April 9, 2023
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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 through their day-to-day drudgery. Bring your thinking hat to this one, and treat it like the literature you read in school. If I had to pin a genre to it, slice of life would probably be closest.
The vocab used in this book was fairly simple; very few technical words, and only a scattering of office-specific terminology. Sentences can get very long, however, and the author enjoys relaying people's speech without quote tags, so it can trip you up if you don't realize you're reading someone thinking about something someone else said.
I listened to the last 40% of this book with the audiobook, and I found it to be helpful. The book switches perspectives between two different characters, and it's typically not immediately obvious who's talking, or even what gender they are when you first meet them. There are textual hints, but for those struggling to figure out who's narrating, the audiobook does have separate female and male narrators, making it quite easy to keep up.