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I thought the reading was fine... I wasn't bored at all! May be long for some - especially 'kids' these days... ;) - but it did offer some unexpected turns... in the sense of 'normal' tales... But with your Japanese tales, I somehow have come to expect that, that they don't take the normal run of stories... :)

Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate it.

Do these tales take unexpected turns? I don’t really notice when I’m writing them. I did, however, reread two older translations recently, and there were a couple plot twists I had forgotten all about and that surprised me;-)

Unexpected, as in, not run-of-the-mill type of turns... and is also more 'enduring'... :)