Sonoko MachidaThe Convenience Store by the Sea: The quirky, charming Japanese sensation with over half a million copies sold worldwide

This sweet book walks through the daily life of its characters with calm innocence. However, it also explores depth of emotions as well. A lovely book I highly recommend!

This is a cozy story that focuses on kindness and gratitude. The characters are very realistic while the store manager, Shiba, is idolized because of his beauty and personality. Each chapter focuses on a different character while being connected by the convenience store, Tenderness. Kindness brews through each person as they offer help to those struggling with their own issues. And from this kindness, gratitude and ease develop in return for the help that is received. The descriptions were both lush and soothing from the food, setting, and characterizations. I highly recommend this book, especially to those who enjoyed the Kamogawa Food Detectives series.

AAAAAAAAA its a really really good book and the book is not damage at all so happy that it arrived on time. 🥹

Terrific read!! Enjoyed it thoroughly!!

It's in great condition, got to my home very quickly, but apart from that it's such a beautiful book, it's a great book for summer and spring, just overall happy and bubbly and feels like ur sitting on a beach eating mangoes and sandwiches 🫧

Each chapter is a different story, but all about the same connivence store by the sea, called Tenderness. Their motto is “Caring for People, Caring For You! Each story you learn more about this special store!These stories are fun, entertaining and heartfelt! It shows the impact of human connection! A great book to read for book clubs as it will lead to interesting discussions!

This is a nice book for enjoyment. There are 6 stories inside, and the characters interwine, so I learned a lot about all of them, plus someone new was always coming into their circle. It's nice to help people and make them friends. It's great to stand for what you think. It's fantastic to feel and have support from the people around you - your family and friends. This is a book about friendship and closeness.

So so cute! I loved this and will be rereading it again. It’s written like anime episodes where there are multiple stories happening at the same time. I think this is a first book in a series but the others are not translated or released in the USA yet. Can’t wait for that to be available!