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  1. 2d ago

    Ep 357 The Drowning of Hakui

    Bookbinding Hakui is a small town about 25 miles (40 km) north of Kanazawa. On August 27 it had a massive rainfall. It was severely flood with the water reaching up to the middle of people’s front doors, over the tops of cars, and caused a few landslides. Fortunately, nobody died. In their honor, I made a book called Hakui. It is a thin book - four signatures of four leaves each for a total of 64 pages. It is B6 in size and cased in.  The cover is made up of left-over material: red book cloth, pink paper (part of the cover) and blue paper (the spine). Also embellished on the front cover is a leaf, leftover endpaper, and an interesting washi. This washi is thin;  individual threads can be seen. It looks like a spider web. Fiction Dmitry the Scavenger continues toward his confrontation with government employees. Before his confrontation, he works with the people of Noto-machi. He repairs houses, and other items that need repairing, cleans up gardens, and helps whenever he can. This will come in handy when he deals with the government. Talkies / Flicks TDGB 99 Hakui is up for your audio and visual pleasure. About 11 minutes. Books I have three Marsh Mysteries up. These are short (50~70 pages) detective stories with Joe & Carmen Marsh investigating murders, domestic abuse, and fraud in Spain.  The Battered Briefcase Case (A murder sends Marsh to Spain to find the murderer. In Xativa), The Madrid Mariposa Murder Mystery (A woman is abused by her husband and finds a clever way to murder him. In Madrid), and The Dry Watermill Case (A cold case comes back to life when a corpse is found. In Seville ). The Saké Series is also available for your reading pleasure. Sakate (a bartender deals with a variety of customers), The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street (a former high school teacher meets and drinks with a former high school student), and The Dead of Winter (a famous Japanese novelist dies and goes to Kanazawa). Be forewarned, I have another book in the Saké Series called My Year of Drinking Kanazawa in which an ex-pat novelist living in Kanazawa goes to different bars and learns about life in Kanazawa. Hopefully, this will be available soon.  Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo

  2. Sep 1

    Ep 356: Hog Heaven

    Bookbinding Hog Heaven was sewn on tapes. Probably the second time I’ve sewn on tapes in a long, long time. The signatures (7) were connected by sewing the upper signature through the threads on each station on the lower signatures.  This made for a fairly tight connection between the signatures. Hog Heaven was also sewn twice. The first time, I didn’t put the thread through the lower station thread – not a bad thing but not what I  planned. I was on the fifth signature when I noticed. I pulled out all the sewing I had done and resewed it. The second thing that changed, other than the resewing, was I used a straight needle. Usually I use a curved needle, but in this case I think a straight needle was more affective. Because it kept the signatures together very tightly, it shot to my favorite type of binding along with Coptic binding (because the book can be opened flat) and link stitch. Fiction Dmitry the Scavenger has progressed nicely. I think it’s up to about 75 pages and he is working with a carpenter, learning Japanese, and has a small old dumpy place to live on the first floor of an abandoned squid warehouse. Why squid? The area where he is now, Noto-machi in Japan, used to be famous for squid fishing, packing, and selling. From about 80,000 tons a year (in the 60s) to 300 tons (now).  What has been added other than action? The culture of small-town Japan where the police rely on the Grandmother Network; mostly widowed women who see everything and tell the police about it.  Talkies / Flicks TDGB 98, the making of Hog Heaven, is up on YouTube for your viewing pleasure. About 13:00.  Books The Dead of Winter. The famous author is still dead and awaiting your interest in reading about his afterlife in Kanazawa.  It has been pointed out to me that this is not necessarily a trilogy but I do have four novels including Sakate, and The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street (plus a third not yet published) that take place in bars (three in Kanazawa). A reflection of my life style?    Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo

  3. Aug 24

    Ep 355: And Then… a mistake!

