The Other Americans Review (no spoilers)Dead Lizard Reads2023-06-17 | Books mentioned The Other Americans, Laila Lalami Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugrešić
#bookreview #booktube #nospoilersThe Bone Fire by György Dragomán Slavic Summer Ep 1Dead Lizard Reads2024-07-16 | Slav Summer reading, update 1
Link to article- https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/slavic-witchcraft
Books mentioned- The Bone Fire, György Dragomán Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic From the Witch of the Woods Red Closet- Rustam Alexander
Books, Book review, Booktube, booktok, booktuber, bookshelf, currently reading, eastern europe, witchcraft, tradwifeSlavic Summer Reading 2024- IntroDead Lizard Reads2024-06-26 | Welcome back to Slavic Summer/Eastern European été
Books mentioned- The Bone Fire, György Dragomán Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic From the Witch of the Woods, Madame Pamita Red Closet, Rustam Alexander She Called Me Woman, Azeenarh Mohammed Grey Bees, Andrey Kurkov
Currently Reading- Prisons Make Us Safer, Victoria Law
18/75 Books readCheck out my May Reading Wrap Up #booktubeDead Lizard Reads2024-06-12 | ...May Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2024-06-11 | Books Mentioned- Manazuru, Hiromi Kawakami The Angel of Indian Lake, Stephen Graham Jones Think Big: Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want, Grace Lordan Battle Royale, Koushan Takami
Currently Reading- The Bone Fire, György Dragomán
14/75 Books read
#bookwormlife #currentlyreading #books #readingwrapup #booktube #bookreview #bookrecommendationsCheck out my April Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2024-06-08 | ...April Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2024-06-07 | Happy Belated April!
Books Mentioned- The Chinese Groove, Katheryn Ma Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country, Patricia Evangelista Crying in H-Mart, Michelle Zauner Deaf Sentence, David Lodge
Currently Reading- Battle Royale,
14/75 Books read
#april2024 #readingwrapup #booktube #bookreview #books #booktok #booklover #cryinginhmart #memoirTBR to get back on track with my goalsDead Lizard Reads2024-05-26 | This video is already old and out of date lol.
Books mentioned- Manazuru, Hiromi Kawakami Deaf Sentace, David Lodge Battle Royale, Koushun Takami The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohllenben The Bone Fire, György Dragomán
Currently Reading- Battle Royale
11/75 books read
#reading #readinggoals #tbr #goals #booktubeMarch 2024 Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2024-04-22 | March happened and some books were read.
Books mentioned: None of the Above, Travis Alabanza Pageboy, Elliot Page The Chinese Groove, Kathryn Ma Crying in H-Mart, Michelle Zauner Some People Need Killing, Patricia Evangelista
Currently read: Manazura, Hiromi Kawakami Deaf Sentence, David Lodge
#books #booktube #bookreview #readingwrapup #bookshelfTalking about books while I ruin my hairDead Lizard Reads2024-03-25 | The title says it all... Long time no see :P
Books mentioned- The Furrows, Namwali Serpell Pageboy, Elliot Page A Terrible Country, Keith Gessen
Currently Reading- Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner
5/75 books readBackfilling My Goodreads Reviews #1Dead Lizard Reads2024-02-05 | Follow me on Goodreads: Deadlizard
2024 Reading Goal Status- 1/75Rhode Island Book Haul Part IIDead Lizard Reads2023-12-22 | Books mentioned- The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong The Butterfly Garden, Dot Hutchinson If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English, Noor Naga Beijing Sprawl, Zechen Xu One Friday in April, Donald Antrim Hard Like Water, Yan Lianke A Present Past Titan and Other Chronicles, Sergey Lebedev Summer in Baden-baden, Leonid Tsypkin The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, Dubravka Ugrešić
#travelvlog #booktuber #bookrecommendations #bookstore #newengland #bookhaulI went to Rhode Island Again [Vlog + Book Haul]Dead Lizard Reads2023-12-05 | Books mentioned- The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong The Butterfly Garden, Dot Hutchinson If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English, Noor Naga Beijing Sprawl, Zechen Xu One Friday in April, Donald Antrim Hard Like Water, Yan Lianke A Present Past Titan and Other Chronicles, Sergey Lebedev Summer in Baden-baden, Leonid Tsypkin The Museum of Unconditional Surrender, Dubravka Ugrešić
#travelvlog #booktuber #bookrecommendations #bookstore #newengland #bookhaulEnd of Year Reading PlansDead Lizard Reads2023-11-28 | Books mentioned- Battle Royale, Koushun Tatami (326/647) The Bone Fire, György Dragomán (206/480) The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (104/314) War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy (Start of Volume II) Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol (68/402) Beijing Sprawl, Zechen Xu (128/227) Ninth Building, Jingzhi Zou (18/272) Upstream, Mary Oliver (60/178) Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden Keefe (not started) The End of August, Yu Miri (not started)
#readinggoals #readingplans #endofyear #readinglist #bookrecommendations #booktube #booktuberSweet Pickle Books - Book Store Review!Dead Lizard Reads2023-11-22 | My inaugural bookstore review!
