Recently I have been really hooked onto Haruki Murakami's "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle". I bought the book really long ago, but its length kind of turned me off. How I regret not reading it earlier! It's such awesomeness, and I'm not even halfway through it yet.

I think it's been quite a long time since a book has managed to make me feel nervy about lying on my bed at night, wondering if there are supernatural beings about. In fact, the last time I remember that was when I watched "The Ring" and I kept thinking Sadako will come catch me in my sleep or something. It's such an awful feeling, wanting to sleep, but fearing it. This time, I kept thinking about the novel's description of a character being skinned alive, and another being trapped in a well for three days.

And it got me started thinking about death, a topic I consider really taboo since the prospect of dying really scares me. But anyway, I'm not going to discuss that here, it's too dark for a blog! But really, it's just silly to pretend that death's not going to befall on every single one of us someday - it's just a matter of when.

Only one full day left before the return to school, and the dreaded feedback for the exam scripts! :( Not really hoping for much, just to pass everything without any E's. So anyway, I hope everyone's been unwinding themselves this long weekend and not burying themselves in the books immediately! You don't want to burn yourselves up :)

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