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    I Love You So Mochi
    I Love You So Mochi
    I Love You So Mochi
    Audiobook8 hours

    I Love You So Mochi

    Written by Sarah Kuhn

    Narrated by Natalie Naudus

    4/5

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    • Self-Discovery

    • Family Relationships

    • Friendship

    • Art & Creativity

    • Cultural Exploration

    • Fish Out of Water

    • Coming of Age

    • Star-Crossed Lovers

    • Opposites Attract

    • Unrequited Love

    • Self-Discovery Journey

    • Love Triangle

    • Friends to Lovers

    • Quest

    • Reunion

    • Cultural Differences

    • Travel

    • Personal Growth

    • Cultural Identity

    • Romance

    About this audiobook

    When Kimi travels to Japan to escape her problems, she quickly learns more about the mother she left behind and realizes she must figure out where her own heart lies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateSep 17, 2019
    ISBN9781666579239
    I Love You So Mochi
    Author

    Sarah Kuhn

    Sarah Kuhn is the author of a variety of comics, short fiction, and the Heroine Complex series. A third-generation Japanese American, she loves writing about geeks, aliens, romance, and Barbie. When not writing, she is on a quest to eat every kind of mochi in the world. She currently resides with her husband in Los Angeles. For more information, visit heroinecomplex.com.

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    Reviews for I Love You So Mochi

    4/5

    163 ratings17 reviews

    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a cute, sweet, and inspiring story with well-developed characters. The book explores themes of self-discovery, sacrifice, and the search for dreams. It also provides a glimpse into Japanese culture. Some readers found it to be a lighthearted and entertaining read, perfect for a rainy day. However, a few readers felt that certain elements were unnatural. Overall, the book is described as brilliant, lovely, and full of love.

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    • 4/5
      this was the perfect lighthearted read i needed this dreary tuesday. it made me cry, twice, but it was so sweet and wholesome. perfect read for a rainy day.

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    • 5/5
      It was so good it made me at least 5 times

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    • 5/5
      Absolutely brilliant and sweet! The fastest mochi I adore it!!!!!
    • 3/5
      Part meet-cute romance/part journey of self-exploration, this one was good, but I thought I would enjoy it more. I think what had me a bit discombobulated was 1) I didn't expect Kimi to just so happen to meet and be among almost fluent English speakers in Kyoto and 2) call me jaded, but romances which take place in such a short time span (in this one, 2 weeks) feel so unrealistic:-)Lots of talk about delicious foods in Japan, so don't read on an empty stomach.I enjoyed the talk about design and dressmaking and touristy places in Kyoto.Kimi's grandparents are lovely as well.
    • 5/5
      This is a-freaking-dorable, totally fluffy, squee-worthy wish fulfillment. 5 stars from 16-year-old me, more like 4 stars from current-me now that I'm a curmudgeonly old lady. Seriously, who gets 2 weeks for spring break?

      But let's be real, I think I would have read this at least once a year if it had come out when I was in high school.
    • 3/5
      diverse teen fiction (Japanese-American teen travels to her grandparent's home near Kyoto to figure out her college/career plans, meets cute boy dressed as a giant mochi)
      I dug the diversity of Kimi and her friends, and liked the way she was able to bond with her estranged grandparents and make up with her mom after their epic argument. The descriptions of food, sights of Kyoto, and Kimi's fashion creations were great, and the romance between her and Akira is also totally swoonworthy, but the text at times dragged just a little... maybe 50 pages too long? It also seemed to take forever for her to get that fashion design could be a career (at least as much of one that 'artist' is--even if not likely to be lucrative, it does take a lot of skill and hard work and is perfectly respectable).
      I also have beef about the dad's making fun of the surfer dude requesting paleo options; though some people choose to eat this way just as they would follow a fad diet, there are others for whom eating gluten creates real and serious health problems. Bread is f__ing delicious, ok? It's not easy to have to give it up, and just because it's so ingrained in your diet that you couldn't imagine wanting to skip it doesn't make it a ridiculous, silly fad. Other than that one joke, I really liked Kimi's dad and thought he was a sweet, funny character.
    • 4/5
      Interesting characters and premise, but because I live in Japan, there were some elements I feel were unnatural.
    • 3/5
      This was cute and sweet. An enjoyable, quick read overall, but a little underwhelming.

