The Cat Who Saved Books

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There’s nothing much to dislike in my opinion. I only had trouble grasping how certain characters truly felt – maybe this was lost in translation. Creo que tiene muchas reflexiones super interesantes, expresadas de una manera muy sencilla, pero que transmiten mensajes muy directos. Por ejemplo, habla de esta época en la parece que hay como una capa de postureo en relación a todo lo que tenga que ver con los libros, donde prima más los adornos bonitos que se le añaden a estos o la cantidad de lecturas, más que la calidad de estas (calidad para cada gusto personal, nunca verdades absolutas, nunca pedantería). Todo lo que se le añada a un libro está estupendo, pero lo principal, lo esencial, es el contenido del libro en sí mismo, lo que te transmite, lo que te hace sentir. Manx Independent Quirky and heartwarming in equal measure, The Cat Who Saved Books invites us to remember the joy of curling up with a favorite book

A book that sits on a shelf is nothing but a bundle of paper. Unless it is opened, a book possessing great power or an epic story, is a mere scrap of paper. But a book that has been cherished and loved, filled with human thoughts, has been endowed with a soul." Books are an excellent tool, but without experiencing life as well as books, we just become ‘ an old encyclopaedia, his head stuffed with out-of-date information,’ wasting away on the shelf of our own lives without the lessons being of use to anyone. As Rintaro meets the villains in the various labyrinths, he helps them change by understanding their motivations, book-lover to book-lover. Some of those changes do have unforeseen consequences. But Rintaro doesn’t regret his actions, saying, “I’ve made it this far because books kept me going.” Thank you,” said Rintaro, bowing his head. He heard his aunt murmur to herself: “Look at you, Rintaro. You’ve turned out just like your grandfather.” There was no better compliment.”

In the same way that music is made up of more than notes, books are more than just words. Sosuke Natsukawa La epopeya de Rintaro, el joven heredero de una entrañable librería de viejo, y de Tora (muy bien el gato), un sabio e ingenioso gato atigrado. Su emocionante misión consiste nada más y nada menos que en salvar los libros que están en peligro (las pruebas o viaje que emprende son 3 laberintos en cuyo final se encuentran distintos personajes, relacionados de una manera con los libros, que ellos creen que de manera positiva y Rintaro les hace ver que no, que realmente no aman los libros) y extender así el amor por estos objetos, bellos e inigualables, que son parte imprescindible de nuestra vida. A celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles.

In chapter 1, “How It All Began,” Rintaro fondly remembers his grandfather’s morning tea ritual, performed every day after cleaning the bookshop. In his journeys Rintaro meets other tea-drinkers, including the Imprisoner of Books and the Mutilator of Books. Between adventurers, Rintaro makes tea for Sayo, using his grandfather’s white teapot and Wedgewood cup. At the end of the story that tea set appears again. Now here's one thing I did really enjoy: the books. The love for books. Natsuki is a hardcore booklover, so he speaks enthusiastically about how books can be enjoyed slow or fast, how books teach us things, and transport us, and how even though less people are reading, books have no lesser value for it. I mean, he did get pretty preachy at times (apparently it's good to hate books because it means they're teaching you something - I strongly disagree) but overall he's just a giant book nerd like the rest of us and that's something I can get behind. Books can’t live your life for you. The reader who forgets to walk on his own two feet is like an old encyclopedia, his head stuffed with out-of-date information. Unless someone else opens it up, it’s nothing but a useless antique.” Rintaro Natsuki has grown up working in his grandfather’s bookstore. Now that his grandfather is dead, Rinatro will have to close Natsuki Books for good. A talking tabby cat named Tiger shows up to take him on one last literary adventure. Together with Sayo Yuzuki, a strong-willed girl from Rinto’s high school, Rintaro and Tiger set out to “save” books from four mysterious “labyrinths” by convincing the men at their center what books are really for.Muy del estilo de Momo, El principito o Alicia en el país de las Maravillas, aunque creo que esta tiene menos pretensiones que aquellas.

The charm of the characters really help this book sink in. They are a bit generic at times—the shy bookish boy, the overachiever girl, the athlete with an inflated ego—but they really mesh well and drive the story all the same. Tiger the cat is a delight in all his blunt, no-nonsense ways, though unfortunately he is a bit under utilized. Still, they all makes for a rather pleasing read as they come together to support one another. For Rintaro, we see he must accept ‘ books can't live your life for you’ and, like the dreamer in White Nights by Fyodor Dostoevsky, must put himself out into the world to truly live. Books can't live your life for you. The reader who forgets to walk on his own two feet is like an old encyclopaedia, his head stuffed with out-of-date information. Unless someone else opens it up, it's nothing but a useless antique.” New Book Announcement: “The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China” by Thomas Kelly Then there's the insistent higher pitched meow that is repeated every few seconds that says, I demand you bring me food or clean the poo in my litter box. Now.

Charming...Natsukawa's empowering Bildungsroman [manages] to be both whimsical and wise." Shelf Awareness Pues me ha gustado, es un libro que se sale un poco de lo que suelo leer, pero la lectura ha sido fácil y amena. Un libro que nos intenta transmitir que los libros son algo mas de páginas escritas, que tienen un valor intrínseco, que tienen ALMA. Cats have a storied pedigree in Japanese literature. One of modern Japanese literature’s first classics, I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki, is a parody of Meiji-era Japanese society from a cat’s point of view. (2021 saw the English-language release of a faithful manga adaptation by Chiroru Kobato, translated by Zach Davisson.) Thirty years later, the highly influential author Junichiro Tanizaki published the novella A Cat, a Man, and Two Women.