#murakami and Gabriel

[adhd-academia]

magical realism summer reading list!!

gonna be reading these books over the summer & i’m really excited about it so i wanted to share. message me if you’ve read any of them so i can talk to you about them!

The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Exit West by Mohsin Hamid

The Murmur of Bees by Sofia Segovia

Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin

The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune

#studyblr #grey academia #adult adhd #chaotic academia #academia aesthetic #the starless sea #erin morgenstern #the midnight library #matt haig #exit west #mohsin hamid #the murmur of bees #sofia segovia #kafka on the shore #haruki murakami #one hundred years of solitude #gabriel garcia marquez #the immortalists #chloe benjamin #the house in the cerulean sea #tj klune #magical realism

[intellectures]

Im Reich des Un(ter)bewussten

Sechs Jahre nach seinem letzten Roman legt Haruki Murakami ein dunkel leuchtendes Alterswerk vor. Pünktlich zu seinem 75. Geburtstag erscheint heute sein neuer verblüffender Roman »Die Stadt und ihre ungewisse Mauer«. Continue reading Untitled

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#Arthur Conan Doyle #Clemens J. Setz #Daniel Liévano #David Nathan #Franz Kafka #Gabriel Garcia Marquez #Hans Christian Andersen #Haruki Murakami #Jorge Luis Borges #Kat Menschik #Lee Chang-dong #Ludwig Wittgenstein #Ryusuke Hamaguchi #Trần Anh Hùng #Ursula Gräfe

[whilereadingandwalking]

As always, my favorites of the year list was beset by last minute changes, doubts, and decisions, especially because this year I forced myself into a top 10!

Second photo is my honorable mentions...I literally already have regrets! Ask me anything about these top choices—I'm happy to share my reviews, thoughts, and more!

My Top Ten of 2023:

Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki Shikibu tr. Seidensticker

Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

We Deserve Monuments by Jas Hammonds

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Ace by Angela Chen

Babel by R.F. Kuang

Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez tr. McDowell

Honorable mentions:

Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli by Karl Thomas Smith

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami tr. Gabriel

The Water Outlaws by S.L. Huang

White Cat, Black Dog: Stories by Kelly Link

The Word for World is Forest by Ursula K. Le Guin

When the Hibiscus Falls by M. Evelina Galang

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal

Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care by Tracey Lindeman

Never a City So Real by Alex Kotlowitz

The Crown Ain't Worth Much by Hanif Abdurraqib

Sons of Darkness (Jan ’24) by Gourav Mohanty

The End of August by Yū Miri tr. Giles

(Unpictured): Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

(Unpictured): The Thick and the Lean by Chana Porter

#book stack #chain gang all stars #book recs #book recommendations #great books #favorite books #2023 wrap up

[wormsdyke]

grief, and the after

haruki murakami / gabrielle calvocoressi / jayson greene / welcome to night vale / maggie smith / benjamin alire sáenz / shane koyczan / @tag-devilish

#this is vulnerable please don’t booooo tomato at me #this may be too specific idk if the threads connect for other ppl #it’s like. taking grief and making it something productive i guess #the part of grief where you just keep living anyways #grief #web weaving #webs #orating! #vault #vault heartfelt

[cutulisci]

Le dichiarazioni d’amore più belle della letteratura:

1. «Vorrei che tu venissi da me in una sera d’inverno e, stretti insieme dietro i vetri, guardando la solitudine delle strade buie e gelate, ricordassimo gli inverni delle favole, dove si visse insieme senza saperlo.»

Dino Buzzati - La boutique del mistero

2. «Non sono sicuro di averti dentro di me, né di essere dentro di te, e neppure di possederti. E in ogni caso, non è al possesso che aspiro. Credo invece che siamo entrambi dentro un altro essere, che abbiamo creato e che si chiama Noi.»

Robert James Waller - I ponti di Madison County

3. «Tu sei veramente una fiamma che scalda ma bisogna proteggere dal vento. A volte non so se un mio gesto tende a scaldarmi o a proteggerti. Allora m’immagino di fare le due cose insieme, e questa è tutta la mia e la tua tenerezza come una cosa sola.»

Cesare Pavese a Bianca Garufi

4. «E senza di te io sono lontana 

non so dire da cosa ma lontana, scomoda un poco perduta, come malata, un po’ sporco il mondo lontano da te, più nemico, che punge, che graffia, sta fuori misura.»

Mariangela Gualtieri - Il mondo che graffia, se non sei accanto a me

5. «Scese, evitando di guardarla a lungo, come si fa col sole, ma vedeva lei, come si vede il sole, anche senza guardare.»

