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After finishing “The Master and Margarita”, I started reading earlier this week “The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro. I wanted to start with Ishiguro a few months ago and I was kind of undecided between this and “Never Let Me Go”, which I nominated for the next bookclub.
I'm currently on page 70 and so far I'm enjoying it. The main character is an old Butler who's kind of of a sperg. His new american boss gives him a few days off and he goes on a roadtrip through the English countryside to visit the old Housekeeper who left the Manor 20 years before while revisiting his memories from the time she worked there.
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I've been reading Borges' collected fictions and 1Q84. Borges is a delight, terse while immensely evocative. He also comes up with incredible metafictional ploys. Truly a masterful author, constantly playing with his medium in a way few others do. Highly recommended.
1Q84 is very strange. I haven't read any Murakami besides this, but I'm certainly having a good time. His characters and characterizations are detailed and engaging, though this has really carried me through the book so far, given that I'm 150 pages in, and don't yet see where the book's going.
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Ficciones is one of my favorites!
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