I am currently recovering from finishing Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

Norwegian WoodNorwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Norwegian Wood is an emotionally distressing book!

I did like it a lot, but I can't say it was an easy reading experience.

The book tells a coming-of-age story from protagonist Toru Watanabe. We follow the end of his teenage years as he deals with grief and love.

I was somewhat foreseeing what was going to happen at the end, but at the same time trying to stay very positive that things would just go well.

I am happy I have read it, but I would advise anyone who's thinking about going into this to check the trigger warnings first and consider if you are mentally prepared to go into a dense, heavy emotional journey.

After finishing the book, I literally stood up and went to my boyfriend to ask for a hug and to do something different right away to help me get my mind off those emotions.

This was my third Muraki book and the second of his books, and it felt like it was destroying me inside.

The other two were Wind/Pinball, which I enjoyed but did not think much about, and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage which was equally devastating for me on an emotional level.

Now I know that reading Murakami is all about an emotional journey that is not always pleasant, but on a literary level, it is immensely necessary. The more I read, the more I notice the books that really do a great job of taking me out of my own mind are the ones that make me feel the most.

I can't wait for my next Murakami experience.

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