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Next up: a book that I just had to buy because it sounded so intriguing. I always love Japanese authors. There is usually some kind of slowness (and also often weirdness) in the books that I really enjoy. I hope this one won‘t disappoint😁

I saw this book several months ago and didn‘t buy it due to my bookbuying ban. I was often thinking about it afterwards and was so intrigued, even months later, so when I saw it again today I had to buy it! I‘m so excited for it and want to start right away!! (But won‘t because I want to finish tin man first)

🚬Brilliant narrative about guy who discovers a gun & how it changes course of his life.
🚬Marvellous themes: importance of gun control, obsession with inanimate objects & how it makes life pass you by w/o realisation, constant stimuli of same things lead to extreme impulses when engaged w/something new & dangerous, ignoring emotions/life compounds intensity of consequences.
🚬Fast-paced.
🚬Incredible translation.
🚬Deeply discomforting.
🚬4.75/5.

Started this today and wow it‘s super fast-paced and wickedly compelling!! 😮😍 The best kind of psychological thriller.

15 hours in & I‘ve got...
1 book ✅
1 short story ✅
1 audiobook ✅
3 comics ✅

On to the next book!

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I really need to up my Japanese literature game. Has anyone read this? It looked interesting.

Reminded me of a Murakami book only much shorter. A bizarre story about a man who becomes obsessed with a gun he found on the street. I liked it enough to add more of this author's books to my to-read list.

Introspective look at a man who becomes obsessed with a gun that he found.

LITTENS! What have you done to me? This is my most recent list (of which there have been many) of book recommendations from Litsy. My TBR is so huge it's going to cause a singularity.

Picked this up because I'm starting to really, really prefer mysteries/thrillers without guns. This book is (obviously) about a gun but it's more about the power that guns have even as inanimate objects than about the crime per se. It's a fascinating psychological study of gun possession in a culture with more restrictive gun laws than the US. Great, short novel.

Two very strange books in two days. This was very very good. Reading as the characters obsession grew was incredibly interesting. Very psychological. And I thought I had the ending figured out but nope. Didn't see it coming. I loved being surprised!

Great haunting, character study.

Wrote my wrap up of yesterday's readathon on my blog here: Living My Best Life: The Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon Wrap-Up - Hardcover Hearts
http://hardcoverhearts.com/2016/04/24/living-best-life-deweys-24-hour-readathon/

Hour 11 of the Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and this will be book 5. I'm so stoked! If this needs more time, I'll put it down and come back to it later. Because I am super excited for it!

A man finds the body of a man who committed suicide and steals the gun. Similar to Murakami, this provides a compelling, intellectual, and introspective look at human psychology and impulse while the man becomes obsessed with his new possession.