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39 reviews
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Animal death
Beloved by Toni Morrison
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, and Slavery
Moderate: Rape
Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
4.5
i strongly wonder if the autistic coding of keiko was intentional. it feels like it has to be because the entire book reads to me (an autistic person) as essentially an autistic persons musings on capitalist society
working in the same low paying convenience store for your whole life and struggling to see why people (conditioned by a capitalist society that condemns such a thing) take issue with that? going through life mimicking others (their speech patterns, their expressions, their dress) to appear “normal”? hello!!! the key conflict is literally how the other people in keiko's life feel the need to “cure” her of her “abnormality” and are so invested in and judgemental of keiko staying in her convenience store job because they dont suit the capitalistic convention. the convenience store is keiko's safe haven, where everything has a predictable routine and script, she doesn't understand why everyone is so “worried” about her working there for half her life….
working in the same low paying convenience store for your whole life and struggling to see why people (conditioned by a capitalist society that condemns such a thing) take issue with that? going through life mimicking others (their speech patterns, their expressions, their dress) to appear “normal”? hello!!! the key conflict is literally how the other people in keiko's life feel the need to “cure” her of her “abnormality” and are so invested in and judgemental of keiko staying in her convenience store job because they dont suit the capitalistic convention. the convenience store is keiko's safe haven, where everything has a predictable routine and script, she doesn't understand why everyone is so “worried” about her working there for half her life….