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[DeepL Translation - needs review] The woman sitting next to me was that person I see at the library I often go to.... A series of small miracles occur on a local train that takes only 15 minutes one way. The lives of the passengers on the train gradually intersect, and eventually a story of hope is spun. Beginning of love, signs of parting, stopovers - the train, with enough drama for the number of passengers, runs on the track that never ends. A heartwarming masterpiece of a long novel.
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(3.86/5)Mixed feelings
I didn't really know how to rate this book. I hesitated to give it only a few stars, because I didn't really like any of the characters (!). But I did enjoy reading the book, so that wouldn't have been fair. I liked to travel along the Hankyu Railway. The descriptions were so detailed that I could look up a lot of the places online and spent some time looking at satellite images and maps and pictures and the like. I almost feel like I know this area between Osaka and Kobe well now! I learned a


A bit boring for me
I'm not sure why but I didn't love this novel. It's not hard at all for an N1 learner (except for some of the Kansai dialect) but it's just one of those slightly cheesy cozy Japanese genre novels. It's amazing to me that the same author wrote Library Wars, although perhaps the dialogue is similar. The nice thing about it was the short chapters, great for a book club. Surface-level connections to the characters didn't cause me to feel much in this book, but many others have liked it, so I suppose