Daily Bookshot: The Weekend’s 2nd-Hand Haul

..plus the two ‘literary A-Listers’ I wake up next to each morning

‘Book Bites’ for Tuesday 30th June 2009

Murakami talks 1Q84 Part 2. Short list for Frank O’Connor Short Story Award unveiled. Newsweek’s ‘50 Books to Read Now. And Why’

‘Book Bites’ for Thursday 25th June 2009

Murakami talks 1Q84. Goodbye learned reading skills, hello Twitterature

‘Book Bites’ for Tuesday 19th May 2009

Ever seen Tolstoy rap? Speculating about Murakami’s new novel. Mosse champions Steinbeck.

Daily Bookshot: Unfulfilled Dreams

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 touching me in ways I would have never have thought possible.
Such is Murakami’s talent for turning his feelings [...]

Daily Bookshot: What I talk about…..

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 breakfast and it ’s done nothing but compel me to read on.
After shouting this [...]

Cover Love: The Haruki Murakami editions from Vintage UK

In this inaugural post for my new ‘Cover Love’ series, I take a look at a set of book covers that have been a favourite of mine for a while now – the UK editions of the Haruki Murakami titles published by Vintage. They’re luscious, lusty and they scream wanton desirability!

Catching up: Some 2nd-hand pre-Christmas reading additions – Part One

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 minor glitch and we’ll move on [...]

‘Shot of Short’ #15: Sleep

Title: Sleep by Haruki Marukami
Date Read: 11 November 2008
Available Online?: YES
Briefly: A Japanese wife, in a loving but routine filled marriage, has a problem with insomnia which evolves into a condition where she feels she needs no sleep at all, and apparently suffers no ill-effects from not doing so. Her dentist husband and her son [...]