If a book, any book (that isn’t like…pro genocide or something, I gotta draw a line somewhere) makes you happy, that is what counts. The reader who forgets to walk on his own two feet is like an old encyclopaedia, his head stuffed with out-to-date information. It is a heartwarming adventure story for readers who love books deeply and don't want them to disappear. The gap between idealism and reality is not seriously examined, in many ways this feels quite a YA book, but nonetheless I definitely felt this book worked well and that Sōsuke Natsukawa, while plain, was effective in conveying a genuine love of books.

It’s a tempestuous tale, beginning in impoverished 19th-century Somerset with a “delicate” orphan named – yes – John Lewis. They just go about their everyday lives, and yet ‘it is only with the heart one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. La trama no tiene un gran desarrollo, sus personajes femeninos no están bien construidos y su aporte a la historia es mínimo.Each time Rintaro enters a different labyrinth and is exposed to a way that books are being misused, misunderstood, or mistreated. Which brings me to my last point and maybe a reason that can partly explain my previously mentioned issues. Una especie de fábula sencilla y bonita que nos hace replantearnos nuestra manera de entender los libros y la lectura. Creo que tiene muchas reflexiones super interesantes, expresadas de una manera muy sencilla, pero que transmiten mensajes muy directos. Cinematic and fluid, the Cat Who Saved Books is a series of journeys not only to save mistreated books, but also to process grief and transform into a better version of oneself, to step out of one’s comfort zone and make new connections.

By reading their words and their stories, by experiencing them together, we learn about the hearts and minds of other people besides ourselves. Yo disfruto mucho leer cómo otros perciben la lectura, es por eso que me gustó esta novela, escrita por un autor japonés. Sosuke Natsukawa's international bestseller, translated from Japanese by Louise Heal Kawai, is a story for those for whom books are so much more than words on paper. With humor and emotion the author explores themes of loss , friendship and the power of books and literature in enhancing one’s life experiences.The difficulty is there is a lot of truth to what they tell him, but Rinato must remember ‘ logic and reason are never the best weapons in an irrational world. It implores the inhabitants of this modern, (apparently) book-hating world to show some empathy and I am just left thinking: you first. One of modern Japanese literature’s first classics, I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki, is a parody of Meiji-era Japanese society from a cat’s point of view. Bazen her satırı inceler, aynı metin içerisinde gidiş gelişler yaparak tekrar tekrar okur, başını iki elinin arasına alarak ilerlersin. In the second labyrinth, speedreaders pull books apart; their leader wants to distill them down only to what he deems their most important ideas.

For Rintaro, we see he must accept ‘ books can't live your life for you’ and, like the dreamer in White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky, must put himself out into the world to truly live.Rintaro’s love for books and the wisdom shared by his late grandfather play a huge role in not only saving books from the hands of those who would distort their meaning and threaten their very existence but also in bringing about a change in the attitude and perceptions that were at the very root of the problem .

I enjoyed Rintaro's growth, through the quests he gained confidence and started to think about his own life differently and believe in himself. Qwilleran (Qwill to his friends) is a man who goes from late forties to mid fifties over the course of the series. In many ways I could see this being sort of like The Alchemist but for book-love, with the way it is pretty endlessly quotable along the life-affirming plotline.Le Guin said in her National Book Foundation awards speech we need to ‘ know the difference between production of a market commodity and the practice of an art. saw the English-language release of a faithful manga adaptation by Chiroru Kobato, translated by Zach Davisson.