Books that changed my life challenge

Day 5 of 7 Books that changed my life

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Day 5 of seven books that changed my life – sent this way to you by the very dear Jen Webb.

Today is HARUKI MURAKAMI day! Mainly because I can’t choose a favourite book. Is it Sputnik Sweetheart that confirmed my dislike of the Ferris wheel? Or Kafka on the Shore who still haunts me today about a decade after I read it. Or Hard Boiled Wonderland? I cannot choose. I love his darkness but also the very wonderful talking cat dialogues, the landscapes the strangeness of the world through his eyes.

If you have time you should check his website http://www.harukimurakami.com

Each book is like a glittering storm of familiar dust dancing through the darkness, exquisite jewellery to adorn the mind.

 

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Day 4 of 7 Books that changed my Life

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I’m already up to day 4 of my seven days of books that changed my life.

And it’s a tough one tonight folks, but A.S Byatt stole my girl’s heart with Possession. I’d been living on a strange diet of Jane Austen, romantic poets with a modern poetry twist and also (for another course I was taking) lots of Asimov and science fiction. Somehow Possession married everything I loved about all of this and threw in a great mysterious central poetry drama. I’m not sure how I’d feel if I read it again now- but damn she’s clever.

 

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My own well thumbed copy of Possession that’s been on trains and picnics and many places with me.