Book review: 『嫌われる勇気』 by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
This book is about Adlerian psychology but presented in a very easy and concrete way.
This book is about Adlerian psychology but presented in a very easy and concrete way.
This book is a collection of interviews between Satoru Iwata and Shigesato Itoi. Highly recommended if you want to know more about Satoru Iwata, if you are a Nintendo fan, if you are interested in the game industry, or simply if you want to hear inspiring anecdotes and episodes about leadership, teamwork, communication, and dreams for the future.
I was overall disappointed with this book as it was not what I was looking for. The content, while being interesting, was very pale compared to what the obi advertised.
My goal for December was to complete my 2020 reading challenge. In order to do this, I needed to read the last book of the Kaga series by Keigo Higashino and a literary award winner. I did both, and I read two more books as well: one is a novel, one is nonfiction. 『蛍川』 by Teru Miyamoto (宮本輝) The edition I have contains two novellas from the Rivers series: 泥の河 and 蛍川. When I read 泥の河 earlier this year, I found it difficult to read it in Japanese, so I bought the translation by Roger K. Thomas and Ralph McCarthy (Rivers, Kurodahan Press, 2014). I am glad that I did because I don’t think that I could have fully appreciated this novella without the translation. I would have understood the story without problems, but with literary fiction, just understanding what happens is not enough. If you cannot appreciate the author’s literary style or understand metaphorical descriptions, you miss a great part of the book. To give you a concrete example, this description is much too difficult to …
Here are my favourite books read in 2020!
This is a collection of autobiographical episodes about the author’s childhood. Heart-warming, relatable and funny. Highly recommended!
An engrossing fiction about a real extortion case that took place in 1984: the Glico Morinaga case.
My reading challenge for 2021 is to read the whole Kogoro Akechi series! 12 months = 12 books!