Sunday, October 04, 2026

This Week in Booktube: October 4, 2026
(These are the Booktube videos I watched this week. As always, I encourage you also to check out each of the videos I've linked to down below.  Support Booktube.  And let me know what you've watched this past week.)

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2 comments:

Futami-chan said...

I love the respect my own kind have for other people's time. I love the clarity in their words. I also do not wish I was born Japanese at all, nor do I think for all the negative reputation Japan may still have it better than what I have here in every regard. I do not regret having attempted to try to trust my own kind again just to receive undesireable treatment. I do not deep down find it impossible to put my guard down around them even if those around me seem to be easy-going currently. I do not get tired of their banal way of life and the smugness or love to push their own status higher than what it is in reality, while accompanying with the unwritten notoriety of shallowness to say the least. I do not get tired of the generic vague words that are meant to put somebody on pedestal but fail to say anything concrete at all.

To be book-related, I'm still reading Anna Karenina and won't repeat praising cliches. Although I still haven't gotten pass where I last read it back then.

Joel Swagman said...

Every place has its advantages and disadvantages. I have great love for Japan, but after several years living there, I certainly started noticing all the disadvantages of it as well.