I would love to have been the author of The Great Gatsby,
She and Him - M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel
"Never Let Me Go is by Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese-English writer best known for his novel, The Remains of The Day. It revolves around three students – Kathy, Ruth and Tommy – who seem to live an idyllic life in a sunny, upper class English boarding school. We witness them go through the typical experiences of adolescence – peer pressure and insecurities, love and heartbreak.
But as the story unfolds, Ishiguro reveals from one sinister scene to another, how Kathy and her friends’ lives are anything but normal. In fact, the very idea of their existences makes even their teachers and guardians recoil in horror.
Ishiguro writes this macabre story masterfully. Part sci-fi, part horror tale, part love story, Never Let Me Go is replete with scenes that are normal and innocent on the surface, but are throbbing with knotted tension and heart-in-your-throat terror. There is one particular scene near the end, where Tommy and Kathy confront their old headmistress, Miss Emily, which still haunts me at odd moments and sends shivers tingling down my spine.
In the end though, the story is more sad, rather than scary. And because it is set in a believable, relatable environment, with very real, very human characters that you will come to love, the ending is all the more tragic and heartbreaking. "
I heard that there's a movie coming out this year starring Keira Knightley and Cary Mulligan. I hope it's good.
I always sleep with two or three things beside me on my bed -- books, my journal, and a shirt that I am hiding from my sisters because I want it to be available when I feel like wearing it.
Why not keep it in the closet, you ask. Well I have three sisters and we are notorious for borrowing each others' clothes without permission. So we’ve taken to hiding them in rather clever places. My sister stashes them in her car. I put them under my pillow.
The Name of The Rose by Umberto Eco. When I was in college, I was in love with our Communication Theory Professor. That was enough reason to immerse myself in all of the Semiology books I could get my hands on, and of course Umberto Eco’s name is almost synonymous with Semiology.
So I tried reading his most famous work – The Name of The Rose. It was soooo tedious. The main characters were a Franciscan and a Benedictine monk. It was set in a monastery. Some of the dialogue was in Latin. After about 50 pages, I gave up. My non-fiction teacher said that Eco purposely made the first 100 pages boring, to weed out the serious from the casual reader. The rest of the book, he said, was a wild ride. So you can imagine that now, 6 years later I am reading with a conscious effort to go beyond the 100 page mark.
And so far, it has been…one ride that sends me straight to sleep, each night. I'm past the 200th page and I'm still waiting for the "wild ride." I remember reading somewhere that it's The Da Vinci Code for smart people. Guess this is how geniuses get their kicks - Latin dialogue, verbose discussions on heresy, religion and history.
I've decided to keep reading though. I can never walk away from a murder mystery without first finding out the culprit.
And when Erika asked "What's a good brand for jeans, 7 in Rockwell?