Lev Tolstoj - Anna Karenina

6. «Ho lottato invano. Non c’è rimedio. Non sono in grado di reprimere i miei sentimenti. Lasciate che vi dica con quanto ardore io vi ammiri e vi ami.»

Jane Austen - Orgoglio e pregiudizio

7. «Se tu ti ricordi di me, allora non importa se tutto il mondo mi dimentica.»

Haruki Murakami - Kafka sulla spiaggia

8. «Saremo felici o saremo tristi, che importa? Saremo l’uno accanto all’altra. E questo deve essere, questo è l’essenziale.»

Gabriele D’Annunzio

9. «Ti amo, cara Connie, di questa parola so tutto il peso – l’orrore e la meraviglia – eppure te la dico, quasi con tranquillità. L’ho usata così poco nella mia vita, e così male, che è come nuova per me.»

Cesare Pavese a Constance Dowling

10. «Per qualche motivo che ignoro mi piaci moltissimo. Molto, niente di irragionevole, direi quel poco che basta a far si che di notte, da solo, mi svegli e non riuscendo a riaddormentarmi, inizi a sognarti.»

Franz Kafka - Lettere a Milena

11. «Sei entrata per caso in una vita di cui non andavo fiero, e da quel giorno qualcosa ha cominciato a cambiare. Prima di te, fuori di te, non aderivo a nulla. Quella forza per cui ogni tanto mi prendevi in giro è sempre stata solo una forza solitaria, una forza di rifiuto. Con te ho accettato più cose. Ho imparato a vivere, in un certo senso. Per questo forse il mio amore è sempre stato pervaso da una gratitudine immensa.»

Albert Camus a Maria Casarès

12. «Ho sceso, dandoti il braccio, almeno un milione di scale e ora che non ci sei è il vuoto ad ogni gradino.»

Eugenio Montale

- https://x.com/poesiaitalia/status/1692772938200539376?s=46&t=34dYe_n2Br4FRHOah3j69Q -

[likemmmcookies]

Rules: list 9 favorite books of 2023 or 9 books on your TBR list for 2024 (I decided to split it and do some that were my 23 favorites and some TBR)

Tagged by: @sleeplittleearth

Read in 2023:

1. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: It was hard to resist putting the entire Locked Tomb series on this list. They rewired my brain chemistry. I'm forever changed (ironically, a major theme of the series). It's become a permanent hyperfixation and I've spent months searching for other books that even come close. If you haven't read Gideon, DO IT NOW. Ugh I can't even begin to describe how incredible they are. If you're an audiobook person, PLEASE listen to it. I think I've listened to the Gideon audiobook about five times.

2. American God's by Neil Gaiman: Truly lives up the hype. Some of his lines had me walking around all day repeating the beauty of them.

3. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Evin: I half read this, half listened to the audiobook and there's a narration shift part way through that took me so totally by surprise and it made me weep for the rest of the night.

4. The Far Field by Madhuri Vijay: left me hungry - to eat, to touch, to be outside, to move. The author writes about physical sensations with breathtaking joy and insight - food, fabric, sunshine, the mundane beauty of humans. It was rich with tactile experiences. It's the authors first book and I'm really hoping she publishes more.

5. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin: my first novel by her and I will certainly be back for more.

TBR 2024:

6. Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami: He's one of my favorite authors, Norwegian Wood changed my life and reading more of his work is long overdo.

7. The Hurricane Wars by Thea Guanzon: The reylo fic that launched this book is legendary and I'm sure this book will be a blast.

8. Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman: I've started this one and I'm already in love. Gaiman's dry sense of humor at its best.

9. Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong: I've read everything else he's published and he's one of those authors that just haunts you. I'm prepared to be fucked up by it.

No pressure tags: @sunthroughtherust @ahopefulsun @pride-and-prejudice-in-space @azems-familiar @rigormorton32

#sorry this took so long #tag game #books #the locked tomb #neil gaiman #the hurricane wars #cant overstate how much the locked tomb changed everything #i read 40 books in 2023 but in my head i only read 3 #and they were the locked tomb

[a-ramblinrose]

24 Books for 2024!

Saw @agardenandlibrary's post and thought I'd play along. I'm only using books I already own otherwise I'd never be able to narrow it down.

