Media Round Up: Unexpected Gap

I finished a book today and went to write my thoughts in the running file I keep for these round ups, and aprently I haven't updated the file in a while, oops? Anyways I checked good reads and I have finished a couple of other books -- but they were things I read with the kid, and one very short graphic novel. And I don't remember any of those enought to write about them. (I haven't stopped reading but I've been reading a bunch of fic and academic papers as background for my translation, and I don't write note on either fic or academic papers)

So I'm just going to post all the reviews I found. But umm its been a while so I'm just going to hope past me knew what she was talking about.

The Kamogawa Food Detectives by Hisashi Kashiwai, trans Jesse Kirkwood— This is the book I just finished! It was sweet and relaxing. It’s about a father and daughter who run a restaurant and a food detective agency together. They use detective work to recreate dishes their clients remember. Each story is centered around one client. This definitely one of those stories where running a small business is unrealistically low stress, but there’s lots of descriptions of delicious sounding food, and it's very charming. Also I want to shout out to the translator because this reads very smoothly!

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