This weekend I finally finished Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. My third book by him, and it should have been my first. A Wild Sheep Chase was meh, and Norwegian Wood (my unfortunate introduction to him) was so off my regular radar that I'm not surprised I was so stubborn about reading Wonderland. I was rewarded ( Read more... )

As I raced through the last 100 pages of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood, part of me started thinking what a great Book Club post I could finally make. All I had to do was skip along through the last little bit, and off we'd go. Despite my slow start, I found the later chapters far more invigorating than the first 200 pages. Then I hit the very ( Read more... )