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On The Black Hill – by Emmett

Sitting now in the empty staff room of my high school, I have just finished Bruce Chatwin’s On The Black Hill. I picked it up in a used foreign-language book store in Kyoto several weeks ago and have since then been … Continue reading

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Cafe Proverbs, Kyoto – by Emmett

It is not often that you come across a complete idea. Many ideas begin with great intentions, yet fall short of fully blossoming into tangible results, of filling that space which they set before them. So it is with restaurants, where many concepts … Continue reading

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Finishing Love in the Time of Cholera – by Melissa

Seventeen hours of driving can carve quite a chunk out of a read-aloud project, but with our move to Japan and starting new jobs, it took six months to wade through the jungle of Marquez’s magical but viney prose. Continue reading

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