Tuesday 20 July 2010

1Q85?


I finished to read 1Q84 Book3. I was wondering whether Book4 would be published or not so I searched website and found interesting comment. Some people say, "Book3 describes from October to December, so if Haruki keeps writing the story, the title may be 1Q85 in Book4?" So some others say, "Probably, the Book4 would describe in the past. Book1 starts from April so Book4 would be from January to March but not after Book3 but before Book1." Well, we'll see.

Thursday 15 July 2010

Twilight Eclipse


A vampire and a human love romance is very popular in UK. It started in cinema from 9th July. The showing schedule is amazing at ODEON, the biggest cinema in citycentre, they show it at 12:30, 13:00, 14:00, 14:15, 14:30, 15:00, 15:30, 16:00, 16:30, 17:00, 17:15, 17:30, 18:00, 18:30, 19:00, 19:30, 20:00, 20:15, 20:30, 21:00, 21:15, 21:30, 22:00, twenty-three times in one day!
Before the film starts, we need to watch boring commercials and some trailers. Until the film started, people were eating snacks, chatting with friends and it was very noisy. However once the film started, it was very quiet and people were concentrated on watching it. I felt many people were addicted to the film and I'm definitely one of them.

Monday 12 July 2010

1Q84



I borrowed "1Q84" from my friend. To be honest, I'm not a big fan of Haruki Murakami however I really enjoyed reading this. There are some particular attractive facts. One of them is music. My friend from Manchester Chorus let me listen Janacek's Sinfonietta as her favorite. In this book the music is described as a hard to notice as it is. Thanks to this book, nowadays many Japanese recognized it but thanks to my British friend, I knew Sinfonietta before reading the book.


The other fact is one of character's name is Eriko. It's common name and I found my name in some different books. I don't know the reason but usually the character named Eriko is not normal. If you read "1Q84", it's obvious. As another example I add Eriko in "Kitchen" written by Banana Yoshimoto.
I assume the main reason that I enjoyed reading Haruki's novel is that now I'm getting used to his writing style. In this book, one person said, "If you need some explanation, it means you wouldn't understand it with explanation." Hum, tricky isn't it?

Saturday 10 July 2010

LEGOLAND



Many of landmark building in Manchester are made with LEGO blocks.