town of cats

i just read a recent excerpt in the new yorker by my favorite author haruki murakami. it is from his new book IQ84 that is coming out this october. i'm looking forward to buying it! (if it wasn't for emily being on the look out, i would've probably never come across this link. so thank you love!)

"of course, reading novels was just another form of escape—as soon as he closed the book, he had to come back to the real world."

all i have to say is that i am thankful that i look equally like my mother and father. here is the 9 page excerpt.