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📚 Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa (trans. Eric Ozawa)

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Twenty-five year old Takako breaks up with her boyfriend and quits her job, but she’s hesitant when her uncle Satoru wants her to come live above his bookshop and help him out. Things begin to change and as these two relatives are ready to move on, figures from their pasts start to resurface.

This book had the perfect pace for the story it was telling, it had such personable characters, it has an eccentric bookstore, it has so much character development and the story just moves so greatly. I really loved the bits and pieces of comedy throughout the book. At first I thought it was cheesy, but I quickly grew to love it.

If you’re looking for a low-key, reflective book then this one is perfect!

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10/10 if you want to cry, smile, and then cry again

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“Days at the Morisaki Bookshop” by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa

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There was a theme in my latest bookmail. 📚🐈🐈‍⬛

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International bestselling #Japanese #translation DAYS AT THE MORISAKI BOOKSHOP is a great #Booksgiving gift for the one-sitting reader you'll have around the table or tree.

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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, written by Satoshi Yagisawa and translated into English by Eric Ozawa, Takako feels like she has an average life, with an adequate job after graduating from an adequate college. When her boyfriend Hideaki tells her he’s getting married to someone else, Takako drops him and quits her job, taking refuge in hours and hours of sleep.  (He’s not even cheating on her with…

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Currently Reading: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa

It has been a week for me, so to sit and read and have some honeydew cream tea feels good. And the idea of living above a bookshop calls out to me sometimes, in owning my own and making it a safe place for me and mine. But reading about it is about what I can do right now.

When Takako finds out her boyfriend is getting married to someone else (he's been cheating on his girlfriend with Takako), she quits her job and leaves him and finds that she doesn't have much else. So, she starts to sleep and sleep and sleep. Her uncle Satori calls her up all of the blue and asks her to come live above his bookshop and help him out in the mornings.

She doesn't want to, but she knows she can't keep sleeping her money away, so she takes him up on his offer. And I want to visit this district in Tokyo that is just full of secondhand bookshops! So badly! It sounds lovely!!

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It was if, without realizing it, I had opened a door I had never known existed. That's exactly what it felt like. From that moment on, I read relentlessly, one book after another. It was if a love of reading had been sleeping somewhere deep inside me all this time, and then it suddenly sprang to life.

~Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa; trans. Eric Ozawa

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Satoshi Yagisawa translated by Eric Ozawa "Days at the Morisaki Bookshop" (2023)

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"Don't be afraid to love someone. When you fall in love, I want you to fall in love all the way. Even if it ends in heartache, please don't live a lonely life without love. I've been so worried that because of what happened you'll give up on falling in love. Love is wonderful. I don't want you to forget that. Those memories of people you love, they never disappear. They go on warming your heart as long as you live." - Satoshi Yagisawa, Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Translation by Eric Ozawa)

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Current read 📚 🫶🏼

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Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, by Satoshi Yagisawa, tr. Eric Ozawa

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🍁 September Reading Wrap-Up

Howdy! For the month of September I read 16 books, bringing my yearly total to 131 books! Here is what I read, along with my top 4 books, which are starred.

• Nimona by ND Stevenson

• Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry edited by Camille T. Dungy

• The Truth About Dragons by Julie Leung and Hanna Cha

• Nian: The Chinese New Year Dragon by Virginia Loh-Hagan and Timothy Banks

⭐️ One Piece Vol. 1: Romance Dawn by Eiichiro Oda

• One Piece Vol. 2: Buggy the Clown by Eiichiro Oda

• Red Bird: Poems by Mary Oliver

⭐️ The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa (trans. Philip Gabriel)

• One Piece Vol. 3: Don’t Get Fooled Again by Eiichiro Oda

⭐️ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa (trans. Eric Ozawa)

• Across the Green Grass Fields by Seanan McGuire

• One Piece Vol. 4: The Black Cat Pirates by Eiichiro Oda

• Throne of Jade by Naomi Novik

⭐️ Let Us Compare Mythologies by Leonard Cohen

• Kappa by Ryunosuke Akutagawa (trans. Allison Markin Powell and Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda)

• The Book of Fairies selected and illustrated by Michael Hague

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July 2023 Diverse Reads

July 2023 Diverse Read

•”Beyond the Story: 10-Year Record of BTS” by 

BTS & Myeongseok Kang, Translated by Anton Hur, Slin Jung, and Clare Richards, July 9, Flatiron Books, Biography/Memoir/History Book

•”Counterweight” by Djuna, Translated by Anton Hur, July 11, Pantheon Books, Science Fiction

•”Trinity” by Zelda Lockhart, July 4, Amistad Press, Historical 

•”Tropicália” by Harold Rogers , July 18, Atria Books, Literary 

•”Every Rising Sun” by Jamila Ahmed, July 18, Henry Holt & Company, Historical/Medieval

•”Vanishing Maps by Cristina García , July 18, Knopf Publishing Group, Contemporary/Magical Realism 

.”Crook Manifesto” by Colson Whitehead, July 18, Doubleday Books, Historical 

•”Small Worlds” Caleb Azumah Nelson, July 18, Grove Press, Literary

•”The Sea Elephants” by Shastri Akella, July 11, Flatiron Books, Historical 

•Days at the Morisaki Bookshop” by Satoshi Yagisawa, Translated by Eric Ozawa, July 04, Harper Perennial, Contemporary

•”King of the Armadillos” by Wendy Chin-Tanner July 25, Flatiron Books, Historical

•”Immortal Longings” by Chloe Gong, July 18, Gallery/Saga Press, Fantasy

•”The Deep Sky” by Yume Kitasei, July 18, Flatiron Books, Science Fiction

•”Silver Nitrate” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, July 18, Del Rey Books, Thriller/Horror

•”Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir” by

Beth Nguyen, July 04, Scribner Book Company, Personal Memoir/Cultural, Ethnic, & Asian American Studies

•”Excavations” by Hannah Michell, July 11 One World, Literary Thriller 

•”Promise” by Rachel Eliza Griffiths, July 11, Random House, Historical 

•”One Tough Cookie” by Delise Torres, July 18, Alcove Press, Romance

•”Temple Folk” by Aaliyah Bilal, July 04, Simon & Shuster, Short Story Collection

•”Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel” by Leesa Cross-Smith, July 03, Grand Central Publishing, Thriller/Suspense

Happy Reading!

Mo✌️

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Tiny Navajo Reads: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

It’s Wednesday again and that means I’ve got another book review coming your way! It’s another short story translated from Japanese and it’s lovely. Enjoy! Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa, translated by Eric Ozawa ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◇ This is such a sweet book, but it doesn’t really start out that way. I do…