Artemisa’s Reviews > Birthday Stories: Selected and Introduced by Haruki Murakami > Status Update

I'm almost over. I reached the last story in the book. And my fears have been confirmed. This book is a compilation of sad stories, themed around birthdays.

One more short down. this one was about a guy who gets other guyhs for his wife's Bday. Is that really a thing? Is it just me that thinks it's kind of sad? I kind of get the invite other person, but not the "not going to the party"...

one more short story. only to go now. this last one also has that weird aura of sadness about it. SPOILERS NOW. this story is a way a wife that offers a whoker to her husband as a B-day present. But all the self pitty made me keep thinking is she going to kill herself? Will she leave her husband. No. it has a kind of happy ending, is just the mood...

I'm about half way throu this book. I just finished the 6th story and have now 7 stories to go. I liked most of the stories but they are a bit morbid for my taste. even the ones that dont deal with a sad theme have this aura of sadness about them...