It was my first Haruki Murakami read recommended by Susannah Waters whose writers' group I had joined in 2002 or 2003. She said I wrote like him. Rambling stream of consciousness with lashings of self-doubt, introspection and sex? I recall considering how as a writer he kept the development of several relationships hanging through to the end. I recall feeling in a similar way between several relationships where no one could commit. I recall the landscape so evocatively portrayed in this film. And now I'll download the book and see what I make of it. Much more here: www.mymindbursts.com