One of my favourite books of the year. Not sure exactly what I loved about it but Toru Okada's journey to find his wife's missing cat and then his wife pulled me in. Everything about this book is supremely weird and made me want to contemplate life at the bottom of a well. (in a good way)
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Janis rated Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The: 5 stars

Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The by Haruki Murakami
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 author Haruki Murakami. The American …
Janis finished reading Wind-up Bird Chronicle, The by Haruki Murakami
Janis rated All the Light We Cannot See: 4 stars

All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and …
Janis finished reading The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
Janis rated The Lathe Of Heaven: 4 stars

The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr …
Janis finished reading Motorcycles and Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor
Janis finished reading The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Janis rated Moon of the Crusted Snow: 4 stars

Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
A daring post-apocalyptic novel from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. …
Janis finished reading A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher
This book marked the beginning of my "fall of civilization autumn" - My plan to read some key post-apocalyptic / sci-fi literature.
This book was a fun and an easy read. I enjoyed the narration of Griz and their journey through a desolate and mostly empty world brought about by an epidemic and fertility crisis. After a stranger comes to visit Griz and his family's isolated island off the Scottish coast and takes off with his dog. Here begins the adventure as Griz sets off to get the dogs back.
There are characters met along the way. The dialogue with John Dark is a bit annoying. Otherwise the book has solid world-building and, for such a bleak story, is quite uplifting and hopeful.
Twist at the end is telegraphed in the author's prologue - when you point out that there is a secret that you don't want readers to spoil …
This book marked the beginning of my "fall of civilization autumn" - My plan to read some key post-apocalyptic / sci-fi literature.
This book was a fun and an easy read. I enjoyed the narration of Griz and their journey through a desolate and mostly empty world brought about by an epidemic and fertility crisis. After a stranger comes to visit Griz and his family's isolated island off the Scottish coast and takes off with his dog. Here begins the adventure as Griz sets off to get the dogs back.
There are characters met along the way. The dialogue with John Dark is a bit annoying. Otherwise the book has solid world-building and, for such a bleak story, is quite uplifting and hopeful.
Twist at the end is telegraphed in the author's prologue - when you point out that there is a secret that you don't want readers to spoil it kind of ruins the surprise.