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Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino
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really liked it
bookshelves: sex-industry, family-relationships, keeping-it-in-the-family, rape-culture

"... it did seem that the thing we are most proud of and the thing we are most ashamed of are but the front and back of the same coin. They torture and thrill all at once."

I suppose it would have been too on-the-nose to call this book Monstrous instead.
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Reading Progress

October 1, 2017 – Shelved
October 1, 2017 – Shelved as: to-read
October 5, 2017 – Shelved as: books-on-deck
October 22, 2017 – Started Reading
October 22, 2017 –
page 62
12.92% ""Kazue did not harbor any demons; in that sense she was similar to my sister. They were both at the mercy of whatever came their way, which I found terribly predictable. I wanted more than anything to plant a demon in their hearts.""
October 23, 2017 –
page 87
18.13%
October 23, 2017 –
page 108
22.5% "Unsurprisingly, our narrator is very unreliable."
October 24, 2017 –
page 126
26.25% ""... the customers I have are either weirdos who want wacky women or men without money. By wacky I mean grotesque. In this world there are people who prefer beauty after it's gone away or the dregs of prosperity depleted."

the thing, the thing! she said it."
October 24, 2017 –
page 142
29.58%
October 25, 2017 –
page 211
43.96% ""A woman who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations. But no one can adapt perfectly to public opinion. And herein lies the source of their destruction.""
October 26, 2017 –
page 235
48.96% ""... if he had warned me, I could have been more cautious. I would not have come to Japan. And if I hadn't come to Japan, I would have not killed Yuriko Hirata ..."

bro. dude. It is very easy to just uh, not murder someone? Like, I do it all the time."
October 26, 2017 –
page 318
66.25% ""We've put on the years, you and I! I think the gap between your teeth has grown larger."

Mitsuru nodded in agreement. "You've aged too. Maliciousness just gushes from your face now."

#friendship"
October 29, 2017 –
page 387
80.63%
October 30, 2017 – Shelved as: sex-industry
October 30, 2017 – Shelved as: family-relationships
October 30, 2017 – Shelved as: keeping-it-in-the-family
October 30, 2017 – Shelved as: rape-culture
October 30, 2017 – Finished Reading

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