The Wild Sheep Chase.. #BookReview 22

Hello World,

I've literally just finished The Wild Sheep Chase by Murakami and although my head is swimming with what I have just read, I literally can't help but to write it all down.

Murakami is one of my favourite authors, even though I have not read all of his works yet, I still cannot help but to dive straight into the world of his words. Most of the books I have read from Murakami have always left me feeling tingly inside and kind of outside of the reality. Then there have only been one book not including this one that has left me feeling confused and incredibly befuddled. Even now after half an hour of completing this book I am just confused.. 

A Wild Sheep Chase is based around this man who has a failed marriage, a business he doesn't want to be part of and generally a life he is not happy with. A long came a strange man and a couple of letters from an old friend of his who upped and left, talking about a sheep. This leads the man to up and leave with his new girlfriend and hunt down this sheep. In the end he has nothing, but a whole new life set out before him. 

I finished this book wondering if he was OK, I mean he had nothing in the end. He was sent on a sheep chase and he lost a dear friend, a job and no girlfriend. But I think he was going to end up OK. Because he never wanted those things in the first place. 

My head is still crazed over it, but like any Murakami book; you have to read it and have your own interpretation of the book. 

Why I love a Murakami book is the way it makes me feel, the way I can disappear into his words and fade away from reality. Murakami has a way that makes me happy.

Claire.

Hey It's OK: Guilty pleasure of a bookworm.

Hello World,

So, it's a well known fact I am a bookworm and in this post tonight I am going to go through some of my guilty pleasures of being a bookworm.

1. Reading the last page. When Harry from 'When Harry met Sally', admits to reading the last page of every book he reads in case he dies before finishing a book. Sometimes I do that, if I am loving or hating the book. I've even skimmed a few pages ahead because I am too impatient.
2. I judge a book by it's cover. I have been known to just buy a book because I really like the front cover and I think it would pretty on my bookshelf. Sometimes the book turns out to be so much better than the cover.
3. I am known to stalk book authors. Finished a book and fell completely in loved it, does the author have a twitter account? FANTASTIC! 
4. I spend far too much time in Waterstones. Is there a Waterstones in America? But it is like the hugest bookshop franchise in the UK. The bigger the shop is the better! I don't intend to leave after an hour. 
5. I tend to run my fingers through pages: It's soothing! Enough said.
6. I will read a few pages of a book and then decide against buying the book. When I am in a bookshop, I will read at least five pages of a book and if I get this gut feeling that I will enjoy it, I will go through the painful choice of buying it or not. Most of the time it is at the end of month and I have to wait until payday.
7. Saying that! I have been known to use the last of my money on books.
8. #bookstagram and #bookwoom are saved trends on my Tumblr and Instagram account. And sometimes I spend more time look at book pictures than actually reading a book.
9. I've watched the film before reading the book: The time travellers Wife, Twilight, Divergent and yes I hate to say it, but I watched Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone before reading the series. 
10. I grow too fond of the characters and yes I will cry, fall in love and become obsessed with the character

Another guilty habit I have, is that no matter how bad or rubbish it is. I have to finish it.

Claire