(It was published in Japan more than a decade ago and was adapted into a movie there.) It’s also the weakest of the three. “Morisaki Bookshop” is the slightest, checking in at less than 150 pages with minimal plot. Read more: Review: How Haruki Murakami fell down a literary well But these summer releases also share the paradoxical quality of being light on what you might call bookishness they offer simple pleasures, minimal conflict and page after page of low-key charm. In part, that appeal is in the atmosphere: Satoshi Yagisawa’s “Morisaki” is as steeped in the ambience of a used bookstore as it is in the culture of reading Bob Comet in Patrick deWitt’s “Librarianist” seems to love the quiet and order of a library as much as any book that might be found there and Carsten Henn’s “Door-to-Door” revels in the idea of finding the perfect match between reader and book.Īll three feature stereotypical bookworms - quiet loners who enjoy walking the streets of their city. (And that book distributors rightly expect readers to lap them up.) The Fourth of July adds three new titles to bookshelves - “ Days at the Morisaki Bookshop,” “ The Librarianist” and “ The Door-to-Door Bookstore” - that focus to varying degrees on the delights of books and reading, though all hold appeal for book lovers. ![]() ![]() So it’s only natural that authors often muse about books and the business of distributing them. Directors love movies about filmmaking songwriters’ lyrics are often about music.
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