One of the great pleasures of travelling for me is—unsurprisingly—finding cool bookstores and checking out the books inside of them. Most bookstores are more or less along the same lines, a balanced selection of fiction, non-fiction, and comics with some calendars or a stationery section thrown in if there’s space. But the balance between all… Continue reading Hotaru no Yomeiri: Tachibana Oreko
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