdain's caustic wit on T.V. and have been wanting to read his bio.
... They Slept by Kathryn Harrison
6. King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
7. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony BourdainUndress Me in the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
9. The Road to Rescue by ...
... which I really want to try! The descriptions of the food Ruth has tried are salivating. It is the perfect companion to Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.. all I want to do now is visit New York and try out all of the restaurants!
... Generals by Derek Hansen
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
The Lunatic Cafe by Laurell K. Hamilton
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Tales From The Captain's Table by Keith R.A. DeCandido
... The collection was read by seceral Irish actors and writers, including Ciarin Hinds, Stephen Rea, and Frank McCourt.
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Family Matters by Rohinton Mistry
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory. I have had mixed reactions to her ...
... of story, but it wasn't the book for me. 2/5
Books I stopped reading: A Champion's Mind, Gideon the Cutpurse, and Kitchen Confidential
Currently reading: A Princess of Roumania and The Solitary Envoy
... A Princess of Roumania.
The rest is the same as last week (and no further than the last time I posted) -- reading Kitchen Confidential and The Solitary Envoy, and listening to Anne of Avonlea.
Kitchen Confidential
Those chefs are like pirates, and Bourdain is a badass. Good for anyone interested in restaurants or mental illness or both.
... later date, but I'm not really attached either.
I started reading The Solitary Envoy for Go Review That Book and Kitchen Confidential for "librarian research." I'm rather glad to have been "warned" about the narrative tone, otherwise I think I would have been even more put off by its ...
I have Kitchen Confidential and have yet to read it. The comments here won't put me off.
But if you guys think he is an ass from the book, you should see him on TV. He is on the Food Network quite a bit, and he is just a jerk. FN uses him as a judge with chefs trying to win a ...
... enjoy, bell7. I buried my original comment in hopes you might just gloss right over it and not notice. Rats.
Anyway...Kitchen Confidential isn't a recommendation from me or, it sounds like, cameling; still hope you'll try to give the book a fair shake of your own. Who knows but what you ...
... to me. I'll have to check it out from the library next time I go. Thanks!
Oh darn it, now I'm kind of leery of reading Kitchen Confidential . Oh well. If I don't like it, I'll quit that's all. Haven't started it yet, I'm off to read Her Majesty's Dog Vol 7 instead (cameling, that's ...
... really funny ... I read it halfway through the series and then my niece gave me the DVDs at Christmas.
I couldn't stand Kitchen Confidential when I read it. The thing is, I've been to Anthony Bourdain's restaurant in NYC and for all the critique he does of other chefs and restaurants ...
... be quite surprised...though of course taste is completely personal. I, for example, thought bell7's July assignment book Kitchen Confidential (>74 above)was about as annoying as anything I have ever read and wanted to slap Bourdain silly for being such a supercilious snarkmeister.
Then I ...
... xxxholic vol. 7 through vol. 11 had come in, as well as the nonfiction book I have assigned myself for the month of July, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
... Duras.
H is for Homicide, Sue Grafton.
The Collector, John Fowles.
Prince Caspian, C.S. Lewis.
Kitchen Confidential , Anthony Bourdain.
The Bell, Iris Murdoch.
All of which were good (some were exceptional; I'd be tossing up between Case Histories and The ...
16. Sex with the Queen by Eleanor Herman
17. Trickster's Queen by Tamora Pierce
18. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
19. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
20. Love Thy Neighbor by Ann Turner
21. Elisabeth: The Princess Bride by Barry Denenberg ...
23. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
... and Chocolate
2. Booked to Die by Dunning. I loved this book, and this character simply for his love of books.
3. Kitchen Confidential
4. Stardust by Neil Gaiman
5. Heroes Saving Charlie the only Heroes I got during the writer's strike. Glad that's over.
6. Book of Fate
7 ...
(Thanks, everyone!)
16. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Pssst! Skip the mussels!
Swear, scar, scrimmage in kitchens;
drink life from the tap.
17. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
The eggs are waiting
for reasons to smash their cells,
reasons to escape.
18. ...
... See
610 Medical sciences; Medicine: Mountains Beyond Mountains
636 Animal husbandry: Marley and Me
641 Food & drink: Kitchen Confidential
791 Public performances: If Chins Could Kill
796 Athletic & outdoor sports & games: Into Thin Air
798 Equestrian sports & animal racing: Seabisc ...
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
The Loo Sanction by Trevanian
The Dark Room by Minette Walters
Mother Goose or the old Nursery Rhymes by Kate Greenaway
A Room With a View by E.M. Forster
I'm reading A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain .
