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The Times I've Read Haruki Murakami - coldhealing

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writing this in my cubicle but pretending i'm at the bottom of a well

When in your life you read a book shapes your perception of it. Evaluating books is about evaluating your subjective experience, and that subjective experience should be affected by where you are in your life. Murakami makes me feel that even more, because he's an author so heavily bound up in seasons, in weather, in the banal movement of his character’s lives as they spend years resolving simple emotional arcs. The first time I read Murakami was September 2018, shortly after I returned to college for my senior year. I read Kafka on the Shore in my third floor apartment that only had air…

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