#heaven meiko kawakami

[aboutsomething-beautiful]

Did the 24-hour reading challenge recently with my best friend and somehow chose the most upsetting books to read for it. I finished:

“Heaven”, Meiko Kawakami

“Written on the Body”, Jeanette Winterson

“The Audition”, Ryu Murakami

“A Talent for Murder”, Peter Swanson

(also my high school yearbook because Robin got distracted)

Lots of heavy material to pack into such a short timeframe.

[4rtsymugzzz]

I'll be reading a book and all of a sudden a character starts m@sturbating like wtf homie I didn't ask???? 💀💀💀

[applearchived]

Because we’re always in pain, we know exactly what it means to hurt somebody else.

-Meiko Kawakami in “Heaven”

[spilled-latte-enjoyer]

“we’ll understand some things while we’re alive and some after we die. but it doesn’t really matter when it happens. what matters is that all the pain and all the sadness have meaning.”

[stargirlyblog]

—Heaven - Meiko Kawakami

[stardust-on-crustedblood]

"Hey... if we keep doing this, just saying nothing, no matter what they do, think maybe we'll become things too?"

~Mieko Kawakami (Heaven)

[theancientmar1ner]

jokes aside i really have come to love meiko kawakami i think the picture she creates of the setting of her stories is so beautiful and expansive, it just makes me want to cry. i feel like a lot of modern lit fails to really embed the characters in their surroundings and she does it so well like second only to khaled hosseini imo. love her.

[book51ut]

Review of Heaven by Mieko Kawakami

a heartbreaking tale of two fourteen year olds being bullied. the book is only about 150 pages long which i honestly think is a detriment to the story. most of the book was descriptions of the torment the main character received at the hands of his bullies and his apprehensive excitement about engaging with his new friend, who was also being abused by her classmates. there was one incredibly profound conversation between the main character and one of his bullies. he assumes that he is being bullied because of his lazy eye and that the other girl is being bullied because she is poor, and the bully claims that it has nothing to do with either of those things. They are bullied simply because the bullies can, simply because the bullies feel like it and want to. The bully himself admits that he would hate if his sister was bullied, yet feels no remorse for bullying. The two have a very nihilistic discussion about the nature of people’s actions- the bully claiming that people don’t care what is good or bad, only what they want.

There’s also a line that particularly stuck with me, more because of recent personal events than anything else, but the writing is beautiful “There’s no beautiful world where everyone thinks the same way and they all understand each other perfectly. It doesn’t exist. You think it does, but it’s not real… When our worlds come into contact it might look like they’re connected, but they’re not.”

I liked the book, i think it was well written. However a little too short.

[iris-564s-blog]

Funnily enough, I have compiled a small list of books centred around school (with dark themes) for this month.

- Heaven by Meiko Kawakami

- Never let me go by Kazua Ishiguro

- Blood and guts in high school by Kathy Acker

Please feel free to add to this list (preferably literary fiction)

March is the month of extreme stress because it reminds me of school finals which used to be around this time.

Now despite school being over years ago, (im 24 now) the stress of it all still haunts me during spring.

[hazel-core]

But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.

- Heaven, Meiko Kawakami

[s4nmei]

If anything has meaning, everything does. And if nothing has meaning, nothing does. That's what I was saying. It's all the same. You, me, we're all free to interpret the world however we want. We see the world differently. It's that simple.

Meiko Kawakami, Heaven.

[ireneinreverie]

"When I was writing, I realized something. Your voice reminds me of a 6B. I’m not sure if this is going to make sense, but it’s like they’re soft and rigid at the same time. Almost unbreakable."

[tokyoviee]

productivity day 12

didn't attend lectures today since my muscles decided to cramp up. I was busy having a mental breakdown over my incomplete syllabus for my upcoming test. slept for like 8 hours and decided to study. i started watching a webseries and wanted to finish a book. ;/

chemistry mistake book, paper 2

asur - season 1 episode 1.

physics - free body diagram+ friction.

🎧 : cris mj, floyymenor - gata only

🎥 : asur (hindi) season 1

📚 : heaven by meiko kawakami

[bedforddanes75]

??? matty healys read heaven by meiko kawakami ??????? he seems the type to Only read books written pre 1990

[twiishaa]

HIJII ASKINF MOOTS RANDOM QUESTIONS!!

ummm do u read books?! what’s like your fave book ever if so! and what’s on your tbr list for 2025!!!! (if not pls replace books w manga…if u don’t read manga replace manga w anime…) <33

oh my god i love these questions !!!!!!!

i used to read TONS in like year 4/5 but then i stopped... ~(>_<~) but i've been getting into it again, specifically like japanese literature and like.. older more classic stuff <3 i'm currently reading all the lovers in the night by meiko kawakami and i really want to read heaven by her, but on my tbr like for 2025 is probably the great gatsby, the trial by kafka, and little women (๑˘︶˘๑)

i'm also getting into reading manga so im going to talk about it (≧▽≦)/ i've only read ahr (my no1 fav alongside haikyuu <33), haikyuu and orange but i recommend all of them !! rn i'm reading akatsuki no yona and the fragrant flower blooms with dignity, i really want to read choking on love because its about a guitarist and an art student.. (°◡°♡)

i know it was a last option but my top 5 anime are fruits basket, k-on, cardcaptor sakura, haikyuu and march comes in like a lion with honourable mentions to hunter x hunter, vinland saga and nana even though i haven't finished it yet (￣▽￣*)ゞ

what about you pookie !! what are your fav books/manga/anime ?? <333

[elysiumwhispers]

decided to make a book list on here to keep track of books ive read recently that i enjoyed:

Nausea-Sartre

Quicksand-Junichiro Tanizaki

Sputnik Sweetheart- Murakami

Heaven- Meiko Kawakami

Essays and Aphorisms- Schopenhauer

The Stranger / The Plague - Camus

The Inseparables- Beavoir

Notes from Underground- Dostoevsky