Dominika's Reading Challenge

I simply loved this book! It was quite sad, thought-provoking and fun at the same time. I finished reading it a few days ago and I can't stop thinking about it. Keiko is strange. She knows about it and she is trying very hard to be "normal"; that's why she is copying the behaviour of the people around her - she talks like one woman and dresses like the other one, keeps pretending everything is fine with her. But she is already 36 and she realises, that not having a man in her life makes her original, noticeable. So - she finds a man, as strange as she is, to live at her place and lets her family and friends believe, that they are actually a couple. What I found interesting was that Keiko was a very happy, balanced person at the beginning of the book. Her unconventional life was giving her lots of joy - yet, none of her friends seemed to notice or appreciate it. They forced her to become someone else, someone unhappy, and they were very satisfied about it, bec...

I'm going to cheat a bit this week - again! I'm a horrible, horrible reader :) It's going to be a book based on a true story now, but I chose Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata It's a book about a woman, who works in a convenience store, and the author also works in a convenience store, so maybe it's not based on a true story, but for me it's close enough. I heard many good things about this book. I hope it's going to be good!