Review by luckslibrary - Sweet Bean Paste

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Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa

5.0

emotional hopeful sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

❝If all you ever see is reality, you just want to die. The only way to get over barriers, she said, is to live in the spirit of already being over them.❞

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Where even to begin with this book…I’ve been in a bad depression rut last week that was getting harder and harder to climb out of and I wasn’t able to read anything…until Sweet Bean Paste. Once I picked it up I couldn’t put it down. I was reading when I had time on my work shift and once I got home I laid in bed just to finish it. By the end I had a pile of tissues next to me and my eyes were swollen and puffy…but something in me felt like I could finally climb back to solid ground and take a breath. Sweet Bean Paste explores what the true meaning of life is and a friendship between the unlikeliest of people. It is heartwarming and heartbreaking all in one and urges you to look beyond what society deems as useful.

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