Tuesday, December 15, 2009

What I've been reading



Latest Read
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (book cover from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville Library site)
 The first book of one of my favorite modern and still living writers. I picked up a copy of this while I was in Amsterdam's airport while on my way home to the US.
 Stylistically it seems very similar to the other books he has written in the sense that it is about the protagonist trying to find their identity. The major difference is that there isn't an alternate reality portrayed such as with Kafka on the Shore, The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, or my introduction to his work- The Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. It was a relatively quick read. I think I finished it in about 4 or 5 hours while on the plane and in the airport.