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The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living - Russ Harris. ExpandRead more... )

A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki. ExpandRead more... )

Among Others - Jo Walton. ExpandRead more... )

Keeping up with the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters - Philip Oltermann. ExpandRead more... )

Rivers of London - Ben Aaronovitch. ExpandRead more... )

A Stranger in Olondria - Sofia Samatar. ExpandRead more... )

Understanding the European Union: A Concise Introduction - John McCormick. ExpandRead more... )

Cart and Cwidder - Diana Wynne Jones. ExpandRead more... )
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Remember when I used to actually read books? More than occasionally? ;____;

The War of Art: Winning the Inner Creative Battle - Steven Pressfield. ExpandRead more... )

Remembering Japanese Baseball: An Oral History of the Game - Robert K. Fitts. ExpandRead more... )

30 Days of Becoming a Better Japanese Learner - Koichi@tofugu.com. ExpandRead more... )

Building Diaspora: Filipino Cultural Formation on the Internet - Emily Noelle Ignacio. ExpandRead more... )
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Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga - Jennifer S. Prough. ExpandRead more... )

A Sociology of Japanese Ladies' Comics: Images of the Life, Loves, and Sexual Fantasies of Adult Japanese Women - Ito Kinko. ExpandRead more... )
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Fanning the Flames: Fans & Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan - Edited by William W. Kelly. ExpandRead more... )

Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti - Genevieve Valentine. ExpandRead more... )

Zen to Done: The Ultimate Simple Productivity System - Leo Babauta. ExpandRead more... )
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Japan Pop!: Inside the World of Japanese Popular Culture - Edited by Timothy J. Craig. This is a generally pleasing overview of Japanese cultural studies -- I think (though I haven't checked; I'm just going by the feel of the book) largely by Western, if not US, scholars. It was published in 2000 & I'd be really curious as to how some of the topics discussed have morphed since then; for example, I was interested in James Stanslaw's article on how female pop stars use English (or not) to assert certain things about themselves & their image, & I'd imagine this has developed much further in the last 11 years.

I also liked William Lee's piece talking about how popular TV shows (most recently -- & that's not v. recent anymore -- Crayon Shin-chan) use nostalgia about a certain type of family to draw in viewers, especially for shows that may have already been airing for decades & that rely on the appeal of a certain mythic timeless good-old-days social structure. One article by Anne Allison about Sailor Moon & her reception in the US retreads old ground for me (though it probably wasn't old when the book was published... ) about localization of Japanese anime, but also points out that part of the reason Sailor Moon wasn't nearly as popular in the US was because kids found her annoyingly "girly" for a superhero. For all those who posit the US as feminist light years ahead of other countries (including Japan), well, yes, look at that: US kids rejecting someone for trying to be both a superhero & feminine. Hm.

Other stuff I liked: Christine Yano talking about the continuing appeal of enka; Hiro R. Shimatachi on karaoke-induced culture clashes (though again, this is something I suspect has changed a lot since publication); & Hiroshi Aoyagi on pop idols as tools for pan-Asian identity. Anyway: a nice overview, and now I have to see what's been written in English more recently on some of these same subjects.
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The WisCon Chronicles Volume 5: Writing and Racial Identity - Edited by Nisi Shawl. ExpandRead more... )

Pandemonium and Parade: Japanese Monsters and the Culture of Yokai - Michael Dylan Foster. ExpandRead more... )
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Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism - Patricia Hill Collins. ExpandRead more... )

Rocket Girls - Housuke Nojiri, translated by Joseph Reeder. ExpandRead more... )

Chains of Babylon: The Rise of Asian America - Daryl J. Maeda. ExpandRead more... )

Succubus Heat - Richelle Mead. ExpandRead more... )

Mechademia 3: Limits of the Human - Edited by Frenchy Lunning. ExpandRead more... )

Mechademia 4: War/Time - Edited by Frenchy Lunning. ExpandRead more... )
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Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor. ExpandRead more... )

Kitty Goes to War - Carrie Vaughn. ExpandRead more... )

You Gotta Have Wa - Robert Whiting. ExpandRead more... )
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Half World - Hiromi Goto. ExpandRead more... )

Ash - Malinda Lo. ExpandRead more... )

Moxyland - Lauren Beukes. ExpandRead more... )

Returning My Sister's Face And Other Far Eastern Tales of Whimsy and Malice - Eugie Foster. ExpandRead more... )

Liar - Justine Larbalestier. ExpandRead more... )

The Other Lands - David Anthony Durham. ExpandRead more... )

The Choir Boats - Daniel A. Rabuzzi. ExpandRead more... )

The Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture - Edited by Roger J. Davies and Osamu Ikeno. ExpandRead more... )

Popco - Scarlett Thomas. ExpandRead more... )
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The Secret Feminist Cabal: A Cultural History of Science Fiction Feminisms - Helen Merrick. ExpandRead more... )

Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire - Edited by Frenchy Lunning. ExpandRead more... )

Asleep - Banana Yoshimoto. ExpandRead more... )
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For those of you reading on LJ: I've now imported this journal onto Dreamwidth, but will continue to cross-post to LJ (with comments at DW only; more info in the footer at the bottom of this entry).

Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World - Edited by Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Lee Harrington. ExpandRead more... )

Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalism - Koichi Iwabuchi. ExpandRead more... )

The Artist's Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self - Julia Cameron. ExpandRead more... )
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Vibrator - Mari Akasaka (translated by Michael Emmerich). ExpandRead more... )

When I Forgot - Elina Hirvonen (translated by Douglas Robinson). ExpandRead more... )

Nine Layers of Sky - Liz Williams. ExpandRead more... )
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Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. ExpandRead more... )

All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe. ExpandRead more... )
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The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover - Victoria Janssen. ExpandRead more... )

Weddings from Hell - Maggie Shayne, Jeaniene Frost, Terri Garey, Kathryn Smith. ExpandRead more... )

The House of Discarded Dreams - Ekaterina Sedia. ExpandRead more... )

On Call: Political Essays - June Jordan. ExpandRead more... )

A Book of Her Own: Words and Images to Honor the Babaylan - Leny Mendoza Strobel. ExpandRead more... )

Goodbye Tsugumi - Banana Yoshimoto. ExpandRead more... )

Typical American - Gish Jen. ExpandRead more... )

Black Looks: Race and Representation - bell hooks. ExpandRead more... )

Matters of the Blood - Maria Lima. ExpandRead more... )
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Banker to the Poor: The Story of the Grameen Bank - Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis. ExpandRead more... )

Second-Class Citizen - Buchi Emecheta. ExpandRead more... )

Ten Little Indians - Sherman Alexie. ExpandRead more... )

Strangers - Taichi Yamada, translated by Wayne P. Lammers. ExpandRead more... )

The Dew Breaker - Edwidge Danticat. ExpandRead more... )

Walking a Tightrope: New writing from Asian Britain - Edited by Rehana Ahmed. ExpandRead more... )

Sour Sweet - Timothy Mo. ExpandRead more... )

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