Oh, this book. This. Book. I just finished reading The Remains of the Day about 10 minutes ago, and I find myself feeling beautifully sated by gorgeous prose, and also deeply, deeply melancholy. The premise is simple, but the novel itself packs such a punch that I found myself reading slowly to soak it all in. I’ve read it before, but since this is making up half of my next dissertation chapter, I went through another read. The novel opens with Stevens, the butler at […]

Two weekends ago, I heard that Kazuo Ishiguro was coming out with his FIRST novel in ten years. Unfortunately, I have to wait almost another year until it’s released, and Amazon doesn’t have a pre-order option yet. So…I decided to revisit a favorite in the meantime (and sometime this next month, I’ll also be going back to The Remains of the Day for dissertation work–hooray!). Never Let Me Go is Ishiguro’s turn at dystopic fiction, and he really should do it more often (spoiler alert: […]