Being a Time Being
Up and down is the same. From up, down is up and from down, up is down. A tale for the time being is the most unique book I've read. Ruth Ozeki takes you on a trip as a reader and she joins you as well. Ruth finds a freezer bag that has washed up to the shore in British Columbia all the way from Japan, which could be from the tsunami debris according to her husband Oliver. In the freezer bag, she finds a few letters in French, a sky soldier watch (a watch for a world war kamakazi soldier) and a French novel that if you open is actually a Japanese diary. It's the diary of Naoko You remember the time when you were so immersed in reading a fiction novel that you dream about the characters in the story, and wake up feeling it was so real that it leaves you flustered? You know that feeling when the character in your novel seems to be falling into trouble and you really wish you could jump into the book and rescue, even it's by just giving advice or simply talking, or ta