Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Before Haruki Murakami became a novelist, the author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Kafka on the Shore ran a jazz club.
The Written Word (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
... 8. Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996) 9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997) 10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997) 11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997) 12. Blindness, José Saramago (199 13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87) 14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992) 15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000) 16. The Handmaid’s...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 08/12/2008
... then moved on to "Money." And now I commence my reading of Haruki Murakami, not with "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" or "Norwegian Wood" but with this little book about running. I'm guessing that the potential readership for "What I Talk About When I Talk About Running" is 70 percent Murakami nuts, 10 percent running enthusiasts and an overlapping 20 percent who will be on the brink...
MetaxuCafe Litblog Network (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
It happens rarely, but when it does, all the effort that reading takes is justified ten times over. Less than 20 pages down while reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, I knew I was in company of a mastermind - in all senses of the word. Read the entire post at the author’s site . (0) Comments | Leave a Comment
Anglofille (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
In this edition: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Blindness, Revolutionary Road I don’t always write enough about books on this site, which is strange, given how obsessed I am with all things literary. I think I feel that if I write about books, I have to provide insightful commentary and a proper review. That’s too [...]
What was I THINKING? (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
... Selected Stories, Alice Munro (1996)9. Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (1997)10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Haruki Murakami (1997)11. Into Thin Air, Jon Krakauer (1997)12. Blindness, José Saramago (1998)13. Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons (1986-87)14. Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates (1992)15. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers (2000)16. The Handmaid's Tale,...
Churbuck.com (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
... “slightly like penis” — yuck yuck. I will not read him again. Still in progress, The Wind-up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami. After just being in Japan, this book is really captivating me. I would say it is one of the better foreign author works I’ve read in some time (the last being the wonderful Blindness by Jose Saramago. Murakami does a wonderful job with the mundane, describing...
Churbuck.com (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
... be Landing Page Optimization by Tim Ash (a good book and relatively up to date) and The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Mirakami (at the suggestion of my son Eliot, and a book underway long before Tokyo came into focus). I downloaded a Maria Callas rendition of Tosca from the early 50s, I think it is a very classic performance from Rome on BMI. Anyway, waiting for iTunes to download...
The Guardian Books Blog (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... in fortunes - all the more remarkable for the way it happened.The first edition of The Wind Up Bird Chronicle the kind of novel that would begin to alter people's reading habits. It was a yellow slab, its jacket a garish, headachey affair that even the Harvill sales rep described as "foul". Yet it captured the imagination of booksellers, myself included, up and down the country, and...
Heartcrossings (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
One of my favorite writers, Haruki Murakami (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle) talks about parallels between running the marathon and writing - specially writing a novel. Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day. How much can I push myself? How much rest is appropriate - and how much is too much? How far can I take something and still keep it decent and consistent?...
