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I am a Computer Room library clerk in upstate NY. I like literary fiction, lots of non-fiction (lately, a lot of tech related stuff) and some manga here and there, mostly slice-of-life, but I've been deviating from that somewhat as of late

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Haruki Murakami: Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The (Paperback, 1998, Vintage)

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese …

I just like it, okay?

I'm not entirely sure what keeps drawing me back to Murakami's work. I think perhaps its how he blends mundanity with the surreal, and his unique prose (or at least, what uniqueness is able to be translated.) But even those reasons seem lacking. There's something more ineffable at play as to why I like his work, and that is to say, I just like it. Or at least, right now, I do not have the words to describe my pull towards his work, and why I loved this book especially, but maybe I can say that it's akin to Toru Okada's mysterious pull toward the well. Or really, I just need to let The Wind Up Bird Chronicle marinate my brain for a bit, reread it a few times, before I can give it a proper review.