{"id":3415,"date":"2026-03-29T20:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2026-03-29T20:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T04:09:44","slug":"review-the-convenience-store-by-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=3415","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Convenience Store by the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This turns out to be the kind of quirky sitcom someone of my age might have run into in a neglected time spot on an off channel.  It&#8217;s the kind of show you wouldn&#8217;t quite believe was aired until you ran into someone else who had gotten into it and you wound up spending a couple hours talking about it at a party. It&#8217;s working inside the form but with the kind of stylish takes that seats it in its own world.  It&#8217;s not where you live, but is fun to spend time in. Sonoko Machida does a great job creating that feeling in a novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The whole thing is set in a seaside Japanese town, specifically in a convenience store.  But, it&#8217;s a quirky TV sitcom convenience store.  There are larger than life employees, a weird ecosystem of neighbors, some customer or employee with a problem- one to a chapter &#8211; and strange product placement moments for the fictional products of the fictional store seamfully inserted.  It&#8217;s all quirky and fun and I quite enjoyed spending time there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This turns out to be the kind of quirky sitcom someone of my age might have run into in a neglected time spot on an off channel. It&#8217;s the kind of show you wouldn&#8217;t quite believe was aired until you ran into someone else who had gotten into it and you wound up spending a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}