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libroXshu

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impatiently waiting for the next Marlon James book...

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commented on Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez

Mariana Enríquez, Megan McDowell, Pablo Gerardo Camacho: Our Share of Night (2023, Crown/Archetype) No rating

A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death …

another book I had paused on so I could give it more of my attention during summer. I’m getting totally sucked into this story now. I keep saying 'ok last page and then I'm going to sleep' but then I’m 10 more pages in.

Haruki Murakami: The City and Its Uncertain Walls (2023) No rating

We begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. …

I had to pause reading for a couple of months ago so I could give it more attention and focus later. It was nice to come back to and finish. My brain was so confused when I started reading it because it was so familiar but I knew the book just came out (I had to search and realized it is based on novella he wrote in the 80s but never felt like he had finished it). I enjoyed this story and always appreciate Murakami's writing style and imagination. The only thing that wasn't my favorite was his overuse of his technique where characters are in conversation about something confusing, and they repeat/summarize the other person as they try to understand what is happening. "So, what you are saying is..." He does this in his other work but seemed extra. It did not over shadow the things I liked about …