Murakami never fails to draw me into the journey of the characters. Pulls me deep into a such melancholia just like he always delineates the characters in his books; lonely, socially awkward, prosaic and ordinarily ‘enough-nothing-more-nothing-less’ life. Yet, always, there are ways to make them into something more that turns plain into riveting just somewhere written between the lines.

I just started reading 1Q84, Murakami’s latest work (already read the first chapter online before the book released, it was on his Facebook page if you noticed) and still in somewhere where the characters still making hypothesis about the causes of obscure and eerie changes in their lives. The book is divided into three volumes and just like Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, there are two different stories about two different people - Aomame and Tengo - written alternately. For synopsis you may want to google it. 

And I love Tengo. Unusual name and the phrase ‘it takes two to tengo’ (what a bad pun!) crossed my mind all the time. I also love the papers’ softness it’s ridiculously a good kind and weirdly gave me comfort when I touch every single piece of them. Talking about my OCD.

1Q84. Q is for ‘question mark’, a world that bears a question.

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Another Haruki Murakami that I'm now reading. Actually before this I tried to read 'A Wild Sheep Chase' but I haven't finish it. There's another Murakami book that I haven't read which is 'Dance Dance Dance', the sequel of 'A Wild Sheep Chase'. So.. yeah :p I'll try to finish this another Murakami, then move on to... ah, a book. Not Murakami. An old literature. So anyway, this book. Basically, this book is completely... surreal. There are two different stories (which I think they are related.. wait, not there yet!) one is at the 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland' which is in the odd chapters and the other one is at 'End of the World' which is in the even chapters.

Read the better synopsis of the novel on Wikipedia. Teehee :p but believe me, this book is really good if you like those kind of surreal and absurd stories. There's one chapter that really hit me that I could say, 'DAMN THIS BOOK IS SO FRIGGIN GOOD!!!' Lol.

"I cannot tell if the thought is mine or if it has floated loose from some fragment of memory. I have lost so many things. I am so tired. I feel myself drifting, away, a little by little. I am overcome by some sensation that I am crumbling, parts of my being drifting, away. Which part of me thinking of this?"

"I say I understand when I do, and say I don’t when I don’t. I try not to mince words. It seems to me a lot of trouble in this world has its origin in vague speech. Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they’re asking for trouble."

Have I told you how much I love Murakami's? Haha. I have 7 books in total, even though I haven't read 2 books, and currently reading this book. This book is a memoir about Murakami and his interests, being a novelist and a runner too. Amazed how he completed marathon and ultramarathon. He finished 62 miles in a day, from morning till evening!! So far it's enjoyable, not stressful and emotional like his fiction novels :p and lots of good quotes about life too :)

'Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.'

'Say you’re running and you start to think, Man this hurts, I can’t take it anymore. The hurt part is an unavoidable reality, but whether or not you can stand any more is up to the runner himself. This pretty much sums up the most important aspect of marathon running.'

'Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.'

One more thing, for those of you who know me well or not, please describe me in three words. Teehee! :)

Please blame the only English bookstore in Surabaya that only sell Murakami's Kafka on the Shore, After Dark (I was pretty lucky that time, it was the only one left on the shelf) and When I Talk About Running. See, I've been going back and forth to the bookstore until I can remember what they have. Resulted in me being very limited to read Murakami's books. Sigh. So back to the topic, I'm now reading this book.

Still at the 'second book' though, the book is pretty interesting and scary at the same time. @chuckstuck said it's horror, but I can't tell whether it's horror (as for me, horror relates to ghosts) uh. never mind. talking about horror at this hour... *goosebumps*

Never mind. Never mind.