Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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A wrap-up of all (or most) of the fiction that I read in the month of May.

~ books I read ~
The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley
The L.A. After Midnight Quartet by Steve Neil Johnson (The Yellow Canary, The Black Cat, The Blue Parrot, NN)
One Man’s Justice by Akira Yoshimura (transl. by Mark Ealey)
Fires on the Plain by Shohei Ooka (transl. by Ivan Morris)
Der Tod des Teemeisters by Yasushi Inoue (transl. into German by Ursula Gräfe)
Schwarze Flut by Yasushi Inoue (transl. into German by Otto Putz)
The Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe (in the German transl. by R.&I. Rönsch, Siegfried Schaarschmidt)
Kokoro by Natsume Soseki (in the new Engl. transl. by Meredith Mckinney))

~ other mentioned books ~
L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura
Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids by Kenzaburo Oe
Sanshiro by Natsume Soseki


Spoilers for The Kingdoms end at 08:48

One Man's Justice vlog: youtu.be/le7EMbbXRzY


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