NAgoyaBOOKCENTER Store Manager's Diary — June 29, 2026 (Mon)

Every Monday the store is open, but it's my day off. A Zindies project member let me know that Zindies and refeel can be linked, so I thought I'd write a short diary entry. Today the author Ruko brought additional copies of "労働厨(^_^)♪" to the shop. That was helpful because there were only two copies left in the store. An additional shipment of "詩人茨木のり子の誕生" from Fubaisha is also expected to arrive. It was highly praised in the Asahi Shimbun's Saturday book review column the other day, so I'm looking forward to how well it will sell. Today I also did the important "work" of submitting a tanka to the Asahi Shimbun's "Tokai Kadan" column. I only submit when the selector is Professor Ogihara. I'm not particularly talented at tanka or creative writing in general, so managing to submit once every two months is the best I can do. Still, I've been selected and published in the paper several times, so I'm very happy about that. Not directly related to my job, but I received the proof of the novel "戦争と五人の女" (tentative title), scheduled to be published by Kawade Shobo in July. When I read it, it truly moved me. I was interested partly because the author Ran Domon is from the same hometown (born in Kure, Hiroshima), but I felt it was a masterpiece that doesn't seem like a debut novel. I'm not good at reading novels, so I don't have the ability to judge, but I hope many people will read this work. I'd like to make an opportunity to talk with the author. I'm looking forward to the July releases. I secretly hope it will be nominated for next year's Booksellers Award.