Book: I Want To Eat Your Pancreas

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I Want To Eat Your Pancreas
Yoru Sumino
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Also known as Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, the coming-of-age tearjerker that inspired two films! A high school boy finds the diary of his classmate—only to discover that she’s dying. Yamauchi Sakura has been silently suffering from a pancreatic disease, and now exactly one person outside her family knows. He swears to her that he won’t tell anyone what he learned, and the shared secret brings them closer together in this deeply moving, first-person story that traces their developing relationship in Sakura’s final months of life.

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A rather interesting read. For a light novel there did seem to be much philosophical development.

Throughout the book the main character’s name was not used, and keep being referred to as a third person, like “[Boy I am getting along with]-san” or “[unremarkable classmate]-san” so I wasn’t sure what the big deal was with the name. By the end of the book the name was revealed, but to me it didn’t really mean anything apart from what was mentioned in the book (there’s an existing Japanese author with that name).

In a nutshell, this is about not taking life for granted.

However, I thought the ending of how she died a little absurd. If she just got out of the hospital, I’d think the parents wouldn’t let her go out and if she were to go out, someone would be taking her there. That’s my thought. So. Yeah.