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what is the best/worst book you've ever read?

My childhood love are the books by Tonke Dragt. She has created the strangest, most fascinating universes, always slightly unsettling but at the same time inviting, and wholly unique.

One book that will always have a special place in my heart is The Bookthief, by Markus Zusak, because that is the book that showed me I didn't have to be ashamed of my love for stories.

More recently, I was very impressed by Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami. It's a crazy, almost absurd, book, but I was immediatly caught in this confusing, magical world of his.

I also am a fan of Donna Tartt, who's meandering works have never failed to give me wonderful images and inspiration and insights.

[The Post-reading process] Murakami's Men without Women

[The Post-reading process] Murakami’s Men without Women

The thing about reading Murakami, is the feeling of longing for something. Some books give you the intense satisfaction of a job well done, some with a hope for a different future, and some with the weighing, but welcome sadness. This book, makes the other feelings pale in contrast with what it induces. A distant loneliness that comes with long-unanswered questions. You know how some questions…

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Sputnik Sweetheart made her think of Laika, the dog. The man-made satellite streaking soundlessly across the blackness of outer space. The dark, lustrous eyes of the dog gazing out the tiny window. In the infinite loneliness of space, what could the dog possibly be looking at?

— Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

"If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there's salvation in life. Even if you can't get together with that person."

–Aomame

—Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

the boy named crow 

(Kafka on the shore, by Haruki Murakami)

This book is surely one of my favourite, you must read it.