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers

The Iliad translated by Emily Wilson

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Hunger Pangs by Joy Demorra

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke

Habibi by Craig Thompson

Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being A Witch by Gabrielle Kent & Rhianna Pratchett

The Golem and the Jinn by Helene Wecker

Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Babel by R. F. Kuang

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale

The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan

The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin

Dune by Frank Herbert

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

Guardian: Zhen Hun (Novel) Vol. 1 by Priest

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Proper English by KJ Charles

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison

And I'm also tagging anyone who feels like joining the fun!!!!

#asked and answered #tag game #books #reading #2024 reading #rose answers things #not out of void but out of chaos

[thebahwrites]

tag 9 people you want to know better

tagged by @forsty and @reiverreturns

MY BABIES but also apparently y’all REALLY wanna know about me

3 ships: current brainrot? major ones? top of the mind comes Hangster (Hangman/Rooster), Icemav (Iceman/Maverick) and of course the OTP Thilbo (Thorin/Bilbo) 

1st ever ship: HOMIES.... DO I LOOK LIKE I RE-- Tamaki & Kyoya & Haruhi from OHSHC (yeah we started with an Ot3 right out the gate)  but also this is the one I REMEMBER, I’m sure there were earlier ones, I vaguely remember wanting Frodo & Sam to kiss when I was like... 7 and reading LotR

last song: boys in the street by calum scott

last movie: klaus from netflix (I’m the Grinch and I hate Christmastime and Nate was trying to sell me on the idea.)

currently reading: cien años de soledad (one hundred years of solitude) by gabriel garcia marquez, the silmarillion by JRR Tolkien, Maus by art spiegelman, sputnik sweetheart by haruki murakami and voices from chernobyl by svetlana alexievich AND YES I’M READING ALL OF THESE AT THE SAME TIME. (a couple are re-reads but still reading atm!)

currently watching: peaky blinders, brooklyn 99 (rewatching) and chernobyl from hbo

currently consuming: ...coffee

currently craving: ready to commit a war crime of the likes Geneva would come massively after me for chips ahoy, you guys don’t understand, I can’t get those in Brazil, last I’ve had those was years ago and I think I’ll just die without 

@callmemana @auprintempss @nervouswreckss @minhkhoa-khan @minion-on-board

NO PRESSURE but here’s a fun littol game <3

#little games #bah rambles #tag game

[zillua]

2023 readings: this is a ranking of books i read in this 1st semester of 2023.

details:

what i consider for my personal rating: story + writing + reading experience with a 0 to 5 stars standard;

reading experience is a main point for me to rate a book btw;

im not including on the list: uni readings, books i gave up on half way through or books i reread;

also not including mangas/graphic novels (i read too little this year so far its not worth mentioning);

im linking all the books to their storygraph pages;

books with a non english title means there's no official eng translation :/ ;

im always uncomfortable rating non-fiction books... so my rating in those cases considers only my personal reading experience.

books with a little heart means it became favorites!

ponciá vicêncio by conceição evaristo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💗

a hunger artist and other stories by franz kafka ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐💗

frankenstein by mary shelley ⭐⭐⭐⭐½💗

time is a mother by ocean vuong ⭐⭐⭐⭐½

sula by toni morrison ⭐⭐⭐⭐

pageboy by elliot page ⭐⭐⭐⭐

in the dream house by carmen maria machado ⭐⭐⭐⭐

carmilla by j. sheridan le fanu ⭐⭐⭐⭐

violeta by isabel allende ⭐⭐⭐⭐

o livro das semelhanças by ana martins marques ⭐⭐⭐⭐

white nights by fyodor dostoevsky ⭐⭐⭐⭐

feminism is for everybody by bell hooks ⭐⭐⭐⭐

everyone in this room will someday be dead by emily austin ⭐⭐⭐½

a natureza da mordida by carla madeira ⭐⭐⭐½

tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow by gabrielle zevin ⭐⭐⭐½

jiehuo by wuzhe ⭐⭐⭐½

strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde by robert louis stevenson ⭐⭐⭐

before the coffee gets cold by toshikazu kawaguchi ⭐⭐⭐

family ties by clarice lispector ⭐⭐⭐

matilda by roald dahl ⭐⭐⭐

almond by sohn wonpyung ⭐⭐½

south of the border, west of the sun by haruki murakami ⭐⭐½

the strange library by haruki murakami ⭐⭐½

after dark by haruki murakami ⭐⭐

(2023 goal: 24/50)

#i love lists and rankings! #long post

[cheerfullycatholic]

Part of the 85% of Men that Initiate the Thought of Abortion

Steven Alabama, United States

Giving God all the glory, honor and praise to Him for forgiving and restoring my life through Him dying on the cross for my sins. 2 Cor 5:17-18 "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation: old things have passed away; and behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and has given us the ministry of reconciliation!"

