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rubypomegranates · 6 months ago
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"I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning."
Haruki Murakami "1Q84"
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wearethekat · 3 months ago
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we did his IQ84 for book club last year and this was also my impression. no matter who the narrator was, the first and primary thing mentioned about a woman would be her breasts, whether the character being described was a twelve year old child or an old woman of seventy. I'm not much for psychoanalyzing authors based on their books, but this was deeply off-putting. Enough to make me swear off reading any more Murakami in the future.
The problem with Murakami is that I can't tell if the protagonist/narrator is supposed to be
a) a rapey creep,
b) a scrupulous, repressed wretch who is baselessly worried about being a rapey creep,
c) a normal man! This is just how normal men think!
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lucidloving · 1 year ago
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Han Kang, Human Acts (trans. Deborah Smith) // Virginia Woolf, diary entry c. 1931 // Olga Bergholz, "Conversation With a Neighbour" // 墨香铜臭, Heaven Official's Blessing // Koyoharu Gotouge, Demon Slayer (edited by @tanchirou) // Haruki Murakami, IQ84 // Natalie Wee, "Never Been Kissed" // Euripides, Grief Lessons: Four Plays (trans. Anne Carson) // a.j., "weight"
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lisaalmeida · 4 days ago
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Les choses qui restent enfermées dans notre cœur n'existent pas en ce monde. Mais c'est dans notre cœur, ce monde à part, qu'elles se construisent pour y vivre.
- Haruki Murakami, IQ84
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credits-roll · 6 months ago
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Before human beings possessed fire or tools or language, the moon had been their ally. It would calm people’s fears now and then by illuminating the dark world like a heavenly lantern. Its waxing and waning gave people an understanding of the concept of time. Even now, when darkness had been banished from most parts of the world, there remained a sense of human gratitude toward the moon and its unconditional compassion. It was imprinted upon human genes like a warm collective memory.
IQ84, Haruki Murakami
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emziess · 7 months ago
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tag game!
I was tagged by @raiderlucy and had a spare moment so rather than thinking i'll do it later and inevitably forgetting i'm doing it now
Last song I listened to: Klonopin - Caleb Hearn
Currently Watching: Nothing really - I finished the bear season3 and haven't had time to watch anything else.
Sweet/savoury/spicy: sweet
Relationship status: married (been married almost a year)
Current obsession: honestly a trifecta of Percy Jackson, Alex Rider and Slow Horses, with a little sprinkle of young royals
Favorite Colour: i really enjoy yellow
Last Movie: The Paris Shark movie, the name of which I cannot remember
Currently Reading: IQ84 - Murakami. I've only just started it.
Last Googled: I googled a hair dressers last - so not super interesting
Currently Working On: rn tumblr wise nothing - I'm at a wedding, but I have a fic on the go on AO3
Tagging just a couple of folk, @wilmon @nikossasaki @nick-nellson @emblazons and tbh, anyone else who wants to do it. Don't feel like you have to.
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thekidyouforgot · 1 year ago
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If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person.
Haruki Murakami, IQ84
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noratilney · 1 year ago
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OC NEW YEARS CHALLENGE: day #1: what a tangled web we weave
Maia Smith + achievement
the red shoes (1948) / bunheads - sophie flack / just - radiohead / alexis carrel / arthur o'shaughnessy / guren no yumiya - amalee / sylvia plath / the book of disquiet - fernando pessoa / IQ84 - haruki murakami / pinterest / conversation with a neighbour - olga bergholz / pinterest / hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have – but i have it - lana del rey / letters to a young poet - rainer maria rilke / albert schweitzer / bluebell135 on deviantart / friedrich nietzsche / unknown / love letters or suicide notes - doc luben / / the basil and josephine stories - f. scott fitzgerald / unknown / everything changed when i forgave myself - charlotte erikson / someday i'll love ocean vuong - ocean vuong / east of eden - john steinbeck / william jennings bryan / dance academy / look at me now - iyaz
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toruandmidori · 1 year ago
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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.” 
- Haruki Murakami
Shop our collection of stickers inspired by the wonderful book art of Haruki Murakami.
Great Christmas gifts for bookworms this holiday season.
Check out all our bookish stickers here, individual links below:
NORWEGIAN WOOD
IQ84
KAFKA ON THE SHORE
BLIND WILLOW SLEEPING WOMAN
SPUTNIK SWEETHEART
WIND UP BIRD CHRONICLE
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thepoeticgallery · 8 months ago
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"But we cannot
simply sit and stare
at our wounds
Forever "
- Haruki Murakami
IQ84
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portlandwithyou · 2 years ago
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Help Me Choose My Next Book
More information about each choice under the read more
Stonewall- Martin Duberman (Nonfiction, 349pgs): A history of the Stonewall riots. I bought this book in like... summer 2021? I keep meaning to read it, but also I am very worried about geting emotional while reading it. I love queer history but it makes me weep.
Anthology of Emo, Vol 2 - Edited by Tom Mullen (Nonfiction, 361): A collection of interviews from the Washed Up Emo podcast. Includes interviews with some of the guys from Jimmy Eat World, Saves the Day, Braid, Piebald, etc. Of note, I don't think I've listened to any of the episodes that are transcribed here. I got this as a birthday gift in 2021 from my partner. Only haven't read it because the book is a weird shape. Tempted to read this one since I see Braid in a couple of weeks.
