Butter
A Novel of Food and Murder

"She recalled that milk came from blood. The same must then be true of butter. She licked the blood on the scab again. It tasted of metal and sweat."* Hear me out... Butter is Julie & Julia if Julia Child were a serial killer and Julie's feelings for the skilled cook transgressed beyond admiration,......more

A book with a cover as inviting as butter – rich yellow and beautifully designed – how could I resist? 🧈🧈🧈🧈 We always choose butter but not margarine to cook. Asking a woman who loves to cook for a recipe is to strike them in their weakest, most unprotected spot. I baked butter cakes using this recipe......more

i was excepting something with a bit more bite... The audiobook edition of Butter spans over 17 hours, yet its narrative could have been condensed into a fraction of that time. The story feels weighed down by excessive filler content, and while its intended themes hold potential they are belabored t......more

English: Butter: A Novel of Food and Murder Female Japanese writers have lately been killing it on the international literary market, and rightly so: I love the brutal, disturbing, evocative feminist social commentary of authors like Sayaka Murata or Mieko Kawakami. Asako Yuzuki has delivered a huge......more

I can understand why this book is currently being talked about by Japanese feminists. A lot of important things are discussed. I enjoyed the question of whether men’s domestic dependency on women could drive them to death. However, given the book’s greatest achievement for me was making my mouth wat......more