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I can see I was too used to being strong, and never tried to understand those who were weak. I was too used to being fortunate, and didn't try to understand those less fortunate. Too used to being healthy, and didn't try to understand the pain of those who weren't.

Sosososo good

“Mind if I give my two cents?”
“OK”
“Any explanation or logic that explains everything has a hidden trap in it. Im speaking from experience. If it’s something a single book can explain, it’s not worth having explained”

She said okay and hung up quite abruptly. I couldn’t fall back asleep. I brewed a pot of coffee and read until dawn

This book employs an interesting chronology technique.

1. The books describes sumire at a dinner
end of chapter
2. narrator tells a story about an unrelated event that occurred to him
end of chapter
3. story is told about the guy telling that story to Sumire
4. “at dinner, i thought of your story” - sumire

it’s really subtle but easy to follow and kind of brilliant

Im warming up to this book. The writing style is more modern than the other murakami I read and the jokes seem very “American”. But the imagery is nice and the plot is interesting thus far.


“Like the sound of a velvet curtain being drawn aside on a peaceful morning to let in the sunlight to wake someone very special to you”