#Sayaka Murata

[mossy-aro]

love as religion; am i doomed? / on aromanticism

all highlighted sections from ‘aromanticism’ by moses sumney - the album notes // other excerpts in order: ‘doomed’ - moses sumney / quote by Naïmah Janse / earthlings - sayaka murata / ‘sun bleached flies’ - ethel cain / unknown / ‘doomed’ - final verse

[fairycosmos]

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

[quartzified]

just found this insane interview with sayaka murata. explains everything

[salvadorbonaparte]

I'm reading Earthlings by Sayaka Murata and I'm only 40 pages into the book and something just happened that was just a little too similar to my childhood and I had to stare into the middle distance and take some deep breaths

[frost0wl]

Thinking of the reviews I've read of Sayaka Murata's books (Convenience Store Woman & Earthlings) and how so many people are like "haha so quirky/crazy/weird" but to me both of them have felt mainly relatable and tragic?? It feels like we're reading different books

[ulyuxe]

Books read in 2024: CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN by Sayaka Murata

Everyone laughed. “He really would,” I said nodding, thinking that if I ever became a foreign object, I’d no doubt be eliminated in much the same way.

Oh, I thought absently, I’ve become a foreign object.

[...] You’re a foreign object. It’s just nobody bothered to tell you because they find you too freaky. They’ve been saying it behind your back, though. And now they’ll start saying it to your face too.”

[weirdplutoprince]

[smeltsoup]

recent purchases + current read

waterstones double stamps my beloved :')

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[shirleyjacksonism]

People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know.

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson // Hangsaman, Shirley Jackson // Carrie 1976 // Anne Carson // Earthlings, Sayaka Murata // The Outsider, Marina // Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata // Stoker (2013) // The Road Through The Wall, Shirley Jackson

[antigonenikk]

Mathilda-Mary Shelley/Life Ceremony-Sayaka Murata/An Oresteia- Anne Carson

[fairycosmos]

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

[warblingandwriting]

I hate when I've read a book that I like enough to buy, but then the cover is terrible. I mean, look at this shit:

It's not the worst I've seen, but it makes the book look like some kind of romcom, it's completely dissonant with the tone, and I hate it.

Meanwhile, look at the Japanese (original) cover for the same novel:

Beautiful, stunning, evocative. Also way more representative of what the actual novel is like to read. The conformity of the tower with odd bits popping and poking out of it, straining against it. This is interesting, I would pick this up off the shelf, whereas with the (North American) cover it has I only read the book because I heard a review that I thought sounded interesting (ironically from someone who didn't even like the book).

I just want to come to the end of the era of minimalist and photograph covers and go back to legit cover art... please

[salvadorbonaparte]

There's probably someone out there who picked up Earthlings by Sayaka Murata just based on the cute little hedgehog plushie on the cover who then had the worst time of their life reading it

[literarymeals]

For breakfast I eat convenience store bread, for lunch I eat convenience store rice balls with something from the hot-food cabinet, and after work I’m often so tired I just buy something from the store and take it home for dinner. […] When I think that my body is entirely made up of food from this store, I feel like I’m as much a part of the store as the magazine racks or the coffee machine.

Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman tr. Ginny Tapley Takemori

[gennsoup]

It was still early spring, but the steaming hot air that enveloped me was more reminiscent of summer, and memories of childhood vacations suddenly rose up in the back of my mind. It was always the same when I detected the scents of summer. It would be the same for anyone, their sense of smell responding to the summer scent that linked back to the memories of vacations, bringing up vivid, nostalgic scenes.

Sayaka Murata, Eating the City