    Bookbinding A 112-page blank notebook titled ‘And Then….’ is our accomplishment in bookbinding this week. Plus a large mistake. The title has two emotional responses.  1. And Then… She dumped the kale pasta on his head. 2. And Then… He dumped the kale pasta on her head. First response is often: What did he do?! The second response is often: What a monster! The covers of And Then … are made up of a collage I made years ago. Chopped it up and stuck it on a book. Looks nice. The cover is made up of paper, of course, but also leaves. They look like bay leaves. I made two mistakes: first, measuring and second, cutting incorrectly.  Fiction Dmitry the Scavenger is working and learning Japanese the old fashioned way – no textbooks or formal teachers, but picking it up in a bar and at work. No writing of hiragana, katakana, or kanji; just speaking. The only reading is of signs he sees everyday or instructions (on, off, danger) on machines he uses. Mostly, he speaks to people. And drinks. He also has a small room of his own; he worries about immigration, the police, and passports. Talkies / Flicks TDGB 97 is up and running. While it shows the creation of And Then… it doesn’t show the Big Mistake I made as I made it. I tell you, I don’t show you. It was quite frustrating and boils down to my not paying attention to what I was doing. Oops.  Books Dead of Winter: A Novelist’s Kanazawa Afterlife is still up and awaiting your interest. It is also available as a free audio book on YouTube in my feed (Chapter One: Judy Seduces a Dead Man). It has 8 chapters in total for about 75 minutes listening time.   Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo

  4. Aug 16

    Ep 354 Can You Swim in a Dessert?

    Bookbinding Why is it called Swimming in the Dessert? It’s blank, right? Yes, it is. But there’s an 18-minute short movie called Swimming in the Desert that looks interesting so, not to confuse anybody with two titles for completely different subjects, I changed it to Dessert.  It’s seven signatures of five folios each for 140 pages, A6 (pocketbook) with a red spine, blue front cover with a splash of what looks like Thai writing, with light blue and green on the back cover.  All the materials (except the thread and beeswax) are from my To-Be-Used in the Future pile. The book boards are from a leftover box that might have held saké. The book covers are made of three book cloths (blue, light blue, green, and red) that were left over from previous projects and the text block, yes, the text block was given me by a printing company in town that was just going to throw them away. I got them maybe 15 years ago and I’m down to the last pile. The endbands were made of the leftover red book cloth and twine (not left over but purchased maybe a decade ago). Fiction Of the three books I should be working on: Dmitry the Scavenger, Agnes Grout, Caraculiambro only one, not the two set in the US, is being worked on. Dmitry the Scavenger has started work as a handyman for a Japanese carpenter who is helping people affected by the January 1, 2024 earthquake that demolished many buildings, many homes, and lives. First, he will help tear down a broken home. He’s still concerned about getting to Noto, Sicily before the police arrest him for being an illegal alien Talkies / Flicks Two videos up this week. One from last week.  The Dead of Winter: a Novelist’s Kanazawa Afterlife.  is up for your listening pleasure. About a novelist who dies and comes to Kanazawa. He meets a sarcastic jazz coffee shop owner who argues with him about his writing. He also meets her customers, who may also be dead. TDGB 96 Sundae Swimming in the Dessert, a 9:20 minute video of the making of the Swimming. Books The Dead of Winter: a Novelist's Kanazawa Afterlife.  is available on Apple Books, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. You can listen to it on my YouTube channel before you buy.    Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo

