Kitchen

Category: reviews - books

i'm reading banana yoshimoto's "kitchen". it's the sort of book you can't put down, but at the same time you don't want to finish reading it. it was written in the first person, a young girl unfolding what was currently happening in her life and recounting her memories from the past. it made me think of so many other random things that happened in my own life. it made me want to spill out a particular thought at a particular moment in my life. that was how it was. it was like hearing a friend tell some of her old stories and then she looks at you and it's your turn to tell yours. in my book, that's one of the things that makes a good story-teller. you can gauge that you're a good one if you can get the people listening to your story to tell their own. anyway, i thought, okay, since i'm having all these memories come back to me, i might as well write them all down before they are forgotten again.