Wind Pinball (that’s what it says on the spine) by Haruki Murakami
not a great book, not a great time (post from the winter)
Tag: Japanese fiction
The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji
mediocre mystery that solves its mystery in chapter one
Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
a bleak, beautiful, japanese novel[la]
who we’re reading when we’re reading murakami by David Karashima
an excellent book about books
Colorless [sic] Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
i enjoy a haruki murakami for the first time in years!
Vibrator by Mari Akasaka
a great Japanese novel
From The Fatherland, With Love by Ryu Murakami
a big novel that’s surprisingly worthwhile
My Brother’s Husband: Volume Two by Gengoroh Tagame
part two of a beautiful graphic novel
Popular Hits of the Showa Era by Ryu Murakami
not a great book, not a great blog post
The Life of a Stupid Man by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
I read another one of those cute Penguin Little Black Classics, this one a collection of three short stories byContinue Reading
Audition by Ryu Murakami
I haven’t read a novel by the “other” Murakami for years. In my long and distant and pre-blogging past, IContinue Reading
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World is, I must begrudgingly admit, a great Haruki Murakami novel. One ofContinue Reading
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
I decided to treat the whole of 1Q84 as a single novel, rolling through from the first volume to theContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 