Sweet Bean Paste in Around the World in 80 Books

Dec 08, 2024 Stil de scriitor rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Nu sunt fana scrierilor japoneze, nu prea le înțeleg stilul și ideea, dar la asta m-a atras cel mai mult coperta și titlul. A fost o lectură ok și deși începutul a fost lent, spre final a reușit sa mă captiveze un pic și să îmi doresc sa aflu ce se întâmplă mai departe. Avem un tânăr și o femeie în vârstă, ale căror drumuri se intersectează. După părerea mea, intriga putea fi mult mai bine dezvoltata. Însă eu cred că merită descoperita.

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Mar 30, 2020 Ann rated it it was ok

Shelves: 2020-aty-52

Good premise but not the best execution. There was an obvious love for food, food making and cherry blossoms. It got more sappy 2/3rds in but not written well enough to move me.

It was annoying that the author kept forgetting details that were mentioned previously in the book, for example, a letter that had writing unfamiliar to the lead character but 70 pages ago he was watching her handwrite something.

I couldn't forgive the aboutface the author did in the end. It's fiction about food so they ...more

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Jan 20, 2022 Nina ( picturetalk321 ) rated it liked it

Shelves: author-man, genre-fiction, a-reviewed, z-read-gelesen-2022, author-ofcolour, transl-japanese, world-japan, zchallenge-readtheworld22

It's been ten days since I finished this and ho-hum, there's not all that much that my memory retains. A sort of pleasant story with an unpleasant component of chronic illness and discrimination. Warning: character death. The plot sort of meandered. It had its sweet moments but it never really did get me to care about the characters. The nicest thing is the cover illustration and my Kindle does not credit the illustrator! Shame on you, publisher, shame. It was quite interesting to learn about th ...more

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