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Harry Jones’ poisoned, Marlowe meets with Agnes about the 200 for info on Mona, Marlowe meets Canino and the mechanic and is knocked out

Marlowe resists Carmen, Harry Jones comes with information on Mona Mars

Joe Brody didn’t kill Geiger, Owen Taylor did over Carmen. Carmen goes crazy threatening Brody. Carol Lundgren kills Brody.

the “swamp”, the new house by the garden, reunion with midori, naoko’s death

Nagasawa and Hatsumi argue, Hatsumi’s suicide in the future, Toru’s letter about his memories of Kizuki. This book is heartbreaking.

“I imagined that, in death, he had shriveled up smaller than ever. And then they had burned him in an oven until he was nothing but ashes. And what had he left behind? A nothing-much bookstore in a nothing-much neighborhood and two daughters, at least one of whom was more than a little strange. What kind of life was that? I wondered.”

Reiko’s continuation of her story, Toru goes back

Piano is to Reiko as Kizuki is to Naoko

Ami Hostel

"How did you like my song?" she asked.
I answered cautiously, "It was unique and original and very expressive of your personality."
"Thanks," she said. "The theme is that I have nothing"
"Yeah, I kinda thought so."
"You know," she said, "when my mother died..."
"Yeah?"
"I didn't feel the least bit sad."
"Oh."
"And I didn't feel sad when my father left, either."
"Yeah?"

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2314...

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7940...

might DNF this series—I liked the first two books enough but I'm getting extremely sick of the grating autistic-reddit type humor. Also, the world and history are big on paper, but the way it is written, it doesn't feel like it. There are still some elements present of what made me like the first few books, but if I cringe every time the book tries to be funny, it might be time to move on.

His impassioned speech to Liza the prostitute - somewhere between manipulation and genuine longing

drunken neurotic contradictions - darkly relatable

virgin mouse of heightened intellect vs chad Zverkov

his account of his school days