Bii's Books

There is something quite arresting in the style of Days in the History of Silence. It has a particularly soft voice, a reflective tone, a s...

I may have mentioned before that I love Japanese fiction, and Yoko Ogawa is a writer I really admire. My first encounter with Ogawa was The...

Continuing my exploration of female writers in translation, I had an interesting encounter with this, frankly, crazy book by Italian writer...

Over the course of the past year or so, I’ve found my reading choices have changed. I used to be largely a reader of novels, with a little ...

The Pillow Book has been sitting by my pillow for an awful long time. I tried to read it last year, but wasn’t in the right frame of mind s...