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(3.59/5)A great first non-manga book!
This was my first book I read that wasn't a manga, and I think it was a great choice!
Language Learning: 5/5
The language itself was very easy to read, so the most difficult part was getting used to the intimidating "wall of text" that you don't get with manga. I originally found myself losing my place often because I wasn't used to a book format yet (pro tip: use a piece of paper to block the next line). But I found 夜カフェ was a great book to get over that hurdle due to the simple vocabulary an
A decent first book in Japanese, if you like cooking and sewing
夜カフェ is a children's book series about a junior high girl named Hanabi who wants a brand new life. Her school life sucks because of a relentless bully who has harassed her for years, and her home life sucks because her parents are fighting constantly over her mom's new job — so, desperate to escape, Hanabi runs away to live with her aunt Aiko, and there finally starts building a new life for herself, one small step at a time.
Overall, this was not a difficult book. It has complete furigana, the
Fantastic first novel.
The story follows Hanabi, a young girl who wants to create a new version of herself when she starts middle school, however, she fails her entrance exams and is put into a local school, which her former bullies also attend. It's a very simple plot which was expected as this book is aimed at kids of a similar age and younger.
As this was my first novel in Japanese (reading along with the WK bookclub), I struggled at first, but quickly found after a few chapters it was the perfect level for me (N
If you are looking for your first LN, you found it
I picked this up as my first LN and I think this is a great choice for anyone else looking for their first forray into walls of text. :) I was around lvl 17 in WK when I started and now I'm lvl 25 and this was an excellent book for drilling in quite a lot of the vocabulary items that appear in WK around these levels (and below). Sure, there is some very specific handicrafts and cooking vocab, but I did not mind those, because I'm also into both of those activities, so it was nice to come across