John Peden rated First Person Singular: Stories: 5 stars

First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami
A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this …
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A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this …

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (ねじまき鳥クロニクル, Nejimakidori Kuronikuru) is a novel published in 1994–1995 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. The American …

When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it’s the start …
A little hard to follow because the problem is weird to wrap your head around and may need to read again. But, its good information and needs to be read.

"The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly retranslated and in one English-language …

The Two Towers is the second book of J.R.R.Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and picks up where The Fellowship …
The book gets a little too over the top with some of the sexual things, as some Murakami books do, but I was blown away by the surrealism. Definitely something that takes a while to digest and set in. Might be updating the review later after I can process it more.

In his second collection of stories, as in his first, Carver's characters are peripheral people--people without education, insight or prospects, …

The first part of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Tolkien’s classic epic of Good versus Evil, set in the …


A nutrition-oriented analysis of industrial food production, a presentation of the baleful consequences and suggestions for undoing the damage.

Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first …

The now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) must save a very special twelve-year-old girl from a …