>"𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬?" 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙤 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧. "𝘼𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙙. 𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙪𝙥, 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙃𝙖𝙧𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙪𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝘾𝙖𝙩, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘾𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙧𝙨—𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙞𝙨𝙩." 

On my 3rd round with this UNDISPUTED MASTERPIECE! What more can I say..it's in my top 10 for a reason. Mariye is one of my favorite Murakami characters that I wish got more airtime. I find it perplexing she didn't show up until halfway through this 700+ pager😮‍💨 Also what book do you think Shoko was reading? My guess is something by Dostoevsky. Or maybe "Anna Karenina", like the woman from "Sleep" was reading🤔

>"𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙞𝙩. 𝙎𝙝𝙚'𝙙 𝙖𝙡𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙡𝙚𝙛𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄, 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚, 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙢𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙏𝙤𝙠𝙮𝙤."


I'm in the mood for one of Murakami's longer novels 😌「Revisiting Peak Fiction」