• what if this were enough - heather havrilesky
• men explain things to me - rebecca solnit
• kim ji young born 1982 - cho nam joo

• Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino

• Submarine
• Blue Valentine
• Mommy
• Liv & Ingmar
• Coherence
• Mood Indigo
• Reaching for the moon
• Chungking Express
• Happy Together
• Amélie
• Fish Tank
• Requiem for a dream
• Atonement
• The time of the cocoon
• Old Boy
• Les Amours Imaginaires
• City of Pirates
• J'ai tué ma mère
• Frances Ha
• American Beauty
• Petit tailleur

• damien rice - a blower's daughter
• 20131104
• "i hope you have a nice time in korea"
• c_p_e_
• "seeking girlfriend"
• giggling in hotel room
• pouty-faced selcas
• fried rice
• nausea
• hearts on a blouse
• newsboy hat
• eye contact and a smile
• "this is embarassing but..."
• international call
• should i text first?
• "it's not good for a girl to be out too late"
• 2 days late international text
• hotel lobby
• waffles
• kiss me - ed sheeran

• The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
• Pieces of You - Tablo
• 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
• The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
• Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
• The Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
• Battle Royale - Koushun Takami
• Hard-boiled Wonderland and The End of the world - Haruki Murakami
• The heart is a lonely hunter - Carson McCullers
• Oranges are not the only fruit - Jeanette Winsterston
• The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
• Confessions of a Common Reader - Anne Fadiman
• Looking for Alaska - John Green
• Letters to a young poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
• Unseen Rain - Rumi

• the lonely city - olivia laing
• now is the time to open your heart - alice walker
• the traveling cat chronicles - hiro arikawa

• before sunrise
• before sunset
• before midnight
• eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
• her
• lost in translation
• an education
• the grand budapest hotel
• the lunchbox
• closer
• fight club
• gone girl
• beginners
• spirited away
• princess mononoke
• howl's moving castle
• ponyo
• tokyo family

• A week at the airport - Alain de Botton
• Our Andromeda - Brenda Shaughnessy
• What we talk about when we talk about love - Raymond Carver
• Beloved - Khalil Gibran
• Running With Scissors - Augusten Burroughs
• The Sea Close By - Albert Camus
• The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde
• Lost in a good book - Jasper Fforde
• No one bleongs here more than you - Miranda July
• This is how you lose her - Junot Diaz
• Autobiography of Red - Anne Carson
• Identity - Milan Kundera
• To the lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
• Dream Work - Mary Oliver
• I wrote this for you: Just the words - Iain Thomas
• Kafka on the shore - Haruki Murakami (reread)

• receiving post-its on my desk
• receiving handwritten letters
• receiving handmade cards
• tea
• wrapping my hands around a warm cup of tea
• making handmade cards
• gift-wrapping presents
• shopping for birthday presents
• receiving 'letters' through tumblr
• paper cranes
• picnics
• peonies

• Swimmer among the stars - Kanishk Tharoor
• The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
• The Way Forward is with a Broken Heart - Alice Walker
• The Cake Tree in the Ruins - Akiyuki Nosaka
• Every Word You Cannot Say - Iain Thomas

• Cathedral - Raymond Carver
• The Rainbow Troops - Andrea Hirata
• The Course of Love - Alain de Botton
• Our souls at night - Kent Haruf
• A Hologram for the King - Dave Eggers
• Zeitoun - Dave Eggers
• A thousand mornings - Mary Oliver
• The thing around your neck - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• It never rains on national day - Jeremy Tiang
• The goddess in the room - Latha
• The festival of insignificance - Milan Kundera
• The Guest Cat - Takashi Hiraide
• A little life - Hanya Yanagihara
• The Vegetarian - Han Kang

• V for Vendetta - Alan Moore
• The Road - Cormac McCarthy
• Never Mind - Edward St Aubyn
• Bad News - Edward St Aubyn
• Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
• Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• What is the what - Dave Eggers
• Happy are the happy - Yasmina Rezza
• And your fathers where are they, and the prophets do they live forever - Dave Eggers
• Some Hope - Edward St Aubyn
• Mother's Milk - Edward St Aubyn
• The Strange Library - Haruki Murakami
• At last - Edward St Aubyn
• The Solitude of prime numbers - Paolo Giordano
• The Fishermen - Chigozie Obioma
• Half of a yellow sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichi...

• Great House - Nicole Krauss
• Sexing The Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
• Against Love Poetry - Eavan Boland
• Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
• A Moveable Feast - Ernest Hemingway
• Ham on Rye - Charles Bukowski
• Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
• Three Years - Anton Chekhov
• Crush - Richard Siken
• Ariel - Sylvia Plath
• Art & Lies - Jeanette Winterson
• Man Walks into A Room - Nicole Krauss
• Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda
• The tiny book of tiny stories Vol 1 - Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Hit Record
• Love, An Index - Rebecca Lindenberg
• Art Objects - Jeanette Winterson
• A tree grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith

Visited:

• Tokyo (2012)
• Seoul (2012)
• Seoul (2013)
• KL (2014)
• Seoul (2015)
• Hong Kong (2016)
• Bangkok (2017)
• Makati (2017)
• KL (2017)
• Manila (2018)
• Xi'an (2018)
• Beijing (2018)
• KL (2018)
• Hanoi (2018)
• Bangkok (2018)
• Seoul (2018)
• Bangkok (2019)
• Taipei (2019)

To visit: