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 Book Review Of 'Drawing Closer' by Morita Ao Death is certain, but what if you knew exactly when? What would you do with the last six months you got? The book ‘Drawing Closer’ is the first Japanese book that I finished reading. As the first Japanese book for me, I think it left a great impression. The story uses a first-person point of view. In the story, there are three main characters, Akito, and Haruna. The book starts by introducing Akito, a person with only about a year left. He had already given up his life and just wanted to enjoy his time left peacefully. Nothing changed until he met her, Haruna, a girl who lives in the hospital most of the time and only has about half a year of time left. They first met in the hospital and soon became friends. Visiting this new friend in the hospital had then become Akito’s new hobby. They experience lots of depressing, lovely, and joyful days together. I thought that the story would be a wonderful romance story but a plot twist c...
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Book Review Of 'TAMAYA' By Mitsuki Midori  The book ‘TAMAYA’ is inspired by a song made by Chinozo. The author uses the lyrics in the song and creates a story about the character in the song. This is the second Japanese novel that I read. The story is somehow both interesting and mysterious, an interesting story with mysterious characters. The story starts by introducing the daily life of the main character, Okawa Yuuki, a person who always wanted to be ‘special’ since he was a child. However, the reality is crueler than he thought, he soon finds out that he is not good at anything. Also, he only has two friends because he is socially awkward, and always being compared with his brother, a talented person. One day, he met a mysterious boy with a very similar face and name in a shrine and also found out that the mysterious boy was in the opposite situation. He felt bored because he was good at everything, had too many friends, and even had kind parents which Yuuki always wished...