Akemi G.

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I indie-published WHY WE ARE BORN in 2014. It has been selling steadily primarily by word of mouth, and I cannot thank enough.
"I consider this book required reading for any metaphysical seeker. Pretty big praise, but well-deserved because she takes concepts that are huge and often confusing to the average Joe or Jane and makes them understandable and relatable to real life."
~ Pathways magazine


My next goal is to entertain you with fiction; novels that shake your common sense and are loving in a strange way.

What you find on GR is Akemi as a person who likes to read, among other things. I think it's awkward when an author comments to the reviews of their own books, so I restrain myself from doing so; in other words, I seldom use GR for my m
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Average rating: 4.24 · 282 ratings · 28 reviews · 2 distinct worksSimilar authors
Why We Are Born: Rememberin...

4.25 avg rating — 224 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015
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Japanese Tales from Times Past by Anonymous
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I didn’t read this English translation. I read the modern Japanese translation by Takehiko Fukunaga that collects 155 stories from Vol 11 to 31 of the original. (Vol 1-10 are set in India and China; the rest is set in Japan.) Although the author and ...more
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Counterfeit by Kirstin Chen
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This is brilliant! The first half is told by Ava to a detective . . . and she talks a lot. I guess we all know the saying that this is a sign of a liar; yet I didn’t expect things would land this way. Nice heist story that works precisely because the ...more
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Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada
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I adore the way this novel is written, its word-plays and the jumps of metaphors. I read the original Japanese version, so I can’t comment on the translation— I guess it was challenging. Just one example of her word play: nise (fake) and shinise (old ...more
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Finlay Donovan Is Killing It by Elle Cosimano
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This was fun! The setting of a mystery writer being mistaken as a real killer is interesting, the things she does mostly on impulse seem so devastating yet actually working—very entertaining. I love the tie between Finlay and Vero.

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Miss Marple by Agatha Christie
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I read The Thirteen Problems looong ago, and I just reread it/read the rest of the stories.

Christie is pretty discriminative, you know. Typically, the murderer belongs to the respected class; the working class people are, at best, their muscle (some
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Greenshaw's Folly by Agatha Christie
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Tape-Measure Murder by Agatha Christie
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The title is no good; it’s practically a spoiler. The trick is quite simple, and the point is to figure out the motive (not hard, either) and how to prove the case (difficult, and the story forces it)
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The Case of the Caretaker by Agatha Christie
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This is quite mean. A large portion of this story consists of a manuscript written by a doctor/wannabe writer, and it’s so badly written. Christie must have had a wicked fun with this. The case is simple, and it doesn’t require Miss Marple. A careful ...more
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The Case of the Perfect Maid by Agatha Christie
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It’s easy enough to suspect the “perfect” maid, but exactly who is she, and how can Miss Marple catch her tail? This was fun.
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Strange Jest by Agatha Christie
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Treasure hunt! I feel a bit cheated, however. Sure, treasure can come in various forms—it doesn’t have to be gold or jewelry or security documents—but this? And—am I missing something?—I don’t see any connection between the recipe and the “treasure” ...more
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“Synchronicity happens when we align with the flow of the universe rather than insisting the universe flow our way.”
Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

“Few words have been misunderstood more than “love,” perhaps with the exception of “God”
Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

“Life is never against you because you are the one who is creating it.”
Akemi G, Why We Are Born: Remembering Our Purpose through the Akashic Records

“Unending Love

I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times...
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.

Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it's age old pain,
It's ancient tale of being apart or together.
As I stare on and on into the past, in the end you emerge,
Clad in the light of a pole-star, piercing the darkness of time.
You become an image of what is remembered forever.

You and I have floated here on the stream that brings from the fount.
At the heart of time, love of one for another.
We have played along side millions of lovers,
Shared in the same shy sweetness of meeting,
the distressful tears of farewell,
Old love but in shapes that renew and renew forever.

Today it is heaped at your feet, it has found its end in you
The love of all man's days both past and forever:
Universal joy, universal sorrow, universal life.
The memories of all loves merging with this one love of ours -
And the songs of every poet past and forever.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Selected Poems

“It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love”
John Lennon
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“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar Wilde

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
Albert Einstein

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Jeffrey Keeten Thanks for the friend request Akemi! I'm looking forward to watching your feed and finding more Japanese novels I should have on my TBR!


Dolors Thank you very much for your friend request, Akemi. I am ecstatic to see your love and understanding of Japanese lit. I am still a neophyte in it but I have great enthusiasm and I bet we will have wonderful discussions about books, life and other interesting matters. I notice you mentioned Shakespeare as one of your fav writers. Another match. I have "The Tale of the Genji" spotted out and your response encourages me to tackle it sooner than later.


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