2009年6月15日月曜日

Haruki Murakami's novel "1Q84"


I am reading Haruki Murakami's latest novel "1Q84". Murakami is one of the popular authors in Japan and thought to be the closest Japanese author to the Nobel prize for literature.
His latest novel "1Q84" was sold out soon after it was released. Because I ordered it in advance to Amazon, I could get it.
It is a very long story,two-volume, 1,055-page hardcover book, but it's hard to put down the book once you've started it. Although its story is very mysterious and unpredictable like mixture of reality and fantasy, it is easy to read due to easy-to-follow story telling. In addition, characters are very attractive. There are two main characters. One is a male who is obscure author and another is female who is a hired hit-woman.
I am looking forward to reading the rest of the story.

2009年6月10日水曜日

Non-alcohol beer


When my mother in law came to my house, I picked up her at the Sin-Yokohama Station by car. Because she arrived there at about 7 pm, we had a dinner at a restaurant in the station. We ate assorted row fishes, and I wanted to drink some beer very much! I can not image that eating row fish without alcohol. Best drinks with row fish is beer, Japanese sake or white wine! But unfortunately, I could not drink, because I had to drive to return my home.
Therefore, I tried a non-alcohol beer which was just released by Kirin. I thought that its taste was not bad and enough to keep off my hunger for beer.
I heard that this Kirin's non-alcohol beer is having a good salse.