Books mentioned- Uncle Silas, J Sheridan Le Fanu The Virgin Suicides, Jeffery Eugenides The Cabinet, Kim Un-su Sharp Objects, Gillian Flynn
Currently reading- Beijing Sprawl Battle Royale
#bookrecommendations #bookstore #booktube #bookstorevlogMy Bookish IcksDead Lizard Reads2023-11-14 | Books Mentioned The Other Americans, Laila Lalami It Ends With Us, Colleen Hoover A Map for the Missing, Belinda Huijuan Tang Almond, Sohn Won-pyung Darius the Great is Not Okay, Adib Khorram
#bookrecommendations #bookreview #booktube #booktuber #russianliteratureIts a Reading Goal Check in BestiesDead Lizard Reads2023-10-17 | Books mentioned- Ghost Music, An Yu The Bone Fire, György Dragomán Ninth Building, Jingzhi Zou War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera A Map for the Missing, Belinda Huijuan Tang Brickmakers, Selva Almada
#bookish #readinggoals #goalsetting #bookrecommendations #booktube #bookreview #booktuberSeptember Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2023-10-13 | Can you tell how done I am by the thumbnail?
Books mentioned Wound, Oksana Vasyakina Audition, Ryu Murakami Ghost Music, An Yu Stolen Focus, Johan Hari
#bookrecommendations #booktube #septemberreading #readingwrapup #readinglist #bookish #booktuber #russianliterature #japaneseliteratureSemi Spooky Book HaulDead Lizard Reads2023-10-03 | Books mentioned- Wound, Oksana Vasyakina Nipponia Nippon, Kazushige Abe The Devil’s Flute Murders, Seishi Yokomizo Audition, Ryu Murakami The Ghosts of August, Yu Miri The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag, King Chow-Hwan The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez Revenge, Yoko Ogawa Ring, Koji Suzuki Maeve Fly, CJ Leeds The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung
Currently reading- Like honestly oscillating between like five books atm.
#booktube #bookish #bookrecommendations #bookhaul #booktuber #bookreview #spookyseason #haul #maeveflyAugust Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2023-09-26 | Guys, I’m sorry this video is so lame.
Also this is the second time I’ve used that tear drop. I couldn’t resist.
Books mentioned: Spin Dictators, The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century, Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag, King Chow-Hwan The Disorded Cosmos: A journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred, Chanda Prescott-Weinstein All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami
Currently Reading: Wound, Oksana Vasyakina
#augustreading #readingwrapup #bookrecommendations #booktube #bookish #bookreviewMe ranting about a book review I didnt likeDead Lizard Reads2023-09-17 | Books Mentioned- Balzac and The Little Chinese Seamstress, Dai Sijie
#booktube #bookish #rant #bookreview #bookrecommendationsWhy I Dont Read YA....Dead Lizard Reads2023-09-12 | Just a low key video where I discuss why I don't read young adults.
