Book: Norwegian Wood
Author: Haruki Murakami
Method: Borrowed (Matt)
Where: In my hotel room, finished just as my family had left to go get pre dinner drinks
This may have been my favourite book that I read on this trip, but thats hard to say because I loved lots of them. This book just got right inside me, grabbed my heart and gave it a good twist. The end of the book was so difficult and sad I remember running to meet my family after I finished it, because I felt like if I didn't get with people I was going to break down and cry. Its not that its conventionally sad though, its just kind of heart breaking.
Murakami manages to create these characters that are so alive and so real that I felt like I knew these characters after I finished this book. I also wanted to read more of Murakami's work, although I have read that this is his 'deviation' into linear fiction and that his most famous works, Kafka on the Shore and Wind Up Bird Chronicles are much more obtuse.
I did feel strange that this was the second Beatles influenced book, and second Beatles influenced book that takes place in Japan. But this and Number9Dream look at Japan from very different sides, and the authors have very different language.
Norwegian Wood is also the kind of book that you just want to read again right away because you can't bear that its over.
xoxo
ellebee
Author: Haruki Murakami
Method: Borrowed (Matt)
Where: In my hotel room, finished just as my family had left to go get pre dinner drinks
This may have been my favourite book that I read on this trip, but thats hard to say because I loved lots of them. This book just got right inside me, grabbed my heart and gave it a good twist. The end of the book was so difficult and sad I remember running to meet my family after I finished it, because I felt like if I didn't get with people I was going to break down and cry. Its not that its conventionally sad though, its just kind of heart breaking.
Murakami manages to create these characters that are so alive and so real that I felt like I knew these characters after I finished this book. I also wanted to read more of Murakami's work, although I have read that this is his 'deviation' into linear fiction and that his most famous works, Kafka on the Shore and Wind Up Bird Chronicles are much more obtuse.
I did feel strange that this was the second Beatles influenced book, and second Beatles influenced book that takes place in Japan. But this and Number9Dream look at Japan from very different sides, and the authors have very different language.
Norwegian Wood is also the kind of book that you just want to read again right away because you can't bear that its over.
xoxo
ellebee
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