Murakami’s latest novel—The Tale of Kaho—comes out tomorrow in Japan, and he did me the biggest favor in the world by publishing it as a series of stories and novellas over the past three years. I’ve had a chance to read and digest these (even if I had to scramble because I didn’t realize he’d published the third of the series or that he revised the first story!), and I put my thoughts up on Medium.

I’m planning to put out a podcast soon, hopefully this weekend, so I’ll probably update this post with that link. I don’t think I’ll have finished the book yet, but I’ll have a good idea of what if any revisions or additions he made even with a pretty quick glance.

I hope that he adds something because as it currently stands, Kaho’s story is not very good.