I don't always buy the novels after seeing the films, but I did so for An Education. I'm not exactly sure why. Maybe I am curious about the life of an English girl who was a teenager and young adult in the 60's, the period I was born.  

 It turns out that the… Read full post »

Beatrice and Virgil, a book by Yann Martel, is on holocaust. The holocaust of any living things. Harry the writer who gave up on his attempt to write his book on holocaust met Harry the taxidermist who has been trying almost all his life to write a play in which Virgil,… Read full post »

Responding to open call for 101-word story .

My first experience at a Japanese onsen. Conscious of my nakedness, I wanted to dive immediately into the bath, but I had to wait impatiently for the burning sensation to subside from my legs before I could submerge more of my body into… Read full post »

I am not a fan of poetry. When I have a choice of texts to read, I do not go for the pages on which the words appeared in stanzas, with each line of words having a slightly different length than the previous and the next.  When I do read poems,/… Read full post »

Tom Robinson rushed around wildly, aimlessly, desperately. His eyes darted everywhere, with unsteady glances and panicky stares.  He swirled, ran in one direction, and then headed in another, so he moved all over the stage, furtively, hurriedly, and followed closely by a dozen other actors. The… Read full post »

I just found out, somewhat by accident on OS, that one of my favourite bloggers here passed away in January, at the age of 43. He used the pseudonym "yellowson" but his name, Sang Lee, is on his blog. Since I don't stumble upon many Asians on OS, and this person even had the same… Read full post »