Status Updates From 編舟記

Finished! Now I kind of want to rewatch the anime.

This reminded me a bit of Mizuki Tsujimura's Anime Supremacy, another book about people who are passionate about their work.

It's been 13 years since Majime was hired.

What's a little blackmail if it gets a dictionary entry finished?

"Working on a dictionary, delving into words the way we do, has changed me, she thought. Awakening to the power of words -- the power not to hurt others but to protect them, to tell them things, to form connections with them -- had taught her to probe her own mind and inclined her to make allowances for other people's thoughts and feelings."

"Dear God, who may exist somewhere. Why did you give this woman such outstanding cooking ability and then deprive her of judgement in men?"