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I chose to bring Haruki Murakami's : What I Talk About when I Talk About Running for my previous trip to Indonesia. I think it's...

I relocated my mini book shelves into the living room again, I think it probably stayed in our bedroom for a month or two and I don'...

As one of Murakami's big fan, I knew about his latest *but not so latest book that just came out. I went to MPH yesterday to check ...

I haven't update write anything on books lately. Previous read : Murakami's latest story for The New Yorker 3 weeks ago, titled ...

If there is even a tiny chance for me to talk directly to one of my favorite author, Haruki Murakami, I'm going to make use of it. Th...

* Early present came from my person  ❤ I actually begged him since we saw the book in the bookstore weeks ago. Never thought the la...

Tony Takitani is a short story by Haruki Murakami in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - a short story compilation. It's one of my favorite...

I finished reading the book last week - after a week. I finally found Murakami's book that I really like and would recommend if anyon...

It's been days since I started to think about which new book to read, after Jay Rubin's book. I wanted to read something that is ...

I finished : 'Haruki Murakami & the Music of Words' by Jay Rubin. I loved it. I never thought reading almost 400 pages of...

Finished reading Dance, Dance, Dance by H.Murakami.  I still hate all the unexplained things in all of his books. As a writer, I thou...

One of the thinnest Murakami's book I've read; Sputnik Sweetheart (229 pages), this took around 3 days of commuting to work. I b...

* 9. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami This reading took almost 3 weeks, longer than I intended. More than 600 pages ...

“Solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, ca...

1. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami I read IQ84 last year, took 2 months to finish reading the thick book. I am really curious about ...

“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t. Time solves most things. And what time can’t solve, you have...

You’re still young and healthy. Maybe that’s why you don’t understand what I am saying. Let me give you an example. Once you pass a certain...

Notes : Although I am a woman, I am not much of a normal-chick-lit & romance fiction's reader. Book reviews  reading experience...

Haruki Murakami's on Writing : When I’m in writing mode for a novel, I get up at 4:00 am and work for five to six hours. In the afte...