Banana Yoshimoto

I've read a couple of Murakami's books and one Banana Yoshimoto - loved them all.

Japanese Reading Challenge Stephanie 2008

I knew nothing about Japan, I did not know that the year I turned twenty-eight, the age Banana Yoshimoto was when she wrote Kitchen, I would move to Tokyo for one magical spring just before the cherry blossoms bloomed.

Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007

I adored the writer Banana Yoshimoto, author of Kitchen, and her warm, frothy tales of young women coming of age in Tokyo.

Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007

I am inspired by the writing of Peggy Orenstein and Banana Yoshimoto.

Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007

Banana Yoshimoto is also one of my favorites...the novels I've read have been short but lovely and I recommend her.

2 New Challenges!! Such Fun! Stephanie 2007

She is wearing the requisite black suit and with her little glasses, she bears more than a passing resemblance to the writer Banana Yoshimoto.

Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007

In many ways, this book is a continuation of a dialogue between Japanese women and I that began the first time I picked up a book by Banana Yoshimoto.

Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007

I've been reading Francesca LIa Block and Banana Yoshimoto lately...but would gladly set them aside for a new one from you :

Review: Gramicci (and Palma) and Sabbatical GreenFertility 2007

Banana Yoshimoto and Haruki Murakami and I think all the manga in Engleesh translation I've ever seen.

languagehat.com: THE MOST UNTRANSLATABLE WORD. 2004

Next up is the first book I finished this year, Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.

bookgirl's nightstand 2009