  5. Aug 10

    Ep. 353 AudioBook / Video

    Bookbinding I’ll explain why there is nothing in Bookbinding in the Movie/Talkies/Video section. Fiction I’ve worked on Dmitry the Scavenger during the past week; making it stronger, I believe. I added more descriptions, deleted more confusing bits, and made the characters stand out a bit more. Dmitry was shocked to discover he wasn’t in Noto, Sicily, his dream destination, but Noto, Japan. A much smaller port village.  He knows he’s in the country illegally, plus he has a fake passport. If discovered by the Japanese authorities, he’ll be deported back to Moscow, a place he doesn’t want to be. What will become of him? Talkies / Flicks Rather than make a book, I made eight videos. All together these eight videos make an audio book of The Dead of Winter ~ A Novelist’s Kanazawa Afterlife. The visuals for the audio book are somewhat related to the novel. For example, when the Novelist talks about a bear being in Kenrokuen, we see Kenrokuen (sorry, no bear). When Judy talks about two or three high school females, we see two or three high school females walking on a street in Kanazawa. All of the videos are originals taken by me so this is the Kanazawa people see. Mostly Kenrokuen, Kanazawa Castle, and the streets near both of thos places. Mostly, also, in the rain as The Dead of Winter takes place in the winter (but I didn’t want to wait or walk around in the snow). Books For your reading pleasure: Sakate – life as a bartender in an unprofitable but lively bar.  The Lonely Izakaya Down a Quiet Street – a 30-something former high school student meets up with her former high school teacher to talk about life and haiku.   Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo

  6. Aug 2

    Ep. 352 Ergo, I think?

    Bookbinding Ergo is a 100-page, A6 (pocketbook)-size, blank notebook that I Coptic-bound.  Three things make this book different from other A6, 100-page, blank notebooks I’ve made in the past. One: Window for a title on the front cover. Two: Colored in the spaces between threads with random colors. Also, colored the head but not the tail. Three: measured the distance between stations so they were the same. There are six station with three toward the top, head, edge and three toward the bottom, tail, edge with a space between the two groups. Everything except the thread was from my To-Be-Used-Someday pile: upcycled paper that sat on my shelf for 15 years, book cloth, book boards. Fiction First, other authors’ fiction. In order to reduce my screen time (I’m aware I’m typing this on a computer), I’ve started reading real books more often. And alternatively; first one, then the other without leaving my reading post: ie, bed. I finished a detective story set in Valencia, Spain just yesterday. Blood Med by Jason Webster. I’m currently reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. This book is a re-imagining David Copperfield by Charles Dickens into Appalachia. (Is this different from fan fiction?) I’m re-reading Copperfield to see how it jives with Copperhead. Cool. Finally, I’m nearly finished with a slice-of-life aka cozy Japanese novel (in translation) of Tsubaki Stationery Store by Ito Ogawa. A woman with a troubled relationship with her grandmother takes over the family stationery store after the grandmother dies and deals with customers, friends, and her own past. In cozy Japanese novels, there is no dramatic action like a murder or conspiracy; it’s relaxing. In my fiction: Dmitry the Scavenger is the only novel I worked on this week. Dmitry landed in Japan, discovered he wasn’t in Sicily, has met a vibrant woman who speaks English, and is aware and worried that he is an illegal immigrant who can be deported back to Russia at any time where he’s sure he’ll be jailed or, worse, drafted into Putin’s little war in Ukraine. Talkies / Flicks / Moving Pictures I’ve uploaded a seven and a half minute video of Ergo (TDGB 95: Ergo) created for your viewing pleasure. In it I also discuss Demon Copperhead and David Copperfield, like I do in this podcast. I think I have a better video of making the coptic stitch on this video than previous videos.  The first and second signatures are shown in a speeded up version because watching me manipulate the thread, book, and my hands for 20 minutes might be boring. Books Your Audio book of The Merchant of Venus is up on Apple Books for your listening pleasure. In this 16-page short story, men take body parts from other men, add herbs and spices, to create women. Fully formed 20-year-old women who will be the wives of the men for 20 years. Marshall, the artist who makes females, has used two of his own fingers to make this two wives. At 60, he’s a two-time widower when a bureaucrat hires him to make him wife. Marshall fails and is threatened with jail time. The e-book of The Merchant of Venus is up on Apple Books, Kobo, and Barnes & Noble. Please enjoy.   Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo

  7. Jul 26

    Ep. 351 Do You Make False Promises (or just me)?