I grew up in the Christian Church in San Gabriel right outside East Los Angeles, but in Junior High/ High School it wasn't cool to be a Christian and I backslid into the world of popularity, drug use, and gang life. By the age of 17, I had dropped out of high school, was in and out of Juvenile Hall, and buying and selling drugs for the benefit of the gang. 

I began seeing a girl I went to high school with and immediately we were engaging in sex outside of marriage and using drugs constantly together. I truly was not trying to be in a relationship with her, I was sadly just having fun and not looking for any commitment. Soon enough, we discovered this lifestyle comes with consequences and we became pregnant because of the way we were living in sin.

Immediately, I wanted out of this problem that I thought could be easily fixed through a simple abortion. I became part of the 85% of men that initiate the thought of abortion in a mother's mind. I blamed her father who is a fire captain using his own words, saying if she ever got pregnant she would be cut off, etc. I convinced her this was our only option as we were barely 18 and unable to be parents. We went to Planned Parenthood Pasadena where we had received faulty contraceptives so they could help us abort our child, thinking it wasn't a big deal if we took care of it in the first trimester. I thought it was her body her choice, and it really didn't have anything to do with me.

I truly don't remember the month of the year this happened because of the amount of drugs I was using, but shortly after this our relationship ended, the drugs stopped getting me high, and all of my "gang friends" became enemies. The Lord was drawing me back to Himself. I rededicated my life to Christ and he was faithful and just to forgive me! 

I met my wife at church and we were married at the age of 22. We now have 3 precious girls. 

God opened the door for me to be involved in pro-life ministry at our church after meeting and sharing with Norma Murakami, who helped me into a post-abortive healing Bible Study. 

Now almost 15 years later God has opened the door for me to be a full-time missionary for the unborn. We lead teams to pray peacefully at local abortion centers and share the hope of Jesus Christ and local resources for women in crisis pregnancies. We've seen over 120 babies saved from the hands of abortion in Southern California just this year. God allows me to use this testimony in speaking to many others in the same situation of going to Planned Parenthood to kill their child. God truly redeems all things and this is why I will be silent no more!

Find more testimonies at Silent No More

#silent no more #abortion #anti abortion #abortion story #pro life

[embossross]

2023 in books: fiction edition

literary fiction published 2013-2023 (based on English translation)

The Employees by Olga Ravn (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Detransition Baby by Torrey Peters (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

There’s No Such Thing As an Easy Job by Kikuko Tsumura (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Human Acts by Han Kang (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Bunny by Mona Awad (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Frankissstein by Jeanette Winterson (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

All Your Children Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Mister N by Najwa Barakat (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Brickmakers by Selva Almada (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

True Biz by Sara Nović (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Abyss by Pilar Quintana (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Spring Garden by Tomoka Shibasaki (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Rombo by Esther Kinsky (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Concerning My Daughter by Kim Hye-Jin (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The House of Rust by Khadija Abdalla Bajaber (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Men without Women by Haruki Murakami (⭐⭐⭐)

The Sky Above the Roof by Natacha Appanah (⭐⭐⭐)

Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa (⭐⭐⭐)

Luster by Raven Leilani (⭐⭐⭐)

Solo Dance by Li Kotomi (⭐⭐⭐)

Untold Night and Day by Bae Suah (⭐⭐⭐)

The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste (⭐⭐⭐)

The Deep by Rivers Solomon (⭐⭐⭐)

Afterlives by Abdurazak Gurnah (⭐⭐⭐)

Wreck the Halls by Tessa Bailey

Indelicacy by Amina Cain (⭐⭐⭐)

Out of Love by Hazel Hayes (⭐⭐⭐)

Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi (⭐⭐⭐)

The Reactive by Masande Ntshanga (⭐⭐⭐)

The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila (⭐⭐)

The Glutton by A.K. Blakemore (⭐⭐)

Homebodies by Tembe Denton-Hurst (⭐⭐)

Nervous System by Lina Meruane (⭐⭐)

Owlish by Dorothy Tse (⭐⭐)

The President and the Frog by Carolina de Robertis (⭐⭐)

The Magic of Discovery by Britt Andrews (⭐)

literary fiction published 1971-2012

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Vampire Lestat by Anne Rice (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Corregidora by Gayl Jones (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Open City by Teju Cole (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Lover by Marguerite Duras (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Mild Vertigo by Mieko Kanai (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Abandon by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Toddler Hunting and Other Stories by Taeko Kōno (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeiro (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Perestroika by Tony Kushner *a play (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Three Strong Women by Marie NDiaye (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Kingdom Cons by Yuri Herrera (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