... ever), any thing by Bernard Fall or David Halberstam, Colin Wilson's The Outsider, Kitchen Condifential by Anthony Bourdain ...oh, and The Grapes of Wrath, I could read that book all day.
... as well, but also quite good are Finding Fish: a memoir by Antwone Q. Fisher, A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle, and Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain.
... Fear or Favour by Bob Bottom
Shibumi by Trevanian
Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds
Subject:
Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain (son is a chef)
Temeraire: His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik (favourite combination: history and dragons)
The Railway ...
53. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain - Bourdain is a rock and roll star in today's culinary world, and this is the book that gave him that position. He may not be the most amazing of chefs, nor the classiest guy to work for, but he knows the ins and outs of the culinary world, especially ...
... A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver et al. (HarperCollins, 2007). “Think Globally, Eat Locally.”
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers by Amy Stewart (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2007). “The Art and Science of Blo ...
... Dividing of Australia
Appetites: Why Women Want
Paperweight
Slipping into Paradise : Why I Live in New Zealand
Flower Confidential: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful in the Business of Flowers
Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion- READ IT
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Kitchen Confidential
Mrs. Proust and the Kosher Kitchen
The Man in my Basement
Suite Francaise
Lost Girls and Love Hotels
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The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Hard Times by Charles Dickens
The Anthony Bourdain Omnibus (contains Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour)
Small Island by Andrea Levy
and from Amazon:
The RHS Encyclopedia of Plants and Flowers and
1001 Books You Must Read ...
... used book store that has a good selection of 1st editions) and bought: The boxed set of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain and The Essential Tales of Chekhov edited by Richard Ford. The last is a very nice hardback first edition. Yeah!
Touch ...
I have Kitchen Confidential and The Omnivore's Dilemma on my TBR SOON pile along with Salt, Cod, Don't Try This at Home, Spice: The History of a Temptation, 100 Vegetables and Where They Came From and several books on candy on my TBR EVENTUALLY pile.
What books about food do you ...
... Paton
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood - really didn't like, don't think I've liked anything by her!
Kitchen Yoshimoto - Good, featuring a modern Japanese woman
Tortilla Curtain Boyle - should be required reading in Southern California where I live.
The Count ...
Are we finished Kitchen ?
I'll join you if you do My Name is Red, but I don't know which book was chosen.
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Message 20: SqueakyChu
When you put Kitchen in brackets, you'll see Kitchen Confidential . Just look underneath that and click on where it says "others". That will load a choice of books with the word Kitchen in their titles. Kitchen by Banan ...
I work in a bookshop and have stacks of gallies by my bed...but i am a truly sick book person and so brought home a copy of Kitchen today...when do the chats begin?
... such as those of James Ellroy (particularly his L.A. Quartet of novels: The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential , and White Jazz) as "neo-noir "; not sure if anyone else will like this distinction or find it useful.
That said, and with an honest attempt at ...
Well I ended up here through the "your books" section of talk because of Kitchen Confidential - Adventures in the culinary underbelly . Of course that is not the "Kitchen" that you are all talking about but there's a wierd association going on because although that book is set in the US he does ...
Thanks, SqueakyChu! As you can see, I edited my previous post. When the Kitchen touchstone said "Others", I thought it was referring to "other authors" as in "by Anthony Bourdain, et al."
I'll see if I can find a copy of Banana's book in time to join ... I love her writing.
I haven't read many books by Japanese writers, but I really liked Yoshimoto Banana's Kitchen . A lot of Japanese books tend to be sad and although this one was sad in many respects, in a very subtle way it was also refreshingly optimistic.
I also enjoyed Akutagawa's Rashomon and Kaw ...
... Very good to know! I will save specifically for that version then! Thank you! Cool!
SqueakyChu---Yep, I'm getting Kitchen ! I just clicked it, and I have two options a pretty red cover UK Pocketsize version to be sent from Japan, or MY COUSIN. Guys last name and mine are similar, and ...
... but it's in Brazil, and it's a reviewer's copy. Hmmmm To mooch or not to mooch. I can't decide that one, or the Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, a couple in the US, and one in Japan with a different cover.
I did see a copy of Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto on your lists. I did an amazon search. She's now on my list of TBR.
My post was really confusing--sorry I usually get up early and super caffinate, but today I slept in and hadn't really woken up yet by the time I posted.
let me simplify ...
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