Emma Types Stuff

Sometimes I don't want to write a review of a book, simply because I don't feel up to the intellectual task of doing so. I've written of my insecurities around reading and reviewing literary work before , and once again I stand nervously on edge of literary criticism, feeling as dumb as a box of rocks.  But I read Earthlings [Sayaka Murata] and need talk about it.    Convenience Store Woman  was one of the books that  helped me out of my reading slump and considering that it was one of my earliest reviews, and my whole reading outlook has changed since then, Earthlings offers a lot of opportunity for reflection. All I knew going in was that it was more divisive than Convenience Store Woman . I'd seen comments suggesting this book dials the strangeness up to eleven, but even I was caught off guard by the graphic horror hidden beneath the artfully cutesy cover.  [Please note that this review will discuss some of those events, which include sexual abuse and extreme violenc