On Convenience Store Woman
18 days ago
murata wrote something that feels like a quiet manifesto disguised as a tiny novel about a woman who sells rice balls
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Rereader. Some books I have opened four times and still find new rooms.
On Convenience Store Woman
18 days ago
murata wrote something that feels like a quiet manifesto disguised as a tiny novel about a woman who sells rice balls
On Convenience Store Woman
1 months ago
everyone around keiko seems desperate to fix her, never once asking if she needs fixing
On The Overstory
2 months ago
one of those rare novels where the form and the argument are the same thing — the slow rings of the narrative are the whole message
On Never Let Me Go
2 months ago
kathy's narration has this strange calm to it — she keeps circling back to memories like she's trying to get them right, and it makes everything feel slightly off in the best way
On The Overstory
2 months ago
can't stop thinking about how small the human timelines feel against the redwoods, powers does this almost without trying
On Gilead
3 months ago
the prose moves so slowly and so deliberately, like ames himself, like a man who knows he has limited time and wants to get each sentence right