Norwegian Wood | 
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2
A painfully and strangely relatable teenage love story with an ending that sends chills down your spine.
Very very good book.
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.” - HM, NW
pick
Norwegian Wood delves into the melancholy beauty of love, memory, and the emotional scars that shape our lives. Murakami creates a world where the past lingers like a shadow, and his characters must confront their inner turmoil to seek understanding or, at the very least, solace.
I am not great at reading on vacation, especially when the views are so stunning. I guess if something was to distract me from my book, I'm glad it was the Badlands. 😀
pickThe Story is about our 19-year-old Toru Watanabe, an ordinary guy, who loves to read Great Gatsby on repeat. Toru loves Naoko, but she cannot reciprocate her love, as she is totally broken by her boyfriend‘s death goes into depression, and later admits in a faraway sanatorium. Later, Midori comes into Toru‘s life and they begin a bond between them as they share their feelings and open their heart to each other.
Reading it reminds me why I enjoy reading fiction. It was so addictive and felt like I lived a life that is unique and ephemeral. Murakami has this way with his words to guide us through this intricate journey as we meet Toru, Naoko, Midori, Reiko, and a whole lot of unique characters, their life, Trauma, Depression helps us understand their inner struggles to move past the barriers and open up their heart for another person.
so-soMental illness is the cold corpse of a lover, dissolving in a world where life and death are one.
pick3.6/5 🌟
A book about loss, grief, mental health & flawed human beings. Suicide features heavily in this book so it's not a happy, fun book. I didn't love the ending but I did enjoy reading the book.
so-soAll throughout i didn't feel like I was really enjoying it, but I couldn't put it down either. One of those books that will probably stay with me for a long time.
so-soMy latest bookclub book. Weird, weird, weird. Didn‘t love it but didn‘t hate it. It‘s the second Murakami book I‘ve read and both didn‘t wow me. I won‘t be reading any more of his books. I feel something is lost in the translation maybe?
so-soMental health, love and friendship. it still annoys me when Reiko sleeps with Watanabe~ i feel betrayed by their friendship
I am so in 👊
I have 2 library books I have to finish and it's a perfect way to round up my week off.
@Andrew65 📚
#jubliantjuly #readathon
panI have enjoyed Murakami‘s nonfiction selections and some of his fiction, but these two were #Bizarre 🤨😳🥴
#BookMoods @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
#bookmoods #musicrelated @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs
This book came to mind when I saw this prompt 😅
bailedI couldn't understand the hype for the book. All I could understand was that many people that the author knew committed suicide and that he had sex with lots of girls/ women and that he fell in love more than once. Didn't find the book depressing either! Couldn't understand what he is trying to convey!!
pickThis was my fifth Murakami book.
The people i talked to ( people who have already read the book) told me it affected them very severely and that confused me when i completed the book cuz i felt it didn't affect me that much.
It was only a while later that i realised that it was a slowburn and the book affected slowly, but once it reached the tipping point, it evoked so much emotion and pain that it almost took me down a spiral. A brilliant book!!
“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
“What happens when people open their hearts?
They get better.”
pick“Norwegian Wood” is one of the most beautiful and saddest books that I have ever read. I love the author and I have enjoyed each one of his books, but “Norwegian Wood” was the first one that I read, and it has a special place on my Murakami shelf. The film is also beautiful.
(Image from the Iris NYC)
pickNot exactly a book that oriented with my reading environment, but Haruki Murakami‘s “Norwegian Wood” was filled with beautiful prose and reminded me to slow down and truly look at thinks while I was running around one of the craziest places on Earth. There was a lot of sex, like more than I normally tolerate in a book, but the messages of Life and death and relationships resonated so deeply that I still enjoyed it. #disneyworld
I have not posted on here in a while but I have been reading! Time to play catch up. Pictured are the books I found today in a little free library. I'm most excited about the spanish grammar even though it's old. I've heard great things about Murakami and Ferrante but have never read anything by them 🙈so I'm looking forward to those as well.
pickIf you're in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.
-- 4⭐️
so-soA book filled with grief, loss, loneliness and sex. I liked the descriptions and the mood Murakami set in the book. But it feels like this is a book readers will enjoy only if you‘re a fan of Murakami. It was a vague twisted love story with way way too much sex. Overall I never got bored but I wouldn‘t recommend the book to just anyone. It‘s somewhere in between Pick and So-So. Full review on www.anushareflects.com
"Death exists, not as the opposite but as a part of life"
"People leave strange, little memories of themselves behind when they die."
#Norwegianwood #HarukiMurakami
I forgot i had this on hold at the library for the longest time. It‘s one of the books I‘ve to read for my ‘100 books to read‘ poster so I‘ll give it a chance,
If I don‘t enjoy this one I think it‘ll be my last Murakami
pickThis is the book that rocketed Murakami to stardom in Japan. A prototypical coming-of-age story set in late-60s Japan, it focuses on a college student's relationship with two women- one the traumatized former girlfriend of his best friend, who committed suicide, and the other an outgoing and self-confident classmate. There are a lot of cliches embedded in this plot, and I can't say it's easy to care about the characters, but Murakami writes... 👇
#popsugarreadingchallenge2021
Read 11/50
Prompt: a book with the same title as a song
#12coloursofdecember - Day 14 - Snow White ⚪
#merryreaders #wintergames2020 ☃️
I TRIED to finish this bc it fits one of my reading challenges. We have not 1, not 2, but THREE manic pixie dream girls who are overly needy and sexualized. I persevered after Our Hero “sleeps with“ a distraught & crying MPDG#1.🤮Still cont'd after MPDG#2 confessed to a (fetishized) lesbian experience with a 13 yo student.🤮🤮MPDG#3 has just asked Our Hero if he will “think of her while masturbating...because we are friends“.🙄
All kinds of NOPE.
#thoughtprovokingthursday @BayouGirl85
Thanks for the tag @EadieB 🤗😉
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Do you want to play? @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick @nanuska_153 @Buechersuechtling @Lcsmcat @slategreyskies @claudiuo
This book was peace, peacefully consuming. I felt so light-headed reading after reading it. This book is a mood, this book is love.
#peace #norwegian #wood #haruki #murakami #introvert #love #life
Maybe there was more I wanted to read...but yet I was content, content about the friends who were made in the process of losing love, about the relationships that were simple despite the complications in trying to describe the nature of it. How we wish life was always simple, and yet it is complicated only in our head! #Murakami, you have detangled so much inside me, and yet left a itch...I would never forget even a fragment of this piece!
We, the bookworms, always talk about how the book pulls you into it as you go on reading. but this one actually gave me those goosebumps of getting sucked in... 😵 Well I couldn't love anybody more than her #Midori
Its basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over. And then what do you think happens? Simple- God appears at the end and starts directing the traffic!!
