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(3.94/5)Not for children
I enjoyed my time with this. It's a calm, relaxed book with some very light philosophical sprinkling. It reminded me very much of https://learnnatively.com/book/1030c11685/ but much more light-hearted.
This book is not overly complicated both in story and language use, but I do think the target audience are adults or at least older teenagers.
Reasons:
- The story is imo boring to a child. Not a lot really happens. I am not sure kids enjoy character-driven, slow-burn books. But I could be wr
Rintarō was raised by his grandfather and is currently dealing with the death of that same grandfather. As he is still coming to terms with his loss and considering his options on what to do regarding his grandfather's beloved antique bookstore, a talking cat appears to take him to another world and save the books.
I was strongly reminded of the typical story structure of a Ghibli film to a point where I could almost see the scenes animated in that style while reading along. Each adventure Rint
As a note, I listened to the audiobook, I do not own the text.
First off - this is a children's book. Probably aimed at around middle school age. I'm judging it from that perspective, and as a book for kids I think it's absolutely lovely, am sure it would have been a favorite of mine when I was younger, and I still appreciated reading it as an adult. That said, it's not deep and moving literature. It's still 5 stars for being charming and keeping my attention.
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A charming but fairly uneventful story
Difficulty: I listened to the audiobook for this and didn’t read the text. As an audiobook listen it was mostly straightforward enough other than some dense descriptive sections when the characters enter new locations. I definitely was missing some vocab here and there which didn’t get in the way of me being able to follow what was happening and enjoy the story (especially it was mainly limited to those location descriptions) but someone that prefers to understand 100% might rate this higher tha