Reviews by Andrea (42)

A charming complation of stories

What you are Looking for is in the Library

I liked this book. It's gentle and engaging. It's divided into chapters that each represent a stand-alone story following the same formula but applying it to different contexts with differing results. It's not the kind of thing that keeps you up late at night - and that can be an advantage. The endings are happy, and the values represent the Japanese perspective of the high road to a fulfilling life. It's an empathetic and appealing collection of tales and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Curiously unemotional until it gets messy - but not bad

The Seventh Son

It's not a bad read - I certainly found it interesting enough to finish it pretty fast. All the same, I found some things about it rather incongruous. I've always said that you can judge a good author by how realistically they portray people of the opposite sex, and in this instance, I think the author didn't do a particularly good job. The concept is not unique, and although I think the author brings something new to the table and tells an interesting story, I will damn it with faint praise. Not bad. Could have been better.

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