#convenience store woman

[fairycosmos]

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

#convenience store woman #sayaka murata #books

[devilsskettle]

Thoroughbreds by Cory Finley / Jenny Holzer / Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori / Cry for Judas by The Mountain Goats

#thoroughbreds #cory finley #jenny holzer #convenience store woman #sayaka murata #ginny tapley takemori #the mountain goats #tmg #comparison

[metamorphesque]

― Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

[text ID: The long-forgotten silence sounded like music I’d never heard before.]

#sayaka murata #convenience store woman #quotes #literature #translated literature #japanese literature #silence

[ijustkindalikebooks]

Kinda wanna collect all the covers, not going to lie to you.

#booklr #books #bookblr #fiction #book #sayaka murata #convenience store woman #lit #literary fiction

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata, 2016

#lit #m #sayaka murata #convenience store woman

[cozylychee]

currently reading "convenience store woman" by sayaka murata <3

#convenience store woman #sayaka murata #japanese literature #litblr #bookblr #currently reading #annotations #quotes

[greywolfheirs]

Reading Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata was an interesting experience but one that I was not expecting going in and one that, reading reviews, was apparently not universal?

To me, it reads as a simple slice of life for an autistic woman. Like yes, there are sad undertones, yes there is commentary about the way a capitalistic society works, and yes, for neurotypical people it may be odd. But it's literally just a glimpse at how a neurodivergent person lives. And that's automatically going to be sad, political, and odd just because of how society IS.

Meanwhile, the Guardian is calling it "unsettling" yet also "weird and funny". Another review says it's for "anyone who feels at odds with the world". And, of course, the millions of usages of "quirky". Like.... Literally none of those are correct but they're what's on the book! I'm not even autistic and I feel offended!!

Anyway, I thought it was groundbreaking because of its refreshing take on neurodivergence society deems "unusual" and, secretly, "unacceptable" where the neurodivergent character is just living her life and yet.....neurotypicals are out here wildly misunderstanding it....as usual :/

#convenience store woman #book review #autism #neurodivergent #sayaka murata

[femslashes]

Books read in 2024: CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata

Now, too, I felt reassured by the expression on Mrs. Izumi and Sugawara’s faces: Good, I pulled off being a “person.”

#ten.txt #typographyedit #typoedit #litedit #bookedit #typography #convenience store woman #sayaka murata #*books24 #*books

[gorillazcult]

what have you all been doing?

Noodle: नमस्ते मुंबई

Murdoc: Right, wake me when we land, yeah? I’m in some desperate need of my beauty sleep.

#ask me anything #murdoc gorillaz #murdoc niccals #noodle #noodle gorillaz #send asks #ask blog #ask #asks open #gorillazcult #gorillaz fandom #gorillaz fanart #gorillaz #art #fandom #fanart #convenience store woman #passport #airplane #travel #mumbai #hello Mumbai

[fairycosmos]

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

#convenience store woman #sayaka murata #books

[mostlyghostie]

A few of my favourite commissions so far. No specific reason other than I really liked how these turned out!

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#my art #artists on tumblr #books #booklr #bookstack #saga #the picture of dorian gray #every heart a doorway #convenience store woman #japanese literature #scifi #fantasy books

[plathski]

i love boygenius

#liz informs you #bell jar is julian #rest and relaxation is phoebe #and convenience store woman is lucy #if you relate to any of these books ily #my year of rest and relaxation #the bell jar #convenience store woman #boygenius #music tag #bookpostin

[phaedraismyusername]

Just chucking my 10 pence into the ring for Women in Translation month with a handful of recs on the off chance it'll be of use to someone

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

- a short novel about a Korean woman who decides to become a vegetarian after a bad dream and how the people (mainly men) around her react to the decision and her subsequent spiral into stranger and stranger behaviour.

Convenience Store Woman by Sakaya Murata

- the story follows a neuro-divergent middle aged Japanese woman who loves her job at a convenience store more than anything and just wants to be left alone to do what makes her happy and how the people around her pressure her into conforming to what society expects from her (finding a man, getting a "real job", etc) and how those expectations negatively impact her life.

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin

- a strange winding Argentinian novel about a dying woman and a young boy sitting in hospital together and telling stories. I don't really know the best way to sell you on this one other than you'll have to try it to know if you'll like it lol. But if you like a whole lot of weird and appreciate narratives and themes around environmental abuse then this could be for you.

Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica

- another Argentinian book but this time it's just a straight up consumption horror lol. It follows a man who works at an abattoir essentially in a dystopian society where animal meat is now poisonous to people so they've started breeding and mass-processing humans for meat instead. Does what it says on the tin and pulls absolutely no punches in the process lol.

Confessions by Kanae Minato

- an excellent little Japanese thriller. A class room of teenagers are sat down by their teacher on her last day of work to talk about her resignation after her young daughter died in an accident on school grounds, only for her to reveal that she knows that two of the students are responsible for her death, and the steps she's taken to set her revenge into motion. The rest of the book jumps pov every chapter as you watch the consequences ripple out from there.

and last but not least

Vagabonds by Hao Jingfang

- a Chinese sci-fi novel that follows a group of Mars-born teenagers who, after a civil war between planets, have spent their formative years on Earth as delegates and are now returning to Mars and how they deal with that, basically. It's the longest book on this list by far at around 600 pages but the writing is beautiful and the conversations about Mars being a communist ideal while Earth has reached the pinnacle of what capitalism can create are done in a way that doesn't feel at all soapbox-y and feels very fair in exploring the pros and cons of each system. Just an all around excellent book.

#women in translation #wit month #book recs #the vegetarian #convenience store woman #confessions #vagabonds #tender is the flesh #fever dream #sakaya murata #kanae minato #samantha schweblin #han kang #hao jingfang #agustina bazterrica #books #recs

[gennsoup]

You eliminate the parts of your life that others find strange--maybe that's what everyone means when they say they want to "cure" me.

Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

#Sayaka Murata #Convenience Store Woman #strange #weird #neurodivergent character #Japanese literature #translated literature #quotes #quotes blog #literary quotes #literature quotes #literature #book quotes

[sowarumnicht]

Fan cover for Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata

#read this book last year and liked it a lot #convenience store woman #sayaka murata #artists on tumblr #illustrators on tumblr

[markcampbells]

Hooboy it's been a bit since I've started a book and been like "welp maybe a bit too close to home"

#books #convenience store woman #sayaka murata #as a longterm single ace woman who left retail after ten years last year. oof. oof. #not to mention i know a lot of people read it as an ND story #i'm like thirty pages in like haha neat this is just my life