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CONGRATS TO LUCKY WINNER – CARRIE! The San Francisco Chronicle called her debut novel,  Midori by Moonlight 1 , a “terrific first novel.” Now Author Wendy Tokunaga is back with her second book, Love in Translation , which again explores the themes of Japan and Japanese culture and being a stranger in a strange land, which have played a major role in her life and writing. I now turn the stage over to Wendy, who’s here telling us all about:  Love and Songs in Translation As someone whose second novel has just come out, it may surprise you that when I was young, my dream wasn’t to be a writer; I wanted to be a rock star. The only writing I did was songwriting for the bands I put together on my quest to become the next Joan Jett, Blondie or Pat Benatar. At the same time I’d become mad for Japan and Japanese culture and was studying the language. When I heard about something called karaoke, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. The Japanese actually invented karaoke (singing popular song

We are living in 21st Century, where celebrities, sports stars and politicians are the new gods of the younger generation. Where people unfortunately do not trust the words of God as much as they trust tweets from a Hollywood celebrity. Where lies are treated as truth and fan following is taken as authority thanks to the presence of electronic media. Advertisement of Bitcoin near a train station in Tokyo 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 The world lives in a Matrix where every single individual’s mind is controlled through shadowy human gods , called celebrities. People will act as a flock of sheep by blindly following these gods. Over the last 12 months, several celebrities have been paid to promote and endorse various virtual currencies on social media. — BBC News Why won’t people believe on something when it is advertised through celebrities like Richard Branson, Paris Hilton, Floyd Mayweath