Gabriel's Blog

My thoughts on books mostly, and other media sometimes.

20 Apr 2025
A Quiet Place
Seichō Matsumoto
ISBN: 9780241744208
4.5/5, Fiction
15 Apr 2025
Ajin and what it means to be human
12 Apr 2025
A Midsummer's Equation
Keigo Higashino
ISBN: 9781250027924
4/5, Fiction
6 Apr 2025
Malice
Keigo Higashino
ISBN: 9781250035608
5/5, Fiction
28 Mar 2025
Prefecture D
Hideo Yokoyama
ISBN: 9780374721855
4/5, Fiction
23 Mar 2025
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9783943864533
3.5/5, Fiction
8 Mar 2025
Wind/Pinball
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780385352123
4.5/5, Fiction
18 Feb 2025
Underground
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780099461098
4.5/5, Non-Fiction
26 Jan 2025
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9789520426149
4/5, Fiction
23 Jan 2025
After Dark
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780739343074
4.5/5, Fiction
18 Jan 2025
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780375411694
4/5, Fiction
13 Jan 2025
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9781299011854
3.5/5, Fiction
7 Jan 2025
The Elephant Vanishes
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780679420576
3/5, Fiction
29 Dec 2024
After the Quake
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780099448563
4.5/5, Fiction
25 Dec 2024
The Black Orb
Ewhan Kim
ISBN: 9781488233616
4/5, Fiction
20 Dec 2024
1Q84: Books 1, 2 and 3
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780307476463
4/5, Fiction
8 Nov 2024
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Charles Yu
ISBN: 9780307379207
3.5/5, Fiction
6 Nov 2024
Trouble
Jesse Kellerman
ISBN: 9780143141891
3/5, Fiction
2 Nov 2024
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
ISBN: 9798212691574
3/5, Fiction
27 Sep 2024
Honeybees and Distant Thunder
Riku Onda
ISBN: 9780857527943
3.5/5, Fiction
15 Sep 2024
Journey Under the Midnight Sun
Keigo Higashino
ISBN: 9781250105790
4.5/5, Fiction
8 Sep 2024
Blue Light Yokohama
Nicolás Obregón
ISBN: 9788416237388
4/5, Fiction
4 Sep 2024
The Devotion of Suspect X
Keigo Higashino
ISBN: 9780312375065
4/5, Fiction
27 Aug 2024
Out
Natsuo Kirino
ISBN: 9780099472285
4.5/5, Fiction
24 Aug 2024
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
ISBN: 9781455569496
3.5/5, Fiction
13 Aug 2024
Lonely Castle in the Mirror
Mizuki Tsujimura
ISBN: 9783844936698
4.5/5, Fiction
8 Aug 2024
The Last Story of Mina Lee
Nancy Jooyoun Kim
ISBN: 9781799918981
3.5/5, Fiction
6 Aug 2024
Seven Years of Darkness: A Novel
Jeong Yu-jeong
ISBN: 9780593214336
4/5, Fiction
1 Aug 2024
The Decagon House Murders
Yukito Ayatsuji
ISBN: 9787513321211
3.5/5, Fiction
30 Jul 2024
Parade
Shuichi Yoshida
ISBN: 9789861736587
3/5, Fiction
15 Jul 2024
The act of killing
13 May 2024
Some tenets I wish I had been taught earlier in life
6 Apr 2024
Surfing on never-ending Vibes
13 Jan 2024
The Cult of Done
12 Dec 2023
A perfect sphere
2 Nov 2023
Goodbye self-hosted
4 May 2023
Why Giri/Haji is awesome.
26 Sep 2022
To know thyself
29 Jun 2022
Does anyone want to live in The House?
6 Apr 2022
Horror: delving into the degradation of the domestic
4 Jan 2022
The genius of Uncut Gems
23 Dec 2021
Redemption Arc; a conversation with Peter Goh
1 Oct 2021
Fumbling around in the dark, grasping at loose threads for meaning
2 Aug 2021
Kafka on the Shore
Haruki Murakami
ISBN: 9780099458326
4/5, Fiction
31 Jul 2021
The ineffable grace of a Holy God, as worded by a stubborn child
24 Jul 2021
The absolute insanity of “Chainsaw Man”
19 Jul 2021
“The world will hate you.”
26 Jun 2021
The mundanity of disposable entertainment
12 Jun 2021
It’s okay to not be okay
18 May 2021
Straight from the ghetto (A.K.A The poison of self-reliance)
16 May 2021
The beauty of “Tenet” (2020)
30 Apr 2021
I hate the media
23 Apr 2021
6 weeks deep (SCS; a reprise)
17 Apr 2021
Growing as I go
9 Apr 2021
Why ‘The Mauritanian’ is the most important film of 2021.
3 Apr 2021
Judas and the Black Messiah: A post-mortem
27 Mar 2021
Why Minari (2020) is a good film (a defense)
27 Feb 2021
NS (BMT): A retrospective from an impatient clown
14 Feb 2021
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