30 day meme-day 4
Day 4 is: "My Favorite Book."
Before I go into what it is, I just want to document this small event in my life. Because this is my journal after all.... I am finally going to be a published author. Nothing big or anything. But two of my short pieces were accepted today by two separate literary journals. It probably doesn't matter to anyone else but I'm excited!
but on to the meme:
I only have one this time!
This is the only book I really enjoyed from Ryu Murakami (i guess the less well-known of the two literary Murakami's... or are there more?), but it infatuated me more than anything else ive ever read.
From "Publishers Weekly"
"Two mothers abandon their infant boys in the Yokohama train station's coin lockers. The reader is not spared the mechanics of packaging a child in a parcel, nor the grim details of any of the other episodes of discomfort and suffering which follow in incremental doses, though always with such whimsy that the reader wonders whether or not to be offended. The heroes, Kiku and Hashi, grow up together; but, beyond their bizarre beginnings, they couldn't be more different. Kiku becomes a homicidal pole-vaulter whose inner rage gives him unusual speed and strength, but which also fosters an obsession with murder and a secret drug that sets any creature into a killing frenzy. The more delicate Hashi strives to find his mother, supporting himself as a prostitute in Toxitown?a chemical disaster zone insulated from Tokyo by a wall and armed guards?until one of his johns discovers his musical talent and makes him a star. The settings seem lifted from Japanese animation epics: an abandoned mining town, an underwater tunnel and a retreat in the mountains."
Before I go into what it is, I just want to document this small event in my life. Because this is my journal after all.... I am finally going to be a published author. Nothing big or anything. But two of my short pieces were accepted today by two separate literary journals. It probably doesn't matter to anyone else but I'm excited!
but on to the meme:
I only have one this time!
This is the only book I really enjoyed from Ryu Murakami (i guess the less well-known of the two literary Murakami's... or are there more?), but it infatuated me more than anything else ive ever read.
From "Publishers Weekly"
"Two mothers abandon their infant boys in the Yokohama train station's coin lockers. The reader is not spared the mechanics of packaging a child in a parcel, nor the grim details of any of the other episodes of discomfort and suffering which follow in incremental doses, though always with such whimsy that the reader wonders whether or not to be offended. The heroes, Kiku and Hashi, grow up together; but, beyond their bizarre beginnings, they couldn't be more different. Kiku becomes a homicidal pole-vaulter whose inner rage gives him unusual speed and strength, but which also fosters an obsession with murder and a secret drug that sets any creature into a killing frenzy. The more delicate Hashi strives to find his mother, supporting himself as a prostitute in Toxitown?a chemical disaster zone insulated from Tokyo by a wall and armed guards?until one of his johns discovers his musical talent and makes him a star. The settings seem lifted from Japanese animation epics: an abandoned mining town, an underwater tunnel and a retreat in the mountains."