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When it comes to publishing Haruki Murakami in English, nothing is lost in translation…
“Best-selling author Haruki Murakami’s latest novel is already a blockbuster in Japan. Once it is translated in English, it is bound to take the world by storm. In that sense, Murakami, who is 64 and considered among the world’s greatest contemporary novelists, owes much of his international popularity to his loyal team of translators…” More here.

When it comes to publishing Haruki Murakami in English, nothing is lost in translation…

“Best-selling author Haruki Murakami’s latest novel is already a blockbuster in Japan. Once it is translated in English, it is bound to take the world by storm. In that sense, Murakami, who is 64 and considered among the world’s greatest contemporary novelists, owes much of his international popularity to his loyal team of translators…”

More here.

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So many books, so little time!

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housingworksbookstore:

THIS WEEK. IT’S HERE.

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Etienne Louis Boullée (1728–1799)
Interior of a Library

The Morgan Library

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Poor Folk, translated by Robert Dessaix

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Harry would have died if Hermione didn’t read.

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From the mouth of a Master …

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.: Dr. Seuss

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Literary Whirlygigs

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And the sun on my shoulders brings,
because of its perfect warmth,
the feeling that I wear great wings
while stepping along the earth.

Robert Gray, from “Byron Bay: Winter” (via the-final-sentence)

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“And if anyone asks, you’re Chinese. The boy had nodded. ‘Chinese,’ he whispered. ‘I’m Chinese.’ ‘And I,’ said the girl, ‘am the Queen of Spain.’ ‘In your dreams,’ said the boy. ‘In my dreams,’ said the girl, ‘I’m the King.’”
―Julie Otsuka, When the Emperor Was Divine

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I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and I’m not reading over it, and I’m not correcting my style, and I’m writing just for the sake of writing, just for the sake of writing more to you… My precious, my darling, my dearest!

From the mouth of a Master …

And the sun on my shoulders brings, because of its perfect warmth, the feeling that I wear great wings while stepping along the earth.

And the sun on my shoulders brings,
because of its perfect warmth,
the feeling that I wear great wings
while stepping along the earth.