mother_of_biscuits#Bookstodon #1q84
I just finished 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. There were some things I genuinely liked about this novel. I liked the main characters Aomame and Tengo and their love story. I love Aomame, and I think personal trainers make great assassins. Aomame's childhood resonated with me because she was raised in a religious organization that is very controlling and even harmful to children, but they don't check off enough boxes to earn the cult label. I also love stories about how shortcuts through liminal spaces can cross through interdimensional rifts. However, I took some real offense at how childhood sexual abuse (CSA) was talked about. I felt it could have been left out entirely, and that there was a way to tell this story without the CSA. In some ways, the portrayal of the abuse felt like the writer's thinly veiled fantasies, and that's gross.
I just finished 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. There were some things I genuinely liked about this novel. I liked the main characters Aomame and Tengo and their love story. I love Aomame, and I think personal trainers make great assassins. Aomame's childhood resonated with me because she was raised in a religious organization that is very controlling and even harmful to children, but they don't check off enough boxes to earn the cult label. I also love stories about how shortcuts through liminal spaces can cross through interdimensional rifts. However, I took some real offense at how childhood sexual abuse (CSA) was talked about. I felt it could have been left out entirely, and that there was a way to tell this story without the CSA. In some ways, the portrayal of the abuse felt like the writer's thinly veiled fantasies, and that's gross.