March is an emo month for me. It is also one of the months when i am sluggish and lethargic that all i wanna do is to lie on my bed and read a book. So, i decided not to force myself to write my butt off and just did what i am craving to do, read. And so i was able to finish two worth reading book this month (to think that March is still not done).
KAFKA ON THE SHORE
Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom.
As their path converge, and the reasons for that convergence become clear, Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish falls from the sky and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder. Kafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great story tellers at the peak of his powers.
**I love this book. There is something different about how Murakami wrote this book compared to all his works that i have read before. It still has his signature poignancy and heart, but this one really has something special. I love everything about this book. I love the way the words were constructed, i love all the characters, i love how the events develop, i just love reading every paragraph again and again that it took me too long to read it. Most of all, i love it because it gave me a fuzzy feeling in my heart and a feel of nostalgia while i am reading it. Words are not enough to express how this book touched my heart. One must read it to know how it feels like to be entranced by Murakami's magical world. ^^
THE LOVER'S DICTIONARY
How does one talk about love? Is it even possible to describe something at once utterly mundane and wholly transcendent that has the power to consume our lives completely, while making us feel part of something infinitely larger than ourselves?
Taking a unique approach to this age-old problem, the nameless narrator of David Levithan's Lover's Dictionary constructs the story of a relationship as a dictionary. Through these sharp entries, he provides an intimate window into the great events and quotidian trifles of coupledom, giving us an indelible and deeply moving portrait of love in our time.
**It took me too much time and effort to get a hold of this book. And when i finally found it on bookstore, the last one of the stocks, i almost jump in joy. Sure it's a little expensive for it's worth (not because i didn't like it but because the pages were too spacious ex. there are pages with only two to three sentences only) but i don't regret buying it. This book could be read in a few hours of sitting. Only, again, it took me some time to finish it because i end up re-reading entries that tugs my heart. That and because i am nagging the narrator to just leave her bitch of a girlfriend (that's me being bitchy LOL).
Other than that i love it. I love Levithan's way of writing. And really the way words were constructed is a major thing i look for when i read a book.
Also, The Lover's Dictionary reminds me so much of the movie 500 Days of Summer. They have the same feel and like the movie, the things that happens as you read this book is also not in a chronological order, yet you can pretty much understand the situation of their relationship.
Most of all, the major reason why i love it is because it is heartwarming and yet often times heartbreaking. But then isn't love just like that?
