Captivating and original and strangely so beautiful, but also a relentless 500+ pg literary embodiment of every stress or anxiety dream I have ever had or anyone ever could ever have
May 1, 2024
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an incredibly funny and bitter 1995 novel about an idyllic european city undergoing a cultural crisis. this book is relentless in its effort to confuse you. at no point do the book’s strange conventions explain or justify themselves - it’s on you to make sense of it. combine Kafka’s Amerika, Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, and your most vivid dream from childhood and you’ll have some idea of how challenging and spellbinding this book is. Ishiguro doesn’t give a FUCK about following literary conventions, tying things up neatly, or holding the reader’s hand, and that’s what i love about it.
Jan 26, 2024
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On a Kazuo Ishiguro kick in the last few months. Fell for the beautiful, understated humanity of his work.
Feb 13, 2024
one of kazuo ishiguro’s lesser talked about novels (when compared with things like remains of the day and the unconsoled). it’s a really great character piece about a man who has to rectify with his legacy as an artist, a father, and a human being, under the backdrop of post-war japan. ono as a narrator is captivating because of how stubbornly warped his recollection and interpretation of his own legacy and life is, and it’s really enthralling to see how ishiguro paints (no pun intended) the man as simultaneously sympathetic but unapologetically fixed in his mindset of his legacy. its a poignant book on the idiotic male obsession with image and legacy in the eyes of the broader world, as well as touching on themes of guilt and aging. really good read!
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full of admiration for the woman i saw outside the grocery store this afternoon
Mar 21, 2024
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helps me relax when making big and small decisions— everything in life leads to the next thing, no such thing as a wrong decision, etc.
Mar 5, 2024
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Find a coffee creamer you really love, or a breakfast that was your favorite when you were a kid, read a rly good book or article you’ve been excited abt for ten min when you wake up instead of social media, lay out a cute outfit the night before, plan what perfume & jewelry you’ll wear if you’re into that
Mar 16, 2024