Here’s my 2024 list of books I’ve read and movies I’ve watched, with my rating of how much I liked it in parentheses (out of 10).
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Books
- Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (8.5)
- The Cat Who Saved Books: A Novel by Sosuke Natsukawa (8)
- Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Novel by Toshikazu Kawaguchi (8.5)
- Days at the Morisaki Bookshop: A Novel by Satoshi Yagisawa (8.5)
- The Easy Life in Kamusari by Shion Miura (8.5)
- A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel by Ruth Ozeki (9)
- Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments by Joe Posnanski (7)
- Bicycling with Butterflies: My 10,201-Mile Journey Following the Monarch Migration by Sara Dykman (7)
- Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (9)
- The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (9)
- See my current reading list at GoodReads, or my 2024 Year in Books.
Movies and Dorama
- Mental Tsuyome Bijo Shirakawa-san (7.5)
- Sweet Bean / あん (9)
- John Wick: Chapter 2 (7)
- Blue Eye Samurai (S01) (7.5)
- Dusty Slay: Workin’ Man (8)
- Koisenu Futari / 恋せぬふたり (8.5)
- Elemental (7.5)
- Past Lives (8.5)
- Cafe Funiculi Funicula /コーヒーが冷めないうちに (7)
- The Dragon Tamer (7)
- Perfect Days (9)
- Nai Nai and Wai Po (7)
- Dune: Part 1 (7.5)
- Morisaki Shoten no Hibi / 森崎書店の日々 (7.5)
- Silent Parade / 沈黙のパレード (8)
- Baby Driver (7)
- Wish (6)