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Taken while bookshopping in Berlin
#Japan #nighttime #Tokyo

Was interesting, just didn‘t know what happened to everybody, but makes sense

"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount."

-- 3.5 ⭐️

1. Every now and then, you're lucky and life gives you a second chance.

2. I know it technically begins in September, but September is still a summer month to me.
For me, autumn begins October 1st.😉

3. Tagged. It would be my third reread then, but I'm so in the mood for that violent dreamlike trip again... 🌃🏩🌙

#thoughtfulthursday #summer #autumn
Rae: I haven't forgotten about the WondrousWednesday tag, it just doesn't seem to work here.. ⤵️

do I buy new books even though I have a long list of tbr ?....yes

I came away thinking of it as a quick peek into people‘s lives when the sun goes down. And how our natures change in the dark. Full review here: https://wp.me/p9KtkP-kq #amreading #bookworm #bibliophile #bookish #booknerdigans #bookblogger #tsundoku #greatreads #readmorebooks #coolgirlsread

This was an atmospheric and mysterious read that covers the events that happen over the course of one night. I found this interesting but somewhat lacking...I can‘t help but feel it could have been more meaningful, more beautiful, more something. It was a needed break from more typical fare...stories with faster paces, overbearing characters, and messages that get beaten into the reader‘s head. 3.5/5 stars.

#eraserhead #horrorseason @Klou

#fantasy #fallfinds @Eggs

1* Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 France 🇫🇷 Italy 🇮🇹 Denmark 🇩🇰
None at the moment

2* freedom

3* @marleed @MoonWitch94 @Reviewsbylola @TheSpineView @Cathythoughts

#thankfulthursday @Cosmos_Moon

Outdoor video games for the husband and books for me!

Book mail!

#AuthorAMonth

This was my first proper novel by Murakami, and I love how vividly he writes. The story takes place over one night, and while nothing is truly solved in the end, I found the journey satisfying.

Ventured out for a quick #audiowalk this morning. I hadn‘t been off my porch since Tuesday. It seems Spring showed up while I was inside! My favorite season - I love it when the trees bloom.

Trying to get my #AuthorAMonth reads in. I‘ve been mostly reading graphic novels this month. Hard to focus with the world going on out there.

I started listening to After Dark last night. I‘m loving it so far, so there‘s that! A great, short read that I should be able to finish quickly.

The world of darkness, suspense and the characters‘ interconnections yields a mysterious dream-like story that is eerie at times, but captivating. 4/5 ⭐️

#authoramonth2020
@Soubhiville

What an interesting and unique story. I found this story, which takes place over the course of a single evening, highly engaging and unique story. I loved following Mari as she moved around Tokyo after most of the city had gone to sleep. Learning of Mari and her sister Eri was interesting and I could relate to Mari‘s sense of not knowing her sister. I would love to see Murakami revisit these characters at some point. #AuthorAMonth

I read this book and really enjoyed it. It's spanned out in one night but has so much to offer in terms of feelings, veiws etc. It's very different to other books I've read but a good one.

Takes place during the night.
Not as weird as his other stuff but still enjoyable.
We follow Mari and a few others around.
Nice little one sitting read

- After Dark
- Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
- Dream a Little Dream Of Me

#manicmonday @JoScho

Cute!

This has immediately become one my favorites by #Murakami. I can't put it down. I've read over 3/4 of this novel in two bus rides.

This was a short novel so I just decided to read the entire thing after trying it as part of my project to explode my TBR. It's not super memorable as a whole but has a lot of the known Murakami tropes - cats, jazz music, slight elements of surreality or fantasy. I Ioved how it started in a Denny's, and the commentary about how time moves differently at night.

I would love to see your favorites!

#2018Fiction #2018

Once again, Murakami combines the normal with the surreal...the mundane with the metaphorical...and creates a bizarre masterpiece. During one night, these characters enter each other‘s lives through oddly interconnected events; and while nothing seemingly significant comes of these random meetings, we‘re left with the impression that after each finally sleeps, the new day will bring life changing realizations for all. 4 ⭐️

“...she seems to be biting off and chewing it one line at a time.”

