There are books that are magical. Not in that boy-wizard way, which literally includes hocus pocus and living-breathing brooms. But books that take your brain and set it in a cloud of cotton and provide…
Posts tagged Haruki Murakami
Murakami’s promotion
I have an important announcement: Henceforth, when I refer to “my favorite writer” I will be talking about Haruki Murakami. He has been promoted, and no longer must defer to Mr. McInerney, Mr. Easton Ellis,…
My Top 10 of 2008
2008 was a pivotal year in my life because of significant advancements I made in several areas of my life, especially in intellectual and spiritual matters. I attribute these advancements to the words and ideas…
Top 10 of 2008, plus bonus worst 3
The Soul Thief by Charles Baxter: Despite the fact that Charles Baxter induces a plot amnesia that always makes me forget what his books are about within a week of reading them, I am always…
All wound up over The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle …
… And with that, my top five books of all time has to be reconfigured to make room for Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. This novel starts with the disappearance of a cat that…
Kafka is not the bore I thought it would be
Through complete serendipity it is Haruki Murakami week on Minnesota Reads. Christa reviewed What I Talk About When I Talk About Running earlier this week, and today I’m going to write about Kafka on the…
What I Talk About When I Talk About Haruki Murakami Running
Haruki Murakami’s novella-sized memoir What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is part passive-aggressive self-help, part stream of consciousness journal-writing. Plotwise, he writes about training for the 2005 New York City Marathon and…