April 18, 2025

Why did I read this?

For the culture. For Japanese.

Pretty sure this was in the "SF" category, how I found it, but should not be in that category.

It's all 'experiments' of a boy about 5 years old just playing outside with his friends. Basically, the appeal is the viewpoint of a 5 year old boy. So, there are some slightly humorous things, and probably more that I missed. He is interesting is science.

The audiobook speech at 1x is very fast but the book is still very long. So if you slow it down to what feels 'normal' the book will be much longer still!

This is a fantastic book for language learning and immersion being fairly consistently approachable at the level rated but it is not very interesting. That is the tradeoff.

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