It's only when I had gone to a bookstore near Tokyo Station a few days ago that I got to know that this year, the book "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" celebrated its 25th anniversary since it had been published first. By chance,…
Recent days, I have been so busy with working that I was not able to write my impressions on the book "The Alchemist" down. As a result, my memories about a content of The Alchemist is getting vaguer day by day, but even if it seems imprec…
The same as ever, I keep reading some books in English, and "The alchemist" written by Paulo Coelho is one of them that I have been reading lately, that impressed me in many ways. Reading the novel, I feel that it resembles partly each of …
A few days ago, I finished reading "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" written by Hugh Lofting. When I was a kid, I had read this series translated into Japanese, and since then it had been the best one for a long time that I liked most among v…
Recently, I have been reading two books by turns. One is "Mate: Become the Man Women Want" and another is "The Story of Doctor Dolittle" which was my favorite book when I was a kid. They might seem very different from each other, and it's …
Technologies exist for expanding human abilities to live better. As a rule, the ability is innate and limited. For instance, a human being can't fly like a bird because they don't have such an inherent function. However, we can fly over th…
Eventually, I have done it all. What have I done? It's perusal of "The Farthest Shore" which is the third book of the Earthsea Cycle written by Ursula K. Le Guin. This one is a classical masterpiece of fantasy novels about another universe…
久々に日本語で文章を書いている。2021年の正月から思い立って英語の勉強を始め、主として関心のある洋書をひたすら読むという余り特筆すべき工夫のない方法論に固執して、分からない単語や文法は随時調べながら、実践至上主義の建前で進めている。ブログの…
It seems to me that the word Abstract has two definitions opposed to each other. One meaning is Vague, and another is Essential. If we don't define strictly what meaning the word has each time we use it, our conversation about the idea of …
The more the intelligence of my daughter has grown up, the more often she uses indecent, dirty words, so that my wife's face tends to be darkened by concern. No doubt, decency is one among the most important virtues, and I can agree with h…
I have just finished reading the book The Artist's Way written by Julia Cameron. When I had begun perusal of that book about a month ago, I was sick in bed due to an infection of COVID-19. Probably, at that time I had been tired and bored …
Ever before, I have been told by so many people that I'm a cool-headed man. My current wife has the same opinion about my personality. Sometimes, I would become badly cold, behave so indifferently, and especially when I concentrate on crit…
Having gone through a winding, stagnant way, I finished reading the book Outliers at last. It's a very interesting experience, which makes me think about various matters concerning life and fate. The author argues over the preconditions fo…
Sometimes I have felt myself get in a self-destructive tendency no matter whether it may indicate a negative meaning or not. I think that the hostility towards an unfavorable part of self causes such a phenomenon. An intense, persistent cr…
Other day, I conceived an idea named Parallel Reading. It's not a complicated concept, rather its meaning is quite simple. Until now, I have always read books one by one, not simultaneously because I would want to concentrate on each conte…
Over the latest ten days, I have suffered from COVID-19 and have been home to recover. As a result, my wife and daughter have been ordered to stay home too. This morning, my daughter began to attend her primary school a week later than oth…
Yukio Mishima was a strange man. He was a prominent writer of aesthetic, ironic and cruel tales, and who had a radically conservative thought about political issues of Japan in those years. He was as famous as known widely all over the wor…
Time doesn't know any halt. Even when we are doing nothing, it keeps moving constantly. Our normal life seems unchanging in general, but just like the current state of Ukraine, hidden changes are always sneaking around, and gradually getti…
All over the world, there are various kinds of conflicts since the ancient age. We all have some thoughts that are different from others in general, and they include each own belief in many ways. Naturally, what I believe is not necessaril…
Recently, I have been reading the book named "Outliers: The Story of Success" which makes me highly interested. In particular, the so-called Ten-Thousand-Hour Rule seems relevant to contents of the book "Atomic Habits" which I have finishe…
About a dozen days ago, my daughter has got the age of six, and yesterday, she attended a graduation ceremony of her nursery school. These milestones of her sound growth make me and my wife reassured. Compared with her figure a few years b…
The other day, I finished reading the book "Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones" written by James Clear. It's highly interesting for me what the author says in the book, because I believe that eventual…
The political state in Japan might be relatively healthier than Russia dominated by the cruel tyrant named Putin. Our prime minister is criticized and insulted by the people frequently due to his deficiency of the ability to govern our cou…
People want social values such as honor, power, property, high status, and affectionate bonds with others. Surely, desire is necessary for us to be active, positive, and alive consistently. Even if it's true that we are so greedy that we a…
Over a week before, I finished re-reading the book "Who Moved My Cheese?" which I had read at the beginning of previous year. I wanted to test my ability to interpret each meaning of English sentences through the book, because it had been …
A few days ago, I completed reading the book “Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World - and Why Things Are Better Than You Think” produced mainly by Hans Rosling who was a famous Swedish physician. Although I bought the one tr…
I think almost everyone wants others to hear them explain something about themselves. It seems one among our primitive instincts. We usually want to share each internal phenomena with confidential people. Such phenomena as feeling, emotion…
My daughter will be admitted to a primary school next spring. It feels like an instant to me that she has grown to a little girl, no longer been a baby. In Japan, they say that an attribute of a human soul is established at the age of thre…
Recently, I still have kept reading the book "Factfulness: Ten Reasons We'Re Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think" little by little. It's quite interesting for me to peruse a succession of clear sentences on fam…
The omicron variant of Coronavirus keeps spreading across our country, so that sales of the company for which I work is decreasing acutely. However, I'm neither surprised nor perplexed because the current state is what we have been able to…
