Gishiyama`s Blog

'Nice hands,' she thought. He wore a very expensive Japanese watch. 'Japan,' she thought. 'I'd like to go to Japan.' She looked up and saw the man's eyes again over the top of his newspaper. This time she did not look away. Green eyes looked into dark brown eyes for a long, slow minute.  (p.5) This week, I read this book, "One-Way Ticket". This book includes three short stories: "The Girl with Green Eyes", "South for the Winter", and "Mr Harris and the Night Train". This time, I would like to introduce the first one, "The Girl with Green Eyes". The main character of this story is Julie. She is traveling with her husband, Bill, on a train. However, Julie is very bored because Bill is always talking to the people they are seated with. In addition, the destination is not a place Julie wants to go, so she is not looking forward to the trip. She reads a newspaper that the man sitting in front of her has and tr

Do you know everything about your family - your parents, your grandparents, your brother or sister, your uncles or aunts? Does your family know everything about you? All families have secret - they can be big secret, small secret, things to laugh about, things to cry about.  (p.1)      This week, I read this book, "Christmas in Prague", so I checked and found that it was the name of a place in the Czech Republic. The pronunciation is "Puraha" in Japanese.      The main character of this story is Carol, a harpist. She has a husband, named Jan. She also lives with Jan's father, Josef, in Oxford. One day, Carol is going to a concert in Prague, and she suggests that Jan and Josef go together. Josef had lived in Prague in the past, but he had not told his son Jean about that time. However, he finally decides to go to Prague.       Carol arrived in Prague a few days before Jan and Josef, and takes a walk around the city of Prague. Then, she finds Jan who should not ha