      For one, there's no real conflict. Kimi goes off to Japan to visit her grandparents after an argument with her mom over her future, in an effort to figure out what she wants to do. But the fact that fashion is what she's passionate about is splayed all over the first few pages. It doesn't really make sense that it takes her a good 200 pages of the book to figure that out. Saying "it's just for fun" or "it's just a distraction" is something anyone could say about a hobby that could be a career; that doesn't mean they actually believe that or that they don't hope to make a job out of it. But that seems to be the case with Kimi. Fashion as a career is a thing? Really?! I had no idea! Come onnnn.

      Kimi's inner monologue was the one truly annoying part. Childish, repetitive, words like rawr, being clueless about something one minute and clearly showing an understanding of it the next but still being clueless. Ugh. The letters to her mom were quite lovely, even eloquent, which was nice, but also didn't really mesh with how oblivious she was throughout a good part of the narrative. (Don't get me wrong, Kimi actually seems pretty chill and put together in a lot of ways. The way her thoughts are written just seem to do her a disservice sometimes.)

      I also found it a little hard to believe she didn't know some of the Japanese etiquette that she claimed to be ignorant of. I was familiar with pretty much all of it just from having an interest in Japanese culture for most of my life (which is obviously not something every reader will have when going into this--I'm aware), but each incident blatantly felt like a platform to throw some random cultural tidbit at the reader, which Kimi then had to decipher. I dunno, it was just jarring and not really seamless, and wasn't helped by the statement that she didn't have time to look up etiquette before she left home. Maybe the fact that Japanese people tend to wave off compliments to avoid seeming boastful is not common knowledge, but it doesn't seem like something she should have been totally ignorant of. On the other hand, a lot of vocabularly (mochi, geiko, onigiri) was implemented quite well.

      There were a lot of things to love, though, like the development of Kimi's relationships with her grandparents, the descriptions of locations around Kyoto, the food, and the clothes. I'm not really fashionable, but the details about colors, fabrics, and patterns were nice. I really liked reading the parts with Kimi's grandparents and finding out more about her mother's relationship with them. Grandpa is so sweet and adorable, and grandma's eventual warming was worth the build-up. They're likely my favorite part of this book, which kind of surprised me. I liked Akira, but I didn’t really see the chemistry that was being described to me.

      The ending was satisfactory, so no complaints there.
    • 5/5
      So incredibly good and lovely, wholesome ❤ It left me feeling so much full of love
    • 5/5
      Lovely. Characters were so well done I felt dropped into this slice of life. ??
    • 4/5
      I loved the mix of friends, family, adventure, fashion, and food in this story. It's sweet and funny, but also felt so authentic to the experience of figuring out what you want for yourself in high school. Plus I can't get enough of her grandparents and parents. I LOVE THEM. okay.
    • 4/5
      Kimi doesn't quite know the right way to let her mom know that she doesn't love painting any longer. When the grandparents she's never met send her a ticket to visit them in Japan over spring break, she decides it is a good time to get away from her furious and hurt mom and try to discover her passion. It's clear to the reader the whole time that her artistic expression is fashion design, it just takes Kimi a long time to get there. The relationship she builds with her grandparents is endearing and the romance with Akira is swoon-worthy. Kimi feels like she discovers missing pieces of herself when she connects with her grandparents and experiences Japan. Charming.
    • 4/5
      Such a really nice book. Definitely a must read. Wow!
    • 5/5
      Super cute, sweet and inspiring, but beware you'll end up with a killer mochi craving!
    • 4/5
      A good one. Entertaining. Enjoyed listening to it for Asian Heritage Month.
    • 5/5
      My second time going through this book, and it still makes me feel soft and warm and tingly in the inside. A masterpiece.
    • 3/5
      Such a cute story. I love the relationship that Kimmi had with all of the characters. It all felt real. And it explored well the search for a dream, for self-discovery and also for the sacrifice of a dream that a person can make for others and the pressure and guilt it all brings. Plus the grandfather if one of my favorite characters ever now! And the fact that we got to discover Japan alongside Kimmi was also pretty cool. It is a solid 3 stars!