My reading of 1Q84 was delayed a bit by the spring semester starting. Thanks to my four day weekend, I decided to pick it up again and just finished book two. So much has happened in the last 300 pages that I’m finding it hard to breathe.
Tengo and Fuka-Eri’s novel was summarized and it was all kind of amazing, but also made me nervous and uneasy. The idea of these Little People appearing through passageways and making chrysalises out of threads in the air is so creepy. I may even have nightmares.
Aomame murdered the Leader, who was prepared to died. She has seen Tengo, put a gun to her mouth on the side of the highway, and reappeared in a chrysalis as her ten year old self. Tengo’s beginning to understand himself, even though he’s gotten entangled in this world of 1Q84. One of my favorite things he thought was, “Whatever world he was in, Tengo was just Tengo, the same person with his own unique problems and his own unique characteristics. The real question was not in the moons but in Tengo himself.”
I can’t even begin to imagine what the last 300 pages have in store.
