Murakami I Like
Mar. 17th, 2009 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blacklillyThere are more men on my balcony this morning. Fortunately, it looks like they're here to take down the scaffolding which has surrounded my building for the past six weeks or so. I wish they'd clear off though. I want to open my curtains.
Well, having finished Season 2 of Supernatural I'm now at a complete loss for what to do with myself. The plan to get the 3 season boxset was cruelly withheld by a quite shockingly expensive trip to the see the doctor. I can only be thankful that there's a small reprieve from bellydance payments this month. I didn't have to break into the emergency fund yet.
On other subjects, coz all I ever do is moan about money, I've been reading Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore". So far it has to be my favourite of his books. Firstly, the two main characters are actually highly sympathetic (and one of them can even talk to cats, which goes a long way towards endearing me to him), and so far no one's wife has left him... unless you count Kafka's mother disappearing when he was kid, which is effectively the same thing. Kafka reminds me a lot of Eiji Miyake in "number9dream" - probably because they're both on quests of a kind, one to find his father, the other to get away from him. I haven't combined this book with too much alcohol yet, so I haven't been able to test the "alocohol and Murakami don't mix" theory. Projected finishing time is Thursday, which ties in quite nicely with a trip to the Landmark Tower where I can pick up some more books.
I suppose I should get dressed and go to work. i wonder what levels of senility I will be dealing with today - it varies from week to week. Sometimes we don't know what the day is, sometimes we can remember everything from a lesson taught 6 months ago. I hope the sunshine is warming up those braincells right now.
Well, having finished Season 2 of Supernatural I'm now at a complete loss for what to do with myself. The plan to get the 3 season boxset was cruelly withheld by a quite shockingly expensive trip to the see the doctor. I can only be thankful that there's a small reprieve from bellydance payments this month. I didn't have to break into the emergency fund yet.
On other subjects, coz all I ever do is moan about money, I've been reading Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore". So far it has to be my favourite of his books. Firstly, the two main characters are actually highly sympathetic (and one of them can even talk to cats, which goes a long way towards endearing me to him), and so far no one's wife has left him... unless you count Kafka's mother disappearing when he was kid, which is effectively the same thing. Kafka reminds me a lot of Eiji Miyake in "number9dream" - probably because they're both on quests of a kind, one to find his father, the other to get away from him. I haven't combined this book with too much alcohol yet, so I haven't been able to test the "alocohol and Murakami don't mix" theory. Projected finishing time is Thursday, which ties in quite nicely with a trip to the Landmark Tower where I can pick up some more books.
I suppose I should get dressed and go to work. i wonder what levels of senility I will be dealing with today - it varies from week to week. Sometimes we don't know what the day is, sometimes we can remember everything from a lesson taught 6 months ago. I hope the sunshine is warming up those braincells right now.
Murakami's Norweigen Woods
on 2009-03-18 05:32 pm (UTC)We are doing well, we're off to the States on Sunday, so things are pretty busy.
I also have Kafka on the Shore but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.
Lol
Jo Jevons
xxx
Re: Murakami's Norweigen Woods
on 2009-03-29 01:56 am (UTC)What are you doing in the States? Holiday?