This is my first “It’s Monday, What Are You Reading?” meme (a cool meme from Book Journey).
So, what am I reading this week (and the week after, and the week after, and the week after, ad infinitum…)?
Ichi Kyu Hachi Yon
Haruki Murakami’s gargantuan novel, 1Q84.
Even with my paperback edition, this novel is over 1,100 pages long. 1Q84 might well be the last major novel I’ll get to finish this year, if I’m lucky.
This is going to be my first Haruki Murakami book, and I’ve heard mixed reviews about it. Someone told me that 1Q84 is not really representative of Haruki Murakami as a writer – I don’t really know if that’s a good thing.
Good luck to me and if you don’t see another “review” post from me until 2013, you know why…
**Addendum**
I’ve heard of Haruki Murakami for a while now, but only yesterday learned that he was Japanese….
No, his name didn’t give him away.
Seriously, though. Obviously, I knew he was Japanese, but, only yesterday, after reading a little about his life, did I realize that he was a Japanese writer, living in Japan whose works, originally in Japanese, were translated to English (I never noticed the “translated by” in books).
I honestly thought he was like Kazuo Ishiguro, who, though born in Japan, grew up and live in England (and wrote in English).
Excuse me while I go crawl and hide in a deep, dark hole…..
The Misanthropologist 
I hope you are enjoying the book! This is one I would like to some day give a try 🙂
Thanks! I’m only on page 34 right now, but so far so good….I only hope I can keep at it til the end.
Good luck with this one! I just finished Dragonfly in Amber (over 900 pages in paperback). Not sure what I’m going to read next, but definitely something shorter. 🙂
Thanks! I was thinking that after Dune, I should read something shorter, but I seem to be a sucker for chunksters lol.
I borrowed The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle from Doc Ranee. That’s going to be my first Murakami, but I don’t know when to start reading it yet, haha.
So how’s the progress with 1Q84? 😀
I’m currently on page 81 of 1,155 hahaha. I thought I would be able to read more during the loooong weekend, but I was wrong.
It’s a bit slow and boring….but interesting enough for me to keep reading to find out what’s going to happen.
You know what? We never get to read anything during long weekends because there are so many things going on and we always assume that we have time. Hay. Hahaha! 😀
So true 😦 My reading plan for this weekend is a complete failure! hehehe
Same here. I was hoping to finish Anna Karenina. Looks like I’ll only be finishing the first half, hahaha!
Just enjoy the long weekend 🙂