7.42k reviews for:

Breasts and Eggs

Mieko Kawakami

3.91 AVERAGE

neliaa's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

jen_kehlenbeck's review against another edition

4.0

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See my message to Al which basically covers it all

emi_sf's review against another edition

4.25

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

moneypenny96's review against another edition

4.75

emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

alimancinelli's review against another edition

4.5

medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

aislingmoconnell's review against another edition

4.75

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

rura's review against another edition

5.0

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

bethany30's review against another edition

5.0

emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

crazyliberalkate's review against another edition

5.0

reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

bibliolucinda's review against another edition

4.0

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“My monolithic expectation of what a woman’s body was supposed to look like had no bearing on what actually happened to my body. The two things were wholly unrelated. I never became the woman I imagined. And what was I expecting?”

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

Glad that I finally finished a book after wallowing in a reading slump for the last couple weeks - life and everything got in the way. 4 stars, very keen for the new English translation of Kawakami's Heaven due out this year.