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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 -
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata — book review
“The normal world has no room for exceptions and always quietly eliminates foreign objects. Anyone who is lacking is disposed of.” Having read Convenience Store Woman 4 times in 2 years it is safe to say that I find it to be a really ingenious work. Convenience Store Woman‘s slender size, its genial yet absurd…
1st pov, 4 STARS, Adult, ALIENATION, BOOK REVIEW, Contemporary, contemporary malaise, Convenience Store Woman, dark humor, female authors, feminism, HUMOR, identity, introspective, japan, JAPANESE AUTHOR, mental health, Neurodiversity, otherness, re-reads, read in 2020, read in 2021, read in 2022, Sayaka Murata, SOCIAL COMMENTARY, surreal, the female malaise, tokyo, TRANSLATED FICTION, weird, womanhood/femininity, work culture
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