![]() And when he needs a break from reading, he goes to the library collection of CDs which is how he got to know about “Duke Ellington, the Beatles, and Led Zeppelin.” You just sit down and read whatever you want.” Eventually he moves on from children’s books to the general stacks. That leaves only libraries, and they’re perfect - no entrance fee, nobody getting all hot and bothered if a kid comes in. ![]() Coffee shops and movie theaters are off-limits. Around 30 pages into Kafka, the 15-year-old runaway who chooses to call himself Kafka Tamura talks about how he’s lived in libraries ever since he was a kid: “Think about it - a little kid who doesn’t want to go home doesn’t have many places he can go. ![]() I picked up Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore at the Princeton Public Library after dropping off his novel Norwegian Wood. ![]()
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