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Deliver my soul from the sword;my darling from the power of the dog

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  • First book you read: after dark
  • Favorite book: dance dance dance
  • Least favorite book: kafka on the shore
  • A book you don’t get: ...
  • Most favorite character: Gotanda
  • Most annoying character: Hajime
  • A quote from your favorite book: ❝ Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry. Maybe I’m being too hard on you. But listen, I don’t care what other people do. I don’t want to hear that sort of talk from you. You shouldn’t say things like that lightly, as if saying them is going to solve anything. They don’t stick. You think you feel sorry about Dick, but I don’t believe you really do. If I were Dick, I wouldn’t want your easy regret. I wouldn’t want people saying, ‘Oh, I acted horribly.’ It’s not a question of manners; it’s a question of fairness. That’s something you have to learn. ❞
  • A quote from your least favorite book: ❝ She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But there was something in her face that was meant for me alone. Everytime we met, I took a good look at her. And loved what I saw. ❞
  • Favorite book cover: after dark; tusquets edition.
  • A scene that made you feel sad: the ice man (ending)
  • A scene that made you smile: in chance traveller, when the brothers reunite.
  • Favorite short tale: chance traveller or hanalei bay
  • Your favorite book argument: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage
  • A book that disappointed you: kafka on the shore
  • Something you dislike about Murakami books: his fixation with cooking, jazz, mysterious and i'm super weird and far away from the people characters and the weird sex stuff
  • Something you like about Murakami books: the feeling of loneliness and cotidianity, the parallel worlds, when he describes the city at night and sometimes the historical flashbacks
  • A question you made to you and wish had been answered: *i'll think about this later*
  • A song that reminds you about any of the books: my final fantasy by the telephones
  • A quote that describes you: ❝ When I was little, I had this science book. There was a section on 'What would happen to the world if there was no friction?' Answer: 'Everything on earth would fly into space from the centrifugal force of revolution.' That was my mood.❞ // ❝ I live my life you live yours. If you're clear about what u want then you can live anyway you please. I don't give a damn what people say. They can be reptile food for all I care. ❞

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Without noticing it, I had become accustomed in this way to a life without books. How strange, now that I think of it. Reading had been the center of my life when I was young. I had read every book in the grade-school library, and almost my entire allowance would go for books. [...] both my parents worked, so nobody paid much attention to me. I could read alone as much as I liked. [...] When had I really read a book last? And what had it been? I couldn’t recall anything. Why did a person’s life have to change so completely? Where had the old me gone, the one who used to read a book as if possessed by it? What had those days―and that almost abnormally intense passion―meant to me?.

                      — Sleep, Murakami Haruki.

may 16 2015 ∞
jun 11 2021 +