❤️ Murikami

A little less easy to follow compared to some of his other stuff. Or more, that the story seemed to encompass too many parts, while trying to establish that they were all actually connected. It's not an awful book, worth reading, but just not one that stands against his other works.

I read this one slowly. It‘s not your traditional novel with a defined plot and whatnot but it has that dreamy, surreal feeling of being awake all night. Of killing time before you can get home and sleep. It‘s a haunting story.

I‘ve gone AWOL from my official TBR and am following my book cravings at the moment! Had a craving to read about Tokyo and this was great. My second Murakami and I‘m a fan of the beautiful weirdness. A couple of teens meet in a Denny‘s late at night, before the night ends they will have crossed paths with a bunch of nocturnal characters and had a glimpse of other worlds and lives not lived.

My first Haruki Murakami read — and certainly won‘t be my last. It is a simple story with very little in the way of plot but with such a haunting, surreal quality that it slowly burned an impression on my psyche unlike anything else.

Murakami is such a good conceptual writer. Never insults his readers with predictable trash but also never tries too hard. #murakami

Thank god #bookmail awaited me when I came home from a supremely shitty Monday starting when the AC died at my office this morning (FYI I live in Hotlanta) and ending with dental work this afternoon. I shall now drink wine and lovingly (perhaps inappropriately) stroke "my pretties" (books, I swear I mean books ?). But first, I must check the employee handbook to see how little clothing I can wear tomorrow and still keep my job. #itssofrigginghot

Just before midnight at a Denny‘s somewhere in Tokyo, a young woman named Mari sits reading a book.

Before dawn breaks she will have met a young man who plays a trombone, a Chinese prostitute who has been beaten by her client, and a former wrestler turned love hotel manager.

As always, a good read from Murakami.

Good morning Littens! How‘s your weekend going?
I started this book last night and am already halfway through it. It‘s been ages since I‘ve read Murakami so I‘m enjoying sinking into his world.
My in-laws arrived from Singapore yesterday evening bringing lots of treats and homemade cookies (pineapple tarts and cashew cookies) and books for the boys. So we will be out and about today trying to help them get over jet lag!
What are you up to?

This is one nice read, very beautifully written. The writer takes you inside the minds of the main characters and describes the various life changing incidents of all the characters which is also very beautifully described. After reading I found myself at peace because of the way the author ended the book. This is surely a pick 😇✌️👌❤️#litsy #litzyAtoZ #Murakami

My bookshelf is kind of getting messy and is now out of space. Am half way through this amazing book and just couldn't wait for what comes next.

"Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other."

An absolutely beautiful book, something marvelous happens as you are drawn into this world of people after dark. Just beautiful writing.

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After Dark is a surreal and bewitching meditation on temporality and dualism. As with much of Murakami's fiction, there's an elusiveness to it. Sometimes that can be frustrating, but in such an ephemeral, dreamlike setting (the dead of night between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m.) it mostly works here. Very cool use of the first-person plural narrative device, too.

So a week ago or so, I sent out a tweet of my Murakami collection saying all I wanted for Christmas was for it to be complete and my twitter friend Bre asked for my address. I didn‘t think she‘d actually send me something. I‘ve never been so glad to be wrong. I‘m literally crying over this. I‘m so humbled and happy right now 💖

C --> Catcher in the Rye, The
L --> Long Walk, The
A --> After Dark
R --> Room
A --> All the Light We Cannot See

#booknames

I really need to get going on my reading challenges! I have a lot to finish before 2018! I'm reading this for published 10 years ago! #dark #noteworthynovember

Unimpressed and slightly annoyed. One weird thing juxtaposed against uninteresting scenes of life after dark, and characters I couldn't care about. Reads like the first draft of a first-time novelist. I was expecting so much more.

“Wherever the intention of each might lie, we are together being carried along at the same speed down the same river of time.”