Inside the Book:
Title: Fuji, Sinai, Olympos
Author: Michael Hoffman
Publisher: Virtualbookworm.com
Genre: Essays
Format: Ecopy /Paperback
Travel companions on my journeys are four in number: Odysseus, Don Quixote, Huckleberry Finn and Basho.” (Travel) “He walked in priestly garb. Arriving towards evening at a town or village, he’d chant sutras until passersby gave him, or flung him, enough money for a flophouse bed, a little food, a bath and enough saké to induce a measure of forgetfulness. ‘A beggar,’ he admonished himself, ‘has to learn to be an all-out beggar. Unless he can be that, he will never taste the happiness of being a beggar.’” (Walking) ‘“The pleasantest of all diversions,’ said the fourteenth-century Japanese priest Kenko,“ is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.’ Reading is inseparable from reverie. ‘Sitting alone under the lamp,’ I was soon not alone at all, but hosting, I venture to say, as vivid and varied a company as ever gathered under one roof. (Genji, Myshkin and Jones) “Everest is nothing, mere seismology.” (Fuji, Sinai, Olympos)
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MEET THE AUTHOR
Michael Hoffman has lived in Japan since 1982. His columns appear regularly in the Japan Times, irregularly elsewhere. His previous books include "In the Land of the Kami: A Journey into the Hearts of Japan;" "Other Worlds; Little Pieces: This Side of Japan;" and "The Coat that Covers Him and Other Stories."Tour Schedule
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Friday, February 22
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Monday, February 25
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Tuesday, February 26
Book featured at The Dark Phantom
Book featured at The Revolving Bookshelf
Wednesday, February 27
Guest blogging at Bent Over Bookwords
Guest blogging at The Zen Reader
Thursday, February 28
Book featured at The Literary Nook
Friday, March 1
Interviewed at A Title Wave
Monday, March 4
Book featured at Inkslinger's Opus
Tuesday, March 5
Guest blogging at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic
Wednesday, March 6
Guest blogging at As the Pages Turn
Thursday, March 7
Book featured at Lover of Literature
Friday, March 8
Interviewed at Review From Here
Monday, March 11
Guest blogging at Straight From the Authors Mouth
Tuesday, March 12
Book featured at All Inclusive Retort
Wednesday, March 13
Interviewed at The Writer's Life
Thursday, March 14
Guest blogging at My Bookish Pleasureswrite
Friday, March 15
Book featured at Write and Take Flight
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