A Mountain to the North, A Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Queen Pokou by Véronique Tadjo (⭐⭐⭐)

The Private Lives of Trees by Alejandro Zambra (⭐⭐⭐)

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐)

Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (⭐⭐⭐)

Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid (⭐⭐⭐)

Bluebeard’s First Wife by Ha Seong-nan (⭐⭐⭐)

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo (⭐⭐⭐)

Glaciers by Alexis M. Smith (⭐⭐⭐)

Curtain by Agatha Christie (⭐⭐⭐)

The Iliac Crest by Cristina Rivera Garza (⭐⭐⭐)

My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk (⭐⭐⭐)

The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (⭐⭐⭐)

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel (⭐⭐⭐)

Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (⭐⭐)

Coraline by Neil Gaiman (⭐⭐)

The End of the Moment We Had by Toshiki Okada (⭐⭐)

The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty (⭐)

literary fiction published start of time-1970

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁 The Stranger by Albert Camus (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

🔁 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Empty Wardrobes by Maria Judite de Carvalho (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Stoner by John Williams (⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Chandelier by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

An Apprenticeship, or the Book of Pleasures by Clarice Lispector (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

The Woman in the Dunes by Kōbō Abe (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Aura by Carlos Fuentes (⭐⭐⭐⭐)

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (⭐⭐⭐)

All Passion Spent by Vita Sackville-West (⭐⭐⭐)

The Hole by José Revueltas (⭐⭐⭐)

Baron Bagge by Alexander Lernet-Holenia (⭐⭐⭐)

Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu (⭐⭐)

Barabbas by Pär Lagerkvist (⭐)

[beljar]

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

Haruki Murakami, from Kafka on the Shore, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel

#haruki murakami #kafka on the shore #fear #japanese literature #quotes #literary text #dark acadamia aesthetic #translated literature

[whilereadingandwalking]

Sometimes it helps, when a little burnt out on an author, to cast back to different formats or earlier works. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, translated by Philip Gabriel, resparked my love for Haruki Murakami's writing. A great essay collection about inspiration, finding a second gear, and introspection, this is a semi-memoir by Murakami as to why he loves to run, or has to run, and what he finds meditative about it.

You don't need to like running to like this collection. I hate running, in fact, but recognized from other sports I've done, particularly crew, the states of exhaustion, semi-delusion, and more that Murakami describes in this book. And it's a semi-memoir as well—Murakami writes of aging, of how he first came to begin writing.

This was particularly why I chose it as one of my books to read in Japan. I saw a Yakult Swallows game at Meiji Jingu Stadium while in Tokyo. That's the place where, at age 30, Murakami was watching a baseball game and suddenly thought that he could write a novel, and from that one moment, a literary giant was born. I always found this inspiring because it defeats entirely the delusion of the successful writer as lifelong novelist who gets published in their early 20s and becomes an instant success—one of the global bestsellers of our time first decided to write at age 30 watching a baseball game.

#haruki murakami #books in translation #memoir #bookstagram #nonfiction books #my book reviews #reading while wandering japan

[solarisgod]

MEGA ECLIPSESTUCK WORDWEAVE IN SUN ⅋ STARS ⅋ MOON I love you , I love you , I love you — Even when these words were meant to be empty , made with blood ⅋ gore by a monster , how Micah can still see meanings in them like they are their stars ⅋ flowers to name . ( I see the rising moon from sea horizon , I see the red marks across tender skin , I see fire , I see you , ⅋ I love you — ) * Happy Valentine's Day to me with my sun , @lunarisdog . ☼ ♡ ☾

I. THE SUN / FROM MICAH'S POINT OF VIEW TO XYR MOON

Tumblr user ruhlare / O What Is Setting Sun's Radiance To Me, Alexander Blok / Turning Twenty Three, Anne Michaels / Canticle, May Sarton / Song of Songs, Sylvie Baumgartel / Pink, Sylvie Baumgartel / Tumblr user inkskinned / The Love of the Wolf, Hélène Cixous / Rainer Maria Rilke / Antineon Hieraeon, C.C. / Tumblr user rbhvleo / A Brief Attachment, Cate Marvin / Corpse Song, Margaret Atwood / We Will Be Together, Darling, together, Anna Akhmatova / Letters to Véra, Vladimir Nabokov

