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Jody J. Sperling's avatar

I admit, I was bummed when I saw you weren't reading THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS. My wife got it for me for Christmas, and I just started it.

Murakami has this exceptionally distinct style I have always enjoyed, and it's also a kind of psychedelic experience. That's the only way I can describe it. Holes, wells, cats, loneliness, longing objects given almost supernatural significance. And you never have the thought while reading, "Gol Durn! I'm having the best time reading this. I hope it never ends."

But you feel like you're in an alternate dimension at the same time.

Reading Murakami for me is like that David Foster Wallace quote. "I don't want to be transported into another world when I read. I want always to remember I'm reading."And that experience blended with, the world I think I'm living in isn't the world at all.

Why is that its own kind of reinforcing feeling? WIND UP BIRD CHRONICLES is a great book. They all are, and I wish I could discuss THE CITY…because its effect on me is surreal.

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Martha Anne Toll's avatar

That is quite an endorsement! Thank you for sharing. Will have to find it! This was my first dip into the water with Murakami and I was blown away. So appreciate this.

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Barbara Burchett's avatar

Love the video!

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Martha Anne Toll's avatar

Sweet!

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Barbara Burchett's avatar

Martha, your newsletter is an interesting place for me to visit! Keep writing, sharing and standing upright!

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Martha Anne Toll's avatar

Thank you!

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Elizabeth Winthrop Alsop's avatar

Marthe, thanks for this cornucopia of ways to stay sane in these troubling times.

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Martha Anne Toll's avatar

Thank YOU

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