Taking Murakami to the stage - The Economist has a nice little write up on the new Haruki Murakami play which has been taking Edinburgh by storm this past week. Adapted from Murakami's novel, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Stephen Earnhart's adaptation … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: The Weekend’s 2nd-Hand Haul
July 28, 2009 By 6 Comments
The Weekend's 2nd-Hand Haul, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. If you were anywhere near the Oxfam bookshop in St. Andrews (Scotland) on Saturday, and you heard girl-like screams coming from within, then that would have been me *blushes*. … [Read more...]
‘Book Bites’ for Tuesday 30th June 2009
June 30, 2009 By 2 Comments
Murakami talks 1Q84 Part 2 - Remember in a Book Bites post last week I pointed you to part 1 of a Haruki Murakami interview over at the Asia One News website? Well it seems Part 2 is available now, but I’ve just noticed (through a ‘small print’ … [Read more...]
‘Book Bites’ for Thursday 25th June 2009
June 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Murakami talks 1Q84 - Kathleen over at the Reading Copy Book Blog points to the first of two-part interview with Haruki Murakami over at Asia One News. My first reaction was the interview was going to be in Japanese but thankfully it's in English. … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: Unfulfilled Dreams
April 29, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Unfulfilled Dreams, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. Followers of the blog, and/or my Twiter feed know that I'm 'unofficially' working my way through Haruki Murakami's 'What I Talk About When I Talk About Running' right now, and it's … [Read more...]
Daily Bookshot: What I talk about…..
April 27, 2009 By 2 Comments
What I talk about when I'm reading Murakami, originally uploaded by Robert Burdock. Pictured is the book that grabbed me by the danglies this morning and hasn't let go since. I made the mistake of skimming Murakami's foreword for this book at … [Read more...]
Cover Love: The Haruki Murakami editions from Vintage UK
March 1, 2009 By 17 Comments
For this inaugural ‘Cover Love’ post I’m focusing on a series of books whose covers have seduced me for quite some time. They're the covers used by UK Publisher Vintage (an imprint of Random House), for their series of books by Japanese author … [Read more...]
Catching up: Some 2nd-hand pre-Christmas reading additions – Part One
January 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment
So what with the festive period getting in the way and the arrival of a new pup in my household, things have been pretty quiet around here for a couple of weeks. Inactivity is not something I usually make a habit of so if you just consider that a … [Read more...]