2022: It wasn't *bad* but it also wasn't *good*

I randomly bought this book in a shop in Bratislava, Slovakia because it was in English and I recognized it and I needed a book for the train ride home. Maybe I am heartless, but this book didn't do it for me. It was a cute little story, but I didn't feel like it went anywhere. The answers to the questions that the characters were trying to solve were logical conclusions and didn't really impress me as much as the internet would have led me to believe. Maybe this was just further confirmation that I really don't love short stories!

However, this might be the first book in a long time that would satisfy my mother's desire for me to recommend a book to her that's "not too sad" and "has a happy ending". I do have a tendency to gravitate to the dramatic and important and devastating novels. This one was much lighter and pleasant in my opinion (despite actually a number of people dying in the story lol). Also, I did want to try and read more books in translation this year, and this book definitely satisfied that.