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[DeepL Translation - needs review] Ms. Futatani, won't you tease Mr. Ashikawa with me? A work+food+love novel that will make your heart flutter.
The story is about a woman, Nitani, who is doing well at her workplace, Ashikawa, a good cook and someone everyone wants to protect, and Oshio, who is good at his job and a hardworking person. This is a masterpiece that depicts the delicate relationships between people through "eating.
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(4.09/5)Interesting idea, but utterly boring...
I just didn't like or care for any of the characters, so the thing that the author was trying to do (basically a commentary on Japanese work environment, societal pressure etc.), ended up being extremely boring for me. If you give me petty characters causing drama, I need proper drama, otherwise everything is just meh.
The language is fairly simple and once you get used to the shifting POV it's easy to read/listen to.
If it hadn't been for the language learning aspect, I'd skipped to the end o
I read this book in one day because I could not put it down. The writing flows spectacularly and pulls you along for the ride.
Mundane office politics turned into a stream of petty actions, insecurities, social expectations, and meanness. Do not read this for a happy, lovely story about home cooking. Read this because you are the type to bring your own popcorn to a car crash.
Difficulty wise this is mostly everyday vocabulary, but the narrator is often left opaque at the beginning of section c
Office politics and the subtle drama of everyday life
Despite the 3/5, I did enjoy this book. It's a book focused around three different characters and their office and personal lives, and how those two opposites combine to intersect with societal expectations to shape them into the people they are in the book. With such conflicting sources of self, you'd expect some level of disfunctionality, and おいしいごはん does deliver. It's all very "everyday", though; there's very little overt drama, people smile and agree to each other's faces, and they go throug