haruki murakami is possibly the most successful and most well-known author we'll cover this season, and our sixth stop on our book club world tour dives into his novel colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage. we talk about murakami's style, the supernatural elements in the story (and why murakami doesn't take them far enough, and the annoying and frustrating reality of authors making their lead characters boring. we also vent frustrations about the novel's unfair characterizations based on how the story is told, and whether if murakami deliberately undermines himself in colorless tsukuru tazaki and his years of pilgrimage. also, a return to "judge a book by its cover" with the honorable judge matt erdely. this episode starts very silly and ends very heavy. reading list for season one death in her hands by ottessa moshfegh, 6/3 pizza girl by jean kyoung frazier, 6/17 you shall know our velocity by dave eggers, 7/1 memories of my father watching tv by curtis white, 7/15 a prayer for owen meany by john irving, 7/29 colorless tsukuru tazaki by haruki murakami, 8/12 any man by amber tamblyn, 8/26 ducks, newburyport by lucy ellmann, 9/9 open city by teju cole, 9/23 never let me go by kazuo ishiguro, 10/7