I don’t really know how to describe what I’m looking for. There’s a certain feeling when you’re on a train or a plane late at night when the streetlights are passing by and their light is reflected in the rain. All the houses have their lights on and they seem warm and safe, but you’re traveling somewhere after a long day, and you’re tired and self-reflective, but there’s a lonely kind of beauty to the blurs of lights rushing past. I’m looking for a book that captures that oddly specific vibe. Also, if the feeling I’m describing could be made into a song it’d be Moonlight Mile from The Rolling Stones.
by stinkface_lover
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*Warlight* by Michael Ondaatje has passages that capture that feeling perfectly for me.
As you said, a pretty specific vibe, so not quite sure I catch it. But here are a couple directions you could go:
– **Norwegian Wood** by Haruki Murakami
– **Never Let Me Go** by Kazuo Ishiguro
– **The Unbearable Lightness of Being** by Milan Kundera
– **Remains of the Day** also Ishiguro
– **Night Train** by Martin Amis
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
It’s very atmospheric and a great story.