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This is weird, even for Murakami

The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

May 20, 2023 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I’m pretty sure I bought The Strange Library as an ebook, never read it, forgot it, then picked up the physical version in the library years later. This is not a book that would have translated well to the ebook form because the fold outs and page turns are pretty essential to the story. It also seems sort of like a children’s book, but feels too existential in a way. It’s weirdly philosophical in a way I can’t quite explain. Turns out libraries are indeed […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Horror Tagged With: haruki murakami, horror, middle grade, The Strange Library

CoffeeShopReader's CBR15 Review No:42 · Genres: Children's Books, Horror · Tags: haruki murakami, horror, middle grade, The Strange Library ·
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Haruki Murakami

Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami

May 19, 2023 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

“In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life.” The title of this book is from a malaprop from one of the characters. In discussing books by Jack Kerouac and writers like him, the character calls them “Sputnik writers” meaning Beatnik, and this becomes an inside joke between the two. But of course the misunderstanding also becomes a symbol, and is appropriate to Kerouac as a wanderer. The novel goes on to remind us that Sputnik […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: haruki murakami

vel veeter's CBR15 Review No:337 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: haruki murakami ·
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Grab Bag

The People of Paper by Salvador Plascensia

Mortality by Christopher Hitchens

So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell

Mountain by Cixin Liu

The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

First Person Singular by Haruki Murakmi

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Anderson

Homecoming by Eddie Huang

The Matchlock Rifle by Walter Edmonds

Two Logs Crossing by Walter Edmonds

Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

July 23, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Mortality – 4/5 Stars This is a partial memoir and final notes first published by Vanity Fair and then in book form from the final days of Christopher Hitchens. There’s a part in the middle of every thing where someone tells Hitchens something like “God works in mysterious ways” and Hitchens wonders what is so mysterious about a heavy smoker getting advanced lung cancer. That’s the basic idea here. First things first, it’s not secret that Hitchens is a bit of a bugbear, and for […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Fiction Tagged With: adapt, cbr14bingo, charlotte perkins gilman, Christopher Hitchens, cixin liu, Eddie Huang, hans christian anderson, haruki murakami, Haruki Murakmi, Salvador Plascensia, Sun Tzu, Walter Edmonds, Washington Irving, william maxwell

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:383 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Fiction · Tags: adapt, cbr14bingo, charlotte perkins gilman, Christopher Hitchens, cixin liu, Eddie Huang, hans christian anderson, haruki murakami, Haruki Murakmi, Salvador Plascensia, Sun Tzu, Walter Edmonds, Washington Irving, william maxwell ·
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I Have Seen the Nipple on Your Soul

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

February 5, 2022 by Ellesfena 16 Comments

You know those workdays where you get a lot done in the morning, and you think to yourself, “I’ve done enough, I think I can take it easy this afternoon”? Well, consider that my attitude for the rest of 2022, as my greatest achievement of the year is behind me: I finished this damn book. I’ve wanted to read Haruki Murakami for a long time, and I was so intrigued by the premise of this book: A woman, Aomame, begins to discover subtle differences between […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: #bad fiction, 1Q84, breasting boobily, don't read this, haruki murakami

Ellesfena's CBR14 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: #bad fiction, 1Q84, breasting boobily, don't read this, haruki murakami ·
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Thanksgiving Week Glut

The Odyssey by Homer; Emily Wilson

A Good Man in Africa by William Boyd

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Nine Princes of Amber by Roger Zelazny

To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip Jose Farmer

Free Lance Pallbearers by Ishmael Reed

Dragons of Highlord Skies by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Revolutionary Characters by Gordon Wood

Glory by Vladimir Nabokov

Lives of a Cell by Lewis Thomas

South of the Border West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami

Books of Blood by Clive Barker

Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut

Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov

November 29, 2021 by vel veeter 2 Comments

The Odyssey – 5/5 Stars So my review is specific to the newer Emily Wilson translation, which I find particularly good and readable. She writes a long introduction that serves as a solid guide to the epic, to the writing, the historical context, and other important keys. This is long, but worthwhile, especially if you’re new to the story or it’s been a long time or you’re a little rough in your epic-reading. From there, there’s a very good translator’s note of some length explaining […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Short Stories Tagged With: Clive Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Gordon Wood, haruki murakami, Homer; Emily Wilson, ishmael reed, kurt vonnegut, Lewis Thomas, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Philip Jose Farmer, roger zelazny, Vladimir Nabokov, William Boyd

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:495 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, History, Horror, Non-Fiction, Poetry, Science Fiction, Short Stories · Tags: Clive Barker, Evelyn Waugh, Gordon Wood, haruki murakami, Homer; Emily Wilson, ishmael reed, kurt vonnegut, Lewis Thomas, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, Philip Jose Farmer, roger zelazny, Vladimir Nabokov, William Boyd ·
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Men Without Women – Haruki Murakami (2014)

Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami

July 10, 2021 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Most of all in his short fiction, I can never quite tell how seriously to take Haruki Murakami’s writing, but at the same time I am compelled by it. The lack of seriousness I feel (and I don’t mean in the writing itself, because I do think he takes himself seriously, and in an appropriate way) is that so many of the stories are almost exactly alike the other stories. If you took the names off and took the plots away a little, would you […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: haruki murakami

vel veeter's CBR13 Review No:306 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: haruki murakami ·
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