I am writing after a long time I had been reading books and I am going to write about some of the books I read in my upcoming blogs, and if not books I will write about movies, food or anything that adds to contentment. I would call them the 'Simple Pleasure' series. You can find more of it on my facebook page (link added at the end of the blog). Please don't go too deep into my grammar, punctuation and style of writing, because this is just happy writing :)
The recent book that I completed reading was Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Murakami was nominated for noble prize this year. I like the way he writes, I love his philosophy. He describes the characters and the conversation between them in such a beautiful way that it touches the right cords of your heart and you get to know the answers of most of the questions that pop up in your mind in your day to day life. You can relate to the confusion of the characters in his books, their miseries, their moments of happiness and their moments of pain. The stories are based in Japan a place miles away from my country, the life style is different, the food described is different even the music that Murakami describes in his books is not that known to me but I wonder how the characters and the story which he has woven around them are so easy for me to relate. They suffer from the same dilemma, the same constant worries and the same challenges that life throws at us every day.
Well this is the second book of Murakami that I read, the first one was South of the Border, West of the Sun another very intriguing story. Murakami did leave a deep impact only with few pages of that Novella so I decided to go for a bigger and thicker novel, and I am glad to say that am not disappointed. Rather the book Norwegian Wood was very soulful. It's about a college guy called Toru who has a past and a girl associated to his past, her name is Reiko. When Reiko comes back to his life he can't let her go any more but she is not in a position to accept him because of the past they both share. It's a story of one year where Reiko comes and goes out of Toru's life and how Toru is desperate to follow her with all his hope. Reiko's world is dark and tormented and only hurts Toru unless one fine day he realizes that he has to move on, that a bright life awaits him and beckons him where healthy and happy people live, people who truly care about him. Toru then makes a pledge that he will forget the past as the dead remain dead forever and life must go on for the rest. Murakami writes it in the most appreciable way.
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
What I could conclude that you can not run away from death or people who are dead may haunt you in your dreams but it's all about living before you die. Toru's acceptance of his world and his gill to embrace life after all that had happened gives you hope while you close the last pages of the book. You can't say that the book had a happy ending, because it didn't but in a way it helps you believe in life because Toru, the protagonist chooses to live to his fullest even after all what he had undergone and that decision itself was a silver lining because it was the acceptance of life.
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The recent book that I completed reading was Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami. Murakami was nominated for noble prize this year. I like the way he writes, I love his philosophy. He describes the characters and the conversation between them in such a beautiful way that it touches the right cords of your heart and you get to know the answers of most of the questions that pop up in your mind in your day to day life. You can relate to the confusion of the characters in his books, their miseries, their moments of happiness and their moments of pain. The stories are based in Japan a place miles away from my country, the life style is different, the food described is different even the music that Murakami describes in his books is not that known to me but I wonder how the characters and the story which he has woven around them are so easy for me to relate. They suffer from the same dilemma, the same constant worries and the same challenges that life throws at us every day.
Well this is the second book of Murakami that I read, the first one was South of the Border, West of the Sun another very intriguing story. Murakami did leave a deep impact only with few pages of that Novella so I decided to go for a bigger and thicker novel, and I am glad to say that am not disappointed. Rather the book Norwegian Wood was very soulful. It's about a college guy called Toru who has a past and a girl associated to his past, her name is Reiko. When Reiko comes back to his life he can't let her go any more but she is not in a position to accept him because of the past they both share. It's a story of one year where Reiko comes and goes out of Toru's life and how Toru is desperate to follow her with all his hope. Reiko's world is dark and tormented and only hurts Toru unless one fine day he realizes that he has to move on, that a bright life awaits him and beckons him where healthy and happy people live, people who truly care about him. Toru then makes a pledge that he will forget the past as the dead remain dead forever and life must go on for the rest. Murakami writes it in the most appreciable way.
“Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.”
What I could conclude that you can not run away from death or people who are dead may haunt you in your dreams but it's all about living before you die. Toru's acceptance of his world and his gill to embrace life after all that had happened gives you hope while you close the last pages of the book. You can't say that the book had a happy ending, because it didn't but in a way it helps you believe in life because Toru, the protagonist chooses to live to his fullest even after all what he had undergone and that decision itself was a silver lining because it was the acceptance of life.
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