Kwaidan Book Club
This Committee is responsible for putting on Kwaidan Book Club, our book club. Kwaidan Book Club is our "Read Japan" aspect where members have an opportunity to read and discuss a Japanese related book whether it be a novel, short stories, or manga. Kwaidan Book Club typically meets once every two months. Meeting dates and locations are listed on JSNO's Events Calendar.
Currently being conducted online through JSNO Discord (link: https://discord.gg/tBtmSWe), while still supporting Tubby and Coo's Mid-City Book Shop by supplying book links that help support the business.
If you are interested in joining this committee or need any more in depth information, please contact Gissel Ferriol at ferriolgissel@gmail.com or co-committee chair Jennifer Torres at jgaudet09@yahoo.com.
Books we've covered so far:
Kwaidan - Lafcadio Hearn
The Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama
The Love We Share Without Knowing - Christopher Barzak
Madame Butterfly - John Luther Long
Silk - Alessandro Baricco
The Wind Up Bird Chronicles - Haruki Murakami
Howl's Moving Castle - Diana Wynne Jones (movie showing)
Snow Country - Yasunari Kawabata
An Artist of the Floating World - Kazuo Ishiguro
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (movie showing)
Shinju - Laura Joh Rowland
The Butterfly Crest - Eva Vanrell (author appearance)
Silence - Shūsaku Endō (movie showing)
The Book of Tea - Okakura Kakuzō
Fruits Basket (manga) vol. 1 & 2 - Natsuki Takaya
The Twelve Kingdoms (light novel) - Fuyumi Ono
Out - Natsuo Kirino
In Ghostly Japan - Lafcadio Hearn
Across the Nightingale Floor - Gillian Rubinstein
In This Corner of the World (manga) - Fumiyo Kōno (moving showing)
The Devotion of Suspect X - Keigo Higashino
Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
Kafka on the Shore - Haruki Murakami
Tale of Genji - Murasaki Shikibu
Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata
Fallen Angel: An Only in Tokyo Mystery - Jonelle Patrick
Pure Invention: How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World - Matt Alt (author appearance)
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (light novel) - Yoru Sumino
Speak, Okinawa - Elizabeth Miki Brina
Pachinko - Min Jin Lee