{"id":11552,"date":"2026-04-03T04:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T09:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=11552"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:09:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:09:24","slug":"hon-nara-uru-hodo-friday-funnies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2026\/04\/03\/hon-nara-uru-hodo-friday-funnies\/","title":{"rendered":"Hon nara Uru hodo &#8212; Friday Funnies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nEvery serious reader or collector will have wondered at some point about what will happen with their books after they die. <cite>Hon nara Uru hodo<\/cite>&#8216;s first chapter is about the worst case scenario.\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/Hon nara Uru hodo 01.jpg\" width=\"813\" height=\"829\" alt=\"A secondhand bookseller is standing in front of a bookcase filled with books and plastic models, wishing he could've met the owner of it before he had died. The next panel has him thinking that tomorrow this collection will be gone.\"  class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mangadex.org\/title\/1ec269e2-aba2-456d-b32c-fe917954f0d2\/hon-nara-uru-hodo\">Hon nara Uru hodo<\/a> is about a secondhand bookseller. In the first chapter, after his store has been introduced, he&#8217;s called by a local estate agent to the house of a recently deceased man, who turns out to have been a serious reader and collector. As the chapter title has it, the protagonist is there to deliver &#8220;the last rites of books&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn 2023 I moved back to my hometown from Amsterdam, where I&#8217;d lived for the best part of thirty years. Partially this was to be closer to my family, the majority of which still lived there. A large part of it was also the ability to move into a bigger house. My small one bedroom flat was being choked with books, comics and other nerdy stuff. In my new house I could actually use one of the bedrooms as a library, have the attic to store all my floppies and other stuff and still have a room left over to use as an office (which houses most of my non-fiction books). Which meant I could actually have a living room without book cases in it. (Still got some gardening and cooking books living on shelves in the kitchen though). But yeah, this does means that once I die, whoever inherits it all will see themselves confronted with something like this:\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pictures\/wissewords\/Hon nara Uru hodo 02.jpg\" width=\"721\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"A real estate agent is showing a secondhand bookstore owner around a house of a recently deceased man, showing the second floor library filled with books, the first floor library filled with books and an incredibly cluttered living room, also filled with books.\"  class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<cite>Hon nara Uru hodo<\/cite> then starts slightly melancholy, but also with a little bit of a cynical undertone to it. If you&#8217;re a big reader or collector, you probably will have dreamt of having your own bookstore at one point, because what&#8217;s a better occupation for a book lover? The reality of course is that a lot of secondhand books are unsellable, unreadable thrash, either because of what they are or the condition they&#8217;re in. You need to be hardheaded as a bookseller or you won&#8217;t survive. Despite this cynical undertone, the love for books and bookselling shines through. I love this sort of manga, where the mangaka is clearly writing about their own passions and interests and the joy of the subject shines through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every serious reader or collector will have wondered at some point about what will happen with their books after they die. Hon nara Uru hodo&#8216;s first chapter is about the worst case scenario. Hon nara Uru hodo is about a secondhand bookseller. 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