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In My Hands Today…
Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual passion is marked by the tragic death of their best friend years before. Toru begins to adapt to campus life and the loneliness and isolation he faces there, but Naoko finds the pressures and responsibilities of life unbearable. As she retreats further into her own world, Toru finds himself reaching out to others and drawn to a fiercely independent and sexually liberated young woman.
2018 Week 14 Update
Another week and this was a mixed bag of a week for me.
I have been super productive in finishing some chores which have been pending since the start of the year. I am almost done with the organisation of some documents and will start with something else later this week.
We’ve all been sick, starting with GG, then BB and me together. GG seems to have recovered, but BB and I are still not 100% fine.
That’s about it for me this week. I am also psyching myself to get myself to agree to a decision for which my self-imposed deadline will come in a couple of months and I really need to psych myself for it.
Have a lovely week folks!
2018 Secondary 3 Week 14 Update
This was the week when both have gotten the mid-year exams timetable and I have been, as usual, nagging them on starting to do up a timetable to plan their studies.
This week was also the Student Leader Investiture Ceremony in GG’s school where not only was she the main emcee for the event, but she also got the appointment letter appointing her as Vice President of her CCA! But the flip side of this honour is that she has become busier and I don’t want this to affect her studies and focus in any way. So I guess, I have to be there for her, and guide her on good work-life balance and start these lessons young.
Other than that, this was the usual school week.
In My Hands Today…
The Shogun’s Queen – Lesley Downer
Only one woman can save her world from barbarian invasion but to do so will mean sacrificing everything she holds dear – love, loyalty and maybe life itself . . .
Japan and the year is 1853. Growing up among the samurai of the Satsuma Clan, in Japan’s deep south, the fiery, beautiful and headstrong Okatsu has – like all the clan’s women – been encouraged to be bold, taught to wield the halberd and to ride a horse.
But when she is just seventeen, four black ships appear. Bristling with cannon and manned by strangers who to the Japanese eyes are barbarians, their appearance threatens Japan’s very existence. And turns Okatsu’s world upside down.
Chosen by her feudal lord, she has been given a very special role to play. Given a new name – Princess Atsu – and a new destiny, she is the only one who can save the realm. Her journey takes her to Edo Castle, a place so secret that it cannot be marked on any map. There, sequestered in the Women’s Palace – home to three thousand women, and where only one man may enter: the shogun – she seems doomed to live out her days. But beneath the palace’s immaculate facade, there are whispers of murders and ghosts. It is here that Atsu must complete her mission and discover one last secret – the secret of the man whose fate is irrevocably linked to hers: the shogun himself . . .
