Quite frankly it has been hard to read with everything crumbling all around us here in the U.S. but I have ensconced myself in the library (fewer distractions than at home) and I'm determined to try! First up: The City and Its Uncertain Walls, the latest novel by the incomparable Haruki Murakami.
I like it so far. The tone is much more wistful than I expected, at least at the outset.
The epigraph, which gives us a hint about what to expect, is taken from Coleridge's Kubla Khan:
𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘈𝘭𝘱𝘩, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳, 𝘳𝘢𝘯
𝘛𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘤𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘯
𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘯𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘴𝘦𝘢.
I found that moving.
Let me know what you are reading, and what you are doing to help concentrate on the joy of reading.
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