Out is one of those books that sticks in the brain for a while after reading it. Set in and around Tokyo, the plot centers on a gruesome murder and its concealment. The main characters in the book are coworkers at a boxed lunch factory, and while we start off learning about their friendships and p...
It took me about three months to read this novel. For those who know my reading habits, you will be aware that I read fast. Inordinately fast, I am told. The reason for my lagging pace where this book is concerned was not because it was so bad I couldn’t make myself read it, it was because the novel...
Con calma tornò all'ascensore e premette decisa il pulsante per scendere. Avrebbe comprato un biglietto aereo. Da qualche parte doveva esserci la sua libertà, diversa da quella di Satake e naturalmente anche da quella di Yoshie e di Yayoi. Adesso che si era chiusa tutte le porte alle spalle, non le ...
Masako, Yoshie, Kuniko and Yayoi are four women working the night shift at a boxed lunch factory. Each have no prospects, and all want to escape. Yayoi is the one who cracks, killing her gambling husband. She turns to Masako, who gets Yoshie and Kuniko to help cut up the body. When the police come l...
Although this book was well written, I swear that the only two Japanese mysteries I have read have had almost identical storylines!! :/ I would continue on with them as I do enjoy them and, again, they are well written..hopefully once I expand my horizons of Japanese literature, so will their story...
I had a hard time with this book. It is very dark - unrelentingly so. And while I normally don't have a problem with dark, I did not enjoy it here. I think the problem is that there are no relatable, sympathetic characters. I didn't like any of the characters in the book. I kept hoping one of them w...
I wanted to like this one more than I actually did like it. The beginning of the story, learning about Yayoi, Yoshie, Masako, and Kuniko was interesting, and the death and immediate aftermath was interesting, but I just found myself losing interest shortly after that, and struggled to finish. I thin...
HEADS-UP:my reading notes for this book were as long as the book itself....what I post here is what i posted to another LT friend (not in OUR group) but, it might work...until i figure out something better.# 26Out by Natsuo Kirino4.5 starsThis is one of the best books I've read in quite some time......
We start this book, meeting the women as they are about to start the midnight shift at a bento* factory. Masoka, Kuniko, Yoshi & Yayoi work together on the conveyer belt preparing the separate parts of the bento boxes. We learn about the pointless day to day reality of their existence, home life's r...
I really enjoyed this novel. Typically, I don't read many novels, especially ones with foreign names. I did have a very slight bit of a hard time figuring out who was who at times, but did manage to put 2+2 together. Some of the names were similar...Anyways, I found this slice of life from the other...
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