Welcome All!

Recently, its been hard for me to get back into the habit of reading. My junior year of high school has gotten pretty hectic especially these last few weeks. I was able to read a few pages of a new book but was interrupted again by schoolwork. I'm currently reading a novel, A Tale For The Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki. The book has two point of views to match the story. Here's the little description from the Barnes and Noble website:

In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. A diary is Nao’s only solace—and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox—possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao’s drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.

Full of Ozeki’s signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.


The cover is the first thing that caught my eye. I didn't have enough time to take a picture of the book but I would definitely show you in a future post. Lets just say that it's very colorful and unique in its own way. Another thing that caught my attention was the description. The time gap between the two characters and the life of Nao seems very interesting. I'm curious about what her unknown fate is and the life of her great-grandmother.

From the first few pages, I would definitely recommend that people who are the ages 17 and older could read this book. There is no holding back when it comes to Nao's language which obviously fits her age group. Besides that, the book is already diving into the story itself which is a good thing. A majority of books take a while to get to the point and this is why people become uninterested after reading the first few pages. I'm glad that I'm starting off spring with a fresh read!