I joined the Murakami Reading Challenge a good 7 months ago, and even wrote about it on a book blog i share with my bestfriends . With my Toru-level target (5 Murakami books for 2011), I’m a little behind schedule (2 of 5, and it’s month 8), though that can be said about my full-year reading target as well.
While I collect my bearings and attempt to get back on track with my reading, something arrived today in the mail that i’d almost completely forgotten about!
when i saw “t-shirt”, my heart skipped a beat. seriously.
Apart from hosting the Murakami Reading Challenge, Nat also hosted an online trivia contest to drum up excitement for the movie Norwegian Wood, based on Haruki Murakami’s novel of the same name. I’m not very lucky with lottery, but somehow, i braved the odds and managed to win the randomized lottery after answering the trivia question correctly.
the shirt came with shirt tags featuring movie scenes, a movie brochure, and this note from Nat. thanks a lot!
Excitement over the shirt aside (that in itself is a feat haha), I’m interested to find out how the movie will treat the text. Norwegian Wood is not one of my favorite Murakami works (it deviates from his usual styles and themes in that it is rather traditional in its narrative), but I love the candidness with which Murakami approached the complexities of being young and utterly intoxicated.
That said, I may wear this shirt the first time I watch Norwegian Wood.
