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Monday Moods: Books & Coziness.

 Slowly but surely coming around to loving Mondays 🥰 Here's what this rather happy Monday looked like in my world.  Coffee in a cute duck mug.  Finished this very cozy and wholesome book this morning.  Letters from the Ginza Shihodo Stationery Shop by Kenji Ueda is a hug of a book.  Some new additions to my e-bookshelf.  Coffee and a book I'm reading through the month.  A spot of greenery. 

6 Japanese Books I Read for Japanuary.

Hello Loves!  This year I decided to actively participate in Japanuary, a reading challenge/theme where people read some Japanese books in January.  I knew I didn't want to ONLY read Japanese books all month long, that kind of commitment I only make for Indian Books in August. But I wanted to read a handful books from Japan. And I did just that. I honestly thought I'd read like one book but to my surprise I read 6 books and now let's talk about them.   1. The Premonition by Banana Yoshimoto, translation by Asa Yoneda: I read Kitchen by the same author last year, after hearing nothing but great things about it for ages. I didn't quite love as much as so many other people seem to. I liked it enough but I didn't love it.  So I picked this one up with some trepidation.  This novella is a story of young woman of nineteen, who uncovers a big secret related to her family and herself.  OK not a real Spoiler Alert but she finds out she was adopted into her fam...