{"id":3693,"date":"2024-10-30T04:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=3693"},"modified":"2024-10-30T04:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T04:44:09","slug":"october-2024-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mindscapeinwords.com\/?p=3693","title":{"rendered":"October 2024 Wrapup!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hello hello Readers! It has been a while! But, don\u2019t worry I am not depriving you of my October happenings. I barely read this month, but I did a lot of fun stuff. And, I think that\u2019s the only reason I am writing this post. I somehow read ONE BOOK across a meagre 176 pages, which I didn\u2019t even end up liking that much. So, this wrapup post is going to be short!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~BOOK~~<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

~~GOODNIGHT TOKYO by ATSUHIRO YOSHIDA, TRANSLATED by HADYN TROWELL~~<\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

You all know how much I love translated fiction, especially Japanese, so I had high expectations that Good night Tokyo will bring me out of my slump. I think it might have brought me out of the slump, but I will be realistic and say that only time will tell. Anyway, Good night Tokyo is a book of serial short stories, as the author prefers to call them. To me, it felt neither like short stories not a novel. It was something in between, which left me in a state of confusion most of the time. I loved the concept of having interrelated short stories that form a novel, but I felt like it missed the charm of short stories and the depth of a novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have several characters across the 12 chapters, and we never really know where they will meet each other. And, by the time they reappear, I had forgotten about their original story. So, a loop of this across the 176 pages made it a bit of an annoying reading experience for me. I have rated Good night Tokyo by Atsuhiro Yoshida, translated by Hadyn Trowell at 2\/5 stars!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

~~STATISTICS~~<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Not much to show in terms of reading statistics as there\u2019s just one short book. But you can enjoy what I watched and listened to during the month!<\/p>\n\n\n\n