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Have a good day! 📖☕️

My #JanuaryinJapan tbr! 🇯🇵📚 (..or the book I promised to read last year). I’m currently reading “The Dilemmas of Working Women” and I’m still halfway through “The Convenience Store by the Sea”. Trying my best to keep reading while having a mild symptoms of reading slump!

why is it easier to lock in on a book you randomly picked up than the book you've been planning to read since forever

My 2025 favourite books 📚 In no particular order: — Strange Pictures — The Lantern of Lost Memories — The Travelling Cat Chronicles — Bookstore Girls — We’ll Prescribe You Another Cat — The Ex-Boyfriend’s Favourite Recipe Funeral Committee

It’s funny how sometimes you buy a book, then read it in two days, and sometimes you buy a book and it lives on your bookshelf for 12 years.

knowing that a book is going to be amazing just by reading a few chapters is something that can be so satisfying

My wishlists are in the periplus' year end catalogue 🥹

btw in your 20's and 30’s you’ll start rediscovering the niche interests and hobbies you had as a kid. it’s very important you revisit them. your younger self was actually on to something.

some books you are meant to buy and have sit on your shelf until the version of you who is meant to read it is born. i’ll always support buying an insane amount of books.

slowly learned to work together, but of course, with the help of their amazing team. If you love books set in bookstores or stories about books, this one is worth picking up!

I bought Bookstore Girls impulsively just because it’s about a bookstore. I barely read the blurb, but I knew it would be my kind of comfort read. And it turns out right. I think the drama feels a bit unnecessary and a bit too much, but I really enjoyed watching Riko and Aki—

Bookstore Girls by Kei Aono Riko, the new manager of Pegasus Books, and Aki, a younger employee, clash over different tastes and work styles. Until news about the store's closing down came. This is a story about their struggle to fight for the store.

@TanyaZahr11 Oh sure they do! 💕

@memoirsofra Wah, will add this to my tbr! I think all of Yagisawa’s works are perfect to be read and enjoyed before bedtime ☺️

Days at the Torunka Café by Satoshi Yagisawa Reading this novel feels like stepping into the Torunka café itself on a narrow street in Tokyo where time slows down just enough for us to escape from our busy lives. Yagisawa gives us another gentle story about ordinary people—

they can put things down for a moment. I love how Yagisawa doesn’t force anything, he just lets the calmness settle, and you end up feeling soothed without even realizing it. It’s the kind of book you read slowly, like sipping something warm on a rainy afternoon.

finding small comforts in routine, good coffee, and unexpected connections. It has that familiar warmth just like his other books, that are the Morisaki Bookshop series. The characters who pass through Torunka each carry their own worries, but the café becomes a place where—

It’s December and we’re so close to Periplus year end sale 😙

@epikhugs The only valid answer to buy books when we're sad. Or happy

@memoirsofra #valid

I felt sad so I bought two books

im just a girl with her emotional support pile of unread books against the world

manifestation for dec: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 December 🕯 be a good reading 🕯️ month 🕯 📖 🕯 🕯 🕯