The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle in Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge

Jun 01, 2007 Jessica Haider rated it it was amazing

Shelves: bipoc-author, fiction, favorites, slipstream, 1001-books, japan, 1000_books, magical_realism

I had been looking forward to reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ever since a former book club member recommended it to me in around 2001. It didn't disappoint. I have read several other of Murakami's works and he is definitely one of my favorite authors. I love the trippy, magical, and quirky quality to his writing.

Extra kudos since the book mentioned one of my favorite things: watching ducks walk on ice--- hours of entertainment! ...more

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Sep 30, 2008 Maggie rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2010, japan, 2010-spring-challenge

Man, was this book ever strange! I loved the first half of it, and I was so excited because this has been on my to-read shelf at home forever and I have probably been putting it off for a year.

But somewhere about halfway through I got totally turned off, around the time when Nutmeg and Cinnamon got introduced. It was like being thrown around in a Dali painting...and I like Dali, so not in a good way. It just kept getting more and more bizarre, and all these characters were introduced and nothing ...more

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Jul 30, 2009 Danielle rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2009, bookshelf, favorites

It's like Alice in Wonderland with asides about war, loneliness, teenage angst, marital dis/content and a search for a love, an ordinary love, but a love that makes an unremarkable man do remarkable things. ...more

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