Nini Nooks' Nook

Growing up and having revelations about the world around you is tough, especially as a woman. It is something that I am struggling with righ now, as I have started to realise how painfully fast life moves, with or without you. It is in Mieko Kawakami's book Breasts and Eggs that I have found a sense of confort in the craziness of becoming an adult.  This book definitely touched me in a way that I was not expecting. I picked this book randomly off the list of extra readings from my Japanese Lit course, but I am so glad I did.  Breasts and Eggs follows 30-year -old Natsuko, who currently lives in Tokyo, after growing up in Osaka with her mum and older sister. During the extremes of the Japanese Summer, her older sister comes to visit her, with her teenage daughter in tow. Natsuko's sister is in search of a breast enhancement and Natsuko's niece has recently stopped speaking to her mother. The three girls bond and confront their individual problems over the course of the visit...

Hello, I'm sure that everyone who reads this will already know that I am Indigo. I used to be called Nini Nooks when I was little. I have a few plans for what I want to post on here, including reviews of things like books, tv series, restaurants, cafes, makeup and self-care products e.t.c, as well as journal-like entries, little posts about my thoughts mixed in with hopefully some photography and tutorials like baking! I also will write some stuff in Japanese and hopefully do a sort of retrospective series on my two trips to Japan (hopefully three soon!) because I haven't documented them in anyway which is criminal... Anyway, who knows. Part of this is definitely creative pursuit, but also having a way to document my life after I have kind of ditched posting on social media...anyway social media is restrictive and I could never posted what I really wanted which brings us to this blog! I can't hide that I am super excited to be doing this. I want to write more and I do so ma...