#Sayaka Murata

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

and this is exactly what murata’s writing did for me.

[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

[quartzified]

just found this insane interview with sayaka murata. explains everything

[fairycosmos]

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

[quillnqueer]

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata | Many Covers Monday

UK | German | Serbian

Italian | Korean | Romanian

Turkish | Japanese | Swedish

[adiodont]

silkworms

[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

[maegalkarven]

The highlight of the chapter 3 of Earthlings was basically:

[weirdplutoprince]

[stworzonka]

Reading "convenience store woman" as an autistic person was groundbreaking, devastating and wonderful actually

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata, 2016

[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.”

[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

[fairycosmos]

convenience store woman by sayaka murata

[smeltsoup]

recent purchases + current read

waterstones double stamps my beloved :')

[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