Reviews tagging 'Infertility'

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa

22 reviews

samcsmith's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, and Terminal illness

sjcou's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Infertility, Medical content, Car accident, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

triangular_pascal's review against another edition

funny hopeful lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Recommended to me by Jane and Amma -I'm glad I read it, this book reads like a Ghibli film at times

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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Cancer, Death, Infertility, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

koplomps's review against another edition

reflective relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Cancer, Infertility, Terminal illness, and Car accident

kalira's review

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

A sweet and absolutely lovely journey through soft-edged adventures, friendships and connection, and memories, told largely from an excellently-done and clever feline perspective. The devotion shared by Nana and Satoru (and to some extent, all the people Satoru knew and had so many memories with) is presented with a beautifully understated yet strongly continuing thread.

By the time I reached the ending I fully expected it to make me cry, and that it did, but it was beautifully done and the tears were sorrowful but not wrenching.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness

Moderate: Animal death, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Child abuse, Infertility, Abandonment, and Alcohol

cyllan's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death and Infertility

idun_aurora's review

adventurous emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I smiled, laughed, and cried. I love cats, I have two beautiful rescued ladies, so this really hit home for me. Beautiful and heartbreaking. I fell in love with both Nana and Satoru.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Infertility, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Toxic friendship

e_reader's review

emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Oh my god. This book was so wonderful. I couldn’t find a single thing wrong with it, so it was an easy five stars. 

It’s narrated in first person by the cat, with frequent asides to describe the characters’ histories together. It has the classic structure of Japanese lit where each chapter focuses on a different person or topic. 

I definitely cried at the end too. I think the translator did a wonderful job, communicating all the turns of phrase and beautiful imagery. The flowers, oh man…

Anyway, you should definitely read this book! It took me less than 24 hours and was so worth it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cancer, Death, Terminal illness, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Infertility, Abandonment, and Alcohol

laurajordensharris's review

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Death, Infertility, Terminal illness, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Abandonment

pengi's review

adventurous emotional lighthearted reflective relaxing sad

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness

Moderate: Death and Medical content

Minor: Infertility