The Last Leaves Falling | 
so-soI don‘t read a ton of YL so I am not sure I have read enough works to compare it to. I enjoyed the story of the book and liked that it was set in modern day Osaka. I felt there was some problems with the book. In my opinion the book would have been improved by having the friends give their thoughts on the planned suicide. The book brings up a serious topic but I don‘t think explores it enough before the final decision is made.
#awesomeautumnbooks #falltitles
Autumn is my favorite season so I find it strange that I only have two books that I consider fall titles. I added my new autumnal colored blank book for extra fall-ness. It's going to be my new poetry notebook.
pick🍃🍃🍃🍃🍃 This was a sweet story about a teenage boy with a degenerative muscular disease who tries to come to terms with the fact that he won't ever get better. It's charming and will hit you right in the heart.
pick"I wish that everyone who has a chance would take it. That everyone who has a dream will chase it. For those of us that can't." This was such a good, sad book about a teen boy with ALS, facing the end. #readmyowndamnbooks
My Tuesday morning breakfast habit - going to the diner by myself, sitting at the counter with a book.
pickBeautifully written, bittersweet. Sora, a 17 yo boy, vs. rapidly progressing ALS. Tissue needed, readers.
"On journey long
I stop to rest and watch
The end of days." -Okimoto 1902
pickThis book is honestly so sad. Sora is such an inspiration at the beginning of the book about how he deals with his ALS. He knows that it's coming but he doesn't want to let it take him. He'd rather do it himself and save his loving mom the pain of watching him slowly waste away.
