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Haruki Murakami Reading Challenge 2013 24 Jan 2013 | 07:10 am
Thank you to everyone who joined the Haruki Murakami Reading Challenge for 2012. My apologies for being such an absent host last year. It was a year of big adjustments, but now that life has settled d...
Haruki Murakami Reading Challenge 2012 28 Dec 2011 | 06:39 am
Thanks to everyone who joined the Haruki Murakami Reading Challenge for 2011. It was so great to see people all over the world reading Murakami. I know I still have several Murakami stories that I'd l...
1Q84 - What's the verdict? 10 Dec 2011 | 12:18 am
Original title: 1Q84 (ichi-kyu-hachi-yon) Longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. The year is 1984. Aomame sits in a taxi on the expressway in Tokyo. Her work is not the kind which can be...
Murakami Novella Giveaway 14 Nov 2011 | 04:36 am
While Murakami's latest book has finally been published in English translation, our next giveaway goes back to where it all started with Murakami's first two novellas, Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, ...
Norwegian Wood T-shirt Giveaway 24 Jun 2011 | 02:21 am
This giveaway was originally supposed to take place back in March, but then the huge earthquake and tsunami struck, and life changed forever for many people. At last though, it's time for our first Mu...
Three months later 12 Jun 2011 | 08:24 pm
Three months have passed since the devastating earthquake and tsunami took place on March 11th in the Tohoku region of Japan. My apologies that the blog here has been quiet during this time. Although ...
Norwegian Wood film opens in UK cinemas soon 27 Feb 2011 | 01:19 am
The film version of Haruki Murakami's best-selling novel, Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森) was first shown at the Venice Film Festival in September last year where it was nominated for the Golden Lion award. ...
Release date for the English version of 1Q84 set at last! 29 Jan 2011 | 06:57 pm
Finally, the official release date for 1Q84 in English has been set for October 25, 2011. If you follow Knopf's Haruki Murakami Facebook page, you'll no doubt have already seen this, but Paul Bogaards...
Welcome to the challenge 24 Jan 2011 | 07:46 pm
Welcome everyone to the Haruki Murakami Reading Challenge 2011. If you haven't seen the sign-up list lately, we're up to over 400 people now that have joined the challenge to read at least one book by...
Haruki Murakami Reading Challenge 2011 22 Dec 2010 | 10:10 pm
I'd been playing with the idea for a while of possibly hosting a Haruki Murakami Reading Challenge next year. Then when I mentioned it on Twitter a couple of weeks or so ago, quite a few people expres...
