Hello-!
To reward myself for finishing my thesis, I've been spending a lot of time reading in the garden. Today, I saw some ducks sitting in the grass. When they were looking for food, their beaks became covered in purple petals. Too cute.
I've been reading Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart. He's a very respected author in the West, but I still hadn't read anything by him. It was really important to me that, when I read my first novel by him, it was a Japanese edition.
In Western opinion, his opinion of women is considered a little outdated... Despite that, I'm still enjoying it.
K's vivid and careful descriptions of sumire's features really resonated with my own experience of falling in unrequited love. From my own experience, it was like my unrequired love only existed in my own imagination by the end.