Asleep

Ah, this book was so lovely. A break from Mishimas almost horrorish stories, despite the fact Asleep deals with death a lot more. It's a novel that contains 3 separate short stories. All three of them have these tiny supernatural elements and with how people confront their dead loved ones, enemies, friends. The second one was my favourite. All three main characters are pretty distinctive from each other, each having their own interesting quirks, surrounded by all kinds of people. Seriously, I love all these characters, you meet them all for a very short time but the glimpse you get into their lives is enough to leave a mark and make you want to hang out with them. Which is how I felt about the second story, there's something so comfy about it. I'll give a quick tl;dr: A woman that feels like shes turning into an alcoholic, in a relationship with a dude that owns a store but he used to do some shady business... Nonetheless he's very carefree and lets her live her life. She keeps dreaming of an old enemy, a girl who she battled with for the attention of a dude they both used to date, a phase of her life she's not particularly proud of. They'd both stay at his house at the same time and just growl at each other while competing for the attention of the guy. Anyway, she comes to terms with her feelings and comes to the conclusion that maybe her and that girl were actually friends.. or maybe more? Spoilers ahead kind of.Then she finds out the girl died a while ago, and her boyfriend takes her to a midget that can communicate with ghosts. I mean, what a story!! And I loved how her and her boyfriend communicate, I don't know, this one was just insanely charming. The third ones main character was the most relatable, and it's where the novels title comes from. I too sometimes feel like I nap my life away.