Sputnik Sweetheart

I bought 2 Haruki Murakami books and another book with the remaining $60 book voucher. So far I've read one of the Haruki Murakami books - Sputnik Sweetheart and loved it. It is because I feel for the characters in book as it seemed like they are experiencing what I've experienced before (but as a disclaimer I am straight and not gay).

Quotes from the book:

All over again I understood how important, how irreplacable, Sumire was to me. In her own special way she'd kept me tethered to the world. As I talked to her and read her stories, my mind quietly expanded, and I could see things I'd never seen before. Without even trying, we grew close. Like a pair of younger lovers undressing in front of each other, Sumire and I had exposed our hearts to one another, an experience I'd never have with anyone else, anywhere. We cherished what we had together, though we never put into words how very precious it was.

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far happier if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons - something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last for ever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear.

I love Sumire more than anyone else and wanted her more than anything in the world. And I couldn't just shelve those feelings, for there was nothing to take their place.