title over full astrological chart. at the top of the chart, a tuxedo cat admires the stars beside him while an orange kitty towards the lower left hand corner bats at stars as if they were fish in a pond (typical). at the very bottom, above the author + translator's names, another kitty eyes THE JAVANESE BESTSELLER. red + gold accents. A NOVEL is written on a paper coffee cup

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16/?- THE FULL MOON COFFEE SHOP by #MaiMochizuki (tr: #JesseKirkwood) @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

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A- #BookReview: Menu of Happiness by Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood My Review: I fell in love with this series with the very first book, The Kamogawa Food Detectives, and now I’m utterly hooked on both the series AND the reading niche it occupies. By that, I mean the genre that was popularized by Before the Coffee Gets Cold of loosely connected slice-of-life stories centered around a cozy location that use that location and its function as a framing device to tell slightly bittersweet, often sadly fluffy stories with or without a hint of magic or magical realism.

A- #BookReview: Menu of Happiness by Hisashi Kashiwai, translated by Jesse Kirkwood #hisashikashiwai #jessekirkwood #putnambooks #magicalrealism #literaryfiction #worldliterature #cozymystery #translatedliterature #sadfluff #foodiefiction

This morning’s reading 🙂 #booksky #amreading #nanaeaoyama #jessekirkwood