Flybird's Nest

Pinball,1973 Author : Haruki Murakami First Published in 1980 Origin : Japan "If you look at things from a distance," I said as I swallowed some lobster, " most anything looks beautiful." Pinball, 1973 is the second book from the trilogy of the Rat and preceded by Hear The Wind Sing and later followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982). Still in format of Novella, the story started with still, the remain unnamed protagonist and take place 3 years after Hear the Wind Sing conclusions. The character is almost the same, the protagonist is somehow lonesome, questioning the life meaning. He works as a translator in the company that he built with his friend from university. Somehow he looks unhappy with his life. By living alone in a apartment, suddenly an identical twin sisters appeared in his apartment and started living in there. The twin never mentioned their name, the protagonist somehow managed to call them by number. The second story is about our frie...

courtesy : pavansbookreview.blogspot.com Anne Frank : The Diary of Young Girl Author : Anne Frank Year of first Published : 1947 Origin Language : Dutch Genre : Memoar Voted by 3,091 Goodreads member as number #7 of  Best (100) Books of the 20th Century made me expect so high from this book. Just like its title, the book is once used to be a diary from 13 years old girl, Anne Frank when she and her family hiding during Nazi occupation in Netherland.  If previously I read about another WWII survivor- Thomas Burgenthal on his memoar   A Lucky Child, sebuah memoar saksi hidup world war II ,   Anne Frank is also a victim whom her story inspired so many peoples for her bravery, smart and honesty but in different way of survive compare to Thomas.If Thomas survive from moving from one place to another, Anne is kept hiding in a "secret annex"- an hidden annex in his father (used to be) office.  Nowadays, her "Secret Annex"- a place where she spe...

Cover Courtesy Wikipedia.org Hear The Wind Sing Author : Haruki Murakami Year of Published : July 1979 Published in English : February 1987 Origin : Japan " There aren't any real strong people anywhere. Only people who can put on a good show of being strong" Hear the Wind Sing is first novel of the famous Japanese Author, Haruki Murakami. Having decided that Murakami is my favorite author ever, I tried to trace back his first novel and enjoyed the time when his writing not yet matured enough. Hear the Wind Sing is the first book of trilogy of the Rat series. Brought back in 70's, the story telling about a boy whom spend his summer holiday in his hometown (he is a college student). The story narrated from the first point of view of 21 years old unnamed boy. Don't imagine it like Less than Zero novel where the boy spend the days doing drug and sex. The story is flowing smooth (not really wild) where the boy spend his days sitting on a local bar ...