Mobyskine's Reviews > Hardboiled & Hard Luck

Two novellas that compliment each other. Love the plot for both on how it revolved around loved ones and death, reminiscing and memories. Yoshimoto ways in expressing those emotion of losing and emptiness somehow a bit bittersweet but I love that it represents the mellowness, those little hope and new happiness-- an act of accepting. Hardboiled was a bit surreal and dreamy, very mysterious (and spooky). Hard Luck was my favorite-- family and relationship, the plagued of memories from the past which written vividly. Very insightful. I'm falling in love with Yoshimoto again!