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The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

6 reviews

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

hollylol's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Death and Cancer

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Grief, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Alcohol, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, and Infertility

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

triangular_pascal's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing 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? It's complicated

3.75

Recommended to me by Jane and Amma -I'm glad I read it, this book reads like a Ghibli film at times

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Content Warnings

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Infertility, Cancer, Car accident, Alcohol, and Animal death

kalira's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective 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? It's complicated

5.0

A sweet and absolutely lovely journey through soft-edged adventures, friendships and connection, and memories, told largely from an excellently-done and clever feline perspective. The devotion shared by Nana and Satoru (and to some extent, all the people Satoru knew and had so many memories with) is presented with a beautifully understated yet strongly continuing thread.

By the time I reached the ending I fully expected it to make me cry, and that it did, but it was beautifully done and the tears were sorrowful but not wrenching.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Grief, Animal death, and Car accident

Minor: Alcohol, Abandonment, Child abuse, and Infertility

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