After finishing the first part of Lafcadio Hearn's book, "Japan", called The Land, I began the second section called The People. LH does not disappoint, and in fact I found his writing about the people of Japan so fascinating that I just couldn't put the book down. There are so many good things in this section that if I started posting excerpts, I would end up posting the entire section. I just recommend that everyone read this book if you can.
This book made me become more interested in things about Japan that I want to keep reading similar works about the people and their history. But alas, I have not enough time and my stack of books is too high. For now I am going to move on to Yukio Mishima's "The Golden Pavilion"; the edition I have of this novel is in a collection of three novels by this writer and I had read the other two novels some time ago and put off reading this. I am finding that Goodreads is a helpful tool in causing me to finish up old reading projects so that I might tackle my current stack and then move on to other stacks I have waiting. And I had wanted to get this done not just to check off a list but because that writer was pretty good also. Then eventually I'll get back to the Russians and Ayn Rand. Eventually also I'll get back into some non-fiction. Anyway...
I wish everyone good reading...
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