Jack Duggan’s Reviews > The City and Its Uncertain Walls > Status Update

I don’t know if it’s an issue with the original text or the translation, but if this book establishes one more time that this child is a psychic savant, I’m chucking it at a wall

Glad to finally get a resolution to the subplot about the character I was getting more and more convinced was actually a ghost 😌

Into Part II now, and it’s finally stopped just being Hard Boiled Wonderland… again.

Now it’s just Kafka By The Shore again instead.

Young love interest wasting away from an unexplained illness: check

Vague and recursive conversation with an inscrutable non-human character: check

All I need is ‘has an affair with a married, and possibly older, woman’ and I have a full bingo

This is hitting every square of Murakami bingo