The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Last year I started off 2007 reading Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I loved that book, and thought I couldn't go wrong starting off 2008 with Ishiguro again. I finished The Remains of the Day over the weekend.

I loved Ishiguro after my first encounter with his work, and reading this book only made that love stronger. The setting, main character, and type of story is all together different from Never Let Me Go. I am astounded that the same author wrote both books, and wrote them so masterfully.

As I was thinking about this, I started to wish that I had recorded my thoughts while reading Never Let Me Go. Which lead to the idea to start recording my thoughts. I am so touched by the books I read, the worlds that authors open up to me, but I worry that I may miss connections and, dare I say, epiphanies simply because I have forgotten certain aspects of my reading experience.

So here we are. This is to be the place where my thoughts will be brought together and, hopefully, where conversation will ensue. Anything I read will be considered fodder for thinking, therefore it will be fodder for the blog. Maybe in the end this will turn out to be some sort of failed experiment, but at the moment it gives me comfort to be able to lay out the journey I take and enjoy so much as a reader.