Alexia rated The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: 3 stars

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, …
French and English books, a few in German.
Many fields, including economics, philosophy and psychology, but lately more into Buddhism of the Zen persuasion.
This link opens in a pop-up window
Japan’s most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, …
Toru, a quiet and preternaturally serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young …
Such microeconometrics books that mix both theory and practical use are what really made me understand, at my humble level, a little bit of how econometric analysis works. For me at least, it was the best way to learn the topic, quite far away from complicated theoretical considerations such as those in Greene's "Econometric Analysis" (though I see it has improved with more practical considerations).
On Beauty is a 2005 novel by British author Zadie Smith, loosely based on Howards End by E. M. Forster. …
A clear and well-written introduction to the topic of open-source development and governance, with many insightful ideas and good illustrative examples.
Look Who's Back (German: Er ist wieder da, pronounced [ˈeːɐ̯ ʔɪst ˈviːdɐ daː]; transl. "He's back again") is a bestselling …
Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of …