how do you live?, by Genzaburō Yoshino

While reading this book I kept thinking: “This would have been a nice read for 10 year old me”, but it probably wouldn’t have been. Tean year old me was still going to the library to come back with a stack of books with dragons on the cover, and not with essays avout philosophy. For now me it didn’t manage to touch on anything new anymore, so to me it feels like How Do You Live is trying to fill a void that doesn’t really exist. That aside though, I initially wanted to pick this book up because Hayao Miyazaki said somewhere that it served as inspiration for The Boy and the Heron (which I still haven’t watched lol) and that Studio Ghibli vibe is definitely there, where there really is not a lot that happens within the story, and yet there is some wonder (or knowledge in this case) to be found at every corner. The writing is nice enough to support that but nothing special, though somr things migjt have gotten lost in translation. It can be a nice introduction to everyday philosophy if you’re just now beginning to think about it, at least if you try to read it like that, but overall it was not a book for me.