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Another rainy day

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Prints available on my kofi https://ko-fi.com/rainynook

Ghibli redraw!

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Cozy Nook

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A rainy day

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Ghibli redraw!

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Took me three years and five attempts to complete this.

I just don’t know about this one. The usual unnecessary sexual contents, reading this book really felt like wild chase 😫

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Not sure what to do about this immense emptiness I feel. I dont want p swipe anymore, not watch yt videos anymore, reading feels like a pain. Things that gave me comfort were all taken away. And yet here I am, still alive, still existing

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Just want to float like these dias and smash against the rocks

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If it doesn’t imma make a kappa out of him

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Missing this day when I could freely climb, walk and frolick around in hills under rain.

Can’t wait to get better and be on my merry way :(

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Mercenary’s Rain

Ch 1- Crystals? Essential oils? Herbal tea?

The waiting room smelled like bleach and despair, a place where hope came to die a slow, sterile death. The fluorescent lights above buzzed like they, too, were fed up with everything.

She sat there, mind-numbingly bored, flipping through a six-month-old magazine about gardening. As if she'd ever garden. The last plant she owned had withered from sheer neglect, and now she was wilting too, but from a much crueler disease.

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The story is a love triangle following Lily ‘Blossom’ Bloom, who falls for the too-good-to-be-true Ryle Kincaid, only to discover that—surprise—he’s not so perfect after all. As Lily navigates her toxic relationship with Ryle, she finds comfort in her first love, Atlas.

As a first time CH reader, who got bought by the hype, this was a serious letdown.

There are far better stories and characterizations in AITA posts on Reddit than in this novel.

What Doesn’t Work

- Shallow Characters: Lily is the stereotypical “strong female lead” who seems to have zero self-preservation skills. Ryle is a cardboard cutout of the “troubled bad boy,” and Atlas is essentially a walking, talking plot device.

- Predictable Plot: From the moment Ryle’s too-perfect facade cracks, you know exactly where the story is going. The twists aren’t twists at all—they’re tired tropes recycled from a hundred other romances.

- Heavy-Handed Message: The book attempts to tackle domestic abuse with gravity but ends up oversimplifying a deeply complex issue. Instead of a nuanced portrayal, it feels more like trauma-porn designed to wring out cheap tears.

What does works

- New adult readers getting into reading can start with the book. The writing is simple, clear and the book would have been perfect quick read for many readers if it didn’t try to dwell into DV on a barely there surface level.

It Ends with Us tries to be meaningful but ends up being a melodramatic mess filled with one-dimensional characters and predictable plot points. It’s a surface-level read masquerading as something deeper, designed more to manipulate emotions than to deliver a genuinely thought-provoking story. If you’re looking for substance, this isn’t it.

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Super frog saves tokyo - The story’s premise, while intriguing at first, quickly spirals into a cliche metaphorical narrative.

By the end, you’re left questioning whether there’s any real point beyond Murakami’s usual vague musings about reality and dreams blurring together

Where I m likely to find it - What starts as a mystery with potential quickly devolves into a directionless narrative mirroring the characters’ own drifting states of mind. The narrator himself is practically a ghost, detached and indifferent, serving more as a conduit for Murakami’s musings than an actual character. His interactions with others are hollow, devoid of any emotional resonance or development

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Rainy day mood 🫶🏼

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One day

sunlight and green (x)

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More Days at the Morisaki Bookshop is sequel to Days at the Morisaki Bookshop where Takako is still in her prime form of avoiding life by taking refuge in a dusty bookstore. (Can we blame her though?).

In the sequel, we delve deeper in characters that have entered the shop with their own stories of love, loss, and longing, Takako begins to realize that while the bookstore offers a sanctuary, life continues to flow outside its doors.

Yagisawa skillfully blends warmth and melancholy, allowing readers to feel the weight of both the joys and sorrows that come with time’s passage.