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GtrsRGr8 · 05-19-2016, 09:46 PM

UPDATE/ADDENDUM: Michael Pronko's website (http://www.michaelpronko.com/motions...says-on-tokyo/) offers the free ebook, also (http://www.michaelpronko.com/homepage/#newsletter). However, it is a zip file which contains the ePub and PDF, as well as the mobi (the Amazon Kindle format). Pronko states that the download there will be available free through May 22, I don't know if that holds true for Amazon or not.

I'm assuming that the publisher of this tome, Raked Gravel Press, is a self-pub. So it has to go on this thread.

Frankly, essays leave me, well, somnolent, if not comatose. So I don't like to post them. But you can't swim against the tide--the 35 reviews and/or ratings of this book are very high. On top of that, it's free.

Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo. By Michael Pronko. Rated 4.6 stars, but from only 19 reviews, at Amazon at the present moment; rated 4.44, but from only 16 ratings at the present moment, at GoodReads. Print list price $10.99; digital list price $0.99; Kindle price now $0.00. Raked Gravel Press, publisher. 290 pages. https://www.amazon.com/Motions-Momen.../dp/B019IGFBWS.

Book Description
Motions and Moments is the third book by Michael Pronko on the fluid feel and vibrant confusions of Tokyo life. These 42 new essays burrow into the unique intensities that suffuse the city and ponder what they mean to its millions of inhabitants.

Based on Pronko’s 18 years living, teaching and writing in Tokyo, these essays on how Tokyoites work, dress, commute, eat and sleep are steeped in insights into the city’s odd structures, intricate pleasures and engaging undertow.

Included are essays on living to size and loving the crowd, on Tokyo’s dizzying uncertainties and daily satisfactions, and on the 2011 earthquake. As in his first two books, this collection captures the ceaseless flow and passing flashes of life in biggest city in the world with gentle humor and rich detail.

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GtrsRGr8 Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,334 Karma: 27815322 Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Southeastern U.S., ya'll Device: Kindle; Kindle (10.1.1) for PC; Kindle Cloud Reader	More Essays on Tokyo, from Michael Pronko--Very Highly Rated, and FREE. UPDATE/ADDENDUM: Michael Pronko's website (http://www.michaelpronko.com/motions...says-on-tokyo/) offers the free ebook, also (http://www.michaelpronko.com/homepage/#newsletter). However, it is a zip file which contains the ePub and PDF, as well as the mobi (the Amazon Kindle format). Pronko states that the download there will be available free through May 22, I don't know if that holds true for Amazon or not. I'm assuming that the publisher of this tome, Raked Gravel Press, is a self-pub. So it has to go on this thread. Frankly, essays leave me, well, somnolent, if not comatose. So I don't like to post them. But you can't swim against the tide--the 35 reviews and/or ratings of this book are very high. On top of that, it's free. Motions and Moments: More Essays on Tokyo. By Michael Pronko. Rated 4.6 stars, but from only 19 reviews, at Amazon at the present moment; rated 4.44, but from only 16 ratings at the present moment, at GoodReads. Print list price $10.99; digital list price $0.99; Kindle price now $0.00. Raked Gravel Press, publisher. 290 pages. https://www.amazon.com/Motions-Momen.../dp/B019IGFBWS. Book Description Motions and Moments is the third book by Michael Pronko on the fluid feel and vibrant confusions of Tokyo life. These 42 new essays burrow into the unique intensities that suffuse the city and ponder what they mean to its millions of inhabitants. Based on Pronko’s 18 years living, teaching and writing in Tokyo, these essays on how Tokyoites work, dress, commute, eat and sleep are steeped in insights into the city’s odd structures, intricate pleasures and engaging undertow. Included are essays on living to size and loving the crowd, on Tokyo’s dizzying uncertainties and daily satisfactions, and on the 2011 earthquake. As in his first two books, this collection captures the ceaseless flow and passing flashes of life in biggest city in the world with gentle humor and rich detail. Last edited by GtrsRGr8; 05-20-2016 at 12:59 AM.