This translation of Days at the Morisaki Bookshop left much to be desired. I was really excited for a cozy bookshop read and was severely let down. The English in this translation felt simultaneously overly simplistic, robotic, and childish. The whole time I kept thinking "No one talks like this"- my reading experience did not at all match the age of the characters and the plot made little to no sense. While I felt we were headed in a fun direction of Takako rehabilitating her broken heart through a newfound love of reading, that was such a small section of the book. Part Two took an entirely nonsensical turn that felt completely out of left field, like I was reading two different stories between part one and part two that had only a vague connection to hold them together. The character's were one dimensional, and the whole thing read more like a first draft than an award winning book. It's difficult to see how this is an award winning novel, as almost nothing about it worked for me except for how short it was.