II. THE ECLIPSE / WITH MICAH ⅋ WARLOCK TO EACH OTHER

Heaven and Earth, Lord Byron / No One Has Taken Anything Away, Marina Tsvetaeva / Anno Domini MCMXXI, Anna Akhmatova / Songs from an Island, Ingeborg Bachmann / Descending Figure, Louise Glück Epithalamium / Circe, Gabriel Zaid / Scheherazade, Richard Siken / Sanober Khan / Tumblr user spacesweepers / Explodingly Yours, Chen Chen / Antineon Hieraeon, C.C. / Changing, Liv Ullman / 3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta / Confessional, Sue Zhao / South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami / Saying Your Names, Richard Siken / The New Physicality of Long Distance Love, June Jordan / Antineon Hieraeon, C.C. / 100 Love Sonnets, Pablo Neruda / If We Were Vllains, M.L. Rio / Sonnet of the Garland of Roses, Federico Garcia Lorca / Tumblr user vilicity

III. THE MOON / FROM WARLOCK'S POINT OF VIEW TO ITS SUN

Yes and No, Natalie Wee / Sacramental Acts: The Love Poems, "She Is Away", Kenneth Rexroth / Giovanni’s Room, James Bldwin / The Cowherd's Son, Rajiv Mohabir / Autobiography of a Wound, Brynne Rebele-Henry / The Cow, Ariana Reines / Cape Verdean Blues, Shauna Barbosa / The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton / After All This, Richard Jackson / Tumblr user ruhlare / Tumblr user stellar-official / Intifada Incantation: Poem #8 for b.b.L., June Jordan / Antineon Hieraeon, C.C. / Tumblr user ojibwa / The Encounter, Louise Glück

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[bookquest2024]

100 Books to Read Before I Die: Quest Order

The Lord Of The Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford

Under The Net by Iris Murdoch

American Pastoral by Philip Roth

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Crime And Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

A Passage to India by EM Forster

Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

1984 by George Orwell

White Noise by Don DeLillo

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Oscar And Lucinda by Peter Carey

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carré

Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Ulysses by James Joyce

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Are You There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Herzog by Saul Bellow

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes

A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul

A Dance to The Music of Time by Anthony Powell

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

I, Claudius by Robert Graves

Nostromo by Joseph Conrad

The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White

Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Little Women by Louisa M Alcott

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Watchmen by Alan Moore

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

On the Road by Jack Kerouac

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

The Trial by Franz Kafka

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Money by Martin Amis

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

#quest #book list

[abduwritings]

قول للزمان ارجع يا زمان

الوقت هو اطول مسافة بين نقطتين*، فكر في اطول المسافات، رحلة الاثني عشر ساعة من القاهرة إلى نيويورك مثلاً، تلك المسافة التي قطعها ليستعيد ابتسامتها الى ذاكرته، استعاد الابتسامة، وعاد بجرح جديد.

كان صغيراً لكي يعرف ان ذاكرة القلب تجلو السيئ وتبقي الجميل، لكي نحتمل نحن البشر معاناة التعايش مع الماضي* ونمضي في معاناة سيزيف حتى النهاية، او حتى ننسى كيف كانت البدايات.

كانت تلك المرة التي قال لها فيها: احياناً عندما أنظر إليك أشعر انني انظر إلى نجم بعيد، ضوء قادم من الاف السنين، ربما حتى لم يعد النجم موجوداً على الإطلاق ورغم ذلك يبدو الضوء حقيقياً أكثر من اي شيئ بالنسبة لي.*

كان كل شيئ في رأسه، الحنين والحميمية واللحظات الجميلة التي لا تنسى، قال ذلك كله في رسالته الأخيرة التي أرسلها إليها مع صورته الجديدة مع اولاده: الصيف جميل ورائع في ايطاليا، اتمنى ان تكون نيويورك ارق هذا العام عندما تدوسين على طرقاتها.

قد تتخيل انه قال اشياء عن الاشتياق او غير ذلك، لكنه بالطبع لم يفعل. كان يدرك تماماً ان النجم قد انتهى عمره، وان الضوء ليس سوى ضوء ضال طال طريقه في السفر.

كحلم عودة المهاجر بعد عشرات السنين للوطن، لا هو أدرك الفرصة ليبني وطناً جديداً، ولا بقي نجم الوطن على قيد الحياة.

Tennessee Williams ↩︎

Gabriel García Márquez ↩︎

Haruki Murakami ↩︎

#ترجمتي #حجات #اي كلام