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Book Review: More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa

Book Review: More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop , Satoshi Yagisawa Read: 04 - 08/08/2024 My rating: 3 / 5 stars Book of 2024: 7  I wonder if this love of books is hereditary. I sometimes think that might be why I’m still coming so often to the shop on my days off from work.  “This is a bookshop,” my uncle says. “How are we not going to look at books? Right, Takako?” “Right,” I agree with a laugh.  This is my beloved Morisaki Bookshop. It’s been an inseparable part of my life since the days I lived here. In its own modest way, it’s a place that holds so many little stories within its walls. Maybe that’s the reason I keep coming back.  It was my cousin’s birthday and I wanted to get him Days at the Morisaki Bookshop since I loved it so much, and I wanted to underline all my favourite lines and gift it to him. I went into WHSmith and low and behold, there’s a new one ??? A sequel!! I picked it up right away.  I read this one in Mallorca. Lying in the sun, on a boat (!!), on the plane on t

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