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Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami by Akiko Yosano

iljaneausten's review

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informative medium-paced

3.5

ninaevan's review

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4.25

Such touching words. I loved the diary-style format, as discussed in the introduction. I also really appreciated the care that went into this translation and how it gave historical/narrative context to Yosano’s life in the Introduction and Notes. 
Definitely will be rereading  later.

For a further discussion of my thoughts, check out the next episode of my podcast: Books without Borders. https://anchor.fm/books-wo-borders

My scoring: 
5.00 | = everyone in the world must read this book 
4.75 | = between 4.5 and 5
4.50 | = dessert island book
4.25 | = between 4 and 4.5
4.00 | = great, solid, recommendable book
3.75 | = almost a 4, but not quite 
3.50 | = not a 4, but I had a good time
3.25 | = rough patches, but not bad
3.00 | = meh, read-able but nothing to write home about
2.75 | = between a 2.5 and 3
2.50 | = there’s something I liked here but it wasn’t enough to be good 
2.25 | = between a 2 and 2.5
2.00 | = not good and there was nothing I liked 
1.00 | = bad 

sampiph's review

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fast-paced

3.0

444nobu's review

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challenging inspiring reflective relaxing fast-paced

4.0

 4 étoiles au lieu de 5 à cause des dégâts émotionnels que ca m'a causé d'écrire mn dossier dessus. 

marinara's review

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emotional reflective sad fast-paced

3.25

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