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obviously and infinitely :']

j realized i mixed up the numbers of the percent. yeah. book so good i'm Disoriented

oUGH this hurts so good. i can feel a 5 star brewing!!!!

have made progress on and finished a few in my currently reading that i have neglected... updates on that tonight. fingers in too many pies, so to speak. too much to be read!!!!!

i had to literally skip pages in the last section and this is nearly more difficult to grit my teeth and slog through. oh my god eugh

i mean jesus christ

oh i am going to Love this

i am actually going to cry at work no clickbait. OWWWWWWW

"the sunset filled the parlor, its color suffusing the walls. the remaining students were shadow creatures in the deepening light. bent with care in the room of golden grief."

"not many people were around that evening. music floated across the lamplit square from the conservatory. and it was the muffled music, i think, that pried me open a bit. i felt something at the back of my skull: a buried urge to cry."

"the soothing prospect of failure" !!!

"it was superb maternal jujitsu: paying lip service to relating to her daughter's experience when in fact she was obliterating it, draining it of all meaning, blotting it out." oh...! XD

"and god said, 'and i am not enough.'" fiyurrrrr like sooooo fire

holy shit she's the substancing herself

this is, in many ways, a tough one

like i'm fucking stunned how DARE you speak to my wife in that manner.

"even today, schreber's memoir continues to be the perfect blank canvas, and schreber himself is the ideal psychiatric patient: one who cannot talk back."

o_o ...yeah!

"and the situation has been like this for such a long time that there aren't many people alive today who remember little details about what life was like before all this"
and that was in 1949. horrific is not a strong enough word.

was gonna update when i was kicking my feet and excitedly out of breath but now i'm tearing up and my chest hurts so. there's that

M my beloved. best character #ever. thank u murakami. this kid rocks

i would be such a good cavalier and i will leave it at that

"there was something 'hard to fathom' about me--i could see that. because i myself didn't have a good grasp of who i was. i thought about this as i gazed at the mountain scenery passing by. maybe the person most puzzled by me was...me."

yup here we go again

there are elements of nge in here...purely thematically but still...my heart sings for it just a little bit...media in which the primary question lies in what it means to Be...teenagers questioning The Self...well shit...here we go again...

can't lie. while i love it already (as i always do with murakami) i would be enjoying myself a lot more if he could write one book without being a weird freak about girls (/neg)

"i wasn't a great writer. i'd loved reading since i was a kind and would pick up a book whenever i had a spare moment, but i don't think i had any literary talent."

tea!!!

still having such a blast :'] i missed this world so much