My 13-book Murakami Collection is now complete~ :D
Reading Update
I now have time to read again, but I have to stop reading 1Q84 for a while. It’s not like what happened with Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. It’s just that the book is too big to carry around with all the traveling I’ll be doing for the next few days. So I’ll just start reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. :D
Went to the hospital earlier.
Bought The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (the one and only copy @ NBS SM Baguio; 12th book in my 13-Book HM Collection).
You’re next, after the quake.
Reading Update
Since I can’t bring 1Q84 at work (no, actually I can, but the weight, man, plus it’s work), I have to postpone reading it until I’m done with my company-based OJT. So I might start reading either The Sherlockian or Smoke and Mirrors.
So this blog is going to be on hiatus until the 2nd or 3rd week of May. Not that anyone cares…
No, my beloved followers, don’t leave me. :P
After reading nine of Murakami’s works, all in first person perspective, I thought I would have a hard time reading 1Q84, which is not in first person perspective. I thought wrong. I am actually enjoying it, as if I am the narrator. It is not as good as the previous ones I have read because I am not one with the protagonist anymore, still it is good.
Reading Update
I finished South of the Border, West of the Sun the other day, but still haven’t posted quotes and other blahs, ‘coz I’m not in the mood. I don’t know when I’ll be in the mood. Maybe when I get my Dance Dance Dance back? I’ll just post quotes from Dance3 together with the ones from SotB, WotS. So yeah.
I’ll probably start 1Q84 laterz~
Reading Update
So I finally finished (re-)reading The Hunger Games Trilogy. And yes, I’ve seen the movie already. Twice. :D
Anyway, I’ve missed Murakami. So I’m going back to reading his works! No, actually I’ll start later, I still haven’t slept yet. I’ve been up and running for more than 20 hours and my eyes are very puffy right now. So yeah, later. I only have two more books I haven’t read yet (South of the Border, West of the Sun and 1Q84), in my possession. I still don’t have a copy of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and after the quake. And I’m still not sure if I’ll ever get my hands on Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973.
Maybe I haven’t told anyone, but I’m telling now, I’m only going to read his fiction works, not his non-fictions. So there are only 6 books left to read. :(
/In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t posted quotes from Dance Dance Dance yet. A friend borrowed it after I’m done reading so I was not able to post ‘em quotes. But once I get the book back, I’ll post ‘em. :D
Reading Update
I just finished Dance Dance Dance.
ASDFGHJKL!!
I don’t know what to do with my life anymore.
This book made me feel things I don’t usually feel.
Dance Dance Dance may have filled up the hole A Wild Sheep Chase left in me, but there’s a new hole. A bigger void.
Gah, I wanna cry. I didn’t want it to end.
*sniff* A new Murakami favorite. T_T
Anyway… I’ll be having a break from Murakami in the coming days. I still have to re-read The Hunger Games before the movie comes out and I might (finally!) read the succeeding books immediately after re-reading book 1, so… TTFN~
Reading Update
So I started reading Dance Dance Dance. Then I saw the words Dolphin Hotel, Sheep Man, and Kipper, and I was like, “What the hell!? A Wild Sheep Chase?” And so I looked up on Google, “Dance Dance Dance a sequel to A Wild Sheep Chase?” And the confusion was cleared up. It is a sequel, alright, but it’s a stand-alone sequel. One doesn’t need to read A Wild Sheep Chase to understand Dance Dance Dance, just like one doesn’t need to read Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973 to understand A Wild Sheep Chase (me as the latter).
I was really happy to know this. AWSC left an empty space in me that I thought would never be filled up again. :P
Sigh~~
“But it does happen, right?” he said. “Maybe once, but everyone has that experience. You loathe someone for no reason whatsoever. I’m not the type to have blind hate, but I swear there are people who just set you off. It’s not a rational thing. But the problem is, in most cases, the other guy feels the same way toward you.”
The Silence (The Elephant Vanishes) — Haruki Murakami
There are some things about myself I can’t explain to anyone. There are some things I don’t understand at all. I can’t tell what I think about things or what I’m after. I don’t know what my strengths are or what I’m supposed to do about them. But if I start thinking about these things in too much detail, the whole thing gets scary. And if I get scared I can only think about myself. I become really self-centered, and without meaning to, I hurt people. So I’m not such a wonderful human being.
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| — | A Slow Boat to China (The Elephant Vanishes) — Haruki Murakami |
It had been raining that day from morning to night — the kind of soft, monotonous, misty rain that often falls at that time of the year, washing away bit by bit the memories of summer burned into the earth. Coursing down the gutters, all those memories flowed into the sewers and rivers, to be carried to the deep, dark ocean.
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| — | The Elephant Vanishes — Haruki Murakami |
I poured myself a second cup of coffee and read the story again from the beginning to end. Actually, it was a pretty strange article — the kind that might excite Sherlock Holmes. “Look at this, Watson,” he’d say, tapping his pipe. “A very interesting article. Very interesting indeed.
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| — | The Elephant Vanishes — Haruki Murakami |
