LoT Book CLub - Book 2 - Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
 

The MB Bovary discussion is winding down (but not necessarily over) so I thought it was time to go with our second choice book:

Wind Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

I think this book will provoke discussion while reading, (and I encourage that)so I'd like to propose that discussions be within spoiler tags with the approximate page numbers being announced for the spoiler.

EXAMPLE:

Page 235


Chris and I have already read this book but will be re-reading it so it is fresh. Plus, we both LOVED it - and I hope you will too.

Let's give it a month from today (August 13th) as a goal to finish reading.

Grrr, I'm mere pages away from finishing MB, but have left it at home 2 days in a row. :mad:

The library was having a paperback sale a couple weeks ago and I picked up a couple dozen books (since I don't like mass market paperbacks it was good that the name was a misnomer and there were plenty of trade paperbacks to choose from).

Among the ones I picked up was Murakami's After the Quake. Maybe I'll read that and insert my rather confusing comments into your discussion.

For me, a comment on page 235 is halfway into the next book down in the stack (Plato's Protagoras and Meno) and that page is about the discussion between Socrates and Meno about what is virtue.

After the Quake is a collection of short stories all dealing with a similar theme (guess). It will give you a flavor of Murakami and maybe you'll join us for the book.

Now's a bad time for me to start reading, but I'll see what I can do a couple weeks from now.

I just remembered the Barnes and Noble Mother's Day gift certificate in my wallet: whoo-hoo! :D

I have three weeks vacation from school starting approximately 3pm on the 29th - so I'm in!

Working on American Gods by Gaiman, but I'll join in ASAP.

I've already started Wind-up - Yay! Maybe I'll keep up with this one, it's more interesting and easier to read than MB was (a physical book rather than a eBook).

Awesome, I was really hoping that we would choose this as our second book. Might I suggest though, having a new poll each month, instead of just going down the list from the first poll. We're all always reading new things and changing interests and thus will probably have new suggestions every month. Thoughts?