The Order of Time- Carlo Rovelli (Nonfiction, 212): This was an impulse purchase in the fall of 2022. It's a pop science book about time. Not entirely sure why I bought it, but I think I might have just read a different pop sci book about physics and I wanted to recapture that vibe.
Where it All Went Wrong- Dan Ozzi (Nonfiction Zine, 84): I bought this in April of this year. It's a zine from one of my favorite music writers right now discussing the albums that shaped him. His full length Sellout is one of the best books I've read in the last couple of years. If picked, I could read it all in one sitting.
Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher- Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz (Nonfiction, 400): This was a birthday gift from my dad in I think 2020. The only thing that's prevented me from reading this in the past is that it's a thick hardback that looks like it might be pretty dense.
Underground- Haruki Murakami (Nonfiction, 364): This is my most recent purchase from May of this year. It's one of Murakami's non-fiction books. I bought it for a number of reasons- I'm interested in the Tokyo Gas Attack, I like the writing of Murakami, and I wanted to read some of Murakami's nonfiction. I'm particularly interested in this book but worried about reading it first since its my newest purchase.
IQ840 Haruki Murakami (Fiction, 928): I always forget I own this book since I have the digital copy. I quite like digital reading so that isn't a problem, but you know what they say. Out of sight, out of mind. I've read about the first 150 or so pages of the book and I really enjoyed it. I don't know why I stopped, but I put it down a couple of years ago and never picked it back up. I know Murakami has his fair share of critics, and I can't argue with anything they say, but I like his stuff and I've read a few of his books. Fiction isn't really my normal wheelhouse, but I make a big exception for him.
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cluedoenthusiast · 1 year ago
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tagged by @carrieway
last song i listened to: My friend was showing me Frank Iero and The Future Violents - Young and Doomed yesterday
currently watching: Halfway through multiple shows, but I’ve gotten back to watching films on a daily basis.
currently reading: Iq84, The Curious Incident of The Dog in The Nighttime, and The Origin of Things by Lipe Julius E.
current obsession: TLSP and the monkeys
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coffeebeansandlatenights · 2 years ago
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“Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.”
— Haruki Murukami, IQ84
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lisaalmeida · 1 year ago
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Les choses qui restent enfermées dans notre cœur n'existent pas en ce monde. Mais c'est dans notre cœur, ce monde à part, qu'elles se construisent pour y vivre.
- Haruki Murakami, IQ84
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fils-de-terre · 7 days ago
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NEITHAN KALLIS.
Prior Information: Goes by Neith, but I'm open to any name you prefer. I cherish the joy of receiving new nicknames. Legal. Unlabeled. I'm an air-signed Slytherin (yes, Aquarius,) and an INFP with a fair portion of F. Both a night owl and an early bird. I'm the kind of person who enjoys both deep talks and casual chats. Replies in 5 seconds or 5 days. Merely for cyber and write purposes.
Things I'm Interested In: I've always been admiring Arts. Writing and paintings; poems and poetical things. Flowers. Any genre of music, movie, and books. Astrology. Dead dove. Rom-com. Any kind of fics. Sapphic contents. Greek Myth. Metaphors.
Media(s) I consumed:
Movies: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Dead Poets Society, Harry Potter, The Maze Runner, Hunger Games, Before Trilogy (Sunrise, Sunsets, Midnight), About Time, The Notebook, The Proposal, Black Swan, Titanic, The Substance, World War Z, Jumanji, Jurassic World, Parasite, The Handmaiden, K-dramas, C-dramas.
Books: Pride and Prejudice, Kafka on The Shore, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, IQ84, Almond, If We Were Villains, Vicious, Vengeful, It Ends With Us, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Twilight Saga, Midnight Sun, Me Before You, Noir, Cantik Itu Luka, Laut Bercerita, The Midnight Library.
Music: I keen to listen to any genre of music such as POP, K-POP, EDM, Alternative Rock, Soft Rock, Indie, etc. Here's some of my Favorites; BOYNEXTDOOR, Chase Atlantic, Niki, Taylor Swift, Reality Club, One Directions, 5 Seconds of Summer, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, The Weeknd, The 1975, Why don't We, Ariana Grande, LAUV, LANY, Gracie Abrams, Chapell Roans, Clairo, Laufey, WOODZ, Hivi!, wave to earth, keshi, etc.
Do Not Follow, if: You hate my faves, you're a homophobic, religion-phobic, zionist, tone deaf, 02 supporters, likes to spread hate and stick your nose in unnecessary drama.
Any other than that, I'm sure I'm friendly enough to be friend with you all. However, you should be able to sift through the good and the bad things about what's on my account. Innumerably thank you I shall slip into your pocket for paying attention till the end of this paragraph!
With love, Neith.
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tammibloo · 9 months ago
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Tagged by @humanwillbe 👋
Rules: answer the questions and tag some people you want to know better.
Last song I listened to:
"Bunny is a Rider" by Caroline Polachek
Currently reading:
IQ84 by Haruki Murakami
Currently watching:
Fantasy High
Currently obsessed with:
Unfortunately, I am much too burnt out right now to keep a strong interest in anything. But the closest things would maybe be Persona 3 Reload and podcasts and shows where people recount their own harrowing ordeals (Radio Rental, BBC Radio 4's Uncanny, and Files of the Unexplained on Netflix)
I tag @thebigbiwolf @kristina100000 @terrateq @kumerish @justabreath
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