Book Review
Susan also brought me "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of "The Remains of the Day" which apparently is his most famous. But I read "When We Were Orphans" a while ago and liked it but didn't love it.
"Never Let Me Go" is crazy. On the back, it says that it's about an "exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside." I immediately thought "oh, maybe it's going to be kinda like Marlborough" (my HS). If that website link doesn't seem exclusive, bordering on cultish scariness, I don't know what it is. (Actually I liked my 6 years there but wait there's more...) The summary on the back also went on to say "It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules- and teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were."
So I started reading, thinking it was going to be all reminiscent... and was totally wrong. It starts out incredibly weird and you can't figure out what's going on and what is UP with this school and these students... I've never been so captivated and so in the dark about the book's main premise before... Ishiguro does a really good job. Slowly, you find out what the book's about and let me tell you, it's wild. Very futuristic, foreboding, and scary science fiction-y. I highly recommend it!!
Now I'm reading "March" which won the Pulitzer! (also courtesy of Susan)
"Never Let Me Go" is crazy. On the back, it says that it's about an "exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside." I immediately thought "oh, maybe it's going to be kinda like Marlborough" (my HS). If that website link doesn't seem exclusive, bordering on cultish scariness, I don't know what it is. (Actually I liked my 6 years there but wait there's more...) The summary on the back also went on to say "It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules- and teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were."
So I started reading, thinking it was going to be all reminiscent... and was totally wrong. It starts out incredibly weird and you can't figure out what's going on and what is UP with this school and these students... I've never been so captivated and so in the dark about the book's main premise before... Ishiguro does a really good job. Slowly, you find out what the book's about and let me tell you, it's wild. Very futuristic, foreboding, and scary science fiction-y. I highly recommend it!!
Now I'm reading "March" which won the Pulitzer! (also courtesy of Susan)
posted by Vivian | 6:14 PM
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A co-worker just brought Doritos fiery habanero back from California. We have nothing as hot here, and they are hot enough that you can't eat them all at once.
We just saw Friends with Money, I see you liked Lovely and Amazing. We also rented Walking and Talking. They are all written and directed by Someone Holfcener I think. I don't know her TV work. Do you?
i've never had the hot Doritos...
"Friends with Money" is next on my list of movies to see! i'm not familiar with her TV work but i LOVE Catherine Keener.
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