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Once and Forever by Kenji Miyazawa

erraticeldandil's review

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3.0

Finally finished this. This took a while.
I like reading children's stories from different cultures and seeing what they teach as you can learn a lot about a culture from what they teach their children. That being said, if I got too caught up in the academics of it, it would sometimes get really rough to read and I had to step back and just allow myself to enjoy it as is.
It had some good stories and some obvious ones.

I like the March at Midnight the best.

From a Western/American perspective I didn't agree with the themes of predetermined lot in life and suicide as being noble in some cases but it was interesting.
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