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3.34 AVERAGE
3.34 AVERAGE
lighthearted
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
very lighthearted read. the most slice of like book ive ever read
A gentle, rambling, slightly hard-to-follow story about a young woman who works in a thrift shop and the people she encounters there. The closest thing the book has to a main plot is a romantic connection between two of the characters, but it is thin, disappears for long periods, and is implied more than it is really featured.
I'm not sure if it was a side-effect of the translation, poor editing, or a quirk that was carried over from the Japanese version of the book, but about half the dialogue in the books wasn't marked in any way, but just presented mixed in with the narration. That made it a challenge at times to tell whether a character was speaking, or being paraphrased, or if the narrator was thinking something. There were also a lot of quirks of language and habit which might have been just as inexplicable and weird in Japanese, or would make sense with cultural context that I don't have.
I enjoyed reading this book while I was doing it, but I kept hoping and half-expecting that it would come together in a way that would make sense, and it never did. The book introduces a lot of elements that simply seem to be there for flavor without ever leading to anything. At the same time, none of them were important or interesting enough to justify a sequel. It feels like a short story that got expanded into a novel, with lots of diversions and doglegs to pad it out.
I'm not sure if it was a side-effect of the translation, poor editing, or a quirk that was carried over from the Japanese version of the book, but about half the dialogue in the books wasn't marked in any way, but just presented mixed in with the narration. That made it a challenge at times to tell whether a character was speaking, or being paraphrased, or if the narrator was thinking something. There were also a lot of quirks of language and habit which might have been just as inexplicable and weird in Japanese, or would make sense with cultural context that I don't have.
I enjoyed reading this book while I was doing it, but I kept hoping and half-expecting that it would come together in a way that would make sense, and it never did. The book introduces a lot of elements that simply seem to be there for flavor without ever leading to anything. At the same time, none of them were important or interesting enough to justify a sequel. It feels like a short story that got expanded into a novel, with lots of diversions and doglegs to pad it out.
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Complicated
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
A good book to use as a palette cleanser. It's not going to blow you away but I enjoyed my time with these characters and the quirky stories.
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
lighthearted
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
very cute slice of life, not much happens in it but personally i found it to be an easy and charming read🫶
The character motivations and actions in this book were hard for me to grasp. Not a lot happens and nothing is particularly extreme, it just felt like I didn't understand these people.