Currently reading: The Bone Fire, György DragománFlop Era TBRDead Lizard Reads2023-08-27 | There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Kikuko Tsumura The Sociopath Next Door, Dr. Martha Stout The River Between, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Ninth Building, Zou Jingzhi The Only Good Indians, Stephen Graham Jones The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie Ghost Music, An Yu Saha, Cho Nam-Joo Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami Aseroe, Francois Dominique The Empire of Pain, Patrick Radden KeefeJuly Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2023-08-15 | Books Mentioned A Door Behind a Door, Yelena Moskovich What Moves the Dead, T. Kingfisher The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Frank Rich The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich Unbowed, Wangari Maathai The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Unsolicited thoughts on Barbie: I wish it wasn’t as focused on Ken. He, as a character, could have learned the same stories without spending a whole half of the movie following him. Have him be a little side kick. Not because I feel bad for his portrayal- I genuinely don’t care. I was there for Barbie gorl, not Beach guy.
Also- the pacing was weird.
#julyreadingwrapup #readinglist #booktube #booktuber #bookrecommendations #booktok #barbiecoreWomen In Translation Month Recommendations and TBR #WITDead Lizard Reads2023-08-08 | TBR list- The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk Rasputin and Other Ironies, Teffi Love in Defiance of Pain Ukrainian Stories, Various authors Cursed Bunny, Bora Chung Woman Running in the Mountains, Yuko Tsushima All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami
Recommendations- The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich Heaven, Mieko Kawakami The Days of Abandonment, Elena Ferrante The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez Strange Weather in Tokyo, Hiromi Kawakami Lucky Breaks, Yevgenia Belorusets Shanghai Baby, Wei Hui Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata Earthlings, Sayaka Murata
Other books mentioned - The Ten Loves of Mr. Nishino, Hiromi Kawakami Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami
#WIT #womenintranslation #booktube #bookish #booktuber #bookreview #bookrecommendationsMy One Year ChannelversaryDead Lizard Reads2023-08-05 | It's been a year!
#booktube #bookish #booktuber #oneyearanniversarySlavic Summer Episode 2- Less Books, More ActivitiesDead Lizard Reads2023-07-30 | Welcome back for another installment of me blabbering on.
Books mentioned- A Door Behind A Door, Yelena Moskovich The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich Baba Yaga's Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods, Madame Pamita
Currently reading- The Bone Fire, György Dragomán
#slavicsummer #bookreview #booktube #bookshelf #cookingvideo #bookvlog #booktuber(A Very Mid) Mid Year Freakout TagDead Lizard Reads2023-07-25 | Mid Year Freak Out Tag Questions 1. Best book you’ve read so far 2. Best sequel you've read so far in 3. New release you haven't read yet, but want to 4. Most anticipated release for the second half of the year 5. Biggest disappointment 6. Biggest surprise 7. Favorite new author (debut or new to you) 8. Newest fictional crush 9. Newest favorite character 10. Book that made you cry 11. Book that made you happy 12. Most beautiful book you've bought so far this year (or received) 13. What books do you need to read by the end of the year?
Books mentioned- A Wife for My Son, Ali Ghalem A Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib They Can’t Kill US Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib The Red Closet, Alexander Rustam The Other Americans, Laila Lalami The Gardener from Ochakov, Andrey Kurkov Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids, Kenzaburo Oe A Door Behind a Door Yelena Moscovich What Moves the Dead, T Kingfisher Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugrešić Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov Ebola ’76, Amir Tag Elsir Tava, Irina Georgescu The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana Alexievich
#booktube #midyearbookfreakouttag #midyear #bookish #bookreview #booktagSlavic Summer Ep 1 BABA YAGAS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!Dead Lizard Reads2023-07-17 | Sorry about the audio, for any headphone listeners. I've figured it out for future videos!
