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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
emotional
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:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
sad
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
I’ve been meaning to read more books like this, the kind of literature that makes you feel that much more connected to your inner solitude. That makes you feel human in the best sense of the word – introspective & lulled & cautiously hopeful about all the luminous stories contained in the often disregarded edges of our lives. No intensely dramatic plot or rushed pacing. No yearning to be more than it is. Just a life given voice and a story given life.
Many thanks to Abrams & Shelf Awareness for sending me an ARC!
Many thanks to Abrams & Shelf Awareness for sending me an ARC!
emotional
inspiring
reflective
sad
slow-paced
i enjoyed this so much!! the slow burn was slow burning though and i almost put it down, but I’m so glad I didn’t and kept going!! This was such a different read for me - so many good moments, and sad moments, and chapters that made me emotional. Can’t wait to read the author’s other work!
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
I think this book will definitely stay with me and was a fairly quick read.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Grief
emotional
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
reflective
relaxing
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:
No
Content Warnings
Moderate: Child death, Medical content, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting
emotional
hopeful
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:
Complicated
What a beautiful book exploring human emotions and all the different forms friendship takes. It goes a long way to show that even people of vastly different ages can develop a healthy friendship and/or family-like attachment. How despite age differences each person can profoundly affect the lives of the other. This book explores grief in various ways and how different people handle it. This makes one reflect on the realization that if you avoid pain you are also not allowing yourself to fully feel joy either. To top it off one of the settings, which provides the title, is a real place called "Les Archives du Coeur" located in Teshima. Both an uplifting, hopeful book that also allows for sorrow and grief as well.
Shuichi is a 40 year old children's book illustrator and author born with a heart condition. His mother has recently passed and he's divorced from his wife. He decides to move to the home his mother lived in a small village. He's doing everything to not feel pain or sadness and tries to remove every reminder of his mother from the home where he grew up. That is until he notices a small, elementary aged child making off with the things he's throwing out. Out of curiosity he manages to meet the boy, Kenta, only to find out that the child's been taking his mother's things because he had spent a lot of time with her. He was grieving too and couldn't bear this man for removing the items. They bond over restoring the home back to before his renovations and Kenta becomes a fixture in his home after school while his parents work. They become friends that experience loss, hope, laughter, and grief together but that is not all that ties them together. This is a story of living life even when the ones you've loved are gone and how opening up and allowing yourself to grieve can also allow happiness to reenter your life.
Shuichi is a 40 year old children's book illustrator and author born with a heart condition. His mother has recently passed and he's divorced from his wife. He decides to move to the home his mother lived in a small village. He's doing everything to not feel pain or sadness and tries to remove every reminder of his mother from the home where he grew up. That is until he notices a small, elementary aged child making off with the things he's throwing out. Out of curiosity he manages to meet the boy, Kenta, only to find out that the child's been taking his mother's things because he had spent a lot of time with her. He was grieving too and couldn't bear this man for removing the items. They bond over restoring the home back to before his renovations and Kenta becomes a fixture in his home after school while his parents work. They become friends that experience loss, hope, laughter, and grief together but that is not all that ties them together. This is a story of living life even when the ones you've loved are gone and how opening up and allowing yourself to grieve can also allow happiness to reenter your life.