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4.36 AVERAGE
4.36 AVERAGE
this books has cats, and a road trip and a sad but well-written story. it is beautiful.
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
“‘Don’t leave me... Stay with me.’
Ah-hah! Finally.
Finally, he had said what he really meant...
On this last trip, let’s see all sorts of amazing things. Let’s take a pledge to take in as many sights as we can.
My seven-shaped crooked tail should be able to snag every single marvelous thing we pass.”
This shit got deep—so deep, I cried twice while reading it.
This book has it all: loneliness, connection, grief, friendship, love. Ah, my heart. I absolutely loved the cat narrator voice. It was so hilarious, yet so truthful to the cat experience and mindset.
I highly highly recommend this book! And if you loved this book, I also recommend watching the anime, My Roommate is a Cat!
Ah-hah! Finally.
Finally, he had said what he really meant...
On this last trip, let’s see all sorts of amazing things. Let’s take a pledge to take in as many sights as we can.
My seven-shaped crooked tail should be able to snag every single marvelous thing we pass.”
This shit got deep—so deep, I cried twice while reading it.
This book has it all: loneliness, connection, grief, friendship, love. Ah, my heart. I absolutely loved the cat narrator voice. It was so hilarious, yet so truthful to the cat experience and mindset.
I highly highly recommend this book! And if you loved this book, I also recommend watching the anime, My Roommate is a Cat!
The audiobook narrator does a great job with the voices of women, men, and a sardonic cat. Oh, and a dog.
Only 3 stars, because the story has too many inconsistencies.
1) It seems as though after we come out of an early flashback, Nana knows what happened, even though he wasn't alive yet. (I may be wrong on this, b/c it's too much trouble to go back in an audiobook to check.) This phenomenon is better explained later in the book when an older cat tells Nana the back story that SHE heard from the previous cat.
2) Satoru says that Hachi had a terrifying plane trip once. But why? Satoru's friend took care of Hachi at his house whenever they went out of town. Plus, why would anyone take a cat on a plane unless they were moving somewhere? And you can't have just one plane trip, you'd have to have two.
3) Satoru brings Nana to his parents' graves as the last stop on the road trip. There's a flashback revealing Satoru has promised this repeatedly over the years. But at any of the previous stops, he might have left Nana with friends. So why wouldn't the visit to the graves come first? Though I suppose you could argue that he never intended to leave Nana, that Nana was simply the excuse to visit his old friends.
4) After the road trip does not result in a successful placement, he goes to the apartment his aunt is moving into. But if his aunt thought he was going to find a home for the cat, why did she move to a cat-friendly apartment? He called her from the road and she then, in a day or two, found a new apartment? That seems unlikely.
5) In the hospital, at the end, why are there so many health care professionals in the room? Wouldn't that be just the time everyone leaves except loved ones?
Only 3 stars, because the story has too many inconsistencies.
1) It seems as though after we come out of an early flashback, Nana knows what happened, even though he wasn't alive yet. (I may be wrong on this, b/c it's too much trouble to go back in an audiobook to check.) This phenomenon is better explained later in the book when an older cat tells Nana the back story that SHE heard from the previous cat.
2) Satoru says that Hachi had a terrifying plane trip once. But why? Satoru's friend took care of Hachi at his house whenever they went out of town. Plus, why would anyone take a cat on a plane unless they were moving somewhere? And you can't have just one plane trip, you'd have to have two.
3) Satoru brings Nana to his parents' graves as the last stop on the road trip. There's a flashback revealing Satoru has promised this repeatedly over the years. But at any of the previous stops, he might have left Nana with friends. So why wouldn't the visit to the graves come first? Though I suppose you could argue that he never intended to leave Nana, that Nana was simply the excuse to visit his old friends.
4) After the road trip does not result in a successful placement, he goes to the apartment his aunt is moving into. But if his aunt thought he was going to find a home for the cat, why did she move to a cat-friendly apartment? He called her from the road and she then, in a day or two, found a new apartment? That seems unlikely.
5) In the hospital, at the end, why are there so many health care professionals in the room? Wouldn't that be just the time everyone leaves except loved ones?
emotional
funny
reflective
relaxing
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
As a cat owner and cat lover, I felt this book to my core. I've cried my eyes out and smiled at the same time. The story of Satoru and his cat Nana is a love story that pet owners and especially cat lovers will fully understand and relate to.
adventurous
emotional
sad
emotional
funny
medium-paced
emotional
funny
lighthearted
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:
No
OMG, so much to love. I was listening to this before bed , but I knew that it was going to have a sad ending, so I wisely listened to the end during the day. I wept from chapter 3.5 on.
Het begin kostte wat moeite, maar daarna gaat het vloeien. Mooi verhaal en met plezier gelezen