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Your Name by Makoto Shinkai
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really liked it
bookshelves: contemporary, fantasy, graphic-novels-comics-manga, simply-beautiful

"I feel like I’m always searching for someone, or something."

I'm not okay.
Once in a while, you come across something that just lingers with you, potent enough to bring you down to ruins. I've been staring at the walls of my room for the past two hours, trying to tell myself that this is not the greatest book I've ever read, it's not a complex world building or a fast-paced plot that gives you all the jitters.
This was slow, moving and utterly transcendent.

When a boy and a girl, separated by time and space, swap places and fall in love with life. Set in a place I desperately want to move to (remember those beautiful, almost otherworldly images on the back of postcards?), Itomori, where a comet crashlanded and changed the course of two lives bound together by forklores of the past.

"So we don't forget when we wake up. Let's write our names on each other."
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Reading Progress

February 10, 2024 – Started Reading
February 10, 2024 – Shelved
February 10, 2024 – Shelved as: simply-beautiful
February 10, 2024 – Shelved as: graphic-novels-comics-manga
February 10, 2024 – Shelved as: fantasy
February 10, 2024 – Shelved as: contemporary
February 10, 2024 – Finished Reading

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Բ⁷ I watched this movie and cried like a baby


Halcyon Yess, the movie is so beautiful and breaks your heart


Anna [Bran. San. Stan] I didn’t even know this was also a book! 🙈 Loved the movie though!


Halcyon The movie is so good! I didn't know either and I was so happy when I came across the book. It gives the movie a new layer, the detailing of the places that we see and the emotions that both of them feel described so beautifully


Vaishali • [V.L. Book Reviews] This sounds as transcendent and moving as you describe it to be! I haven't read this, nor seen the movie but it's really giving me those deep, transformative YA vibes. These 'i'm not okay' books are just pure food for the soul 😢


Halcyon I would absolutely recommend this to you. It's a light read though the emotions you might feel would be far from it; not in a terribly overwhelming way, it just leaves you a bit sad yet somehow happy at the same time (can't seem to explain it). It really is!


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