1Q84 – Cannonball Read 17

I Have Seen the Nipple on Your Soul

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami

February 5, 2022 by Ellesfena 16 Comments

You know those workdays where you get a lot done in the morning, and you think to yourself, “I’ve done enough, I think I can take it easy this afternoon”? Well, consider that my attitude for the rest of 2022, as my greatest achievement of the year is behind me: I finished this damn book. I’ve wanted to read Haruki Murakami for a long time, and I was so intrigued by the premise of this book: A woman, Aomame, begins to discover subtle differences between […]

If you can’t understand it without an explanation, you can’t understand it with an explanation

August 12, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR10Bingo – White Whale White Whale! I listened to the first disk of this walking around a new town I moved to about 6 years ago and I remember this event so well that the first two or three chapters of this book were incredibly familiar to me. I stopped listening because at 38 disks ripped off of a library copy of the audiobook, there was bound to be a few errors and there were. So this time, I went ahead and just read the […]

Cannonball Buster

May 25, 2015 by staramour Leave a Comment

I have a disclaimer in my CBR7 Review #8 that most of my books are in storage. Husband bought me 1Q84 and although it is a brick, I couldn’t put it in storage since it was a gift. I figured Cannonball was great motivation to tackle this beast of a book. Then I see on Amazon you can buy it as three books. Not only is it quite beautiful, you should buy it this way to get the bang for 3 books. And as one […]

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