The Guest Cat was a very sweet and sad story as I was expecting, and I enjoyed reading the translator’s notes at the end as Japanese literature presents a lot of cultural and linguistic differences when translating into English (and many other languages I imagine), so it was fascinating to have that insight provided by Eric Selland. But a lot of this book (and it’s only 140 pages) is descriptions of places, layouts of houses and cities, and my brain just doesn’t work that way?! I get utterly lost and bored when authors go off on tangents about the way a house or room is set up, I just can’t picture it in my mind and I don’t often see what relevance it has! But I did appreciate the lesson in appreciating the small things in life while you have them.