Books Mentioned: Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugrešić We, Yevgeny Zamyatin Russian Tales, Dinara Mirtalipova Tava, Irina Georgescu A Door Behind A Door, Yelena Moskovich [completed by the time of posting] The Bone Fire, György Dragomán The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk
Currently Reading: The Unwomanly Face of War, Svetlana AlexievichTBR- Check in, how did I do? #booktube #tbr #booktuber #shorts #booktokDead Lizard Reads2023-07-10 | ...June Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2023-07-05 | Books Mentioned Fox Tales, Tomihiko Morimi The Other Americans, Laila Lalami Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann I’m Afraid of Men, Vivek Shraya The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugrešić We, Yevgeny Zamyatin
Currently Reading A Door Behind A Door, Yelena Moskovich [completed by the time of posting] The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk
#booktube #readingwrapup #bookreview #bookish #bookrecommendations #booktuberThe 30+ Books I Acquired During My No-BuyDead Lizard Reads2023-07-01 | Books Mentioned: Deep River, Shusako Endo Ghost Music, An Yu Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight, Riku Onda Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa The Diving Pool, Yoko Ogawa We, Yevgeny Zamyatin They Can’t kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib The Narrow Cage and other Modern Fairy Tales, Vasily Eroshenko Brickmakers, Selva Almada Ebola ‘76, Amir Tag Elsir Aseroë, François Dominique Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, Dubravka Ugrešić Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov See my video on Time Shelter- youtu.be/iUYzS5FzZXo Jacob’s Ladder, Ludmila Ulitskaya The Books of Jacob, Olga Tokarczuk The Bone Fire, György Dragomán Insatiable, Asa Akira Basically a video only on Insatiable- youtu.be/XPDMlZgYKTY The Wall, Marlen Haushofer The Undocumented Americans, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio The River Between, Ngugi wa Thiong'o Dairy of a Void, Emi Yagi Ninth Building, Zou Jingzhi Kolyma Stories, Varlam Shalamov The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera Bad Kids, Zijin Chen Battle of Ink and Ice, Darrell Hartman The Little Devil in America, Hanif Abdurraqib Voices of Freedom, editors Kateryna Kazimirova & Daryna Anastasieva
#booktube #bookhaul #bookish #booktuberLGBTQIA+ TBRDead Lizard Reads2023-06-29 | Tennessee Equality Project, a group supporting the LGBT+ community in Tennessee through lobbying: tnep.org
Books mentioned- Red closet: The hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR, Rustam Alexander She Called Me Woman: Nigeria's Queer Women Speak, Azeenarh Mohammed (Editor), Chitra Nagarajan (Editor), Rafeeat Aliyu (Editor) Bad Gays: A Homosexual History, Huw Lemmey, Ben Miller Bad Girls: A Novel, Camila Villada, Kit Maude (Translator) Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann Baba Yaga Laid An Egg, Dubravka Ugrešić I'm Afraid of Men, Vivek Shraya The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot
#booktube #pridemonth #bookishSlavic Summer Ep 0.5 Elizabeth Gilbert RantDead Lizard Reads2023-06-27 | Books by Ukranian Authors:
#booktube #newyorktimes #eatpraylove #bookishHalf Moon Bay VlogDead Lizard Reads2023-06-25 | Books mentioned: Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, David Grann Baba Yaga Laid An Egg, Dubravka Ugrešić
#asmr #firstasmrvideo #tapping #softspoken #whisperingMy Summer Reading PlansDead Lizard Reads2023-06-14 | I can't remember the books I mentioned, whoops.
#summerreading #readingplans #booktube #booktuber #easterneuropeMay Reading Wrap Up (+ Muji Haul)Dead Lizard Reads2023-06-05 | Books mentioned Hate in the Homeland, Cynthia Idriss-Miller Diary of a Void, Emi Yagi The Gardener from Ochakov, Andrey Kurkov Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov
Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov Insatiable, Asa Akira Yo, Rigoberta, Rigoberta Menchú (Please note that I remembered incorrectly, Menchú’s book is discussing the violence against the Indigenous Guatemalan community, not necessarily focusing on violence against women.) In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson Three Cups of Deceit, Jon Krakauer
Currently Reading, Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol Diary of a Void, Emi Yagi
#booktube #aprilreading #readingwrapup #bookreview #bookrecommendationsBooks I Would Sell My Soul to Read for the First Time AgainDead Lizard Reads2023-05-10 | Books mentioned: Braised Pork, An Yu Ghost Music, An Yu Strange Weather in Tokyo, Hiromi Kawakami The Ten Loves of Nishino, Hiromi Kawakami The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, Mariana Enriquez Things We Lost in the Fire, Mariana Enriquez The Aosawa Murders, Riku Onda Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight, Riku Onda A Wife for My Son, Ali Ghalem The Box Man, Kobo Abe Lucky Breaks, Yevgenia Belorusets Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov The Gardener from Ochakov, Andrey Kurkov
#booktube #bookreview #booktok #bookrecommendations #booktuberThoughts on Time ShelterDead Lizard Reads2023-05-06 | Books mentioned- Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov
Currently reading- Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
#booktube #bookreview #internationalbookerprizeThe Quarter Year Crisis Book TagDead Lizard Reads2023-04-26 | Tag Questions: How many books have you read so far? Have you already found a book you think might be a 2023 favourite? If not, what was your favourite book you read that wasn't quite five stars? Any 1 star books / least favourite book of the year? Most read genre so far? A book that surprised you? Book that's come out in 2023 already that you want to read but haven't yet? One goal you made that you're succeeding at One goal you made you need to focus on New to you Booktubers/bookstagrammer/booktokers for 2023 you recommend?
