![]() ![]() “What happens twice will happen again.” OK, I buy that. The Japanese language is nothing but lies. This is my botched Tokyo Exodus, the chronicle of my failures. This is where I was born, and it’s where I’m going to die. But just because you don’t need a passport doesn’t mean you can up and leave whenever you like. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if you think I’m lying, you can come and see for yourself. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve asked myself if the boundary is real. ![]()
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We are sitting on our special rock at the beach where the soil ends and the sand begins. ![]() I explain this to Grandfather when he tells me to take off my shoes. Mother says that a man can do so if he likes, but her daughter will wear shoes. Grandfather says that a man should walk barefoot on the bare earth every day. ![]() ![]() ![]() One of the finest histories of the west ever written, it tells the story of the people who made the trek in covered wagons across the great American wilderness. "I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man's jurisdiction." Something about the loneliness of the west and its landscape seems to act as a magnifier at the moral level, lending in this wonderful 1918 novel enormous scale to small acts of kindness or spite between isolated pioneer farmers in Nebraska, and a sense of the epic to the small-town life of the heroine. ![]() He wrote it all up in this travel book the miners and sharpers and gunslingers he met and drank with, and the greed and fantasising that drove everyone on the frontier, himself included. A young Mark Twain left Missouri in 1861, crossed the continent by stagecoach, and got his first job as a journalist in the biggest, roughest mining town on the western frontier. ![]() ![]() Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality. 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I hadn’t noticed the title of the first story, The wind-up bird and Tuesday’s women ****: and when I began reading I thought this is strangely familiar, then I realised it was an extract from the novel “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” which I had already read. ![]() The stories in this collection are varied, I think Murakami is better as a novelist, where he has more time to develop the characters. Murakami’s work can be rather surreal, there are elements of magic realism, fascinating characters and cats, a lot of cats. This is the fifth Murakami book I’ve read, the others were novels ( “Kafka on the Shore”, “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of Pilgrimage” and Norwegian Wood). The Elephant Vanishes is a collection of short stories. ![]() ![]() Users can upload their file with direct web link. ![]() In file Uploading, BuzzUpload offers three fastest way to upload the file and generate the shareable link. 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This tiny town, where seventeen-year-old Grey spends her summers, is the self-proclaimed Psychic Capital of the World-and the place where Elora Pellerin, Grey's best friend, disappeared six months earlier. La Cachette, Louisiana, is the worst place to be if you have something to hide. 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