May 6, 2024
When everything flips to telework - work from home - Nokoru finds time to relax, thrive, and meet his future wife. An extremely cute romance story from the author of Sweat and Soap, I found Telework relatively challenging for two main reasons: Nokoru spends a lot of time narrating his interiority and he's the kind of person who uses a complicated vocabulary for the sake of it, and his neighbour Natsu speaks in Kansai-ben (or maybe it's Kyoto-ben?) which can complicate some lookups. But most of the chapters are quite short, and at around the halfway point I found myself just reading to the end without bothering to lookup every word, so I think it's a great little challenge to try out.
