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When a cog is broken, you throw it away.

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

April 2, 2021 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Keiko Furukura has been different her entire life, and she’s always to understand why she makes people uncomfortable. As a child, she found a dead bird and she brought it to her mother, who responded with sympathy and an offer to bury it. Keiko instead wanted to eat it. One day at school, two boys were fighting. Horrified, one of the girls screamed for someone to break them up, so Keiko grabbed a shovel and hit one of them over the head. And that was […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asexual, convenience store woman, hikikomori, incel, Japan, Sayaka Murata

ingres77's CBR13 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asexual, convenience store woman, hikikomori, incel, Japan, Sayaka Murata ·
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The Convenience of Individuality

Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

May 26, 2019 by Claire Badger Leave a Comment

This is one of those strange little books that I found reaffirmed my belief in the idea of being true to yourself. There are a lot of platitudes about that concept, mostly Disney-fied or Rom-Comish in execution, and those platitudes always ring hollow to me. They seem sacharine, or manipulative, or frustratingly narrow in execution. What Sayaka Murata offers in Convenience Store Woman is a character so out of synch with the rest of her society, but so in synch with the world of her […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Asperger's, autism, convenience store woman, Japan, japanese, Murata, Spectrum

Claire Badger's CBR11 Review No:10 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Asperger's, autism, convenience store woman, Japan, japanese, Murata, Spectrum ·
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Then again, there were times he was forced to believe the exact opposite.

September 8, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

A Person of Interest – 4/5 Stars So I don’t know who did this book a disservice, but someone did. It was NOT the author, who wrote a very thoughtful touching and interesting book. Maybe it was the synopsis writer who tried to make it seem like a mystery novel, when it very clearly is not. Anyway, the novel is about a math professor in the 1990s who is in his 60s and he works at a smallish liberal arts college. One day a bomb […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: a person of interest, convenience store woman, nina berberova, sayaka murate, susan choi, the accompanist

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:342 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: a person of interest, convenience store woman, nina berberova, sayaka murate, susan choi, the accompanist ·
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