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All tagged Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
In a year that brought a lot of changes and turned many things upside down, I wanted to uphold at least one little tradition: the annual "Food for Thought" blog post, reviewing the best books I read in the past year.
Please imagine a dramatic drumroll, as here come the five Life-Sparring books of 2020! Enjoy!
Haruki Murakami’s 2013 book “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A novel” drew mixed reviews. Some people loved it; other’s accused Murakami of relying too much on his proven plots and recipes.
I loved the book, so much that I read it in a single day.
But this article is not supposed to be another book review (if you like those, check out my “Food for Thought Posts”), it is a reflection based on an idea that was mentioned in passing in the book, but that I found quite profound. The idea of the “Three Places” that define our lives and our happiness.
