Reviews tagging 'Medical content'

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

14 reviews

gracie_reads_everything's review

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Car accident, Death, and Terminal illness

Minor: Grief, Infertility, Child abuse, Medical content, Animal death, Death of parent, and Physical abuse

xgabrielle_hx's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Cancer

Moderate: Death, Medical content, and Death of parent

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Blood

dariarp's review

emotional funny lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Infertility, Miscarriage, Animal death, Medical content, Cancer, Death of parent, Death, and Terminal illness

knightylight's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful lighthearted relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

This book was absolutely a lovely journey, and also a tear jerker. It's about the exploration of a person's life through flashbacks and also through the point of view of his cat that he found as a stray. This story goes into the different kinds of love and friendships we create through our lives, with people and with animals. Loved ones can enter our lives for forever, or for a season- but ultimately the connections we make are never a waste. 

This is a must read for not only cat lovers, but for any pet lover; however it is an emotional journey so tissues are a must. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death, Medical content, and Death

the book follows the main human character going from place to place, visiting old family and friends to look for someone to leave his cat with. We learn this is because the main human has a terminal illness and will need to be hospitalized, with not long to live. It's hard seeing the character who was so lively in flashbacks and at the beginning start to deteriorate, especially from the perspective of his cat who doesn't fully understand what is happening. The illness isnt specifically mentioned by name or described, but the main human character dies from it. The final chapter also has the cat die of old age. The sweet thing is they get to reunite at the end of the story. For anyone triggered by terminal illnesses, cancer, or animal death, I advise some caution even if it isn't super explicit.

isabezza's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.0

I was recommended this story as a tear-jerker by my aunt, a cat-lover. I loved our narrative voice, Nana the cat - captured hilariously by the author! Nana was kind and amusing, recognising both the intelligence of himself and the readers. This is definitely an emotive read, and one you could finish in a day. A fantastic read for anyone who would love the comedy of understanding a cat's mind, or readers moved by life stories. I enjoyed that there were multiple short stories from our protagonist's life included in the chapters, however this meant I had to refocus my attention often. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Animal death, Medical content, and Cancer

ksuazo94's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent, and Grief

Minor: Medical trauma, Medical content, Car accident, Child abuse, Infertility, and Abandonment

sjcou's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Chronic illness, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Terminal illness, and Cancer

Minor: Abandonment, Alcohol, Car accident, Death of parent, Infertility, and Medical content

patienceholmes's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness and Death

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Animal death, Death of parent, Medical content, and Car accident

atamano's review against another edition

hopeful sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Cancer

Moderate: Animal death, Car accident, Injury/Injury detail, and Medical content

e_reader's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Oh my god. This book was so wonderful. I couldn’t find a single thing wrong with it, so it was an easy five stars. 

It’s narrated in first person by the cat, with frequent asides to describe the characters’ histories together. It has the classic structure of Japanese lit where each chapter focuses on a different person or topic. 

I definitely cried at the end too. I think the translator did a wonderful job, communicating all the turns of phrase and beautiful imagery. The flowers, oh man…

Anyway, you should definitely read this book! It took me less than 24 hours and was so worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Grief, and Medical content

Minor: Alcohol, Abandonment, Child abuse, Animal death, and Infertility