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my favorite quotes in 1Q84

Posted by on Nov 28, 2011 in books | 2 comments

Let’s start with a love quote:

“You may have to live the rest of your life alone, never being joined with the one person you love in the world. Don’t you find that scary?” (Ayumi) Aomame stared at the red wine in her glass. “Maybe I do,” she said. “But at least I have someone I love.” (191)

Here is a quote for us, travellers:

“I’ve had that kind of experience myself: I’m looking at a map and I see someplace that makes me think, ‘I absolutely have to go to this place, no matter what.’ And most of the time, for some reason, the place is far away and hard to get to. I feel this overwhelming desire to know what kind of scenery the place has, or what people are doing there… It’s curiosity in the purest sense.” (258-9)

Next. Some people have told me that my indifference is driving them crazy, and I find this quote here as the perfect sermon for me:

“…you are neither an angel nor a god. … pure, unadulterated feelings are dangerous in their own way. It is no easy feat for a flesh-and-blood human being to go on living with such feelings. That is why it is necessary for you to fasten your feelings to the earh–firmly, like attaching an anchor to a balloon.” Dowager to Aomame (185)

Crush of the Month: Murakami

Posted by on Nov 18, 2011 in books | 4 comments

“I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I love cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved. Those three things haven’t changed from my childhood. I know what I love, still, now. That’s a confidence. If you don’t know what you love, you are lost.”

haruki murakami, author of the novel 1Q84, which sold a million copies in its latest release and 4 million copies during the first publication in 2009 in Japan

just finished reading haruki murakami’s latest novel, the 925-page “1Q84,” and this is my initial reaction:

Posted by on Nov 14, 2011 in books | 0 comments

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my first haruki murakami experience: I wanted to throw the book away and run for my life.

Posted by on Apr 11, 2011 in write-ups on culture | 8 comments

Some nights, we feel we need a good movie. A feel-good movie. Some evenings, we want a companion to cuddle with. Some times, we want to be alone with a good book that does not let go of us from page 1 to last sentence, a good book with a story that haunts us wherever we go, that occupies our mind whatever we do, that makes us want to check all related information about it and its author in the Internet, that makes us want to pass it to a friend with note “Must read!”

Haruki Murakami’s work is one of these books.