Satoshi Yagisawa

In this charming and emotionally resonant follow up to the internationally bestselling Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Satoshi Yagisawa paints a poignant and thoughtful portrait of life, love, and how much books and bookstores mean to the people who love them. Set again in the beloved Japanese bookshop and nearby coffee shop in the Jimbochi neighborhood of Toyko, More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop deepens the relationship between Takako, her uncle Satoru , and the people in their lives. A new cast of heartwarming regulars have appeared in the shop, including an old man who wears the same ragged mouse-colored sweater and another who collects books solely for the official stamps with the author’s personal seal. Satoshi Yagisawa illuminates the everyday relationships between people that are forged and grown through a shared love of books. Characters leave and return, fall in and out of love, and some eventually die. As time passes, Satoru, with Takako’s help, must choose whether to keep the bookshop open or shutter its doors forever. Making the decision will take uncle and niece on an emotional journey back to their family’s roots and remind them again what a bookstore can mean to an individual, a neighborhood, and a whole culture.

A Novel

More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

Srijita Sarkar 

It somehow feels incredibly luxurious to sit in your favorite coffee shop, reading a book, waiting for your boyfriend.

nice

gitsa

“When you’re sad, don’t try to hold it in. It’s okay to cry a lot. The tears are there because you’ve got to go on living. You’re going on living, which means there’ll be more things to cry about. They’ll come at you from all sides. So don’t ever try to hide from the sadness. When it comes, cry it out. It’s better to keep moving forward with that sadness; that’s what it means to live.”

sofia mae

Lindy

It's okay. You're going to meet nice people. You won't have to be so sad anymore. Even if you suffer from back pain and hemorrhoids, you'll be beloved as the owner of a bookshop. So you don't have to worry anymore.

There were places I wanted to go and people I wanted to see. And there was a place that was always ready to welcome me back. 

I can't think of anything more wonderful than that.

This was a little corny but a lot more cute in context

wilson

"Listen, life is short. In the story of your life, you’ve got to avoid people like that. Choose to be with the people who really choose you, people who see you as irreplaceable. That's the story you want—you know what I'm saying?"

Sanne

One thing he loved about books was that they could tell him what kind of lives the writers led, how they lived, how they loved, and how they left this world.

“The way they shaped their feelings made them last.”

"If you think about it, most of the authors of the books here are no longer alive. It's a little bit strange, dont you think? Their books are still with us, and we read them to this day, and feel moved by them." 

"You’re right. The way they shaped their feelings made them last. It’s amazing, isnt it?”

lily

“People forget all kinds of things. They live by forgetting. Yet our thoughts endure, the way waves leave traces in the sand." 

There's a light within those poems that shines so brightly, it's almost blinding

I think about how wonderful it must be to be able to put one's thoughts into words like that

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