Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

“Comfy, light and warm read. It feels like taking a walk with the protagonist through the streets of Tokyo. Helps with me deal with my Sehnsucht of Japan.”

“I really enjoyed this book as an easy, light read last year. The sequel’s lovely too. Gives you such a vivid sense of the coffee shop culture in Japan.”

“Japanese fiction is paced and structured a bit differently than Western in ways that I find very consuming but also relaxing. This slim book is the first of a two book series that tells the story of a woman who walks away from her professional and personal life to take over a small bookshop owned by a relative. It's quiet, introspective, sweet, thoughtful, and above all I found it very calming.”