@RoisinsReading - tag creator @stalkingkafka -who inspired me
2023 Reads: The Plague, Albert Camus Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women and the Way Forward, Gemma Hartley Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield Purple Hibiscus, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Hiroshima, John Hersey Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion, Jia Tolentino The Hole, Hiroko Oyamada Ebola ‘76, Amir Tag Elsir Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces Neurodiversity, Devon Price A Wife for My Son, Ali Ghalem Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids, Kenzaburo Oe Brickmakers, Selva Almada The Diving Pool: Three Novellas, Yoko Ogawa Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, Agatha Christie Three Cups of Deceit: How Greg Mortenson, Humanitarian Hero, Lost His way, Jon Krakauer The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, Masha Gessen They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraquib Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov
18 books 4396 pages (allegedly, again, a lot of these were audio books)
Other Books Mentioned: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women, Kate Moore Hate in the Homeland: The New Global Far Right, Cynthia Miller-Idriss
Booktubers I enjoy: @apocalypsereading7117 @tokyochemist @kiranreader @SluggishReader @shelf-reflections7549
Currently Reading: Insatiable: A Porn Love Story, Asa Akira We, Yevgeny Zamyatin Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa
#booktube #bookreview #booktag #bookrecommendations #bookshelfInt’l Booker Prize. #booktube #internationalbookerprize #bookreview #reelsDead Lizard Reads2023-04-18 | ...Advice on Starting A Book Club (+ our recommendations)Dead Lizard Reads2023-04-17 | Books mentioned: Moving Diversity Forward, Verna Myers Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Disability Visibility, Multiple authors Alice Wong A Personal Matter, Kenzaburo Oe The Sum of Us, Heather McGhee Lucky Breaks, Yevgenia Belorusets Bloodlines: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, Timothy Snyder Darius the Great is Not Okay, Adib Khorram Nuclear Family, Joseph Han Parable of the Sower, Octavia E Butler The Long Way to A Small Angry Planet, Becky Chambers The Pretty One, Leah Brown Unmasking Autism, Devon Price They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hang Abdurraqib On Fragile Waves, E. Lily Yu
#booktube #bookreview #bookclub #readingaddict #bookrecommendationsMarch Reading Wrap UpDead Lizard Reads2023-04-06 | Books mentioned: Three Blind Mice and Other Stories, Agatha Christie Three Cups of Deceit, Jon Krakauer The Future is History, Masha Gessen They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, Hanif Abdurraqib
Currently Reading: Time Shelter, Georgi Gospodinov We, Yevgeny Zamyatin Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
#booktube #bookreview #readingwrapup #reading #marchreadingJapanese Book RecommendationsDead Lizard Reads2023-03-29 | Books Mentioned- Naomi, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki The Aosawa Murders, Riku Onda Confessions of a Mask, Yukio Mishima The Woman in the Dunes, Kōbō Abe The Box Man, Kōbō Abe The Sea and Poison, Shusako Endo Silence, Shusako Endo The Key, Jun’ichirō Tanizaki Fish Swimming in Dappled Sunlight, Riku Onda Secret Rendezvous, Kōbō Abe The Face of Another, Kōbō Abe Deep River, Shusako Endo There’s no Such Thing as an Easy Job, Kikuko Tsumura All the Lovers in the Night, Mieko Kawakami Breast and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami Heaven, Mieko Kawakami Scattered all over the earth, Yoko Tawada Woman Running in the Mountains, Yūko Tsushima No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai The Elephant Vanishes, Haruki Murakami Musashi, Eiji Yoshikawa