#Breasts and Eggs

[marscia]

so many hobbies so little time

[genterie]

@linaluvsbooks on instagram

[quotespile]

People are willing to accept the pain and suffering of others, limitless amounts of it, as long as it helps them to keep on believing in whatever it is that they want to believe.

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

In that moment all I wanted to do was hold her. To wrap myself around her. Not with words, and not with my arms. In another way entirely. In some other, undiscoverable way - I wanted to embrace her.

Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami, 2020

[librarydate]

Pink pink pink

[aroaessidhe]

aro & ace books: parents or parent figures/mentors

in some of these the parent/mentor relationship is central, in some it's just one aspect!

Sailing By Orion's Star - 3 aroace MCs, one is a mentor figure to the other two (& parent figure to other kids)

A Promise Broken - MC is an aroace man who's adopted his niece

Of The Wild - MC is ace, and adoptive parent of a bunch of fey kids

Màgòdiz - one of the 6 MCs is an aroace person who's a parent/mentor to a bunch of kids

Bang Bang Bohdisattva - two MCs, one is an ace man who's a parent/mentor figure to the other

Kaikeyi - MC is an aroace woman and mother

The Thread That Binds - aroace MCs with demi/greyaro mentor figures

Fallen Thorns - aroace MC with an older aroace mentor figure

Breasts and Eggs - MC is an ace woman questioning asexuality & motherhood/donor conception

The Last Hour Between Worlds - MC is lightly demi-coded and has a newborn daughter

An Accident of Stars - secondary MC is aromantic and a mother

The Many Half-Lived Lives of Sam Sylvester - MC's dad is aroace

Seeing Colour (in Everything Under The Moon) - aro MC and older aro relative/mentor figure

#aspec books / aspec database / tumblr masterpost

[k1seulgi]

Even when a woman dies, she can't become a Buddha. Because women are supposedly dirty. A long time ago, all these important people wrote about how dirty women are, and why that's bad. So, basically, to become a Buddha, you have to be reborn as a man first. What the hell is that? I didn't get it, so I was like, Jun, how do you do that? She was like 'I don't know.' I asked her how she could believe any of that. It was crazy. Things got pretty awkward after that.

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and eggs

[reverie-quotes]

My life was life a dusty shelf in a old bookstore, where every volume was exactly where it had been for ages, the only discernible change being that my body has aged another ten ages.

— Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

[sputniksweethe4rt]

[tagithi]

heaven by mieko kawakami

[litsnaps]

[samireads]

Japanese lit 🇯🇵 ✌🏻

[quotespile]

This is real life. That's what I'm talking about — the pain that comes with reality. Not that anyone ever sees it... Most people go around believing life is good, one giant blessing, like the world we live in is so beautiful, and despite the pain, it's actually this amazing place.

Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Breasts and Eggs, Mieko Kawakami, 2020

[rottenbooks]

BOOKS BY MIEKO KAWAKAMI

🍳 Breasts and Eggs Breasts & Eggs paints a portrait of contemporary womanhood in Japan and recounts the intimate journeys of three women as they confront oppressive mores and their own uncertainties on the road to finding peace and futures they can truly call their own. It tells the story of three women: the 30-year-old Natsu, her older sister, Makiko, and Makiko’s daughter, Midoriko. Makiko has traveled to Tokyo in search of an affordable breast enhancement procedure. She is accompanied by Midoriko, who has recently grown silent.

👁 Heaven Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami’s novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters.

📓 All the Lovers in the Night Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copyeditor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength to change her life and decides to do something about it.

[mydailybookquotes]

“We’re all so small, and have such little time, unable to envision the majority of the world.”

-Mieko Kawakami, Breasts and Eggs