1Q84 ...

... is the latest offering from Haruki Murakami, the Japanese author for adolescent me.  It has been nearly a decade since I last read any of his books, partly because of the potentiality of being disappointed.  I am incapable of revisiting beloved people/places/events after a period of absence, but therapy has slowly taught me the beauty of memories and the expansiveness of human capacities.  As Haruki Murakami said in "1Q84" - "That's what the world is, after all, an endless battle of contrasting memories" ..