Here’s a book that has just been published on my YouTube channel “Life Lesson From Books”. I read it over a month ago now.

(All my videos are recorded soon after I read and take notes of the book then edited and uploaded into a scheduled to be published list in certain days. This allows me to focus more on my reading than worrying about filming and editing on the go. If there’s content that is publishing in the background, I can continue reading which is my preference).

I’ve been reading a lot of Japanese authors this year. I like them because they have the element of the mystical in them. The surreal. You never know what is reality and what’s supernatural. Japan must be a fascinating place to visit and it’s on my bucket list. I’ve already worded up Andrew that as soon as he retires we must plan a visit to Japan.

This book is a school text for Australian schools apparently. (I found out after I had read it). Once again it has the supernatural element to it where the people of a town wake up to find body parts or even things from their environment missing but no one bats an eye lid. It’s as if their memory of these things simply fade and life moves on.

There is an element of Anne Frank here too where a young man is kept in a basement along with all the things that disappear and he’s like a curator of these memory pieces.

Anyway, here’s my review.

If you want to know of other books that are scheduled to be published over the coming months, here they are:

• The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey
• Disgrace by JM Coetzee
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• Wifedom by Anna Funder
• Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
• Stoner by John Edward Williams
• Diary of a Bad Year by JM Coetzee