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• The Ultimate Book Worm’s Gift List

  
  HarperStudio — Authority: 508
  Nina Sankovitch , the author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair , has compiled a fabulous gift list for all the readers in your life: The runner: What I Talk About When I Talk about Running by Haruki Murakami; The Optimist: On Kindness by Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor; The Teenager: The Love of the Last ...
  17 hours ago

• The Winter Solstice Is Approaching

  
  Janet's thread — Authority: 124
  The Winter Solstice is drawing near.    photo from this souce. This year, according to my source , the winter will officially occur in Dublin at 15:47 , 5:47 p.m., tomorrow December 21.  Correspondingly, it will be 9:47 a.m. on the west coast of America, 8 hours behind us here in Dublin.  There is a ...
  2 days ago

• Haruki Murakami: A Wild Sheep Chase

  
  The Greatest Literary Works — Authority: 123
  A Wild Sheep Chase was first published in Japan in 1982. It was a third novel in the so called Rat Trilogy and the first two have not been translated into English as Murakami felt they are weak efforts. After boiling and simmering it can be reduced to a linear plotted mystery slash adventure slash quest that takes ...
  3 days ago

• "After Dark" by Haruki Murakami

  
  Temple Library Reviews — Authority: 511
  T his is an entry for the Japanese Reading Challenge . Haruki Murakami’s taken over the world or so it seems, because whenever I turn my head away from speculative fiction I hear only the best possible things about his works from both fellow book addicts and critical venues. He’s been highly recommended and his ...
  5 days ago

• Murakami magic

  
  Raw Japan — Authority: 121
  What strikes me about Haruki Murakami is how such a worldwide audience has embraced his novels. People have taken to his writing not for its Japanese-ness, but for its stories and universal themes. The 60-year-old Murakami is not your typical Japanese author. The jazz lover and triathlete has lived in the ...
  1 week ago

• Today, Second Monday of December (2009)

  
  Kanlaon — Authority: 433
  Today self planted a New Zealand chaste tree.  She isn’t sure it’s still alive, as she kept it outside during the recent storm, and it lost all its leaves.  But, anyhoo, it was wonderfully sunny earlier today, so self took the opportunity to plop it into the ground, with lots and lots of alfalfa meal. Then, ...
  1 week ago

• Haruki Murakami and the Problems of Popularity

  
  Three Percent - Article — Authority: 134
  I’m home sick—damn winter colds that are even resistant to Advil Cold & Sinus, the Wonder Drug—so it’s a perfect day for a guest post from intern Will Eells. You might remember Will from his review of The Housekeeper and the Professor, and he will be writing more reviews for us in the future, including ...
  1 week ago

• Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Haruki Murakami

  
  Silence Without — Authority: 132
  buy - author site The Deal: At this point in time, due to an RSI, I can only type for 10 minutes at a time. What you see below is what is hammered out before the timer goes off- and nothing more. Ive had a headache all day, which turned into a migraine, so I popped some pills and faceplanted into ...
  1 week ago

• Review: After Dark, a novel by Haruki Murakami

  
  Book Bird Dog — Authority: 121
  I decided to reprint this review I did in 2007 of Haruki Murakamis 12th novel, After Dark for the Japanese Literature Challenge 3 hosted by dolcebellezza. Synopsis: The novel begins just before midnight in Tokyo and ends just before 7 a.m. The focus is Tokyo in the dead of night, after the trains have ...
  1 week ago

• "It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and..."

  
  paris87.net — Authority: 445
  “It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.” - Haruki Murakami (via theantidote )
  2 weeks ago

• Tour Spiel: Via Tania

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 441
  Named after the Minutemen song, Evil Monito’s “Tour Spiel” provides an intimate look into the musician’s tumultuous life on the road. Each week, we’ll check in with some of our favorite artists touring stateside or abroad and find out what it’s like to be packed in a van or waiting at the baggage claim for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Notes

  
  Magnificent Octopus — Authority: 117
  Miscellaneous - Milorad Pavić died this week. Go read Dictionary of the Khazars . It remains one of the most original books Ive ever read. The "story" is told via encyclopedia entries, with many of the same entries being reworked in each of the 3 major sections — Christianity, Islam, and Judaism — the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Falling out of love with Murakami

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Like one of the more opaque shifts in his stories, I find myself suddenly lukewarm about a writer I used to revere I was in the kitchen, boiling a pot of spaghetti, and whistling along to Rossini when the question hit me: why do I no longer read Murakami ? A quick scan of my bookshelves would suggest hes pretty much ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tantric Reading Pleasure - 1Q84 Book Cover

  
  Scription — Authority: 419
  Here you go a collage book cover for 1Q84 made from scrap materials, MT masking tapes, printed photos and glassine envelope. Today I could only find time to read 2 pages because of errands to run. Call it tantric reading pleasure :) Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  3 weeks ago

• To Prolong My 1Q84 Reading Pleasure - Make a Nice Book Cover

  
  Scription — Authority: 419
  Im gonna enjoy reading 1Q84 as much as possible and take it slow. A nice book cover will do the trick. Can you see the pleasure here? Im enjoying myself making the book cover and this tiny pleasure of picking up a pleasant object will probab... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  3 weeks ago

• The Myth of MONO

  
  Layabozi — Authority: 419
  Its not Post-Rock. Its Ghost-Rock. Read also: Editor’s Picks, November 26-29 A Walk Through A Garden
  4 weeks ago

• Slowly, like an ant

  
  Magnificent Octopus — Authority: 117
  [A] novelist is essentially a person who covers distance through his patience, slowly, like an ant. A novelist impresses us not by his demonic and romantic vision, but by his patience. — Orhan Pamuk, The Paris Review Interviews, IV . I won a publishers contest some time ago and was so very pleased to find the ...
  4 weeks ago

• 1Q84 – Murakami Speaks About the Unreal

  
  BionicBong — Authority: 135
  In the chaotic world after the Cold War and the September 11 2001 attacks, Japanese author Haruki Murakami says metaphors can be even more powerful than what’s real — a reason why his surreal books are read worldwide. “I think people are gradually starting to understand and accept the realness of unreal ...
  4 weeks ago

• 1Q84 – Murakami Speaks About the Unreal

  
  BionicBong — Authority: 135
  In the chaotic world after the Cold War and the September 11 2001 attacks, Japanese author Haruki Murakami says metaphors can be even more powerful than what’s real — a reason why his surreal books are read worldwide. “I think people are gradually starting to understand and accept the realness of unreal ...
  4 weeks ago

• 1Q84 – Murakami Speaks About the Unreal

  
  BionicBong — Authority: 135
  In the chaotic world after the Cold War and the September 11 2001 attacks, Japanese author Haruki Murakami says metaphors can be even more powerful than what’s real — a reason why his surreal books are read worldwide. “I think people are gradually starting to understand and accept the realness of unreal ...
  4 weeks ago

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