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I'm looking forward to this! The trilogy awaits me somewhere in my bookshelfs. I've read "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" (as I believe is the title in english) earlier. Will we read one part per month?
I read this a few years ago and loved it. I'm very pleased to reread it with this group.
I'm excited for this one as it was on a reading challenge list I set myself this year but didn't get to so it's just sitting waiting for me. Also excitingly for me I have been able to get my life back into balance a while lit more so should be able to keep up with the reading schedule for once!
I have not read Murakami. I'm looking forward to it.
I’m hoping Santa puts this under the tree this year. :)I’ve read five Murakami books so far and this one has been on my list for awhile so I’m glad it won the poll. Wind-Up Bird was my first, and probably my favorite as I had no idea what I was getting into with this author. It was so different and unexpected, but a total delight. The latest one I read was Killing Commendatore and it was excellent as well.
Looking forward to starting 2020 with a Murakami book alongside all my Chunkster reading buddies! :)
I just got my copy in the mail yesterday. So many other challenges to finish by the end of the year! Im really looking forward to this book
I have read Kafka on the Shore. I liked it very much but can’t say why 😆 may be the poetic quality.
I'm looking forward to reading this. Sputnik Sweetheart is the only book by Murakami I've read so far, that's generally considered one of his 'easier' books and is certainly much shorter!
I'm starting to read this weekend! I'll post the reading schedule tomorrow. This will be the first Murakami for me.
I suspect that my copy is hiding under the Christmas tree. Excited for this read!
Hey, for whatever reason, I just got offered a $5.00 credit to buy the e-book of 1Q.., so I did.Could have got it free from Overdrive, but, hey, $4.99 is practically free, right?
Guess what was under the Christmas tree this morning? 🎄📕🙂
Mine too! Happy reading
Just posted the first few weeks of the reading schedule :) I'll post the first thread tonight!! Happy New Year everyone!
I’m hoping to start reading this weekend! Thanks for the schedule, Dianne. :)
That’s great thanks for joining Linda!
Lisa wrote: "Mine too! Happy reading"Welcome Lisa!
Christopher wrote: "Hey, for whatever reason, I just got offered a $5.00 credit to buy the e-book of 1Q.., so I did.Could have got it free from Overdrive, but, hey, $4.99 is practically free, right?
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It is a sign Christopher!! A New Year’s sign! you were meant to join us 😊
Nike wrote: "I'm looking forward to this! The trilogy awaits me somewhere in my bookshelfs. I've read "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" (as I believe is the title in english) earlier. Will we read one part per month?"I think I’ll set it up so that it’s a reasonable number of pages per week - I’m shooting for between 60 and 70 which brings us around to the end of April. Welcome!
Suki wrote: "I read this a few years ago and loved it. I'm very pleased to reread it with this group."Suki - wonderful! I bet you will catch so many additional nuances this time around - you’ll have to let us know!
Bron wrote: "I'm excited for this one as it was on a reading challenge list I set myself this year but didn't get to so it's just sitting waiting for me. Also excitingly for me I have been able to get my life b..."Fantastic Bron! I can definitely relate!
Tammy Dayton wrote: "I have not read Murakami. I'm looking forward to it."Very happy you are joining Tammy!
Lyndi wrote: "I just got my copy in the mail yesterday. So many other challenges to finish by the end of the year! Im really looking forward to this book"Super, welcome Lyndi!
Nidhi wrote: "I have read Kafka on the Shore. I liked it very much but can’t say why 😆 may be the poetic quality."I suspect I will be on a Murakami kick after this - the writing is absolutely beautiful!
I’m late to the party, but I’ve got some free time over the next couple of days and there is nothing I would like better than to spend as much time with a book like this as possible. I have never heard of this author, but I’m absolutely excited to learn more about him. This genre is right up my alley. Here’s hoping I will catch up to the group at some point over the next couple of weeks.
Have any of you read any Murakami before? This book is characterized as a dystopian novel - have any of you read other dystopian novels? Have you read this novel before, or started it?
In this novel, the year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo. A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver’s enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 —“Q is for ‘question mark.’ A world that bears a question.”
The novel was first published in three volumes in Japan in 2009–11. Wiki notes that: Murakami spent four years writing the novel after coming up with the opening sequence and title. The title is a play on the Japanese pronunciation of the year 1984 and a reference to George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The letter Q and 九, the Japanese number for 9, (typically romanized as "kyū", but as "kew" on the book's Japanese cover) are homophones, which are often used in Japanese wordplay.
The New York Times has noted that "Murakami is like a magician who explains what he’s doing as he performs the trick and still makes you believe he has supernatural powers . . . But while anyone can tell a story that resembles a dream, it's the rare artist, like this one, who can make us feel that we are dreaming it ourselves.”