April 9, 2023

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.

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similar in difficulty tomedium 霊媒探偵城塚翡翠L32
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similar in difficulty to告白L32
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harder thanコンビニ人間L30
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harder thanアスタリスク 1L25
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harder thanMOON・TRICK 1 L25
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harder than獣の王国 1L25
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harder thanISAGIーKOJIMAL25
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easier than十角館の殺人L35
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harder thanHIGH & HIGH 1L25
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harder thanPURE BLOOD 1L25
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easier thanFLESH & BLOOD 1L35
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harder thanD.Gray-man 1 L25
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harder thanG・DEFEND 1L26
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harder than仁獣芳烈伝 1巻L26
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harder than夜市L31
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easier than体育館の殺人L31
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similar in difficulty to幻惑の鼓動 1L29
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harder thanSUPER LOVERS 第1巻L28
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harder than待つL30
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similar in difficulty toレバダン・希望の花 1L30
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harder thanキノの旅 1L29
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