#the low amount of assigned readings means I can dive into my tbr

[artemismatchalatte]

I'm reading both Hemmingway's Old Man and The Sea and Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto.

I'm glad I didn't read Hemmingway when I was younger because, I probably would have found this story boring but it's slow in the same way that Kitchen and other Japanese translations have been.

At least in my experience, barring Murakami because he writes in a totally different style, both Convenience Store Woman and Strange Weather in Tokyo had this slowness and atmosphere. They're also very character centered narratives too.

So if you liked Old Man and The Sea you might like Kitchen, Convenience Store Woman or Strange Weather in Tokyo.