#michiko aoyama

[velvetvixenchronicles]

forever mood 🧡

[feral-ballad]

Michiko Aoyama, tr. by Alison Watts, from What You Are Looking for is in the Library

[Text ID: “Now he’s in your thoughts, and you’re making a place for him to live on in this world. Don’t you think that’s enough? / Is that how you make a place for somebody – one person thinking about another?”]

[smokefalls]

In a world where you don’t know what will happen next, I just do what I can right now.

Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (translated by Alison Watts)

[robyn-weightman]

Getting those cosy reads in 🥰🎄

[jruthphipps]

There was a theme in my latest bookmail. 📚🐈🐈‍⬛

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2023 📖 no. 132

What You Are Looking for Is In the Library by Michiko Aoyama

“I’m still searching. Searching for somewhere I can be accepted as I am. Just one place is all I need. Somewhere to be at peace.”

[vexinglyvague]

“While I do believe that it was hard work for my mother to give birth to me, it also took me every ounce of my own strength to endure the extremely difficult process of being born. After all that time inside my mother's belly growing into a human being with nobody to guide me, all of a sudden I was thrust into an entirely new and strange environment. Imagine what an awful shock it must have been to come in contact with air for the first time, not knowing where I was. Of course I've forgotten what that felt like now. But it's why, whenever I feel happy or glad about something, I count my blessings and think to myself, 'Now, wasn't that worth all the effort of being born?’”

— What You Are Looking for is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama (English translation by Alison Watts), p. 140

[ninasbookshelf]

january 2024 reading wrap-up

we made it through the first month of the year! i set a goal to regularly update this blog throughout 2024, and i did pretty well this month. i'm proud of that!

here’s what i finished reading in january:

The Forest Grimm by Kathryn Purdie

How to Murder Your Life by Cat Marnell

Simple Passion by Annie Ernaux

What You Are Looking for Is in the Library by Michiko Aoyama

On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

i also kept up with my usual webtoons (you can see my most recent webtoons post here), and i subscribed to a cute new webtoon called Mono and Mochi. i love it!! 💞💞 highly recommend.

how was your first month of 2024?

[readinginmars]

"While I do believe that it was hard work for my mother to give birth to me, it also took me every ounce of my own strength to endure the extremely difficult process of being born. After all that time inside my mother’s belly growing into a human being with nobody to guide me, all of a sudden I was thrust into an entirely new and strange environment. Imagine what an awful shock it must have been to come into contact with air for the first time, not knowing where I was. Of course I’ve forgotten what that felt like now. But it’s why, whenever I feel happy or glad about something, I count my blessings and think to myself, Now, wasn’t that worth all the effort of being born?"

What you are looking for is in the library - Michiko Aoyama

[ma-pi-ma]

Credo che alcune cose si capiscano strada facendo.

Michiko Aoyama

[francescacammisa1]

Guarda che mentre continui a dire “un giorno” il tuo sogno non finirà affatto. Anzi continuerà a esserci per sempre, bellissimo com’è adesso. Se pure non si avverasse, sarebbe comunque un modo di vivere. Anche avere un sogno nel cassetto non è mica una cosa brutta. Perché ci dà la gioia nella vita di tutti i giorni.

Michiko Aoyama - Finché non aprirai quel libro

Ph Ellen Rogers

[feral-ballad]

Michiko Aoyama, tr. by Alison Watts, from What You Are Looking for is in the Library

[Text ID: “Be eaten or be loved.”]

[smokefalls]

From big things to little, there are some things we simply cannot force to go to plan, no matter how hard we try.

Michiko Aoyama, What You Are Looking for Is in the Library (translated by Alison Watts)

[anditendshowyoudexpect]

hey if sorta magical books about libraries can't be anything but disguised self-help books, i will take What You Are Looking For Is in the Library over The Midnight Library any day

[signal-failure]

What You Are Looking for is in the Library

What You Are Looking for is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama, and translated by Alison Watts, is a book of sweet and gentle interlocking short stories around a library where the reading recommendations are always just what each reader needed to find. This book has the overall vibe of the gentle healing of Before The Coffee Gets Cold, but with a magical realism hint, instead of full-on…

[bookymcbookface]

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