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Life Ceremony
by Sayaka Murata
"Normal is type of madness, isn't it? I think it's just that the only madness society allows is called normal."
The quote above is cool, isn't it? Well, the only thing you can't expect from this is absolutely far from that.
This book contains 12 short-stories and all of the stories is following this one word: madness. Let me explain it more below.
I will give one sentence to each story without (hopefully) no spoilers. Here we are: (ps. I can't remember the title of each story and I don't bother to look it up again, so yeah :))
Short-story 1: human body part
Short-story 2: eating POV
Short-story 3-4: two female bestfriends
Short-story 5: extraordinary city
Short-story 6: pet
Short-story 7: Life Ceremony (which is the title of the book itself)
Short-story 8: curious teenager
Short-story 9: curtain POV
Short-story 10: numb woman
Short-story 11: wild plants
Short-story 12: two-faced human
I don't really have a word to describe this book into a one-solid review, but my thought on this book after reading one Murata's work is that Murata really knows how to 'play' well with her books. This book is beautifully written, with stunning descriptions. Even thought I couldn't helped myself from feeling nauseous especially while reading the 7th story which is the book's title takes from.
Each of the story mainly using woman point of view. And I think that Murata wants to send some kind of message from each story but I couldn't find all of them. Some of the messages (if I'm not mistaken) I took from this book was 'Everyone's different on their unique way, so respect everyone equally', 'Value different perspectives', and so on. But, seriously though, if you can enjoy reading a fiction, why bother to take a message or two from the story while you can simply enjoy them as an entertainment?
This book is also mixed of satire, weirdness, and awesomeness. I like how Murata potrays her thoughts on every character in this book. Every character in this book is either consider 'normal' or 'different'. And guess what? The 'different' one is usually the main character of each story.
The main theme Murata's taking for every short-stories here is absolutely ordinary, but Murata took it into the next step: craziness. In spite of that, I totally adore her writing and ideas. But, unfortunately, I don't think I'm used to her 'unique' way to deliver a story, so I will give this book 4-stars.
I really want to review all 12 short-stories int this book, but I think that woud lead to a VERY spoilery reviews. So, I will end this review with a respect and a adoration for the author.
4/5 stars.
The quote above is cool, isn't it? Well, the only thing you can't expect from this is absolutely far from that.
This book contains 12 short-stories and all of the stories is following this one word: madness. Let me explain it more below.
I will give one sentence to each story without (hopefully) no spoilers. Here we are: (ps. I can't remember the title of each story and I don't bother to look it up again, so yeah :))
Short-story 1: human body part
Short-story 2: eating POV
Short-story 3-4: two female bestfriends
Short-story 5: extraordinary city
Short-story 6: pet
Short-story 7: Life Ceremony (which is the title of the book itself)
Short-story 8: curious teenager
Short-story 9: curtain POV
Short-story 10: numb woman
Short-story 11: wild plants
Short-story 12: two-faced human
I don't really have a word to describe this book into a one-solid review, but my thought on this book after reading one Murata's work is that Murata really knows how to 'play' well with her books. This book is beautifully written, with stunning descriptions. Even thought I couldn't helped myself from feeling nauseous especially while reading the 7th story which is the book's title takes from.
Each of the story mainly using woman point of view. And I think that Murata wants to send some kind of message from each story but I couldn't find all of them. Some of the messages (if I'm not mistaken) I took from this book was 'Everyone's different on their unique way, so respect everyone equally', 'Value different perspectives', and so on. But, seriously though, if you can enjoy reading a fiction, why bother to take a message or two from the story while you can simply enjoy them as an entertainment?
This book is also mixed of satire, weirdness, and awesomeness. I like how Murata potrays her thoughts on every character in this book. Every character in this book is either consider 'normal' or 'different'. And guess what? The 'different' one is usually the main character of each story.
The main theme Murata's taking for every short-stories here is absolutely ordinary, but Murata took it into the next step: craziness. In spite of that, I totally adore her writing and ideas. But, unfortunately, I don't think I'm used to her 'unique' way to deliver a story, so I will give this book 4-stars.
I really want to review all 12 short-stories int this book, but I think that woud lead to a VERY spoilery reviews. So, I will end this review with a respect and a adoration for the author.
4/5 stars.