nocigar replied to your post: summer reading list, part 1
YES at all the haruki murakami. i’ve only read hard boiled (awesome) and a wild sheep chase (meh), and i’ve learned that while his endings are disappointing, he is ONE HELL OF A WRITER.
you think his endings are disappointing? that’s so weird, i am always so in love with them because they’re so unrepentantly NOT pat, tied-off endings… everything isn’t resolved but that’s not really the point of what he’s saying. he’s like the embodiment of “it’s the journey, not the destination.”
deathless / catherynne valente
a long time ago and essentially true / brigid pasulka
south of the border, west of the sun / haruki murakami
the ragged trousered philanthropists / robert tressell
hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world / haruki murakami
the map of love / ahdaf soueif
dead souls / gogol
the book of laughter and forgetting / milan kundera
dance dance dance / haruki murakami
sputnik sweetheart / haruki murakami
IQ84, part 1, part 2, part 3 / haruki murakami
crime and punishment / fyodor dostoyevsky
crónica de una muerta anunciada / gabriel garcía márquez
the history plays / shakespeare
waiting for godot / samuel beckett
after dark / haruki murakami
a wild sheep chase / haruki murakami
i will have read every one of murakami’s books by the end of this summer if it kills me
cinque-spotted replied to your post: cinque-spotted replied to your post: do you ever…
…oh. oh shit, this is an incredibly convincing argument. right? like if someone made a gifset like that of me and Tom Hiddleston I would be like, “right. yes. I’m on it”. makes PERFECT sense that someone/anyone else would do the same.
i think this is evidence that we should start a debate team, ‘cause this shit is irrefutable.
cinque-spotted replied to your post: do you ever wonder
I have possibly considered this I mean no of course not what are you talking about
all i’m saying is, if someone were to make a gifset about ME being all “ILU MOAR” with jeremy renner, i could probably be convinced to make babies with him.
if celebrities ever see gifsets of themselves with other celebrities and read all the comments and then think, damn, we WOULD be hot together, maybe we ARE in love
okay. i don’t have a Big Awesome Goodbye Post like i did for argentina, because it feels … bigger, this time. it’s the end of the whole year, and as much as i wish that i could condense it down to “here are the last things i did,” or “this is a list of some of the cool things i learned,” i can’t.
spain: you are hilarious and beautiful and full of light—and i don’t mean that as a metaphor, or at least, not just as a metaphor—and i am grateful to you and your damningly delicious tortillas españoles. i will miss you, and the trains, and la chocita sueca, and my baker who talks to me about haruki murakami, and café segre, and the way that all of your “vegetarian” dishes have tuna in them, and your clean metros, and your coin-based economy (LOLJK GIMME DOLLAS), and the way that sometimes your streets make no sense, and most of all the way the sun never sets, not until every last drop of light has been eked out onto the city like someone wringing a dishcloth over the sink.
but i hate goodbyes, and i am no good at them, so i’ll do what i did for sal and say: high five, españa, i’ll see you again soon.
"Malia and Sasha and a bunch of my friends and Michelle had sort of like a roast, a little private roast, each one of them read something and Malia and Sasha had written out why I am such a wonderful dad. And they had this list, it was so sweet, and one of the items on Malia’s list was, ‘You are just the right amount of embarrassing.’"
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