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Project Hail Mary: An epic space story of scientific power and friendship

**"Project Hail Mary"** begins with the Earth facing an unprecedented crisis of solar dimming, a phenomenon that threatens to plunge the planet into a devastating ice age and potentially lead to the extinction of humanity. To uncover the cause and find a solution, scientists initiate the ambitious "Hail Mary Project." As part of this mission, Ryland Grace, a schoolteacher and scientist, is sent on a journey to an unknown star system, tasked with humanity's last hope.

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“Sisters In Yellow” by Mieko Kawakami: People Shaken by the Chaos of the 1990s and the Nature of Life

Mieko Kawakami's “The Yellow House” is a work that highlights the nature of “difficulties in living” by depicting poverty, crime, and relationships with pseudo-families in the historical background of 1990s Tokyo. Through this story, we witness the structural problems of society and the desperate individuals caught up in them. Below are some of the points that particularly impressed me.

[Idol, Burning] Rin Usami: Why did she dump the case of cotton swabs on the floor at the end?

Contains thoughts and observations on the novel ‘Suisu, Burn’ by Rin Usami, which won the Akutagawa Prize and was nominated for the Honya Taisho (Bookstore Grand Prize). The action of the beating of a fan by a guesser gives Akari the courage to try and smash her own current unsuccessful life, but in the end, she chooses a cotton swab in the blink of an eye, which is the cheapest way to clean up the mess.

2024.04.07 2024.11.09

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I read a whole series of novels related to middle school entrance examinations.

Parents tend to get stuck in the junior high school entrance examination swamp trap: 1) they have not studied hard themselves, so they try to make up for it by taking their children's examinations; 2) they are more concerned than necessary about the class of cram school and the deviation score they have; 3) they think of junior high school entrance examinations in terms of cosmetics and typa

2024.04.29 2024.10.26

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[Three Bodies] Analogy between the Black Dark Forest and the Cultural Revolution: Chain of Suspicion and Détente

The scepticism chain depicted in The Black Dark Forest is an analogy to the chain of suspicion and distrust found in Chinese society during the Cultural Revolution. This analogy emphasises how destructive a lack of trust and a chain of mistrust can be. Ultimately, Luo Zhai negotiates with the Three Bodies against his own plans, and the end of Part II ends with an appearance of détente (easing of tensions)

2024.05.20 2024.06.29

[Japanese and Germans] Comparing the two, they are both the same. Shion Amemiya

There are no Japanese-style club activities in Germany. Instead, there is the Verein.The good thing about these civic clubs is that you can find a place outside of school and interact with all kinds of people. Intergenerational exchange is very important when you want to broaden your horizons and think about the future.

[Convenience Store Man] Sayaka Murata: Interesting five senses and inorganic expression.

The first sentence of the piece begins, "Convenience stores are filled with sound." Throughout this work, the inorganic nature of convenience stores and the frequent use of the five senses, including the sense of hearing, gave me the feeling that the convenience store was an exciting place to read about.

2024.05.01 2024.06.25

[All the Lovers in the Night] Mieko Kawakami: Superimposing the Light and the Self in the Midnight of Winter

Although he did not fit in very well in the real world and felt stifled, he was serious and direct about his job as a reviewer and was doing his best to make a living, and he may have been projecting himself into the existence of a night light after ordinary people who fit in well in society, the big light of day, or perhaps he was overthinking it. Perhaps I am overthinking it, but I felt it.

2024.05.04 2024.06.24

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[Circuit Switcher] by Takahiro Yasuno. The Merits and Demerits of a Fully Automated Future.

A science fiction novel written by Takahiro Yasuno, who is running for Governor of Tokyo on 7 July, and which won the Excellence Award in the 9th Hayakawa Science Fiction Contest. The work is full of vividness and charm, with a realistic, automated future, thrilling technological theatre-style crimes, and the pitfalls of the current system.

[Earthlings] Sayaka Murata: This world is a factory for making human beings. Working tools and reproductive organs

Normal here seems to focus more on two things: working and being productive, and having children for the sake of procreation. The influence of her parents is significant, and Murata-san is aware, even as a child, of the expectations of her children and the imprint of what her parents consider to be normal values, and she probably projects her own discomfort with these expectations into the novel.

2024.05.03 2024.06.23

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