    Bookbinding I bound my Marsh Mystery Series detective-noir very short novel The False Promises Case. In making this book I used leftover material except for the thread and wax.    The book boards were recycle files cut to size, kind of. When I cut the file I remember thinking I will cut this to size later; of course, I forgot I told my self that – I never listen to my self. The result is the book covers are too big. I dislike making books whose covers are too big.   The book cover was made of leftover book cloth from a couple of previous books (two blank notebooks, and a coptic-bound book for doodling).    Even the endpapers were scrounged from a purchase of endpapers. I mean, the wrapping for the endpapers I used as endpapers for this book. This book is A6 in size, and 60-pages. Fiction I complete The False Promises Case – A Marsh Mystery last week. I spent time rewriting, looking for confusion, and checking the pacing. I think it’s ready to be seen by the public. Joe and Carmen investigate why a respectable man would kill someone; that someone was a ponzi scheme jerk who lived off the money he scammed out of people, but why did the man kill him?  Plus, in the middle of the case, Carmen needs an operation. Dmitry the Scavenger is moving slowly but deeper. Agnes Grout has progressed about a paragraph or two. Both of these novels are building up to something; I just don’t know what. For example, I’m thinking of connecting Dmitry with a character in Molly Bright or The Tokyo Tunnel Girl. In Molly he might meet Frank, a gangster from Phoenix who owns a run-down ramen shop in Osaka. In The Tokyo Tunnel Girl he could meet with a character called The Russian. Or, there could be no relation between the three novels. Which of these two covers do you like best? Talkies / Flicks TDGB 94 Making False Promises is up on YouTube for your audio and visual pleasure. It is the making of the detective-noir novella I talked about in the Bookbinding (and Fiction) section so you should be familiar with it.  The music is nice, too. Books Again, you have the opportunity to listen to the audio book of The Merchant of Venus. About a man who creates females out of his own body part. The audio book is available only on Apple Books. The ebook is available on Apple, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo (among others) Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo

  8. Jul 20

    Ep. 350 The Language Square

    Bookbinding This is a blank notebook designed for people who want to learn another language or take notes. It is A6 in size (pocket book size for easy handling) and Coptic bound (for easy opening and using). There are four squares on each page. If you are learning another language, the first square is for your native language. The second square is for the target language. Research has shown this to be an effective method (your brain knows your native language and will soon connect it with the target language). The third square is for sentences in the target language in order to practice writing. The fourth square is to add details of your choosing. For example, where and when you found the new word, or who you learned it from. Or for doodling as is your want. Earlier I mentioned I have a lot of scrap material and want to use it. This notebook uses scrap material I just created. Rather than store it or throw it away, I used it on this book which is why the front is mostly red and the back is grey; using up scrap material. Fiction Also recently I said I hadn’t written a lot on any of the three books I have on the back burner: The Posthumous Autobiography of the Widow Agnes Grout, Death Weaver; Dmitry the Scavenger; and a Marsh Mystery that I mistakenly called by the wrong name. The correct name is The False Promises Case. This week I have reversed that trend. I wrote not only on False Promises but also on Agnes Grout. Busy I am. Plus I want to finish False Promises as soon as I can. It is the latest in my Joe and Carmen Marsh Mystery series.  Talkies / Flicks For your viewing pleasure, I have uploaded on to YouTube the creation of Language Squares – a notebook for people who want to learn a new language. Included in the video are hints and suggestions of how to learn a language. For example, write vocabulary by hand i.e. pencil and paper rather than on a computer. Your hand muscles will remember the word long after your computer has been trashed. Books For your listening pleasure, I’m promoting the audio book of  The Merchant of Venus.  In this world, females are created from body parts from males. But a man with a special set of skills is required to add the herbs and spices to the body part to create a woman. Marshall, the merchant, is a talented creator of females, so much so that he is threatened out of retirement after the cancelation of his second wife.  The audio book is available only on Apple Books. The ebook is available on Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. Apple Barnes & Noble Kobo

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    Tedorigawa Bookmakers
  • Years Active
    2008 - 2026
  • Episodes
    20
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    Copyright © 2011 George Stenson. All rights reserved.
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