Tag: 2000
Review: Bee Honey by Banana Yoshimoto
It has been quite some time since I last reviewed a story from The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories, which is a compilation that I started reading all the way back in March 2026. Nonetheless, I plucked it from my bookshelf the other day and had a pleasant, thoughtful ten-minute read of Banana Yoshimoto’s…
Review: Give a Boy a Gun by Todd Strasser
Across the last few months, I took an interest in the rather significant event that was the April 1999 Columbine Massacre (see here, here, and here). After reading three different books on the topic, I had considered myself done with the whole matter for the meantime… until I discovered Todd Strasser’s Give a Boy a…
