Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Arikawa

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Short Story Wednesday: The Goodbye Cat by Hiro Ar...:   The Goodbye Cat is a Japanese book, written by Hiro Arikawa, and translated by Philip Gabriel. It  consists of seven short stories, and e...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Two Reviews: Japanese Literature Challenge

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Two Reviews: Japanese Literature Challenge:   In this post I am reviewing two books for the Japanese Literature Challenge 18 , hosted at Dolce Bellezza . It started in January and cont...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: Satoshi Yagisawa

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: Satoshi Yagisawa: First two paragraphs of the book: From late summer to early spring the next year, I lived at the Morisaki Bookshop. I spent that period of m...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Tokyo Express: Seicho Matsumoto

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Tokyo Express: Seicho Matsumoto:   I am participating in the Japanese Literature Challenge 17 hosted by Dolce Bellezza . It runs from January through February, 2024. The go...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1-3

Bitter Tea and Mystery: A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1-3: A Man and His Cat is a Japanese manga series; the writer and artist is Umi Sakurai. This comic started out on Twitter, self-published on Tw...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Bullet Train: Kotaro Isaka

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Bullet Train: Kotaro Isaka:   Summary: When the story opens, all we know is that Yuichi Kimura is boarding the Bullet train at Tokyo station to seek revenge on a person...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Japanese Literature Challenge: A Midsummer's Equation

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Japanese Literature Challenge: A Midsummer's Equation:   A Midsummer's Equation by Keigo Higashino is the first book I am reviewing for the Japanese Literature Challenge, hosted at Dolce Bel...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Strange Weather in Tokyo: Hiromi Kawakami

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Strange Weather in Tokyo: Hiromi Kawakami: In Strange Weather in Tokyo , Tsukiko Omachi runs into her high school Japanese teacher at a bar in Tokyo. She is 37, he is much older, arou...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Toshikazu Kawaguchi

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Before the Coffee Gets Cold: Toshikazu Kawaguchi: This lovely little book is about a tiny café in Tokyo which has been serving a special coffee for more than one hundred years. Visitors to t...

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Malice by Keigo Higashino

Bitter Tea and Mystery: Malice: Keigo Higashino: Description from the book cover: Acclaimed bestselling novelist Kunihiko Hidaka is found brutally murdered in his home on the night before h...