Reviewsday: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Toru Watanabe is an 18 year old freshman coasting through his college years, days spent reading literature, listening to jazz and classical music and wondering about the peculiarities of his dorm room-mate ‘Storm Trooper’. Until one day he runs into a friend from his hometown, a fragile and aloof girl named Naoko. This chance meeting […]

Reviewsday: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Today we celebrate Haruki Murakami’s birthday with a review of one of his most popular books, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. Tazaki his haunted by the friendship of his high school days. Each of his friend’s names contained a colour, while, fittingly, his did not. He always considered himself the boring friend, […]

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

After reading most all of Murakami’s books, it has become apparent that he follows a formula that doesn’t stray from the usual too often. He deals mostly with coming of age stories, the journey from adolescence to adulthood in all its awkwardness, from first loves and heartbreaks to trying to find your place in the […]