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A Carnivore’s Inquiry by Sabina Murray
“This is what exploration had opened up the door to. Not only widespread slaughter, but the necessary accompaniment of gorging.” Unapologetically solipsistic and deeply manipulative, Katherine, the central character of A Carnivore’s Inquiry, makes for an awful human being and a deeply entertaining narrator. A predecessor to Ottessa Moshfegh and Mona Awad’s protagonists, and many…
1st pov, 2000s, 4 STARS, A Carnivore's Inquiry, A Carnivore's Inquiry by Sabina Murray, Adult, affairs, age gap, ALIENATION, ambiguous protagonist, ambivalent mood, America, ART/CREATIVITY, books about writers, cannibalism, cheating, class, cold tone, colonialism, Contemporary, dark, dark humor, desire, ennui, female authors, feverish, filipino american author, GOTHIC, history, HORROR, introspective, Italy, LITERARY FICTION, literary references, madness, maine, Mexico, modern gothic, MURDER, MYSTERY, navel gazing, NEW YORK, no plot just vibes, otherness, PRIVILEGE, psychological, Psychological thriller, psychopaths, published in 2004, read in 2023, rich people, road trip, Sabina Murray, satire, self-destructive, serial killers, she is dangerous, she is not feeling good at all, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, SUSPENSE, terrific prose, the female malaise, travel, unreliable narrators, violence, womanhood/femininity -
Life Ceremony: Stories by Sayaka Murata
This collection was both disappointing and unnecessarily disgusting. Not a great start to my reading year… “What could be more normal than making people into clothes or furniture after they die?” A lot of things… As Life Ceremony happened to be one of my most anticipated 2022 releases, I was very happy to learn that…
2 STARS, Adult, ALIENATION, arc, BOOK REVIEW, BOOK REVIEWS, Booklr, cannibalism, Contemporary, DEATH, different styles (1st/2nd/3rd povs), favourite authors, female authors, feverish, gay side characters, graphic content, grotesque, HORROR, illness, japan, lgbtq+ side, Life Ceremony, Life Ceremony: Stories, My reviews, netgalley, Neurodiversity, published in 2022, read in 2022, reading, Sayaka Murata, sex, SPECULATIVE FICTION, surreal, TRANSLATED FICTION, weird, what ifs -
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata — book review
“The person who had given birth to me said I was a dead loss, so I decided it really must be true.” A few days before reading Earthlings I read Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman and I really loved its humour and eccentric narrator. So, perhaps I approached Earthlings with the wrong expectations. Or maybe…
3 STARS, ALIENATION, ALIENS, BOOK REVIEWS, bullying, cannibalism, child abuse, Contemporary, Earthlings, family, female authors, feverish, graphic content, HIGH SCHOOL, HORROR, incest, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, LITERARY FICTION, MAGICAL REALISM, mental health, netgalley, Pedophelia, published in 2020, rape, read in 2020, Sayaka Murata, sexual assault/abuse/rape, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, surreal, TRANSLATED FICTION, trauma, trigger warning, violence, weird
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