This Reader Response is Getting too Real

I’m reading the book “the wind-up bird chronicle” by Haruki Murakami. I have enjoyed the style of writing and the magic realism plot.

The book takes the readers expectations and bashes them against the wall of improbable. One page is full of a detailed description of folding clothes and the next is an image of a mind whore –if you can even imagine what that is.

Half way through the book, the protagonist develops a blue tinted mark on his cheek. He believes it is related to the mind whore, but it also might have something to do with his willful decent into a dried up well.

The day after this mark appeared on the protagonist’s cheek, I noticed one of my own. The protagonist noticed the mark after shaving for the first time in three days. I noticed mine just after shaving.

The similarities continue, but suffice it to say, “I was a little freaked out.”

Luckily I’m just sane enough to recognize the non-consequential coincidence –but I would still feel relived if the book ends well for the protagonist.