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With Love from the Morisaki Bookshop
by Satoshi Yagisawa
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This edition combines both of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop and More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop.
Japanese “healing fiction” is everywhere at the moment and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is one of the ones most of you will have seen around. It was all over the gram last year and all over bookstores too.
Now I am a big fan of slice of life, especially Japanese, whether in literature or in anime, so these stories are right up my street. I see so many reviews bashing on their quieter nature, but for me that’s what I love.
In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jimbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart’s delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases.
Takako is lost. Her uncle Satoru is heartbroken. Together, working in the family bookshop, they help each other heal. With a small cast of supporting characters from the neighbourhood and a nearby coffee shop, both Takako and Satoru, over the course of the two instalments, come to terms with their current lot in life and find something to look forward to. And that is what a lot of this genre of “healing fiction” seems to aim for, giving people hope that there’s something to strive for.
Japanese “healing fiction” is everywhere at the moment and Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is one of the ones most of you will have seen around. It was all over the gram last year and all over bookstores too.
Now I am a big fan of slice of life, especially Japanese, whether in literature or in anime, so these stories are right up my street. I see so many reviews bashing on their quieter nature, but for me that’s what I love.
In Tokyo, there is a neighbourhood with the highest number of bookstores in the world. It is called Jimbocho where book lovers can browse to their heart’s delight and where hunters of first editions or autographed copies prowl the bookcases.
Takako is lost. Her uncle Satoru is heartbroken. Together, working in the family bookshop, they help each other heal. With a small cast of supporting characters from the neighbourhood and a nearby coffee shop, both Takako and Satoru, over the course of the two instalments, come to terms with their current lot in life and find something to look forward to. And that is what a lot of this genre of “healing fiction” seems to aim for, giving people hope that there’s something to strive for.