Skillfully melds the fear of living in an oppressive dystopia with the melancholy of the loss of memories and, first, the objects they're tied to. Tends towards feeling pretty dark, leavened only by the obvious love between the main characters.
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pdotb started reading Britain in Fragments by Satnam Virdee
pdotb finished reading Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for …
pdotb started reading The Old Goat and the Alien by Veo Corva
The Old Goat and the Alien by Veo Corva
Avari keeps to themself. They're a goat-shape cosmoran, a member of the Cleaners' Union, and a bit of a grump. …
pdotb finished reading The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder, 小川洋子
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
pdotb reviewed The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
reading tea quoted The Old Goat and the Alien by Veo Corva
’Have you ever played Monopoly?‘ ’No?‘ ’It's this ancient human game where everyone is cruel to each other for material gain and then they all get angry at each other. I can't work out wether it's satirical or not.‘
pdotb started reading Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
Contemporary Gothic by Catherine Spooner
Modern Gothic culture alternately fascinates, horrifies, or bewilders many of us. We cringe at pictures of Marilyn Manson, cheer for …
pdotb finished reading You Have to Say Something by Dainin Katagiri
pdotb started reading The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder, 小川洋子
**2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
pdotb finished reading Final Curtain by Keigo Higashino
pdotb started reading Classics of Marxism: Volume One by Friedrich Engels
Classics of Marxism: Volume One by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, and 2 others
pdotb finished reading Posthuman Gothic by Anya Heise-von der Lippe
pdotb finished reading Convenience Store Woman by 村田沙耶香
Convenience Store Woman by 村田沙耶香
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in …
pdotb reviewed Convenience Store Woman by 村田沙耶香
Great except...
4 stars
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I felt like there was much joy in how Keiko had found her place in life, and fulfillment through doing a good job at the convenience store. Nicely critical of the way the people around her -- her so-called friends -- can't accept the choices she's made that make her happy and keep trying to push her into something else. The only sour note for me was Shiraha; I get why he's in the story, but every page with him on it was so unpleasant (perhaps I'd become weirdly protective of Keiko?) that I enjoyed the last third of the book much less than the preceding two-thirds.