Kafka on the Shore

Last night I finished reading Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. The book tells the story of 15 year old Kafka Tamura who runs away from home to find his mother and sister, and elderly cat-finder Nakata, still suffering from a bizarre childhood incident, who is propelled on a strange quest after a brutal, mysterious murder. In a world where cats talk to people, fish and leeches rain from the sky, a forest hides soldiers unaged since World War II, ghosts of the past haunt the present, the boundaries between past and present, life and death become increasingly blurred. It's a beguiling, dreamlike, deeply surreal book, that offers few answers to it's many mysteries. I wrote a review here: http://www.permanentlyweird.blogspot.co.uk/2016/09/kafka-on-shore-by-haruki-murakami.html

Myths and Wind-Up Birds

It was a pretty quiet evening last night. I was reading the new Stephen King novel,End of Watch, and a couple of episodes of the comedy show Peep Show, which I really like, even though I don't normally find it hilariously funny.

I was pretty busy at work. I listened to The Myths and Legends Podcast which was doing the story of Hong Gildong, basically a Korean Robin Hood, about the illegitimate child of an aristocrat who takes revenge by robbing wealthy, corrupt aristocrats and giving the money to the poor. Except he also has magical powers and fights demons. I also heard an episode of RadioLab about a man who basically tried to record every detail of his life on tape, basically wearing a wire everywhere he went. I've been listening to the audio book of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, which I got as the free download when I signed up with Audible. It's very long, but it is really good.

I did a long day at work, so I paused on my way home and got a take out steak pie and French fries.

At the moment I'm listening to the Talking Comics podcast, which is probably the best and certainly most comprehensive comic book podcast.