Books
I had been reading about Jim Rogers for some years but up until now I hadn’t read any of his books. In “Invesment Biker, Around the World with Jim Rogers” he tells us about his ride around the world on a motorcycle with a hot blonde half his age at the end of the 80s [...]
My book A Geek in Japan has been on sale for more than a year now and it has been a success thanks to you! I’m very happy to announce that now it is also available for kindle as A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony – [...]
I recently finished reading the short novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (時をかける少女) by Yasutaka Tsutsui. It was published for the first time in 1967, but it’s now popular again thanks to a movie released in 2006 by the animation studio Madhouse based on the same story. Even though the story plot of the [...]
The Akutagawa Prize is the most prestigious literary prize in Japan. It is awarded twice every year, in January and July. It was first awarded in 1935 when a friend of deceased Ryunosuke Akutagawa (one of the most important Japanese writers during the Meiji era) decided to establish the award in his honor. The winner [...]
Some weeks ago I presented for the first time one of my books outside of Spain; it was here in Tokyo in Aoyama Book Center. It was also the first time that a foreigner presented a book in this bookstore, so they were not sure if many people would come to the event because the [...]
I’m very happy to find the first reviews of my book, “A Geek in Japan”. Thank you! These are some excerpts from your reviews: I lived in Japan for 4 years and every-time I used to step out of my house, I used to see something and wonder what that is, wonder why they do [...]
When I began to reread What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, I thought I would read it in one go, as I like it a lot; however I stopped when I read this paragraph: Not long before, I’d been running a sort of jazz club near Sendagaya Station. It wasn’t so big, [...]
There are already several books about Twitter available in Japanese bookstores. When something is a novelty in Japan a lot of books and magazines are published about the topic; same thing happened with the iPhone, and at that time there were books on sale even before the device was released to the market. Published books [...]
