I dropped by MPH today to look for David Mitchell but Black Swan Green was unavailable.
All was not in vain, however, as I found Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. I've heard of this author in passing (I think he wrote The Remains of the Day which was made into a movie starring Anthony Hopkins) but never bothered to look him up until I saw him listed in Time's 100 books list. The reviewer had good things to say about him and within just the first paragraph of his review, I was already hooked to buy the book.
It feels like I'm attempting one of those literary books and I'm a little apprehensive about it because I never finish reading any of the literature greats except for Huckleberry Finn which was compulsory reading in English class.
Let's hope this time is different. Well, it will have a little competition because I'm tandem reading Ishiguro and Meyer's The Host. The first is like a snobbish book, the second is like trashy romance sci-fi.
Well, may the best author win my love!
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If, in the light of things, you fade real, yet wanly withdrawn to our determined and appropriate distance, like the moon left on all night among the leaves, may you invisibly delight this house; O star, doubly compassionate, who came too soon for twilight, too late for dawn, may your pale flame direct the worst in us through chaos with the passion of plain day.
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