Category Archives: Books and Prose

“[T]he big breaths of rough air blown over the heather filled her lungs with something which was good for her…”

〜A 1921 Thanksgiving recipe that proves that some good things should not mix together〜

I review the Persona 4 Golden digital artbook, available on Steam, and compare it to the physical Persona 4 artbook that came with the original PlayStation 2 Persona 4 release in North America.

Remembering the war to which Veterans Day owes its date with a harrowing story of a “double quarantine”

On Wataru Watari connecting his completing his Oregairu novel series to his closing the book on his own high school years.

“The world is the stage, men are the actors; the events of life form the piece; fortune distributes the parts…”

“You are truly happy, and deserve your high fortune, since you united it with virtue.”

〜A comprehensive review of the original Persona 4 artbook〜

〜When a compensatory ideology becomes necessary〜

Recalling my high school teacher’s guidance on when to sit through the credits after a movie.

“The trees leaf in May” (and so does The New Leaf Journal)