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Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books
My bookstore haul days are limited, now that Firecracker and I share a modest apartment. Despite my admiration for the ease of e-books- I wish every new book gave you an e-book download code, like...
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Tomoyasu Hotei – Precious Deal
The song stuck in my head this week is “Precious Deal” by Tomoyasu Hotei. Most famous for the “Battle Without Honor or Humanity” theme from Kill Bill, he is a Japanese rock musician whose work spans...
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Tokyo Vice
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan, by Jake Adelstein Tokyo Vice at Amazon An excellent look into the Tokyo metro area crime, vice and news beat by an American cub reporter...
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Do you have a ninja infestation? Call ‘Rage Cage’ Reeves.
Meet ‘Rage Cage’ Reeves. MMA fighter. Marine. Back home from Afghanistan, looking for his Grandpa Butch, who he finds mixed up in a centuries-old battle between ninja and samurai over a stolen Japanese...
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Character-Driven Action, at Do Some Damage
I’m at Do Some Damage today, talking Rambo, defining characters by their actions, the Devil’s Brigade, and the true story of the most revered Japanese sword going missing in 1945, never to be seen...
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Truth and Fiction…
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, and sometimes life imitates art. In this case, the premise of my novel BLADE OF DISHONOR made the news today. The book revolves around Butch, a World War II...
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Review: The Shogun’s Daughter
I got an early peek at the latest book in a great mystery series, the Sano Ichiro books by Laura Joh Rowland. Set in the Tokugawa shogunate, Sano is a samurai tasked as the shogun’s investigator of...
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Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books
My bookstore haul days are limited, now that Firecracker and I share a modest apartment. Despite my admiration for the ease of e-books- I wish every new book gave you an e-book download code, like...
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