Book Club
JETAA Portland Book Club meets once a month to discuss works from Japanese authors and books related to Japan and Japanese culture. Please contact the book club if you are interested in joining.
Join us for this month’s discussion:
June Book Club
Date: Sunday, June 10
Time: 1:00pm
Title: Fear and Trembling by Amélie Nothomb
Location: Jade Teahouse & Patisserie (7912 SE 13th, Portland, OR 97203)
You can check availability of the Book Club titles by visiting the following websites:
- Amazon.com: http://www.amazon.com
- Powell’s Books: http://www.powells.com/
- Multnomah County Library: http://www.multcolib.org/
- Clackamas County Library: http://www.co.clackamas.or.us/lib/
- Washington County Library: http://www.wccls.org/
Book Reviews
36 Views of Mount Fuji: On Finding Myself in Japan by Cathy Davidson
American Fuji by Sara Backer
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami
The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki
The Only Woman in the Room by Beate Sirota Gordon
Scent of Sake by Joyce Lebra
All She Was Worth by Miyuki Miyabe
Color of the Sea by John Hamamura
Dave Barry Does Japan by Dave Barry
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa
Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson
I am a Cat by Natsume Soseki
If You Follow Me by Malena Watrous
Learning to Bow: Inside the Heart of Japan by Bruce Feiler
Midori by Moonlight by Wendy Tokunaga
Mistress Oriku: Stories from a Tokyo Teahouse by Matsutaro Kawaguchi
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Out by Natsuo Kirino
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi
Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto by Victoria Abbott Riccardi
The Doctor’s Wife by Sawako Ariyoshi
Exploring Japanese Literature: Reading Mishima, Tanizaki, and Kawabata in the Original by Giles Murray
Getting Wet: Adventures in the Japanese Bath by Eric Talmadge
How to be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
Japanland: The Year in Search of Wa by Karin Muller
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
Life in the Cul-De-Sac by Senji Kuroi
Losing Kei by Suzanne Kamata
Rashomon by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
The River Ki by Sawako Ariyoshi
The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
Shipwrecks by Akira Yoshimura
Singular Rebellion by Saiichi Maruya
The Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family by Lauren Kessler
What I Talk about When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami
Woman on the Other Shore by Mitsuyo Kakuta
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
Dreaming Pachinko by Isaac Adamson
Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha who Bewitched the West by Lesley Downer
Translucent Tree by Nobuko Takagi
Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe
The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Kawada
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa by Yasunari Kawabata
The Portland Chapter of JETAA (The JET Program Alumni Association) was created to serve the bonds of friendship developed by the program participants. JETAA’s purpose is to achieve, through its activities, a broader and deeper understanding between Japan and the other countries participating in the program.
