Book Review - 君の膵臓を食べたい 住野よる/Let Me Eat Your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino

君の膵臓を食べたい or Let Me Eat Your Pancreas by Yoru Sumino is a Japanese coming of age light novel about two high school students who become close after the unnamed main character accidently reads the diary of Sakura, a classmate who has a terminal illness. Due to his relatively relaxed reaction to her condition the two become friends and start doing activities from her bucket list while she still has time.

This was quite a short book about 300 pages long which I found easy-ish to read. The story is aimed at teenagers however, and even though I'm well past that age, I was interested in the characters and what would happen to them. In terms of language this was a book that I read just with the real book - no audiobook this time. I didn't feel like I needed to check the dictionary too much so I wouldn't say that it is the hardest book to read for Japanese learners. However, you should still expect to see some advanced kanji and as usual onyomi and kunyomi readings could be problematic. In the version I had hiragana was provided for unusual kanji.   

This book was turned into a film which on one time was on Netflix and had good reviews. The book itself one numerous awards during the Japanese book awards season of 2016. This book has a good plot and interesting main characters that you care about. It is a little bit of a tear jerker but also has some funny moments.